In Ohio, Romney says his 'heart aches' for jobless
Source: Reuters
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed empathy for unemployed Americans on Wednesday in what appeared to be an effort to repair the damage from comments he made in a leaked videotape that has sent his poll numbers on a downward slide.
"I've been across the country. My heart aches for the people I've seen," Romney told an enthusiastic crowd in Westerville on the second day of a bus tour across a state considered a must-win for him in the Nov. 6 election.
On a day the candidate was joined by golf legend and Ohio native Jack Nicklaus, a new poll by Quinnipiac University and The New York Times spelled trouble for Romney.
It said that Democratic President Barack Obama - who also campaigned in Ohio on Wednesday - leads Romney in Ohio by 10 percentage points and is ahead in two other important states - Florida and Pennsylvania - by similar margins.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/26/usa-campaign-idINL1E8KQBIC20120926
denverbill
(11,489 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)for the moochers who live only in apartments and have heart attacks. Well he's coming around..
sarge43
(28,947 posts)Asshole
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Now that the people he laid off are getting revenge, that could make his head ache.
What a phony jerk.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)government to take care of them? All out of work, none of whom are paying taxes etc. etc.
Or maybe he now sees all those dirty, unemployed, leechers as a possible source of cheap labor, like that factory he saw in China. And no one has taken advantage of it yet?
Journeyman
(15,046 posts)What has Romney done for the unemployed, other than mock and dismiss them?
(And "added to their number," though no doubt enjoyable to Mr Romney, is not a positive in the empathy column.)
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)rox63
(9,464 posts)Installed just this morning. So far, it does not seem to be working as expected.
Nostradammit
(2,921 posts)I am so relieved.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...but he can't wait to find another company to takeover and load with debt, slash employee wages, cancel employee pensions and then run the poor company into bankruptcy thereby forcing EVERYONE into unemployment, all for more money into his offshore tax havens.
Asshole.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Liar, Liar, pans on fire. Damn! I wish we had a simile for that. We could use it often with this gang of compulsive liars.
The only thing that would make his heart ache is when he loses the election or he lost most his precious money.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)trying to swat his ass to put the fire out, while saying, "Ow! Ow!"
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Somehow I got hung up on the hem of his pants. You'd be right!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)kooljerk666
(776 posts)Mitt like to fire people & his sex party fund rasing pal in FL took the pensions off of Friendly's Restaurant employees.
Pensions they paid into.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/01/late-night-colbert-defends-romneys-i-like-to-fire-people-gaffe.html
and.........Laid-Off Steelworker: Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Profited by Shutting Down Kansas Steel Plant
at http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/10/laid_off_steelworker_mitt_romney_and
Mitt does not have a heart & I would argue Seamus was more human than he is.
Scairp
(2,749 posts)Now MY heart aches. WTF is Nicklaus doing with that asshole? Another person whom I no longer hold in esteem.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,087 posts)Denise21
(63 posts)You really care what about your comment on Sunday go the ER if you don't have health care really Romney! Give me a break the only thing you care about is YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
closeupready
(29,503 posts)nt
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)....at least that's what I heard... so how does he know it hurts?
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Mittens nor the GOP party care about the unemployed cause if they did they would have put AMERICA first not a political party.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)NICO9000
(970 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)If I was a vulture capitalist and a bunch of jobless people in Ohio were probably going to be the deciding group as to whether or not I achieved the title of 'President of the United States'. Yeah, I'd need a bucketful of Maalox if I was faced with that scenario.
By the way Romney, I notice your heartache didn't compel you to open your wallet and pay those unpaid coal miners who were made to stand behind you during work hours. Oh yeah, they're probably the unwashed 47%. Screw 'em.
mackdaddy
(1,532 posts)That beats his heart ache hands down.
Denise21
(63 posts)Anti-Austerity Protests, Athens Protests, Austerity Protests, Economy Protests, Greece Protests, Madrid Protests, Spain Protests, World News
By Renee Maltezou and Julien Toyer
ATHENS/MADRID, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid on Wednesday in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone's most vulnerable economies.
In some of the most violent confrontations, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol bombs as thousands joined the country's biggest protest in more than a year.
The unrest erupted after nearly 70,000 people marched to the Greek parliament chanting "EU, IMF Out!" on the day of a general strike against further cuts demanded by foreign lenders.
"We can't take it anymore - we are bleeding. We can't raise our children like this," said Dina Kokou, a 54-year-old teacher and mother of four who lives on 1,000 euros ($1,250) a month.
In Madrid, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faced violence on the streets of the capital and growing talk of secession in Catalonia as he moves cautiously closer to asking Europe for a bailout, aware that such an action has cost other European leaders their jobs.
In public, Rajoy has been resisting calls to move quickly to request assistance, but behind the scenes he is putting together the pieces to meet the stringent conditions that will accompany rescue funds.
Rajoy presents a tough 2013 budget on Thursday, aiming to send a message that Spain is doing its deficit-cutting homework despite a recession and 25 percent unemployment.
Spain appears on course to miss its public deficit target of 6.3 percent of gross domestic product this year, and the central bank said the economy continued to contract sharply in the third quarter.
