Most Disgusting GOP Debate Comment: The Price Of Freedom: For Mitt Romney And Family It’s Negotiable
Mitt“very few number of families are paying the price of freedom,”
Mitt Romney: I find it amazing that we have troops in harm's way around the world - in Afghanistan right now, in Iraq the first three years of this president's term. He doesn't go on TV every month and talk to the American people about the sacrifice being made by these men and women. I find it extraordinary that a very few number of families are paying the price of freedom in America. The hurdle to actually putting our troops in harm's way is very, very high, and the test is America's interests. Our security interests. And they have to be involved in a very significant way to deploy our troops.
..........how can Romney, who evaded the draft in his youth by going on a Mormon missionary trip that he spent in a palace in France, and took a couple of educational deferments to attend Brigham Young University and Harvard Business School, now grumble that too few families are “paying the price of freedom.”
And what of Romney’s family? He has five sons who were of age to serve in the military during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but here is how he described their contribution to freedom’s cost during his 2008 campaign:
Romney: It’s remarkable how we can show our support for our nation, and one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected, because they think I’d be a great president. My son, Josh, bought the family Winnebago and has visited 99 counties, most of them with his three kids and his wife. And I respect that and respect all of those in the way they serve this great country.
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This is how the Romney boys sacrificed on behalf their country
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Taking a stand: A young Mitt Romney holds up a placard at a pro-draft demonstration at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in May 1966
Fortunate son: Mr Romney's status as a 'Mormon missionary' meant he was exempt from the Vietnam War draft
Taken at the height of the swinging Sixties, Mr Romney holds a sign declaring 'Speak Out, Don't Sit In' as, alongside like-minded individuals, he proclaims his support for Lyndon Johnson's ever-expanding draft.
But, in a marked contrast to the relaxed dress sense associated with that decade's youth movement, he is wearing smart white slacks, a white buttoned-up shirt and a dark blazer.
A newspaper clipping headlined 'Governor's son pickets the pickets' states: 'Mitt Romney, son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, was one of the pickets who supported the Stanford University administration in opposition to sit-in demonstrators.'
The photograph was taken on May 20, 1966, shortly after a group of students had taken over the office of Stanford University President Wallace Sterling.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083002/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstrated-favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html
Daily Mail story and pics previously posted in GD by WhoIsNumberNone:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002135366
Romney and deceptions - January 23, 2012 Florida GOP debate:
Said he cut taxes in Massachusetts.Marriage licenses from $6 to $12; gun registrations from $25 to $75; a used-car sales tax $10 million; gasoline deliveries $60 million; real-estate transfers $175 million; $10 fee per Certificate of Blindness ; billed blind people $15 each for discount-travel ID cards. Proposed $170 million in higher business taxes, the legislature approved $85 million increase.
Romney's Tyler Charitable Trust pledged in 2007 to divest in companies that do business in Iran.In 2007 and 2008, the charity purchased and sold investment shares in companies that dealt with Iran, among them Schlumberger, Gazprom and Total.
Bain Capital..."We didn’t do any work with the government." Romney served on the board of, and personally pocketed more than $500,000 from Damon Corporation. During Romney's tenure, Damon fraudulently swindled Medicare out of millions of dollars and pled guilty to $25 million in Medicare fraud and paid a record $119 million fine.
Claimed President Obama "threw Israel under the bus," ...Jewish leaders' praise
efense Minister Barak said he "can hardly remember a better period of support."Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said, "We have not had a better friend than President Obama."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Obama's actions a "badge of honor."President Shimon Peres said, "Thank you, President Barack Obama, for your leadership, for your deep and moving ongoing and unwavering commitment to the peace and security of our land.”
Said he comes from “the real streets of America.”Attended Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, a private boys preparatory school; sold stocks to support himself in college; filthy rich parents as backstop and support-mechanism; evaded draft to do missionary work in France and to attend BYU and Harvard.Called his wealth "an asset to help America."He holds millons in infamous tax havens that are costing the American taxpayers $100 billion annually.
Attacked Gingrich about Fannie and Freddie, the mortgage giants he slams for their role in the housing crisis.He himself has been enriching himself for years off investments in both firms.
Said he opposes "rounding people up and deporting them."Has said that those who come to the United States without documentation should "go back home and get in line with everyone else"—and has made it clear that includes those who have been here for decades and served their community or our military.
Claimed Romneycare was never intended to be a model for a national plan. In 2007, Romney said in a Baltimore speech that he hoped Romneycare would be a "model for the nation."Claimed he hadn't seen the attack ad against Gingrich.At the end of the ad he said, in Spanish "I am Mitt Romney. I am running for president, and I approve this message."
