Good Riddance Willard. (Sorry Job1).

"A person with knowledge of the deal tells NBC that Romney is planning to work with Solamere for one week a month"

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Gee...heaven forbid what chaos the firm would be in w/o this ever so critical 7 day per month investment from the elder Romney.

How employee-centric of the firm to be allow the chairman to dictate his own involvement. I wonder if the firm would still be as 'successful' as it has if all Employees were able to define their own involvement?

Maybe Romney can pitch that in his 3rd run for the Presidency...100% of the all private sector Employees can define their own terms with their Employer. They will be happier, more motivated, productive and the economy will grow filling up all sorts of binders full of new economic data.

Romney is planning to work with Solamere for one week a month.

Wow Willard.....only one week a month?

Let's see, it was reported that you took in 57K a day from all your 'investments', 'off-shore' stuff...wonder what the gig with Tagg is paying?....Nepotism!

Had he chosen, at this age and level of financial success, to put his talents to work in philanthropy, I would have been favorably impressed. Must be hitting the afternoon slump for my mind to even go there.

Okay, does anyone actually care WHAT Romeny does as long as he goes away????

Mitt is at home with the 1% - what a American success story, that is.

Best wishes.

JH,

I'm game: You're an idiot and a liar.

And now a two-time loser lands via a golden parachute. And will probably get a pt stint as a Faux News analyst. Let's just hope the RWNJ's keep believing him.

His flip-flops will keep their heads spinning.

Good for him. I don't think he would have made good President but don't begrudge his wealth at all.

MSNBCMFE - Isn't it funny that the Great Romney who claims such business saviness couldn't even put together and manage a successful election campaign? He couldn't select the right people to figure out how to keep him on track and from making a total idiot of himself. And yet, idiots like JH continue to scream that he could have been a good President.

Romney couldn't lead a group of turtles across a country lane!

Totally goes to show how little JH and his ilk know about anything!

The vulture returns to capitalism.

seeking Sanity - you should seek harder, you need it

Are you talking about idiots like myself and 50 million others? I know we can't all be as smart as the progressive/liberal masses because you guys are far superior to evryone else. But exactly what are you clowns going to do when you run out of our money?

JH - since I work and make my own money, yours doesn't come into play for me! However my guess is you're sorely lacking in the funds department. What will YOU do when you run out of OUR money?

Oh, and not superior to everyone - just you and your ilk!

JH your taxes dollars, if you pay any, go to the funding of the wars you wanted. Mine go to the government services departments to help the poor. Only an egotistical right wing nut would believe he pays enough taxes to support anyone else much less the government projects he wants funded. By the way, you have a hell of a war debt to pay off so get off the computer and get to work.

By the way, Romney is a post turtle and it showed during the election.

Alright.... Who put the radio collar on this Goob and when do the batteries run out?

Larry, if I could vote your comment up more, I would. Very well stated and if only we could state where we wanted our monies to go. Great post.

Seeking . . .

Isn't it funny that the Great Romney who claims such business saviness couldn't even put together and manage a successful election campaign?

Or hire reliable pollsters? Great post!

NBC News has learned that Romney is returning to the private sector, joining his eldest son Tagg's investment firm, Solamere Capital, as chairman of the executive committee.

So in other words, he's going to find ways to screw the 47% that would have never voted for him out of their retirement funds. I'm sure you'll do just fine Romney. Now, go away and stay away this time.

Are you talking about idiots like myself and 50 million others? I know we can't all be as smart as the progressive/liberal masses because you guys are far superior to evryone else. But exactly what are you clowns going to do when you run out of our money?

Your money? The amount you give to the federal government doesn't add up to a drop of p!ss in the ocean, so don't be empowering yourself too much there, hoss. And to add to what Seeking Sanity said, uneducated folks like you make it way too easy.

@ Seeking

I agree. What is it with FR anyway. Are they just that stupid?

Who really cares, Wink Wink !!!

Romney! You Won't be missed!!!

Here's hoping Citizen Romney can bring that same "can't do" spirit and losing drive to Solamere that he employed so well in the last election!

