Jul 31, 2012 2:59 PM
A star-studded fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign is planned for August 24 on the East End, falling almost seven weeks after a controversial Mitt Romney fundraiser at David Koch’s home in Southampton Village.
While the president himself is not scheduled to show, according to Southampton Town Democratic Committee Chairman Gordon Herr, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be there.
The event, called “East End for Obama,” will be held at the home of Ellen Chesler and Matthew Mallow on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton, and will be hosted by actor Nathan Lane. James Taylor will also play a selection of songs for attendees.
While not as pricey as the $50,000-per-guest Romney event, which angered many and spurred a protest outside of the event, tickets to the Obama fundraiser are $500... more
While the president himself is not scheduled to show, according to Southampton Town Democratic Committee Chairman Gordon Herr, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be there.
The event, called “East End for Obama,” will be held at the home of Ellen Chesler and Matthew Mallow on Ocean Road in Bridgehampton, and will be hosted by actor Nathan Lane. James Taylor will also play a selection of songs for attendees.
While not as pricey as the $50,000-per-guest Romney event, which angered many and spurred a protest outside of the event, tickets to the Obama fundraiser are $500... more
Where do I sign up?
NOT.
What happened during Obama's first two years in which the Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of congress? I guess it was the Democrats obstructing then, huh?
Fun fact of the day: derivatives trading was legislated to be exempt from gaming laws, as there is no physical difference between say racetrack betting, and how many hedge funds make their money.
The ones that haven't proposed a jobs bill,and have fillibustered the ones that have been proposed.
Where are the jobs the republicans ran on?
Yep,Cappie,I'm going to post it again-
Once again,here's what they voted for since 2010-
Here's what the republicans have introduced-
46 bills on abortion
113 bills on religon
73 bills on family relationships
36 bills on marriage
72 bills on firearms
604 ...more ...more bills on taxation
467 bills on government investigation
yet ...more they blocked the jobs bill.
his is what the republicans have done since they took the House of Reps.
No jobs bill.
How many post offices did they name again?
It sure sounds like it-
"In a mailer to constituents, a Republican congressman claims 27 “bipartisan bills” have passed the House but “hit a brick wall” in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But most of the bills are not very “bipartisan.” A majority of House Democrats voted against all but five of the 27 proposals, sometimes overwhelmingly. One of these “bipartisan bills” ...more had the support of only four Democrats, and another had the support of just eight.
The mailer — sent out by Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland and part of a larger campaign led by House Speaker John Boehner — contained other misleading claims:
■The mailer states that the 27 bills have hit a “brick wall” in the Senate, although one of the bills became law. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has expressed support for three more.
■Westmoreland uses inflated figures in claiming that the Keystone XL Pipeline project would create “tens of thousands” of jobs.
■The mailer misuses figures from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to falsely state “reports predict higher unemployment for the next two years.”
Go to factcheck to read the entire de-bunking;most of the bills proposed were to deregulate things like pesticides,allow off-shore drilling for oil in Alaska,or to releive Boeing from their responsibilities fo punishing workers by closing a plant and moving it to a right-to-work state.
Everyone can go to factcheck.org and find this for themselves.
I can't find any references to democrats not supporting Obama's jobs bill;if you remembered your civics class,the Senate majority Leader can shelve a bill so it isn't defeated,which is what Reid did.
Look harder for the lack of democratic ...more support for the presidents jobs bills. You'll find things like ths: Senate Democrats, a majority of the chamber, don't have the votes in their own caucus to move the $447 billion American Jobs Act forward...
But most of them were just giveaways to corporations and the rich.
If you read the factcheck article,you'd see that Reid did support one that passed both houses of congress,and showed favor for three mor.
Where's the republican reciprocation on democratic bills?
All we get from the republicans is obstructionismIt was McConnell who set the tone for the Obama presidency right ...more after the last election when he said that their first priority was to make Obama a one-term president (as opposed to their first priority being jobs,which thay have yet to put forward a proposal for.)
