Sanders writes: "Given Mitt Romney's business record as an outsourcer and tax avoider, and his desire to continue the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, President Obama should be 20 points ahead in the polls right now, not struggling to stay even."
Senator Bernie Sanders is interviewed by a Reuters reporter, 11/28/06. (photo: Reuters)
Romney's Wrong Economic Answers
07 September 12
iven Mitt Romney's business record as an outsourcer and tax avoider, and his desire to continue the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, President Obama should be 20 points ahead in the polls right now, not struggling to stay even. At a time when the wealthiest people are doing phenomenally well, Romney's plan to provide more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires is dead wrong.
At a time when we have lost more than 56,000 factories and 5.3 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs since 2000, Romney is wrong in pushing for more unfettered free trade, which will make it easier for large corporations to throw American workers out on the street and ship American jobs to China and other low-wage countries.
At a time when millions of Americans continue to struggle through the horrendous recession caused by the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, Romney is wrong to believe we need more deregulation of too-big-to fail financial institutions.
In order to win support from the American middle class, it is absolutely imperative that the president provide a strong agenda that speaks to their needs, and that makes clear he will fight to win those proposals against the right-wing extremists who now control the Republican Party. Here is some of what the president should advocate:
1) The president must make it clear to the American people that he will not cut Social Security. Social Security has not added one penny to the deficit because it is funded by the payroll tax. Social Security has a $2.7 trillion surplus and can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible American for the next 21 years.
2) Obama must tell the American people that he is not going to balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. The deficit was largely caused by Bush's two unpaid-for wars, tax breaks for the rich and the Wall Street-caused recession. The president must reduce the deficit by asking the wealthiest people in this country to start paying their fair share of taxes, by ending enormous corporate tax loopholes and by taking a hard look at wasteful military spending.
3) Given that real unemployment is 15%, the president must propose a major jobs program to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure (roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports and railroads) and, in the process, create millions of good paying jobs.
4) The president must accelerate his efforts to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and such sustainable energy sources as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. This would not only address the planetary crisis of global warming but also create jobs.
5) The president must call for real Wall Street reform that ends the largest unregulated gambling casino in the history of the world, and that demands Wall Street invest in the productive economy.
6) The president must support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the disastrous U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows corporations and billionaires to buy politicians.
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Instead of "inspiration" with no substance, why could not have Obama simply embraced such a commonsensical list of demands and called out the republicans (as well as his conservative democrats in his own party) and told his "followers" to not simply turn out on election day but on every day after the election and create the kind of mass movement that he needs to give him the political cover and support to actually push for substantive progressive change?
The good news: we are NOT in great danger of losing this election because we let down our guard due to over-confidence .
Great post maddave. It often looks like we take the "it goes without saying" path instead of looking the beast in the eyes and smiting it every chance we get. Only in his own country is President Obama regarded with such racism....take a trip abroad and let the love of Barack Obama wash over you. It helps. Just be sure to vote (wherever you are in November) for the current president and to vote out the silly stupid and dangerous tea party goons that are systematically ruining our current Senate and House.
So, Senator Sanders please take my comments into consideration when you bring this plan up in Congress. Thanks for putting forward the truth. Sometimes, especially on a Friday afternoon, you gotta laugh at the absurdity around us.
I didn't laugh but smiled at the humor in how absurd the whole situation is.
There's not much question about that...I'll bet we all know.
More importantly, we should know whether or not the Republican nominee for President, Mitt Romney, was telling the truth about his financial situation, vis a vis Ryan's promises to end (unspecified) tax loopholes, let alone his claim to 13% minimum tax payment every single year.
And I would really like to learn how to grow my IRA account to $100,000,000.
These would be the sorts of tips that the man in the street could really use.
He like RnR got tax write offs and uses them. So do we
That is why if Romney and Ryan are such upfront guys where are their returns.
OB has offered to display his for ten years. Mitt and wifey refuse to show the last four, now why is that? He is overdue to show them...that pisses me off.
GOP wanted birther crap...let us all see all GOP Taxes and investments for those in or running for Office. Everyone here from ea state should review this...want to do something under Right to Know, or Public Info Acts let's start looking.