If so, Solamere will be a bust in two months, tops.

rukidding - LOL!!! Republicans RAN the village idiot and the majority of voters knew better than to put him in office! Thank heaven!

When you find a candidate that isn't a clown, maybe they'll get more votes. Oh, but that's right. You don't have candidates that aren't clowns!

Oh, and the free phone stupidity shows again why you are a loser!

He hasn't and never will leave the private sector ... as president, he just would have become a funnel ... his buddies missed a big pay day!!!!

Good luck Mitt.

We real Americans thank you for your effort to bring sanity and pride back to our great nation.

I'm sure you have a better understanding of how far our great Republic is devolving under the incompetent leadership of the miscreant Progressives. It's a sad commentary to see so many who are incapable of self respect clinging to the misdirection of the statist Barrack Hussein.

You offered the unwashed masses the only real path out of their poverty, despondency, apathy, low self esteem and irrational envy. Unfortunately they are incapable of surviving on their own any longer and have become so dependent on government largesse they have surrendered to mediocrity and insignificance.

A major concern of the Founders and Framers was that the people will become dependent on the government. Thomas Jefferson stated the Founders’ disdain for dependence when he said:

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

As our federal government assumes the unconstitutional role of financially supporting the poor, not only is poverty perpetuated, but the more power the government has over those citizens dependent on it for their needs, thereby reducing their liberty while allowing politicians to take advantage of this dependence.

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” ― James Madison

Good luck in your future endeavors, your benevolence in charity will help more people than Barrack Hussein could ever wish to as he enslaves more Americans under the guise of social and economic justice.

JimSpence - what a pathetic post to a person who ran for President for 8 years and still couldn't get anything right. The right MAN is our President.

You post reads as if you think Romney is a savior - funny since that is how the righties always refer to the President. Perhaps instead of worshipping a man who couldn't put a management team together - you should get a life! Your post is pretty pathetic!

Oh and REAL Americans have a great deal of pride and belief in our country.

Other peoples money yet to be stolen! Range chickens to be plucked! Gotta teach that boy! Yeah! Praise sweet Jasus and Joseph Smith!

What a joke if a normal person files Bankruptcy people call them losers because We all know someone had to lose which is the creditors but these MORONS think Romney did good by doing it for a living Now how stupid is that. So I would call that stealing and I know people go to jail for that. Shows just how much Ethics the RIGHT has "NONE".

I'm so happy he can go back to what he loves, laying people off and off-shoring jobs.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all steal money from people with less money than ourselves to make ourselves more wealthy and then complain about those people and try to take everything away from them so we could put that into our own pockets as well?!

One thing I notice about so-called 'compassionate' Liberals is that they are the most vicious 'winners' that you will ever see.

It's not enough that you won 'by hook or crook', but you must try to destroy the adversary even after your victory.

Next 'Act' sounds about right to me.

Wow, where do all you Libs get all this personal inside information about someone you know so little about. It's quite impressive.

JIM SPENCE...you are so RIGHT!

This country blew it!!! We had a chance for a great Pres and got stuck with the idiot b hussein. Barry cancels WH tours and flies around the country golfing and campaigning at a cost of millions. He is the most failed, inept fool we have ever had to suffer with in the WH.

Romney and Obama take their marching papers from the same people. The whole thing is a charade. The loser of the election still gets to keep any campaign cash leftover and already is rich, so if he loses the election no biggie. It is a good cop bad cop thing(ie Bush in '92, Dole in '96, Kerry in '04, and yes Romney in '12) All of these losers ran such inept campaigns that they actually threw the elections. All of these losers, with the exception of probably Dole, could have easily won if they actually ran a real hard hitting campaign, but screwed around. No way Bush or Obama should have been reelected. Both showed that they were incompetent and outright liars. I was bewildered at how many conservatives still loved Bush, when he was clearly not a small govt man, and I stillcan't get why those on the left love Obama. He is only following Bush's lead and outspending the "Shrub".

