Don't be Fooled: Ten Scary Facts about Mitt Romney

[texshelters]

An Addicting info exclusive for Halloween. PTxS

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/31/don’t-be-fooled-ten-scary-facts-about-mitt-romney/

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Ten Scary Facts about Mitt Romney

1. Mitt Romney’s business history features eliminating jobs, not creating them. He was one of the founders of Bain Capital, a firm that buys companies, pulls out the valuable assets, and then bankrupts the firms while making millions in the process as thousands of workers lose their jobs. Do we really want a man who made money by bankrupting firms as the head of our nation? We don’t need this job destroyer in the highest office in the land.

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3. Mitt Romney is willing to overturn Roe V. Wade. In fact, he is on the record favoring a repeal: “I’d like to see Roe v. Wade overturned and allow the states and the elected representatives of the people, and the people themselves, have the ability to put in place pro-life legislation.”
5 June 2007, Republican Presidential Debate (Manchester, New Hampshire)

He also favors parental consent laws and wants to defund Planned Parenthood. (ibid)
What’s worse is that his brother-in-law’s sister died in a back-alley abortion in 1963, and he’s still anti-choice. How power-hungry must you be to ignore your family’s suffering and stay in a party that will cause more back-alley abortion deaths if they have their way and repeal Roe V. Wade?

4. Mitt Romney touts Reaganomics, the fantasy that tax cuts lead to jobs and economic growth. He joined the “don’t tax the job creators” bandwagon for his run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Like the rest of the herd of anti-reality amateur economists running for the Republican ticket, he would double down on the tax cuts and spending cuts to social programs, leading to a permanent underclass that is the dream of the Koch brothers and their ilk.

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7. Mitt Romney is in the pockets of Wall Street, and we don’t need another one of those. Romney has received twice the dollar amount in donations Barack Obama has received from Wall Street according to the FEC. This highlights why so many have joined Occupy movements across the nation, the corporate purchasing of the White House and Congress.

George Bush sold deregulation that Wall Street insiders in his administration pushed. Romney would not only promote the Wall Street and banking solution, he is one of them. It’s hard to think of a president that could do more damage with deregulation than George Bush did in his time in office, but Romney very well could outdo W if he becomes president.

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9. Romney thinks “corporations are people.” At the Iowa state fair, Romney was called out as he talked about fiscal solutions.

Romney: One is we could raise taxes on people.
Audience member(s): Corporations!
Romney: Corporations are people my friend.

Not only is Romney promoting this lie about corporations being people, he’s patronizing the audience. After some challenges from the audience about corporations being people, Romney continues,

“…of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. (Audience laughs.) Where do you think the money goes… (audience: In their pockets!) Who’s pockets…human beings.” (link)

Romney scoffs at the idea that corporations aren’t people, one of the most dangerous modern falsehoods ever perpetrated. This lie helps corporations avoid taxes and allows them to donate to political campaigns, have lobbyists, and fund PACs without limit. It is one of the fundamental causes of gridlock and corporate dominance of our politics. And Romney promotes it without hesitation.

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Bonus scary fact for Halloween:

11. Mitt Romney admits he doesn’t know any vampires! Republican Senate Candidate Christian O’Donnell felt compelled to quell rumors that she was a witch. Now Romney feels it is necessary to tell us, “I don’t like vampires personally, I don’t know any, but you know my granddaughter was reading it (Twilight) and I thought, ‘Well this looks like fun,’ so I read that.”

Romney has clearly lost the vampire, vampire fan, and Friends United for Nocturnal Creatures (FUNC) votes with his statement. Now he has called out the wrath of vampires everywhere, and that’s almost as scary as his economic, labor hating, women hating, job crushing policies as a puppet of the far right.

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/31/don’t-be-fooled-ten-scary-facts-about-mitt-romney/


Peace,
Tex Shelters

[iscooterliberally]

1. ...and he strapped his dog to the roof of his car too.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/dog.asp

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