I want to personally see who contributes to them, gifts given...I wonder how much of that Rom has left off?
jtatu, i wish i could be a tax avoider since i do not want to contribute one penny to the US military industrial complex and our imperial military escapades abroad...unfort unately, as a salaried employee for a non-proift housing organization that works on developing and preserving affordable housing for low- and moderate-income folks, i do not have a choice since taxes are deducted from my paycheck before i ever see a dime. Nice try though...you'll have better luck attacking my "red" politics than you will trying to nail me as a "tax avoider".
And, to be clear, even on my modest non-profit salary (which i have been getting for more than 22 years) i pay a significantly higher percentage of my income to our government than Romney ever has or ever will.
There are two things here - tax avoidance & tax dodging. The people Barry picks for his cabinet are dodgers - they do not pay the taxes they legally owe. Tax avoidance is taking advantage of all legal ways to avoid paying taxes. Anyone who says he or she considers it a patriotic duty to pay more than they owe is either an imbecile or a liar.
All you hypocrites who are after Romney for his taxes - when you start picking on Kerry & Pelosi & the Kennedys & the Hollywood crowd & the other liberal members of the 1% & telling them about their "Patriotic Duty" then you can start running your mouths about how Romney should pay more.
All the slobs have invested overseas...All
Many have stash accounts in places like the Caymen.
So you prove all Barry's are tax dodgers. Because it is getting clearer and clearer everyday that Mittens is Avoiding and Dodging. This year wait to see what he is writing off on clothing, his wife alone. OB's wife also but her clothes are not millions...look it up.
If you are so up on Tax Laws, we have since the sixties trying to get Tax Reform and Amendments to .... since the Rethugs have been in office more times...guess who is avoiding that also
Why, because they would have to tow the line.
Personally, I wish the IRS would Audit every Politician from National on down. Perhaps we would have some surplus eh?
Twit a philanthropist my kilted toosh!
First off, where do you get such facts to support these unfounded contentions, when he keeps avoiding any action towards revealing his earnings in the face of a great deal of pressure -including from some more moderate Rethug's? Got an inside track to his elastic finger-in-the-w ind doings have ya? Give us a list of the beneficiaries of his alleged largesse why don't you.
I mean, who does he "give" to besides the obligatory tithe (10%) to the Moron church? If there ARE any others, I'd also bet my k.t. that they are carefully researched and calculated to give him the maximum tax breaks or, like most on the right, he wouldn't give a red cent of his well-hidden and ill-gotten lucre (he has stated that he pays 13%, which is ludicrous and stingy- and that's only for the one year that he'll talk about). -You level this at the Populist champion Sanders, so give us some facts about your chosen Medievalist candidate, who is just waiting in the wings to screw us all even tighter for the benefit of his trickle-filter- down robber-baron peers.
And, by the way... "well over 13%"? 1. What is "well over"? 13.1%?
We could also say he paid "well UNDER 14%".
Did you know that most of the other 99% of us pay A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT MORE than 13% of our income in taxes? We don't have a few extra million on hand to give to the Mormon Church after claiming our $2 million dressage horse as a "therapeutic" exemption.
Your argument is laughable.
For what I make I cannot be a philanthropist although I believe I am more so because besides money, I actually volunteer my time to over five organizations I cannot write that off.
I love the word philanthropy. One person I do not know if ReaGun or Bushes were questioned by Barbara Walters, others about their giving. Most, including Democrats do not even know who they give to. Difference with us to them, we know who we give to and why. We even keep up with who we give to and what they are doing.
Philanthropist my eye, they are just trying to buy favor, boasting prowess but they could care less. It is all about write offs.
I do not give a fig about most Politicians, but I do not like people saying they know how we live...they could care less how we live. OB didn't buy up companies and fires the employees. That is a fact, Jack. OB didn't sell out his companies to China.
Want to stick up for someone at least make sure the person has some dignity.
Romney lied about the Healthcare, that was just to start the ball rolling so if there is more in his closet...I believe we have the right to know what is going to run our USA
"A decent, honest man"? Romney??? Where have you been lately? Obviously not reading very much. Try perusing Matt Taibbi's in-depth report on Romney and Bain, and maybe you'll learn how "decent and honest" he is. NOT! Here's the link:
readersupportednews.org/.../13180-focus-romney-and-bain-the-true-story
You are SO upside-down on this.