People on the left, libertarians, and real small govt conservatives hated Bush at the end. It was those dittoheads that still loved him. He got us deep into debt over stupid wars, and bailed out Wall St at the end of his term. Barack went along with the bailout, got so many ex Goldman Sachs folks on his cabinet that it wasn't funny, and basically just one upped Bush in the war and spending departments. Oh yeah, Bush loved his B-52 bombers and F-18s to bomb folks in the ME, but Obama does the same thing. Using drones doesn't really lessen that impact, as people are still killed.

Spence, Romney was handpicked from the money interests in this country, same as Barack was in 2008. Nothing would have been any different if Mitt won, with the excpetion of a nasty war with Iran that would have been the spark for the later WWIII with China, nothing fundamentally would have changed for the better for Main St. Mitt was picked to lose, and I am sure he was in on it. He ran such a stupid campaing it was unreal. Obama simply didn't deserve reelection, but Mitt just stunk up the joint. The elite is getting a great deal under Obama. Wars, forcing folks to pay high premiums for health care, finishing off Bush's creation of the total surveillance state.

The only way to turn this country around is to get all the millionaires out of our government and replace them with people who manage to stay out of debt with balanced budgets and live off of incomes of $30,000 a year or less. Millionaires are the ones who have ruined the economy and shoved our government down the dark hole of debt it is in. It's amazing how these same millionaires who caused the problems think the solution is to take away from the poor, the elderly and middle class. They are the kind of person who would leave their elderly, sick grandmother in a rainstorm on a park bench to save money on gas driving home or maybe put their dog in a cage on the roof on a cross country drive.

come on roy what redeeming characteristics does a corporate raider bring to the table.is it so far fetched to think most of us didnt want a job outsourcer as president.or that we might care about our neighbors jobs more then watching a multimillionaire squeeze a few more millions out for himself

Khan, the best way to ensure someone doing a good job would make the legislative jobs nonpayed. Have real people that actually work for a living represent the people. You would get rid of career politicians. Get rid of lobbyists and make gifts illegal.

Pigotry, by the 1% you're referring to the Hollywood elite, George Soros, The Kennedy's, John Kerry and his ketchup wife, Diane Finstien, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Rihanna, JZ, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerburg, etc, etc, etc...RIGHT?

Sam627556

What a joke if a normal person files Bankruptcy people call them losers because We all know someone had to lose which is the creditors but these MORONS think Romney did good by doing it for a living

So, Sam, lemme ax you a question. Do you hold Barrack Hussein in the same disdain for what he did to GM and Chrysler?

If not let me tell you why you should.

Understand this, we did NOT save the auto industry, we “saved” GM and Chrysler. Ford, Mercedes, Toyota, Volkswagen and the others all did fine, and would have continued to do fine.

First, Barrack Hussein spent other people's money to invest in a company, GM, for which we are deeply still in the financial hole. Most any firm could be considered a success if a government gives billions to it and is willing to accept the loss, but the problem with the GM example is far worse. What Barrack Hussein did in "rescuing" GM was to subvert the bankruptcy and contract laws of the USA. He VIOLATED his Constitutional Oath to protect the American people from usurpation. Secured debt was wiped out, and unsecured debtors were made whole, billions of wealth was shifted from those who owned it to those who didn't, outside of and against the law, in order to financially benefit the president's political allies, the unions goonions. These are things done by despots, not presidents who've sworn to uphold the laws of the USA.

Second, had GM gone through normal bankruptcy procedures its assets would have been preserved, either by keeping them within a leaner and more competitive GM, or by selling them off to other firms looking to invest and/or expand. Those assets would have required workers to employ them, so even had GM gone bankrupt through the legal system whoever got them would have needed those workers to conduct that business. Some people, most likely management, would have lost their jobs, but most "labor" would have remained, just with perhaps a different employer.

Third, it's a bit hard to rank this illegal activity as a success given that taxpayers are still upside down to the tune of about $35 billion (this includes the liability of Ally, the financial arm of GM), but even if we became "whole" (it may be decades before we break even, if ever) we still have seen the laws trashed. No one, left or right or in the middle, should favor that kind of America. You could be the next to see your wealth stolen through an illegal action of the government, but who would you complain to if you supported other such illegal actions before?