By the way,Obama is leading in three swing states-Pa,Fl and Ohio. Romney keeps showing his lack of ability and experience in foreign affairs with gaffes in Great Britain and Israel,and he can't maintain discipline from his campaign even in Poland..He hasn't released his tax returns so it's likeley that he didn't pay any taxes for as many as 10 years. He keeps stepping on his own whatcamacallit. Even Rove knows he is irreparably damaging himself.
They passed the republican healthcare plan-the one that the Heritage Foundation created-before the republicans did a 190 on it.
The democrats embraced the Dream Act-before the republicans distanced themselves from it.
The democrats agreed to the Debt ceiling solution,even though they knew the republicans were only playing partisan games that would (and did) end up in our countries first ever credit rating reduction
We've been giving tax breaks to corporations and ...more the rich for 10 years and they still haven't created any jobs.
Where are the jobs?
Wasn't creating jobs their first priority?Or was it making Obama a one-term psident,like Mitch McConnell said?
And the stimlus didn't fail-it created jobs You should really retire that lie.
Private industry creates jobs because government provides the infrastructure for them to.Obama made that clear,and even Romney agreed.
No jobs bill
no economic recovery
no tax cuts for the middle class
They still haven't proposed a jobs bill.
where are the jobs?
30 jobs bills proposed by republicans with no democratic support. Failure of leadership within the democrat for party for support of Obama's own jobs bills... Where are the jobs Mr. President??
The republican have yet to offer a jobs bill
where are the jobs?
Once the economy started crashing,Obama tried to get it under control by spending-on unfrastructure,etc.He even used 1/3 of the stimulus as tax cuts so people could have a little more money in their pockets to help reive the economy somewhat.It wasn't enough,but it did create jobs.
Are you telling me that you were against the tax cuts in the stimulus package now
Are you telling me that Obama and Bush did the same thing - spend and cut taxes, of which neither worked to improve the economy, and you think it's a good idea to double(or triple) down on it, let alone criticize one and embrace the other?
And better check your numbers-especially if they're coming from fox (news?) because fox isn't known for getting things right.
We're in this hole because of bush-his policies put us here,whether you want to hear i or not.
He put everything on a credit card when he gave tax cuts during a time of war (a war that we were told would pay for itself)
Where are the jobs?
He'd have to be thousands of years old to have that much at $6,000 per year.
Phil, don't quit your day job, financial matters aren't your forte.
Why won't he release his tax returns?
He's part of the 1% that is stealing from the rest of us.
What makes him special that he can do that and everyone else has limits on it?
Now your turn, how did Harry Reid amass his 1% status as an elected "leader." He's voting to make millions for himself, fleecing the country and tax payers in the process for 26 years.
He should release his tax returns and be transparent.If he dd nothing wrong,he h nothing to fear.
But he's still hiding them. Must be something there.
If you're calling Reid corrupt,do you have anything to substantiate it.
And I didn't say that Romney was corrupt or broke the law-all I said was that he is hiding something-which could mean that he used legal-if immoral- loopholes to enrich himself at the cost of peoples jobs.The kind of thing ...more tha the OWS movement is railing against.
I have a feeling that Obama's school records will show he was a crappy student. And the only way a crappy student gets into a really good school, is because he's a foreign exhange student. He IS president and should be (but isn't) answering to his constituents.
Arew you going to start that ignorant birther stuff too?
I guess that's all you got.
Obama and Bishop will lose, and you'll have to be medicated for the next four years.
You should be on meds yourself.
The rest of your post is the usual garbage,but show the quote of Obama apologising.
Remember;it has to be him saying "I'm sorry"
It looks like cappie and the rest of the usual suspects are the ones ramping up the rhetoric.
Show us the quote and stop playing that fox news game that easily fools the rest of the groin thinkers.Unless you've been fooled by it yourself.....
School hours are from 8am until 3:00 pm,and we can leave when the last child is gone.
Why don't you get a hobby,you sick demented paranoid?
This whole site knows you don't tell the truth.You're just a lackey for the right.
You can blame that one on me too... or Bush.... or.... President Diplomacy????
I guess that's another right wing talking point shot down.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
You can't be trusted to tell the truth.
Here's a few quot from it-
"Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 02/22/2011
Obama's 'Apology Tour'
By Glenn Kessler
"I think he had made a practice of trying to apologize for America. I personally am proud of America."
