Romney: Wall Street Protestors Seeking Scapegoats

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Romney: Wall Street protestors seeking scapegoats

MILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE | Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:15pm EDT

By Jason McLure

MILFORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Mitt Romney, a former venture capitalist who is the Republican presidential front-runner, derided the Occupy Wall Street movement on Monday as seeking "scapegoats" and risking dividing the country.

Romney responded to a question about the influence of big banks on Washington policy at a town hall meeting in Milford, New Hampshire, by addressing the protests that have spread nationwide over the past month.

"All the streets are connected. Wall Street is connected to Main Street," Romney said, adding that protesters are seeking "scapegoats to attack."

"Don't attack a whole class of Americans, whether they're rich or poor, white or black. This isn't the time for divisiveness."

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[oberliner]

1. He couldn't use the "street" line if it was Wall Avenue

Everything seems to be aligning just right for his snappy rhetoric.

[No Elephants]

30. Nothing is wrong with his lingo, but his geography is off. Wall Street is connected to K Street.

[Angry Dragon]

2. "All the streets are connected. Wall Street is connected to Main Street,"

he is correct in that however he forgot to say that
Wall Street and Bankers have ripped up all the Main Streets
and taken all the money to repair Wall Street and Bankers

Every thing is connected. When you shift all the money to the top there is no money at the bottom
don't these idiots see this??

[bongbong]

3. What a mega-doofus

No one is "attacking" anyone. That is what teabaggers do.

The 99% just want the 1% to quit free-loading off the 99%.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Can't we just all get along? LOL.

[windowpilot]

5. Heads up Mitt!

PNACers are what's dividing our country.

[Hotler]

6. +1 Mitt, it's already divided you shit stain. eom.

[newspeak]

33. yeah, nothing like the PNAC to use our money and our lives

to further corporate interest goals. Oh doesn't Mitty have a couple of PNACers on board? They'll use us until we are spent. Of course, this has nothing to do with spreading democracy. It has more to do with controlling resources by global corporations.

We don't need no stinkin scapegoats, we already know that corporations have increased their profits by about 88%, while labor has only increased by .01%. We know that those obscene tax cuts to the wealthiest have not created jobs here, but allowed those who have benefited to sit on the money or ship it over seas. We know that those on WS bundled bad mortgages and sold them to unwitting investors and then some BET on our downfall which they helped create. We know that corporations (including foreign) have gained more political power in our country against the will of the people--that our government now can be more easily bought. We know that some of our supreme court justices are a disgrace to the position and are more partisan in their decision.

Mitt is not clueless, he knows exactly who he is and who he supports, and it's not the american people. He's another WS corporate tool.

[HomerRamone]

7. I hope I see this picture a lot

[aggiesal]

8. "... and risking dividing the country "

Risking?
Doesn't he know that the Banksters and the Bush Tax Policy
have already divided the country into 1% .vs. 99%

And right now the 1% out weigh, out spend, out earn ...
the 99%'s

We don't need a Scapegoat, we already have that.
What we are looking for is better policy to represent the 99%'s.

Ohhh, I forgot, Mitt is part of the 1%'s.

[Roy Rolling]

9. LISTEN UP!!!!

Mitt says he already has Obama as a scapegoat and don't anybody be divisive by failing to demonize Obama as he and reactionary comrades command.

[TomCADem]

10. Scapegoats? Seriously? What's Up With Cain and Romney?

While Romney is busy campaigning to repeal Financial Reform, he simply can't understand why the American people are angry at Wall Street. Most Americans were incensed when the Tea Party was hyped even though it was merely astroturf designed to block financial reform. Now, you have the people actually expressing their anger like the crowds in Cairo or Libya, and Romney dismisses them as a whining rabble. Afterall, turning Medicare into voucher care is not class warfare, but demanding that the rich pay their fair share is divisive and unamerican according to the Republicans.

[Kennah]

11. Heh GOOPer, keep your Mitts off our country!

[jpak]

12. Torches and Pitchforks Mittens

They seek The Monster

be afraid

yup

[Vincardog]

13. And this a$$hat is the best hope that the GOP has in 2012? Fucking funny

[defendandprotect]

21. GOP is at the bottom of the barrel -- this is their only presentable non-thug like possibility ... !

[Turbineguy]

14. Scapegoats?

Many of the people who re-wrote the laws in 1999 to make this situation possible and legal have retired. In the meantime, ripping off the middle class is now legal and profitable.

