Mr. Obama and the ‘Buffett Rule’, Editorial

. . . and he further opened the door for accusations of running on a socialist platform. :rolleyes:

Of course it is only fair that big corporations and wealthy individuals not get breaks the rest of us schnooks don't get, but you can hear it all now . . . taking from the rich to give to the poor, taking money away from the "job creators" (as if trickle-down economics has ever been proven to work), perpetuating a welfare state, etc.

I don't know who ever decided that it was fair for lower- and middle-income people to pay taxes at a higher rate than the wealthy, but it has to stop. Good luck to Obama in pushing that through, though, when he's already been labeled a socialist because of health-care reform, etc. Good luck.

And the reason Mitt Romney wants to be president is..

to make life better for all the poor suffering millionaires in this country. :!:

It makes me sick. How he can look himself in the mirror is beyond me.

We we're talking about his wife here at work yesterday and about her talking about even though she didn't ever work outside the home, that raising kids at home was hard too. We guessed that she probably had a full-time nanny and housekeeper.

They are clueless about how real people live and I doubt they even care.

Must be real hard to be a stay at home mom when you're a millionaire. The Romneys make me sick.

Not that I in any way want to defend the Romneys (they make me sick, too), but we do have to be aware that most of the people running for national office in this country have enough money to have other people raise their kids for them, at least part time. That's just reality. The problem is when they're so smug about it and try to make themselves appear to be "everyman," or in this case, "everywoman."

Romney's problem is that he shouldn't try to make himself appear to be something he's not. That's where he gets into trouble. He's a wealthy man, and no, quite frankly, he doesn't understand what it means to not be wealthy. He should just leave it at that.

I think you nailed it.

This is one thing about the contraversy over the last few days has driven me crazy. There is no way that the Romneys can claim to an average family. They are not, they are super-rich and nothing they say shows that they understand what the average family has to deal with. Yet they try to dishonestly pretend that they are just like everyone else. Give me a break.