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by Laura Clawson
Boy, if you listen to him some of the time, Mitt Romney just wants everyone to live really well. At a northern Virginia fundraiser, showing that he feels for the middle class, Romney cited a firefighter struggling to make ends meet:
You'd think, to read that, that Romney was suggesting he thinks that's a less than ideal situation, firefighters having to work two jobs or unable to afford a two-bedroom apartment. But while that may have been his implication in that moment, Jonathan Chait flags a quote from Romney's stump speech that reflects his policy positions on how many bedrooms firemen should be able to afford: that "we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve."
The unfairness he's talking about, of course, isn't the unfairness of a quarter of workers earning less than two-thirds of the median income, or low-wage workers becoming an older and more educated group. He's certainly not talking about the unfairness of taxpayers paying a higher tax rate than he does on less annual income than he earns in a day. These are all unfairand all things Mitt Romney's policies would increase. No, the thing that's unfair to him is that the public sector has lagged somewhat in the race to the bottom. Stories about firefighters with pregnant wives are just a lame attempt at window-dressing on his real position, the one all his policy proposals promote.
I wonder if he told those firefighters how unfairly overpaid he thinks they are.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/03/1088538/-Mitt-Romney-who-thinks-government-workers-are-unfairly-overpaid-meets-firemen-who-work-two-jobs
Mitt Romney clearly doesn't listen to himself speak. Clueless!
Romney "has a record of laying off firefighters"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002640347
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...people who just can't connect the dots. He has it.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"I know there's a psych term for it..."
...is idiot!
Yeah, that's it!!
He's an idiot with an incurable case of moronicism!!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Risen Demon
(199 posts)At least the ones who still scream "Those qwaers are gettin married!"
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)republican. That to me is akin to cutting their own throats. If their unions are wiped out, their own wages will plummet as businesses squeeze them for every penny. Republicans are working to wipe out unions. Republicans claim that they want union members to decide how their dues are spent instead of union leaders, but their goal is to eliminate the influence of unions on states labor policies, and bring about uniform right to work laws across the country when workers can't organize and are paid whatever owners feel is appropriate.