If you want to see the very definition of "Demonization", accompanied by obstructionism, lying and mean-spiritedne ss, look at the actions of what I must assume to be your hate-filled party whose only task has been, as declared publicly by "Bitch" McConnel) to ensure that Obama gets nothing accomplished and to Hell with the common good.
And to call a cynical, offshore-stashi ng former school bully a "Very decent, honest man", is seeing a real stinker through wantonly rose-colored glasses.
We obviously have utterly disparate definitions of "decency".
For "Venom and naked hatred" check out the everyday actions and opinions of the Tea-Party and their rethug' party patsies; uninformed and hateful (e.g. "Keep the Government's hands off my Medicare").
I may have some differences with Obama but I believe that he cares about the grassroots; "Twit" doesn't know the meaning of the word by his baseless, ignorant and tactless utterings and actions -especially in regard to the rest of the world- which is typically Mormon, as they send out their clueless, brainwashed "missionaries".
And I still don't see any requested example of the ALLEGED LARGESS YOU CREDIT HIM WITH. If true, surely they are calculated to squeeze the maximum personal tax break -but still no examples?
If you can't see why you received so many red thumbs-down, you must be utterly blind to reason; we need facts here, not wild speculation.
And you never will, either. None of us will ever see any real, documented facts from this person, since s/he doesn't deal in facts. These people either spew hateful innuendo and spurious claims or just outright lie. Wonder how much they are paid to show up here...would be interesting to know.
Please, purty please (or as Roger Rabbit said, "Pb-b-b-b-leeze !")! I still have heard NO FACTS from you to back up these many, many contentions and allegations about your hero -or Mr Obama for that matter!!
That's all I'm asking.
In fact, I rest my case: I'm not about to waste time and valuable space with my poorly-develope d typing skills to engage in a war of words with you; again, it's a bit like rattlin' an empty tin can and a tone-deaf one at that.
All I asked for is backup and have shown you in fairly comprehensive and currently-avail able detail, examples that illustrate my stances but backup came there none from you.
I rest my case and wish you clarity of vision and some factual reference for future posts.
"With me along some strip of Herbage strown
That just divides the Desert from the sown,
Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known,
And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne".
Like I said you have the right to know so if you are going to spout off on a billionaires taxes get them all straight cause he isn't He is making his own problem by not showing them.
His open disclosure is overdue....I see no one going after him, esp Congress
- If Sanders isn't just pushing liberal BS at us, if he really has proof that Romney is not paying the taxes he owes then he ought to get off his ass & give his evidence to the IRS. That's what he ought to do but he hasn't done that. Why I wonder?
- The same with the charge of illegal actions on Wall Street. If he has proof then tell Holder. He hasn't done that either.
Romney's taxes are a fun issue. Hell, if he was dodging taxes Obama would have asked him to join his Cabinet. But the fun part is to liberals he is the only one in the country who should find ways to pay more taxes than he owes. Of course all the liberals on this blog spend the first three months of the year trying to figure out ways to pay more than they owe. Right?? Oh, not right?? A little liberal hypocrisy is always fun. Well at least you also go after the 1% folks who are Democrats. Right?? Oh Dear, not another No. And everyone seems so righteous. Destroys my faith in liberal honesty.
Has anybody ever asked Sanders for his taxes?
Get the term "liberal" in context.
I'd about rather be pilloried than called Liberal.
Bernie Sanders is a good, hard-working, insightful populist SOCIALIST, which is why he remains independent from all the milquetoast compromise with the right that delights the likes of Karl Rove.
Do you fancy a one-party system? That's what you are facing if Twit is selected.
Your post is way off subject.
I know with Fracking in Pa Corbett got large chunk of change as did GOP Politicians but the Dems got nice chunk of spending money themselves. I am not talking about money to DNC I mean to themselves.
People put a lot of time into doing this research, some volunteers.
We cannot give you Romney's Taxes because he has not give them up to the Office who reviews ...he is overdue, and worried. OB has offered to show them all, some already on file as he had to show them as Candidate. So we have the right to review those. Sanders had to show to run for office so they are Public. Just got to find where to go. OB and Sanders and others will tell you..ask them for that information. Go to your local Officials but stop harping and do some leg work is what I say to those who bash rather than show us proof
I don't think Bernie said he was a tax cheat, but that a tax system that allows him to pay so little is a disgrace and damaging to America. Frankly, any tax rate below 70% for a top marginal rate is damaging for the country.