Fourth, Romney was absolutely correct to say that GM and Chrysler should have gone through the bankruptcy processes. Those laws were designed to handle all these problems, to decide who should retain assets, which liabilities to discharge, and so on. And it all would have been done without cost to taxpayers but for the cost of operating the courts. This criminal action is what bankruptcy law experts describe as “Sham” sales of Old Chrysler to New Chrysler and Old GM to New GM.

Fifth, what astounds me about you Liberals/Progressives who favored the GM and Chrysler bailout is your willingness to call your political opponents—Republicans, conservatives or TEA Partiers—fascists and other pejoratives, and yet you fail to comprehend that corporate and government intertwining to this degree is without a doubt the very thing you purport to oppose. The more we bail out GM, or subsidize the Solyndras of the USA, or impose regulations that demand firms provide certain benefits (like the health care bill), the more we become the very thing you claim to despise. And, yet, Barrack Hussein supporters are actively pursuing still more of the same, all the while having no compunction about calling others fascists.

Could we be living in a more "Alice in Wonderland" America? And if so, please don't inform liberals, because I don't want to go there. In fact, I want to go the opposite way.

Hey KhanKubla,

You keep voting the millionaires into office. Over 50% are attorneys. I had a wealthy friend that would often say, "Many of my friends are attorneys and all of them are leaches and bottom feeders." Now you wonder why we have the fiscal problems in our government. They're all takers, it's just their nature, and you keep voting them back into office.

Jim, nice job. Refreshing post among mindless comments.

I noticed that later in this thread, there are much fewer. The libraries must be closing.

Jim - again with a totally nonsensical post baring your hatred for our President and again deflecting because your party is stuck with losers like McCain, Palin, Romney, Ryan. Please - your post reeks of jealousy and ignorance -yet again!

54buick - you tend to like to live in the past and it shows. Pity you don't have a clue about what the GOP is doing to destroy the country. But, stick to losers like the GOP - who don't give a damn about you or Jim or the nonsense he continues to post!

Oh, and little buick - you should probably visit a library so you'll actually understand what Republicans are doing to destroy the country. Luckily Democrats and Independents don't intend to let that happen!

D antiX

I'm so happy he can go back to what he loves, laying people off and off-shoring jobs.

D, let me ask you a simple question.

How do you feel about foreign conglomerates, such as Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, Sony, EADS, Tata Group of India and others that employ tens of thousands of Americans, that have manufacturing and service facilities here in the U.S.?

What I mean is how do you feel about foreign companies that "offshore" their industries here in America

Be careful how you answer, you may expose your hypocrisy.

Don't these people have normal names? What the heck is a Mitt? Is he a catcher's mitt, a pitchers mitt, an oven mitt. Who the hell is Tagg? Your it? No wonder these people can't get anything right. They don't know how to name their children.

I figured tough guy tagg had learned enough crooked @!$%# from his ol dad to do him. Guess he needs a bigger cheat than him,lol. He'll really load up now with the presidential loser behind him.

W. Gibbons - okay, you've given me my chuckle for the night! And, it's a great one to end on. Hectic day tomorrow so goodnight - and great post!!!

The kahn

It was those low information voters who make < $30,000 that voted this government in. It's the same government that wants to keep unfortunates down instead of giving them hope and a chance to pick themselves up by their boot straps.

There is a good reason why he was able to win the election. Odumba was able to get almost 100% of the people sucking on the government teat out to vote, which was about 50,000,000 votes. Romney thought that by campaigning to get his message out, some of those low information voters to see that there are better ways to exist than depending on government to be their nanny. Instead he should have focused on those people who were willing to work hard to get a better life.

In a nutshell, Odumba got every possible vote that he could get, while Romney left votes on the table, so Odumba only got about 40% of possible voters and Romney about 38%, the other 22% were against Odumba and the direction the country was going, but Romney didn't do a good enough job of getting that 22% out to vote. Of course there was the 97% of the black vote that voted only because of race and not because of substance.

Jim-

Every time I read one of your posts, I am struck at how closely you follow the right wing talking points parroted by Rush, Beck, and on Faux News. Everything you said about the GM bailout is just wrong. I'm not even going to go through it point by point, because all your points are wrong.

