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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
1. You want an education, lady?
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:02 PM
Jul 2012

Come visit DU -- we'll give you an education. And it won't be anything like the bullshit you picked up at that fancy boarding school you went to, either. And what is "it," exactly?

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
2. Heh.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:08 PM
Jul 2012

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]You'd think with all her income and education, she'd be able to confine herself to speaking grammatically in just one person (2nd or 3rd, not both) for at least a whole sentence.

I'll bet all her bodily functions work just the same as those of less educated/lower income people, and she'll still have to leave all her loot behind when she croaks (which she most certainly will).

Just what is it that makes her so special, again?

Warpy

(111,405 posts)
3. That's hilarious. We see them a lot more clearly than they see us.
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:10 PM
Jul 2012

and yes, madam, we know how it works. That's why we want to overthrow it and your kind with it.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
6. More of the quote ...
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 09:43 PM
Jul 2012


Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Time in on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events.

The woman, who wouldn’t reveal her name, said the following:

I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.


The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/08/512645/romney-donor-says-lower-income-people-dont-understand-whats-going-on/

treestar

(82,383 posts)
9. They could lose some of their own base with that kind of comment
Sun Jul 8, 2012, 11:16 PM
Jul 2012

There are a lot of people in the working class dumb (racist) enough to vote Republican, but that's going to sting.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
10. Milady, how does your portfolio distinguish between companies that increase profit...
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:58 AM
Jul 2012

...by making better product and thus increasing sales, vs. those that increase profits by squeezing employees and swindling customers? It seems the latter method is both easier to pull off and is more reliable (for instance, no chance of a competitor undercutting your product sales) in terms of delivering money to stockholders.

So obviously, you need some means of separating the sort of investment that creates jobs and benefits the "common people" when it is successful from the sort of investment that shows a profit by redirecting money that would have gone to the "common people" into the the accounts of the shareholders.

Pray tell, please enlighten us how you distinguish between the two, because if the only standard is the money it shoots your way then there's no incentivizing between the types of investment, which would seem to advantage the company reshuffling existing wealth into fewer pockets over the investment that creates new wealth. In other words, between the latter, which has interdependencies with "common people" to make and buy things, and the former, which profits by basically screwing "common people".

So yes, Milady, I don't understand how that works. But that's not due to any deficiency on my part: it doesn't work. The deficiency is where you think it does, and where your "education" really isn't worthy of that name because it's not preventing you from being dumb enough to believe bullshit.

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