OB offered to show ten years. Mitt is overdue Is Ryan also, probably not since he just got ring toss. But he will have to.
What I think makes the Candidate is who they get the checks from to their pet projects, foundations or selves ex Fracking paid to the individual all parties took the money We have list in Pa I told both the big wigs what I thought of them
Since 5 people have questioned the taxes and it is now going to be confronted in Congress by Saunders Goood. I believe the info on Bain should be made Public also.
I believe every Politician, Lawyer, Corporations should be audited but that hasn't happened and like I said the Rethugs have had air time more than Dems
I do go after Democrats alike. I ask them where they have been for the past three years. I also saw the money given to them as well as Rethugs for Fracking, Pipeline...it is all Public Information
If any of you actually took the time to research maybe you would stand back and really see. They are all crooks, and We allow it. Don't figure
but people like you rather blame your name calling of people than accepting the fact that you are Lazy and Allow these fat Sleazes to get away with it all...tax evasion, investing outsourcing, murder, and so much more.
I am part of the We, but at least I pin them against every chance I get. I cannot tell the Dems from the Thugs anymore. Percentage of good American Politicians is lower than it should be.
Tax payer at 13%? Bet that counts property taxes, sales taxes on his new boat, taxes on his trips to Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, social security taxes on income he made from a "real job", social security taxes on the maids that wait on him. He probably deducts putting the dog on the roof of his car! Hmmm. let's see, the dog guards his million dollar properties so he is deducting all the costs of keeping his dog... even the dog carrier for the roof of his car.
It's easy to come up with things. It is exactly what I would do if I were a money grubbing manipulator who was making his money by sending jobs to China.
By the way.. I was at Stanford about 12 years before he was.
I remember how the Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business said to me, when I was protesting underhanded and manipulative measures by an off campus competitor against my two person photography business. He said, "Well, Pete, that's just good business!"
Thank how many fools and crooks that professor infected with his, "get the money and take all" even if it's your own mother. Perhaps Mitt the twit was one of his students!
Yep, totally agree, JCM. Where is a Lisbeth Salander when we need one??? :)
I am not trying to be rude but I think you are being conned by the Republican's propaganda machine simply because you don't understand the difference between avoiding paying taxes and paying what is legally required by law !If Romney paid what is legally required by law he would be paying taxes on every penny he has earned," minus the legal deductions ,but this is not what he is doing ! He is using the Cayman Islands to hide the majority of his money so he won't have to pay taxes on it !
I would think everyone who works hard and pays taxes without any loop holes and uses only the standard deductions allowed should be darn right angry that just because Romney is rich enough to hire people to hide his money in foreign accounts he gets away without paying his fair share while we ,"the little people,"would go to jail if we didn't pay taxes on all our income !
Why do you think Romney deserves to be treated differently ? Really ! I am serious, why ?
Birthers certainly had their three years. We are asking for three months. Now he accepted the Nomination Nationally....w here are the taxes= forms
That may or may not be the case. There was an amnesty in which people who cheated by sending money to tax havens were allowed to bring it back without being charged with the felonies they committed. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts (admittedly a more impressive bet when doughnuts were 5 cents each) that Romney did that among other more legal things that made his tax burden less than that of John Q Public, which would sour many of his supporters.
First you sell out jobs to Asia, then you invest out of the USA so you make no money on the bribes you took. Again I do not care which party
Right now Romney want to be President but he is ashamed? of his taxes.....that is an OOOOOPPPPPS which makes us all Question Authority.
He is overdue these tax show and tell so that shows where Congress stands on Fraud
The problem isn't that mitten's may have just been getting away with all the loopholes the rich have. The problem is that HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.
His embarrassment about his own taxes is proof the laws need to be changed and the rich need to start paying their fair share again.
I do not understand why he is allowed to be a Candidate when he is withholding this information. If IRS wanted to Audit us do you think they would allow us to run them around in circles.
Mitt did something, besides the selling out companies to China and losing thousands of jobs He and Trump should get awards for that alone. But there is something very fishy in Mass about this
No, buddy, this is Care2, not NewsMax.
Mitt hasn't paid taxes it is time we see those reports. He is overdue on them.