The government has been paid back nearly all of the money it loaned to GM, and has a stake in a now-profitable company. What again was the downside?

As to your Jefferson quote, he was talking about the dangers of abolishing slavery and creating a welfare class of uneducated, unskilled dependents if all the slaves were suddenly freed. Remember, Jefferson was a slave owner, and did not want to give them up. Do I really need to comment on your motivation for using that particular quote? Nah, it's pretty obvious.

Romney's defeat in November is the only thing that gives this country a fighting chance. If we can hold on until we can vote out more of the obstructionist teabaggers in '14, we'll be in good shape.

Vote Dem in 2014!!!

Clinton/Clinton 2016!!!

Funny how any story about a republican gets all the little CSucking liberals wound up. If he worked just 1 day a week it would still be more than that POS Obama.

What the heck is a Burak Husane Obummer? You neo-libs are really pathetic.

Thanks Jim Spence for some intelligent writing, and keep it up. Truth will ultimately prevail, even from such ignorance displayed all over this liberal NBC fraudulent affiliate site. Expected here... they repeat mostly MSNBC info'.

Latest approval ratings per Gallup Poll for Mr. celebrity President is 46%...down from 53% last week. Hopefully, more are getting the OBVIOUS, that he is an incompetent idiot that has no business run ruining our once great nation, and bringing us to bankruptsy. Obvious to any with half a brain, Romney would have been so much better, but at this stage, I believe that even Dennis Rodman would have been an improvement.

Robert-3107100

Spence, Romney was handpicked from the money interests in this country, same as Barack was in 2008. Nothing would have been any different if Mitt won

Perhaps, but one thing Mitt is NOT is a statist.

Barrack Hussein is a thoroughgoing statist, bred through socialism and anti-colonialism (I'll even accept neo-colonialism in a well presented debate), indoctrinated through the Ivy League faculty-lounge elitists and preened by the likes of Frank Marshall Davis, terrorist Bill Ayers, liberation theologist Jeremiah Wright and underling to David Axelrod.

Yes, Romney is a victim of poor srrogates but he is nothing like Barrack Hussein. I will suppport anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s! Bill Clinton even praised his credentials to be President. Romney was not my first choice but Big Bird would be a better solution at this time.

You know Romney would have created a better environment for commerce than Barrack Hussein. He has no intention of improving your, mine or anyone elses standard of living. He hasn't shown any ability or desire to address the structural defects in our economy to allow us to be competitive in the 21st century global market.

Remember, greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

Regardless of how much time he puts into the position he'll shed more insight into how to run a successful business then our Emperor who never ran a business in his life. The only business he knows is how to make taxpayers like him, get elected and then tax them to death. His own state almost went bankrupt. Chicago gun deaths are at an all time high. Maybe he should have proposed gun control in Illinois. No?

The thing is, he was and is successful , is family is successful, and some people really hate that.

Good for you Mitt. You are one of the smartest and well versed businessman I know. Mac

JonnyOnTheSpot (1.58): "Odumba"? Did you think of that all by your little self? You must be a genius. Or the other possibility.

Robert-3107100

I don't know who you are or where you come from, I am just thankful you exist.

Finally someone else gets it. I thought I was alone.

Thank you for your comments.

Hay that is cool, even after losing the election he still gets a job just like Obamas or close to it anyways, the only difference is he is expected to show up once a month. maybe next time hang in there, the odds of Obama being involved in a plane crash is greater then the average citizen getting into a car accident its all a question of averages, he wont get off the plane unless there is a golf course or a basket ball court. oh their is one other difference Obama has yet to work a day. he has a plan to get through life without ever having to do that.

Mike

Jim was 100% correct on the GM and Chrysler bailouts.

We are not even close to getting our money back from GM and we never will get it back.

We got shares of GM stock at a price it will never climb to, and every time we sell the stock back our losses go from a paper loss to a real loss. What a deal.

Even the low information Odumba voters are starting to see that every thing Odumba touches turns to sh!t and everything he says is sh!t.