--Former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Feb. 20, 2011
"I will not and I will never apologize for America. I don't apologize for America, because I believe in America."
--Former Massachusetts governor ...more Mitt Romney (author of "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness"), Feb. 11, 2011
"Mr. President, stop apologizing for our country."
--Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Feb. 11, 2011
The Fact Checker senses a campaign theme emerging: Obama the apologizer.
As the above quotes illustrate, it is an article of faith among top Republicans that President Obama has repeatedly apologized for the United States and its behavior. Even more, the argument goes, he does not believe in American strength and greatness. The assertion feeds into a subterranean narrative that Obama, with his exotic, mixed-race background, is not really American in the first place.
The claim that Obama is an apologist for America actually began to take shape shortly after he became president. It had been bubbling in the conservative blogs before Karl Rove, the former political adviser to George W. Bush, published an article titled "The President's Apology Tour" in the Wall Street Journal on April 23, 2009, just three months after Obama took the oath of office.
By June, the conservative Heritage Foundation began running a list: "Barack Obama's Top 10 Apologies: How the President Has Humiliated a Superpower."
Public-opinion polling suggests the idea has resonance among the American public. A December Gallup poll found that only 58 percent of those surveyed agreed that Obama believed the United States has a unique character that makes it the greatest country in the world; 37 percent said he did not. By contrast, 74 percent thought George W. Bush did, 77 percent though Bill Clinton did, and 86 percent thought Ronald Reagan did. Among Republicans, 61 percent thought Obama did not believe in the greatness of America.
Let's look at the evidence.
The Facts
Most of the criticism stems from a series of speeches that Obama made shortly after taking office, when he was trying to introduce himself to the world and also signify a break with the Bush administration with new policies, such as pledging to close the detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay.
This is typical of many new presidents. George W. Bush, for instance, quickly broke with Clinton administration policy on dealings with North Korea, the Kyoto climate change treaty and the international criminal court, to name a few.
Rove built his case around four quotes made by Obama:
Mr. Obama told the French (the French!) that America "has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" toward Europe. In Prague, he said America has "a moral responsibility to act" on arms control because only the U.S. had "used a nuclear weapon." In London, he said that decisions about the world financial system were no longer made by "just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy" -- as if that were a bad thing. And in Latin America, he said the U.S. had not "pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors" because we "failed to see that our own progress is tied directly to progress throughout the Americas."
In none of these cases does Obama actually use a word at all similar to "apologize." The Latin American comment might have resonance with Rove's old boss, since that was Bush's charge against the Clinton administration in the 2000 campaign. The Prague and London quotes are not apologies at all. The Paris quote, which is often cited as an apology, is taken out of context."
next paragraph-
"In Paris, Obama was trying to rebuild relations with Europe, where opposition to the Iraq war had run high. The quote in Paris often cited by conservatives is this: "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
That doesn't sound like much of an apology, more of a statement of fact that few international-relations experts would quarrel with. But Obama was making the case that both sides had misunderstood each other, and so he also said: "But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual, but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad."
The two sentences are a matched pair; there is no apology. "
heck,just read the the whole article from the Washington Post,2/22/2011-its a complete de-bunking of the claim that Obama apologised
Thanks,HB Patriot-you helped me show that any claim of bama "apologising" is just more partisan bellyaching from the right.
" DOOCY: We'd like to clarify a story we told you about yesterday during our program. The story was about a possible apology from President Obama to Japan for the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on that country during World War II. We want to be very clear. There was never a plan for President Obama to apologize to Japan. We should have been clear about that, and we're sorry for the confusion"
Yes,the soldiers who burned the Qurans did nothing that we should have apologised for-after all,those Qurans wer he equivalent to them of the Bible.
Since you hold all Muslims in such contempt I expected you to be outraged about some US soldiers being held responsible for further enflaming the Arab world.After all,since the right feeds on hate,you have to keep feeding the flames to stoke fear.
Well, you wanted an Obama apology quote so you got two. One just for fun, and one that he actually made.
I just cted fox news because hey so blatantly misreprted the story that they had to isse an apology on-air.
By the way,did you catch the ribbon on the bottom of the fox news screen thi morning that said that "Unemployment was up 90%"
Another fox flub.