I work I pay taxes, my accountant does my form, I get what I am allowed back. If I was a sleaze millionaire I could get more back because my tax man would look into what I did, and use it to my advantage.
So I am against the slugs not paying their fare share because I know what they can write off. If they paid more, they would get more back. Any Moron knows this.
There is a lawyer here that always goes around telling everyone what a great guy he is because he donates. I told people and he writes it off, if not he would no give it.
I buy off the rack, R^R gets custom suits for speeches. They write that off
Wifeys spend $200,000 on an outfit when people are out of work...she can write it off. They get away with it but tell us they know how we feel, how our lives are. Not wearing $200.000 dresses.
Look up what someone making two million a year can write off. Look up what someone making $25,000 year can then you buy the crying towel for your GOP.
Philanthropist...right Its a tax write off. He wouldn't give a penny if he couldn't write it off. Get a Life
Well, I've used tax deductions too. Does that make ME a "tax avoider"? I suppose that argument could be made. Legal? Sure. Moral? Yep. What I don't have is money stuffed into a Cayman Islands account so that I don't have to pay taxes on it in the country where I claim citizenship. Legal? Must be. Moral? Nope. I also have never listed myself as living in another state . . . because that second state had lower taxes. Legal? Nope. How did Romney get away with it? Good question.
Generous philanthropist? When you have hundreds of billions, what's a few thou? Especially when you can claim it AS A TAX DEDUCTION.
Have I ever given to charity? Well, yes. Where's my "generous philanthropist" commendation? Did I claim those charitable contributions as tax deductions? Well . . . no. They might've made a difference on how much taxes I paid, but not enough to make it worth my while to go through the hassle and expense of hiring a tax specialist. Does that mean my charitable contributions meant less? Just because I gave less?
Just because I have less to give?
So, your answer is "Correct: it means less because you give less. And those who donate their time instead of money they can't afford, they are completely ungenerous."
b. he is not openly republican or nazi you pick
Or perhaps help those with foreclosures
Or feed the Hungary
Or Create Jobs.
Their spending sprees seperately would do more than the above but join the waste together...we would created another ten thousand jobs
He also proposed new jobs and 100 years worth of natural gas, the company line I might add. Natural gas extraction is using our water and enriching the oil & gas industry. It is not energy independence. It is creating dependence on the oil & gas industry.
Since Bernie is not running, I will be voting for Jill Stein.
It's been written that to a wise person, enough is as good as a feast. To the 1%, there will never be enough, no matter how much they have. As I understand it, greed is based on fear; I believe it is the fear that they will never have enough, be it money, power, what have you, that drives them.
So many times in this country, we aim our comments at the symptoms of the problem, and never get to the real problem, which is why it never gets solved. Take away a person's fear, and how much more rational would they be?
Obama talked about fear in his first campaign. I think that idea needs to be mentioned again. The Republicans attitude and rhetoric is all based on fear - be afraid of this, be afraid of that.
The main problem we face as people is that we have to stop allowing our fears to influence or control our decisions. If we can't do that, we reinforce the Republican agenda of giving in to our fear.
To me, the people who think Republican have given in to their fear. Once that happens, it is hard for that person to think rationally, because they are allowing their fear to do all the thinking for them. It's okay to be concerned, but it is never wise or judicious to be afraid.
the plan is actually rather simple and straightforward.
1) Ensure that the tax code makes it much more expensive to outsource capital and jobs than invest it here in the US
2) Create a New Deal style public works program (which since it will come under federal law and the contracts awarded will be large enough will be subject to the Davis-Bacon prevailing wage laws which means the jobs will be good paying jobs) to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure nationwide including a 21st century "smart grid" and high speed rail system
3) Dramatically increase funding to the Small Business Administration to fund the creation of worker-owned cooperatives (worker/owners don't generally underpay themselves or outsource their own jobs) along the Model of the Mondragon cooperatives in Spain
5) If we can't get to the IWW's vision of One Big Union at the very least since capital is now global, labor must be too so unions need to be reorganized internationally so that workers in a single industry are organized into one union across national boundaries
6) give pension funds back to the workers to control and take them away from professional fund managers so that unions once again "invest" not just to make the best return but also in things that benefit their workers and the communities they live in (e.g., building affordable rental housing).
How's that for the beginnings of a plan?
It is a damned good beginning!