Mike from AZ

Jim,

Everything you said about the GM bailout is just wrong. I'm not even going to go through it point by point, because all your points are wrong.

Awwwwww, c'mon Mike. let's go.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

I love to destroy your criminal Liberal defense of GM. You wanna do Chrysler too? The car company that we "saved" that is no longer a U.S. company?

I know, how about we debate what happened to Indiana that had 3 funds that bought the “secured” debt of Chrysler. The Indiana Teachers Retirement Fund, the Indiana State Police Pension Fund and the infrastructure fund Major Moves Construction Fund that were all involved.

What happened to the $300 million in all those private equity funds like Indiana, and many other states, that had set up for their pension funds?

You Libbies love the teachers and police, right? God knows you Libbies love all those public sector pension funds that are bankrupting so many of our cities. Let's chat about how the pensions got fu**ed by Barrack Hussein and his criminal unions goonions so they could get their BILLIONS in misappropriated transfer of secured to unsecured funds.

I have abunch of other examples if that isn't enough.

C'mon Spanky, throw down the gauntlet.

jetjoke

I also had some serious thoughts and opinions their. But I included the Odumba line for the low information people like yourself, and is's a good thing I did because it's obviously the only thing you could understand.

plenty of retirement funds to rape. he'll do really well. but instead, he could be making lots of money standing in front of a hospital making people sick. he does it so well

Okay, Jim. We all believe that you've read Ayn Rand. You used the word "statist" enough times.

What you and all the other RWNJs out there don't seem to grasp is that this concept of austerity in a recession only slows the recovery and often causes a double dip. Virtually all credible economists agree on this. If you don't believe economists, try asking a Spaniard or a Greek or a Brit how well it works.

Here are some facts for you: When Ronald Reagan took office, we were the number one creditor nation in the world. When he left office, we were the number one debtor nation in the world. Reagan raised taxes more times than any other president, ever.

When Bush II took office, the federal government was operating at a surplus. When he left we were mired in trillions of dollars in debt, and fighting two wars that we could not afford, and can never win because there was no clear objective in either of them.

Since Obama took office, the obstructionists in both houses of Congress have blocked any and all efforts to create jobs and move the economy. Boner likes to say that the Senate hasn't submitted a budget in years. He never mentions, though, that it is because the republicans in the Senate have filibustered every attempt to vote on the budgets that they've come up with every time.

BTW- I noticed you didn't reply to my comments on your Jefferson quote. HHmmm

Mike from AZ

Aaaaawwwwww Mikey, you disappoint me!

I thought we were going to rumble about your sacrosanct GM and Chrysler bailouts.

Nice try at deflection though. Actually it's one of the most cowardly attempts at deflection I've ever seen.

LMAO!!!!!

I mean from Ayn Rand, to austerity, to Reagan, to Bush II, to obstructionists you just about got all your deflectors out there didnchya?

Damn son, you missed your favorite Liberal deflection,,,,racist! Did you forget?

You're pathetic. You challenge someone by denouncing a post, claim you can "go through it point by point, because all your points are wrong", and then you try to deflect to your favorite indoctrinated Liberal bogeyman talking points.

Tsk, tsk Mikey. Very poor, I thought you would be more of a challenge.

But then again, don't feel bad. All your comrades have tried to challenge my arguments and they all lost, so at least you saved yourself that embarrassment.

Oh, by the way, the Jefferson quote had nothing to do with slavery Spanky. The quote comes from Jeffersons notes on the State of Virginia. It was in Query XIX 1787, “The present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and exterior trade?”

Here’s the context he presented it in regarding dependence:

Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phaenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. This, the natural progress and consequence of the arts, has sometimes perhaps been retarded by accidental circumstances: but, generally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.

I’m sure you can understand his intent, right?

Nice try, you’re out of your league Spanky!

Good night.

Gotta go to bed, I have to get up in 5 hours to do something you Libbies never worry about, work.

I love it, the Liberal yet again are so dang proud of the president... yes, small "P" on purpose. They are so vested in his success, it must kill them to look at their paychecks are try to find excuses to blame someone else for Obama's lies about taxes not going up.