If you want to (I know you won't do it)just google the story about the supposed "pology" and you'll see hat it was never considred by the hite House.You once again presented a right wing bloviation ...more as fact,and you were called on it-again.
Right up there with misidentifying politicians by the wrong party affiliation.
Classic.
i dont like them either, but al least be honest.
Cambodia, Vietnam, The Soviet bloc, Cuba... tens of millions of humans exterminated or forced to live in misery, brought to you by leftists.
We just finally got to see the receipt...
Mostly in the previous administration.
Sandy Weil actually admitted that TBTF was a "poor" structure.
When corporates pay 20K a year, how can you NOT expect there to be a "welfare class". Rationally looking at the cost of healthcare, it's almost like they strategize it that way, to perpetrate class warfare between the "middle class", and the "poor"...
People cannot be trusted.
Laws were enacted after the "Great Depression" to save "capitalism" from itself. Those laws were repealed, and oddly enough, things got more expensive. Figure that, eh?
Leaving the bankers in charge, is like letting the fox guard the henhouse.
That would be the direction of the Federal Reserve, and Wall St.
You're only dealing with the stooges in any other direction.
This is just the change that fell behind the cushions.
Make it a huge "melting pot". Everyone make your own sign. Doesn't have to name a candidate, if it's how you feel strongest. Your best slogan. Whatever pi$$e$ you off most. Write about it.
It's too late to organize formally and assign public parking spots, but park as far away as you reasonably can, and walk there. Maybe pocket a marker, and come up with your "peace" along the way.
I guess I'm hoping auntie ...more is wrong, and you all draw your own media attention...
Since we have a "Like" button...
Can we get a "Hate" button?
We are all shipmates in the same vessel.
Thank you.
Sorry if z was guilty of "baiting"...
then look at who Romney is hiring to his campaign as acvisors (Former Bush appointees and economic advisors)
A vote for Romney is a vote to return to the road to depression.
But since we moved south of the Mason-Dixon line I learned a lot. Things I did not want to admit when I lived there in SHampton. Just sick at heart.
Heer's a test for you, without googling it, where is the Mason-Dixon Line?
"Goverment is the problem not the solution!"
Is that why republicans are trying so hard to get elected?
The right considers anybody to the left of Mussolini to be far left.
Reagan wouldn't make it in todays republican party;the republicans have been purging anyone in their party who is a moderate-look at the recent ads for he primaries in Texas where the tea party candidate painted a republican opponent as too "Moderate" for being willing ...more to work with democrats.
Your full of partisan crap,cappie.
Thrightkeeps trumping up imaginary tales of Kenya,birth certificates,socialism,'taking guns away',endangering marriage by granting civil rights and so forth.
The rght is chocked full of Bat**** crazies-look at members of the tea party or their leadership (Michelle Bachman).Look at how the right has waged war on womens' rights,gay rights,now voting of minorities.immigrants and healthcare for everyone.Look at how the Ryan budget will take from the middle clas an deliver tax breaks to those who don't nedd (some dn't even want) it.We have the religious right crying about a war on religion while they are trying to impose their religious beleifs on everyone else;they are heading right toward a litmus tst for candidates despite what article 6 of the constitution says.
The right hides behind the constitution when it can interpret it to their own advantage;otherwise they have no real regard for it.
From Bloomberg-
"While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House. From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
The BGOV Barometer shows that, over the five decades since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) only when Democrats ...more are in the White House would have been worth $10,920 at the close of trading yesterday.
Chart: Stock Investors Fare Better Under Democrats .That’s more than nine times the dollar return an investor would have realized from following a similar strategy during Republican administrations. A $1,000 stake invested in a fund that followed the S&P 500 under Republican presidents, starting with Richard Nixon, would have grown to $2,087 on the day George W. Bush left office..."
I can site other sources,like the CS Monitor and the NY Times,but why should I waste my time? Facts don't trump ideology in your world.
Don't count on me following.
Sounds like todays republican party platform
now we know where to look for the next republican policy-to the past.
Fascism Then: On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out the first ...more nationwide, planned action against them: a boycott of Jewish businesses.