Tariff on American Companies that ship jobs out and then come here to sell.
Amen!
Easy!
He let us down on
violation of 1st Amendment
fracking
drones
kill list
taxcut for the rich
tar sand pipeline
indefinite detention
and please don´t mention Congress,
he never signed with a gun to his head.
this said by the strongest of supporters
in 2008, but not anymore.
mittens romney / ayn ryan
These two want to make sure things get a whole lot worse than they already are. We are in no position to make an offensive move at this point. We need a defensive strategy to prevent things from getting dramatically worse. Believe me, under President Mittens, your list of complaints will grow substantially.
Romney is for sure awful, but how can anyone vote for someone with a kill list?
Is Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on his "kill list"? It sure seems to be on Romney/Ryan's, along with the right decide for myself what I should or should not do with my body.
Why is Obama struggling to stay even ?
Because stupid people will vote for Mitt and somehow rationalize it to themselves that he is going to do something better, well he isnt, hes going to bring this country to its knees, and then he can disappear into never neverland with G. W. Bush. Just another empty headed idiot that the republicans will have to pretend never exsisted and blame the dems for all his blunders. Business as usual.
Thank you! I was 8^)
To those who left me the negs, my reply was to seeuingoa, not the ones that got inserted in front of me. I guess I should have included his post in mine.
The biggest problem with this slowly arriving adjustment is the growing split between those who are in fields that pay big money, and those that are in fields competing with foreign firms. Many supporters of both parties are making 10's of millions per year (I am sure that Oprah can buy and sell Romney). As the wages fall for most, the top 10% are doing better and better, thanks ironically to the bail outs, sold to us as job savers. There is a big adjustment coming.
You really are out of touch.
The "Mexicans" where I live are in houses they rent or buy for themselves, work as farm laborers, dishwashers, cooks and so on, jobs most Americans won't dirty their hands with and contribute both culturally and economically to the community, make it diverse and are law-abiding, hard working people, some starting their own businesses.
The "lowering of living standards" will cease the day multi-national Corporations who own the beltway, decide to make quality goods here, cut their obscene profits and pay a living wage -but that's not even on their radars, is it?
Thank you.
As I understand it, we are graduating people faster than we can possibly create jobs. Starting back in the 80's when employers started noticing that they were getting more applications for jobs than they had jobs, they started to figure out that they could pay people what they wanted to, and if the employee didn't want to take it, there were other people applying.
And then they noticed the slave wage labor available overseas. And then computers started taking jobs away from people.
We are breeding ourselves, and technolizing ourselves out of jobs.
I recently applied for an $8 an hour, 20 hour a week job in my hometown of 10,000 people, and the woman who did the hiring told me that she had more than 20 applicants for this part-time position, and all of us had a minimum of a bachelor's degree. The woman who got the job had a law degree.
I don't see how the job situation is ever going to get better with the population out of control as it is. With the environmental problems getting worse, that may kill off a lot of us, and that may be what the 1% is counting on. If we are all focused on survival, it will be harder to think about changing what is wrong.
I think you're absolutely right about the need for population control.
So what do the right wingnuts want to do? Take away contraception rights, of course! Makes perfect sense, right? We need fewer people, so they want to change the rules to insure we get many, many MORE people. Guess they feel they'll need them for slaves.
VOTE DEM ALL THE WAY!
There are a lot of them, but not a single one is Republican.
I used to live in Vermont, Bernie was the best! I remember driving through the capitol Montpelier, VT and seeing Bernie himself on the street corner wearing a sandwich sign, handing out flyers for his re-election. When we needed him, he was there, always helped us when businesses tried to dodge paying workers or paying their taxes. I have no complaints about Bernie, hes one of the best of the best!
ANSWER: Read the last chapter in George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm." At the end of the book, the capitalists and the Communists have made a deal.... Workers can't tell one group of pigs from another.... Nixon went to China during the 1970s and he made some deals with the Communists.... American industries and jobs got exported to places like China and Vietnam.... Tell Romney and his big money buddies to say "no" to Red China and to invest their money in America.... The real "pro-Communists " in today's America are with Romney. What Romney wants is a China-style country, managed by an elite, that pays workers a few pennies and treats them like ignorant peasants. Goodbye to strong unions, consumer rights, environmentalis ts, etc., if the Romney crowd gets what it wants.
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