Heck, and to make themselves feel so much better, they fish for any bit of lies Obama dished out, no matter how stupid it makes them look.

Bit of insight, Romney was a successful Executive long before he got into Politics. He proved on more than one occation he had the ability to turn around a company to a porfitable company.

He then took the reign of the Olymipics Committee and turned it from a tragedy to one of the most lucrative Olymips in history, hell... Utah is still drawing revenue from it.

Then he went into Massechuesetts, a state well known for their liberal ways, and left it 10 times better off then when he came in, and as a Conservative!!

Yeah, so he wasn't the GOP choice in 2008, but no offense, if you really think he was "beat" in 2012, you might want to hold on to your hats folks, because there are several court proceedings that are about to cast a huge spotlight on the voters fraud issue. And likely we are going to have President Biden proceeding....

Which would explain why MSNBC would bother reporting on the ongoing lifestyle of Mitt Romney...

And for the record, I can seriously doubt he would have signed off Billions of Dollars to Egypt while holding Entitlment hostage, but apparently YOUR guy doesn't have a problem with that...

That's what you get for hiring a Lawyers to do a business mans job.

What you and all the other RWNJs out there don't seem to grasp is that this concept of austerity in a recession only slows the recovery and often causes a double dip. Virtually all credible economists agree on this. If you don't believe economists, try asking a Spaniard or a Greek or a Brit how well it works.

I can’t let you get away with this, I won’t sleep well.

First of all tell me who these “credible” economists are. Are they the same ones that never saw the housing/liquidity collapse coming? Those economists?

And please don’t embarrass yourself by quoting Krugman, everything is austerity to him. He’s a bigger Keynesian than Maynard was. He hasn’t been significant since he got his illegitimate Nobel, and he certainly hasn’t been right.

The only people I know of that were prescient on the recession were Dean Baker, Med Jones, Peter Schiff, Nouriel Roubini, Meredith Whitney and Jimmy Rogers.

I know, I know, Roubini AKA Dr. Doom, has been predicting a collapse for 20 years, but he was right on this one.

As far as your claim to “austerity” in Europe, you might have an argument if there were actually any austerity measures in Europe over the last three years.

It is true that Europe has not been engaged in the same sort of massive Keynesian spending that we saw with the Obama stimulus package. But Portugal did try its version of stimulus spending. It pumped more than €2.2 billion into the Portugese economy in 2009, 1.25 percent of its GDP. The result was that economic growth stayed negative, while unemployment rose by roughly 3 million Portuguese workers. Recently, that country’s finance minister told the New York Times that “it didn’t turn things around, and may have made things worse.”

In France, the so-called austerity largely consisted of raising taxes. There was a 3 percent surtax on incomes above €500,000, an increase of one percentage point in the top marginal tax rate (from 40 to 41 percent), and an end to the automatic indexation of tax brackets for inheritance, wealth, and income taxes. Now they’re threatening the populace with a tax rate of 75%.

That’s not austerity, it’s insanity.

Britains first “austerity” measure was to hike the personal income tax to 50 percent for those earning more than £150,000 a year. That measure managed to actually decrease income-tax revenues by £509 million. They did trim some government payrolls and cut back some government programs but government spending still exceeds 49% of GDP. Spending was actually increased by £59.2 billion from 2009 to 2011.

Spain, Italy and Greece pulled the classic Barrack Hussein bamboozle, tax hikes today, especially on the rich and promises of tiny benefit cuts in the distant future.

Nope, nope, sorry Mikey, this is NOT austerity, it’s typical Keynesian bullsh*t! Taxes today, spending cuts,,,,,,never. We tried this with TEFRA during Reagans negotiations with Tip O’Neill and the Democrats fu**ed the nation and drove up the debt with their reckless spending with all that new revenue.

We real Americans will no longer allow this, neither should you Libbies.

Your children and grandchildren depend on you doing the right thing.

Good night (for real this time).

JimSpence

"We real Americans..."

Gosh, but it's nice that all of us wrong-thinking, misguided, faux Americans have an ideal to look up to and regard with awe.

Sounds like somebody's a little full of himself.

Well, full of something, anyway.