Nice to see that your familiar with the origins of republican policy,too.
I didn't know you were a liberal.
Once they saw that,our immigration problem began to grow.
We need to create a path to citizenship and secure the borders;The republican plan called the Dream Act would serve us well,but since Obama decided that i was a good idea al we hearis opposition to it.
Same with healthcare-the rght supported a mandate ...more until they stopped supporting it when it was incorporated into the ACA,which was based on another republican plan for healthcare created by the Heritge Foundation.
The right has no idea where it stands,it just opposes anything that the democrats support,even if it was a republican plan to start with.
The US is a drastically different country ...more with drastically different problems than in 1990. What fit then… doesn’t fit now. The Heritage plan was different in three ways from Obamacare. First, it was not primarily intended to push people to obtain protection for their own good, but to protect others. Like auto damage liability insurance required in most states, it focused on “catastrophic” costs — so hospitals and taxpayers would not have to foot the bill for the expensive illness or accident of someone who did not buy insurance. Second,it sought to induce people to buy coverage primarily through the carrot of a generous health credit or voucher, financed in part by a fundamental reform of the tax treatment of health coverage, rather than by a stick. Third, coverage was not a legal requirement.
we'll leave the knuckle-dragging to the reublicans.They're the ones who want to "conserve" it.
Crossing the border llegally is minor cmpared to what Reagan allowed into this country
Of course,a conservative would have left the boat people out there.
Now, fast forward. We have 30 million illegals in the country by modest estimates – bleeding the country dry at every turn. On second glance, your point is pure crap.
"Below are a few facts about immigration in the United States:
– The number of illegal immigrants in the United States was estimated at 11.5 million in 2011, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
– The illegal immigrant population grew by 27% between 2000 and 2009, according to the ...more Department of Homeland Security.
– Sixty-three percent of the illegal immigrant population (approximately 6.8 million) entered the United States before 2000. (DHS)
– Fifty-eight percent of the illegal immigrant population is from Mexico. (Pew)
– Twenty-four percent of illegal immigrants reside in California; 16% reside in Texas. (DHS)"
"I'm talking about the amnesty Reagan granted once they were here." FALSE!!
If you can't get the present numbers straight,we can't trust you when you re-write history to cover up Reagan's amnesty,which as what opened the door to todays' immigration problems.
You need to brush up on your immigration law Phil. The criminals you cite as having been given citizenship were excludable and sent back to Cuba.
I have a Pew research paper that backs that up-
"1 Feb 11As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the U.S., virtually unchanged from a year earlier and remaining well below the population's peak of 12 million in 2007. The number of unauthorized immigrants in the nation's workforce (8 million) also has not changed in the past year.
Pew Hispanic Center"
The New York Times and the Washington Post ...more backed up the Pew research-
"The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about 11.1 million in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center."
NY Times,Sept 1 2010
"The number of illegal immigrants entering the United States plunged by almost two-thirds between 2005 and 2009, a dramatic shift after years of growth in the population, according to the report. "
Washington Post,Sept. 1,2010
I'd like to see your sources that support that 30 million number.
Fine, I concede the point. It's 11 million. You're still out of your gord that the impact of the cuban issue trumps the damage illegals are doing to the country today.
I provided the information,if you want to research i for yourself then go ahead.I won't do your homework for you while all you do is throw stones
I can't figure it out either razza. I thought they were living in the shadows.
others-not so much,especially if it involves partisan politics.
Bill Moyers did an article," Facts Do matter".
I take it that very few of my friends on the right have ever read it.
I seriously doubt that 10% of the population is illegal immigrants.Where did you get that number?
It was the captain who said there were 30 million illegals in this country;since the total population is over 300 million,that would make 30 mil 10% of the population. You didn't dispute his numbers,so you must have agreed with them.
we already know why you're against Obama.
"You don't have to be a racist to be against Obama,but it helps"
It's sad when ...more those on the left play the race card against anyone who dares to disagree with Him. Why defend Him on his record? Tough to do.
