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On His Way Out the Door, Romney Attacks America’s Workers |
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After dumping at least $40 million of his own money into the 2008 presidential race with little to show for it, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) suspended his campaign yesterday—and, even when declaring defeat, couldn’t resist spewing anti-worker rhetoric.
Romney announced he was quitting during a speech at the reactionary Conservative Political Action Conference. There, he attacked Democrats as “the opponents of American culture.” He was particularly harsh toward the workers who keep our country’s federal, state and local government going, and the unions they’ve formed to protect and represent them.
Did you see that today, government workers make more money than people who work in the private sector? Can you imagine what happens to an economy where the best opportunities are for bureaucrats?
It’s high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed-whacker to government regulations, to reform entitlements, and to stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our government!
Romney’s idea of “entitlement reform” involves privatizing Social Security and outsourcing Medicare and Medicaid to private insurance companies, two strategies that would have a devastating impact on workers’ retirement security and access to health care.
Romney’s corporate and political careers have shown a record of attacking the priorities of working families.
- As the head of Bain Capital, he was responsible for laying off thousands of workers. (Bain Capital continues to exploit workers.)
- As governor, he vetoed a minimum wage increase and a bill to allow public employees to form unions by majority sign-up.
- As a candidate, he claimed the nation’s health care crisis is the fault of the uninsured.
Romney’s record on the issues that matter to working families is embarrassing, so his attack on public employees and their unions comes as no surprise. But looks like all Romney’s big bucks and pandering to corporate interests couldn’t buy him the Republican nomination.
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Screw Romney, he’s out, 1 less idiot trying to succed the main idiot.
Getting out the vote is important in taking back America, getting OUR agenda looked at. Single payer health care, worker’s rights, ending the idiot’s war.
HMM so why did he go into venture capital. pump&dump if he could have made more as a case worker or snowplow operator? When they make these spout this crap the response is that the money is not going to case workers, food service people or corrections officers, it’s going the managers who move back and forth from private to public sector and stop counting the presidents of public universities, head coaches, and governors in the mix . Lets talk school teacher versus architect, or HR specialist for a city versus HR specialist for CitiCorp.
gald the “poor” little “rich” boy is gone, he was just another corporate whack that we really had no need for…
Perhaps Mr. Romney things the gov’t workers are paid more than the private sector , is because all the well paying industrial, and manufacturing jobs have been sent to China by people like him. I wonder how he could explain why both parents have to work to not even support a family well.
Not every one is born with the advantages he wasborn with. The majority of people have to work very hard to make a living, and it is the worst I have seen it in my lifetime. I’d like to see him put in the situation that most people are in, and see how he would cope without all his millions, and rich friends.
In the long run, if he and like people got their way, this country would go down the tubes, and they might end up with nothing.
For someone who calls his self Christian I don’t think he has a very good Christian attitude.
Thanks