@Jim, so I guess you are the only one who works? You were mocking the guy from AZ," something you Libbies never worry about, work".

Seems to me that republicans think they are so much better than Democrats to the point of saying that they are the only ones who work.

To someone who was trying to make up their mind on which way to vote, people like Jim would make me vote against his party just to weed out the ignorant.

I would assume that if people are so passionate about the party they vote with they would set a better example and not seem so blatantly ignorant or bitter.

I don't care about either party. But if this country was a sinking ship (and it is IMO) the republican side just got a bit deeper. Good job JIM!

@Mitt Romney

Who cares. He never really made an impression on me. He didn't seem to know very much of what he was doing. When he went to the Olympic games he made a really bad impression as well. To the point of not knowing the difference between England and Great Britain.

SMDH

If I was going to say one good thing about him it would be that he is stinking rich! Since I love money, that's a good thing!

Jim you ignorant Tory slut. first of all, a PRESIDENT can't spend the money, your CONGRESS does. Secondly, as to your beloved St. Romney, the unwashed masses sucking off the system are: oil, natural gas, jet planes for ANY corporation, the airlines got a HUGE amount of money for the REPUBLICAN installed TSA (also heavily violating the 4th amendment but no republican is screaming about that) why REPUBLICANS <gasp> GREW the Gov't? you mean they created another whole CABINET position? OMG!!! NEVER! Homeland Security does not exist! It's a figment! Cant' be REPUBLICANS who created it! they'd NEVER go for bigger gov't! Let's see, the banking industry took a MASSIVE amount of subsidies, and amazingly so did the Insurance industry! And WOW Jim, way to back an AMERICAN industry! you just said that Toyota is BETTER so they SHOULD be allowed to siphon American money back to Japan! Why aren't you a RED WHITE AND BLUE lovin' good ol'boy!

Echoe

Jim you ignorant Tory slut.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Nothing pleases me more than to see a little Liberal brain explode.

first of all, a PRESIDENT can't spend the money, your CONGRESS does

Hmmmm, so my little Whig whore, tell me the last time that Congress overrode a presidential veto? You do realize that ALL legislation can only become law if the president ultimately signs it OR Congress overrides his veto with a 2/3's majority, right?

Cant' be REPUBLICANS who created it! they'd NEVER go for bigger gov't!

You do realize that H.R. 5005 (107^th): Homeland Security Act of 2002 passed in the House 295/132 and in the Senate 90/9 right? Hardly a partisan vote donchya think?

you just said that Toyota is BETTER

And just where did I say Toyota was better? I said, "Ford, Mercedes, Toyota, Volkswagen and the others all did fine, and would have continued to do fine". And they did do fine.

GM and Chrysler were horribly mismanaged for over a decade, they deserved to go bankrupt. Barrack Hussein was complicit in the unconstitutional intrusion of government into private sector industry and you know it.

I know you Libbbies have no regard for fiscal responsibility, as you live off the producers of this nation, but don’t drag us real Americans down just because you hate America.

I hear Venezuela is accepting immigration applicants now that the criminal Huggy is gone. You should look into it, you’d fit right in.

You’re out of your league here, go away, the adults are talking.

lol all you liberal @!$%#s can post in a thread to make fun of romney, but you don't have the balls to post in the drone thread. (except for seaskip who really just doesn't make any sense at all.)

Bunch of hypocritical pussies.

I see they still haven't gotten over Nov. 2012

By the way, when the govt sold their shares in GM they made a PROFIT as the stock had climbed in value!

Also, same with AIG, but why confuse the facts when you can have all the REPUGTEAbag rhetoric, continually repeated to ensure the brain dead don't wake up.

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason, is like giving medicine to a dead man"-Thomas Paine

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We had a chance for an intelligent thoughtful sincere President.

Instead we elected the village idiot. Again

Thanks alot idiots. May you use your free phone in trafic."

Got news for..nothing is ever free..including Romney. it was interesting to hear Romney put down China while doing business with them..wonder how long it will take for him to be at their door again ? Big companies backed Romney with millions..but they, big companies , could not buy enough votes to ellect their poster boy even though he was one of them.