What's sad is how you fail to understand the complexity of our economic system. Business out here "doing well" is an illusion. It is the result of a host of welfare programs for the "elite". More cash has been printed in the last ten years than ever before, and there is more "wealth" in existence than there ever has been in recorded history. Since 2001, $5,000,000,000,000 has been printed and simply created out of thin air. That's a more than quintupling of the money supply since ...more 1980. Roundabout 1919, one loaf of bread cost a single German mark. Within four years, the same loaf of bread cost 100 billion marks. For a similar example, the price of fuel here has roughly quadrupled in twenty years.
These enormously wealthy people hold the enormous amount of currency they do because it was supplied by the Federal Reserve, courtesy of the Treasury, i.e., government welfare.
If you take some time to study the Weimar Republic, or the Great Depression in ANY historical detail, you would see the parallels, and "Catch-22s" many of us with broad minds do.
The problem is not Obama, the problem is not Congress, it's the people pulling their strings. Including yours. Propaganda is such an ugly weapon, and lobbyists are such an ugly tool...
The Obama vs. Romney debates here and elsewhere assume that the President is in charge. He is not! In fact, the President has very little power to change policy.
He can set the tone for the country, and suggest and cheer lead for certain policies. But the real power lies deeper than most people would want to know or admit.
The old term "Military Industrial Complex" sheds some light. The term "Cheney/Bush I/Bush II Cartel" illuminates a bit more. And so ...more forth . . .
Underlying all of these hidden "powers that be" is a sinister and dark force of unbridled greed and avarice, which in time will reap the fruits of what it has already started to sow.
So it shall be.
That's class warfare-supporting the rich on the backs of the poor.
where are the jobs?
When is the last time you received a 400K loan that did not have to be paid back if you failed?
Well, it's almost equivalent to the 3M plus loans the "elite" received post baillout.
How do you like your "crow"?
I say congress should WORK 5 days a week, they work only 3 days in these past sessions. They have accompolished nothing to help move this country forward and they shut down business while the people in the west fry.
My prayers go out to those folks suffering from heat, bad air, loss of crops, loss of homes ...more from uncontrolled fires.... and y'all sit there in comfort in the most expensive living conditions and wonderful weather and all you can do is complain about a president who has shovled against the bs.
He at least is trying to help the devastated farmers.
I can't say expatriation hasn't crossed my mind now and then...
I wonder if Romney is hiding his connections to stories like that by not releasing his tax returns?
I wonder how many other lives he ruined.
where is their proposal?
what have they been doing for the last 2 years?
oh,yeah-
Here's what the republicans have introduced-
46 bills on abortion
113 bills on religon
73 bills on family relationships
36 bills on marriage
72 bills on firearms
604 ...more ...more bills on taxation
467 bills on government investigation
yet ... they blocked the jobs bill.
Bain closed the steel mill,which if it remained open the man would heve retained his health insurance which would have detected his wifes cancer and sved her life.
You don't think Soptic would still have been working there if Bain didn't bankrupt it?
You are also quick to condemn the super pac that made this ad,which is all fact as Soptic sees it,but I never heard you condemn the ads put out by Romny and his super pacs.Once again,the far right applies a double ...more standard.
Steelworker Joe Soptic’s wife, Ranae, died in 2006 — five years after the plant closed.
She didn’t lose coverage when the plant closed. Mr. Soptic told CNN that she lost her own employer-sponsored coverage a year or two later. She had no coverage after that.
And as we’ve reported before, when the plant closed Romney was running the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Bain bankrupted the steel mill and Soptic lost his job and health insurance,so his wife couldn't be screened or treated for cancer,and she died.
If Bain didn't drive the steel mill into bankruptcy,Soptic would have been working there and had health insurance,and his wife might be alive today.
They proceeded to pocket the windfall profit, and lay people off.
GET REAL!
That was from factcheck.org
Once again the left demonizes any attempt at fiscal responsibility.
end of problem. The democrats aren't afraid to pay for what they propose,unlike Bush,who put everything on the credit card and put us where we are.
When Romney released these numbers, he said they were "entirely legal and ...more fair," and added, "I’m proud of the fact that I pay a lot of taxes."
The Romney tax returns are a prime example of our increasingly two-tiered bureaucratic system, in which there is one set of rules for poor and middle-class people, and another set of rules for people like Mitt Romney."
~ Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 8/9/12