Rajoy is facing intense pressure from euro zone policymakers to take tougher measures, particularly on freezing pensions.
On Friday, Moody's will publish its latest review of Spain's credit rating, possibly downgrading the country's debt to junk status.
On the same day, an independent audit of Spain's banks will reveal how much money Madrid will need from a 100 billion euro ($130 billion) aid package that Europe has already approved for the banks.
HEADING FOR A BAILOUT
Rajoy is gradually shedding his reluctance to seek a sovereign bailout for the euro zone's fourth biggest economy - a condition for European Central Bank intervention to cut his country's borrowing costs.
He suggested on Wednesday that he would make the move if debt financing costs remained too high for too long.
"I can assure you 100 percent that I would ask for this bailout," he told the Wall Street Journal.
He also said he had not made his mind up on whether to allow pensions to rise in step with inflation, which could cost the government an extra 6 billion euros this year.
"We need to be sufficiently flexible in order not to create any further problems," he said when asked about pensions.
His remarks, coupled with the central bank's warning on the economy helped drive up Spain's borrowing costs, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year bond jumping to 6 percent, a level seen as unsustainable in the medium term. The index of leading stocks fell 3.46 percent to a two-week low.
The Spanish government's drive to rein in regional overspending as part of its austerity measures has prompted a flare-up of independence fervour in Catalonia, the wealthy northeastern region that generates one-fifth of Spain's economic output.
Catalonia needs a 5 billion-euro bailout from Madrid to meet debt payments this year, but Catalans believe they bear an unfairly large share of the country's tax burden.
Artur Mas, the conservative president of Catalonia, announced on Tuesday he would hold early elections in November after Rajoy rebuffed his call for more tax autonomy.
On Wednesday Mas took things further, saying Catalonia should also hold a referendum on independence, which the central government says would be unconstitutional.
SAMARAS FACES TEST
With Rajoy under new pressure from the Catalans, his fellow euro zone struggler, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, also faced a major test, in the shape of a 24-hour strike called by the country's two biggest unions.
Ships stayed in port, museums and monuments were shut and air traffic controllers walked off the job. Trains and flights were suspended, public offices and shops were shut, and hospitals provided a reduced service.
Union anger is directed at spending cuts worth nearly 12 billion euros ($16 billion) over the next two years that Greece has promised the European Union and International Monetary Fund in an effort to secure its next tranche of aid.
The bulk of those cuts is expected to come from cutting wages, pensions and welfare benefits, heaping a new wave of misery on Greeks who say repeated rounds of austerity have pushed them to the brink and failed to transform the country for the better.
"My husband has lost his job, we just can't make ends meet," said Dimitra Kontouli, 49, a local government employee whose salary has been cut to 1,100 euros a month from 1,600 euros.
Unions argue that Greece should remain in the euro but default on part of its debt and ditch the current recipe of austerity cuts in favour of higher taxes on the rich and efforts to nab wealthy tax evaders.
But with Greece facing certain bankruptcy and a potential euro zone exit without further aid, Samaras's government has little choice but to push through the measures.
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Shoppers pass by the many discount shops of North Earl Street in Dublin, on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Ireland's economy has suffered four straight years of falling property prices and consumer spending in the face of rising taxes, unemployment and emigration. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)
#9. Lithuania (15.4%)
Lithuanians protest during an anti-government rally at the Parliament palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Lithuanians are increasingly upset about rising unemployment and unpopular reforms. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
#8. Latvia (15.4%)
With Latvian flags and flowers, people march in a procession to the Freedom Monument to honor soldiers who fought in a Waffen SS unit during World War II, in Riga, Latvia, on Tuesday, March 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
#7. Georgia (16.3%)
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#6. Greece (17.3%)
A woman collects goods from a garbage bin outside a supermarket in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.
#5. Croatia (17.7%)
A protester holds a Croatian flag during an anti-EU rally in Zagreb, Croatia, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, after Croatia signed a treaty to join the European Union in 2013. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
#4. Spain (21.7%)
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#3. Serbia (23.4%)
In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, a young child walks in a corridor at an asylum center in Banja Koviljaca, Serbia. Serbia, still scarred from the Balkan wars, is battling with widespread poverty and unemployment. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
#2. Bosnia (45.3%)
Belma Avdic, 8, leans on the door as her mother Amela Avdic, center, hugs her sister Belma Avdic, 4, inside their old family house near the Bosnian town of Kalesija, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Belma Avdic's father and mother are both unemployed and the family lives in poverty in a small house without money to buy wood or coal for heating. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
#1. Kosovo (45.3%)
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alp227
(32,081 posts)"Remember, as I said, our number-one goal should be to get rid of Obama this November, and we can only do that if the jobless feel angry and hopeless! Cut it out with that 'I feel your pain' crap! Only Democrats do that!"
bemildred
(90,061 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Jack Nicklaus a LDS member? No big surprise there.
NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)It was the chilli he had for lunch, before stiffing the owner of the diner by leaving a nickel for a tip.
n/t
Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)Everything that comes out of the man's mouth is an insult. For him to even pretend his little heart "aches" is a slap in the face. Fuck Mitt. Can't wait for the election so I won't have to hear him talk anymore.