[PurgedVoter]

15. Yo MIttens

You say we are looking for a scapegoat to attack. After you have been cozy up to the Tea Baggers? You say we are dividing our nation,Mittens? After you have called for, in simple terms, the end of all possible bright futures for the worlds grandchildren? I am not speaking hypothetically, here Mittens, your ignore the environmental issues, hand it to multinational and banker, bring back child labor and end minimum wage supporters pretty much show us who and what you really are. Your success at personally exporting work overseas sums it up for the rest of us. Seriously Mittens, You say we are looking for a scapegoat to attack. We may have found one.

[julian09]

16. It's not about envy, but fairness

the laborer who has been losing wage war. The ceo that takes home equivalent of 200 or more single workers wages.
Would he be rich , if not for the workers, how much of the workers wage is he putting in his pocket.
THEN he pays a lesser tax rate than his employee or the employer who pays little or no US taxes, gets local tax breaks,
when they are up, move to another location or off shore, after the write off.
The banks who took almost free fed money, not to lend but put in treasuries. They get outrageous bonus for under performing
and a pass on criminal activity. They give you 1% on your savings, they lend every dollar twenty times at much higher rates.
they now want to charge $5 fee to use your own money on debt card. Write off mortgages, but unwilling to renegotiate mortgages loans.
The repugs trying to destroy safety net, with their defund the fed govt policy, to kill new deal policies, because of lack of money.
Fund defense, kill EPA, EDUCATION, ENERGY. Tax breaks for oil, nuclear, coal reduce subsidies for solar and wind who need them because
oil bought pols are in oil industry pocket.

[Populist_Prole]

17. Glad he said it. This way he keeps painting himself into the plutocratic corner

It would be far worse for us if he tried to reach out and give lip service to the 99 percenters. He has no idea he's on the wrong side of this, and that's a good thing in the end.

"Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake" is what I say.

[defendandprotect]

18. BS .. .they're killing Main Street -- and did Hartmann say Romney is worth $30/$40 million????

Can't recall what he said last week on the numbers, but think that's fairly

accurate -- but I don't think he said how the money was made, other than

obviously investments.

Anyone else hear Thom Hartmann that day -- a few days ago?

[nichomachus]

20. More like $200 million plus

Most of which he "earned" by closing down companies, putting tens of thousands of people out of work, and devastating entire communities.

[defendandprotect]

22. You're right -- at least $264 million ....

2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Anne are worth as much as $264 million, according to disclosure documents filed Friday.

That makes him the richest candidate in the 2012 race — including President Barack Obama. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, whose father's company invented the McDonald's clam shell, has not yet filed disclosure forms.

Romney's fortune — which is about the same value as his 2007 campaign disclosure — is unsurprising, given his successful run as CEO of Bain Capital. His assets are in more than 160 funds managed by several major investment firms, including Bain, Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.



Romney came under fire in the 2007 campaign for investing in countries with interests in China, Iran, and embryonic stem cell research. He subsequently promised to scrub his portfolio to "conform with his positions;" according to the new disclosure, Romney's blind trust has sold off shares in Honeywell and Schlumberger, both of which invested in Iranian oil development.



Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-12/politics/30046635_1_mitt-romney-major-investment-firms-cell-research#ixzz1aQAfNw96




and ...


Mitt Romney is the former Governor of Massachusetts, a former Mormon missionary, and businessman, with an estimated net worth of $250 million dollars making him one of the richest politicians in the United States and by far the richest 2012 Presidential candidate. Mitt Romney began his career is a consultant in a business firm in Boston called Bain & Company. Later he left Bain & Company to form an offshoot private equity firm called Bain Capital. Bain Capital made a fortune through through leveraged buyouts which is the when a firm issues large amounts of debt in order to takeover another corporation. The new owners in theory are able to run the company more efficiently and increase the value of the corporation to an amount that exceeds the original debt that was issued to buy it. Then the company is sold, the debt is paid off and the people behind the leveraged buyout keep whatever profits are leftover. In 25 years, by the time Romney left Bain Capital they had over $4 billion under management and Romney himself had pocketed $250 million in personal wealth.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/mitt-romney-net-worth/


hmmm..... !!!

[nichomachus]

19. We're not seeking them, Mittens. We know just where they are -- and we're right outside

[onehandle]

23. Onehandle: Empty suit Romney will lose against the President.

Poor Mittens. Perpetually 'unemployed.'

[freshstart]

24. Mitt is mad...that they interrupted his party's

"government is too big" and "class warfare" lines. Yeah, it is class warfare alright- the 1% have been waging war on the 99% for years and the 99% are tired of being the scapegoats.

[whosinpower]

25. Wall street long ago declared Main street a dead end

And stopped supporting main street many years ago when the free trade agreements became in vogue.

We got cheap stuff from China as a trade off - Wall Street boomed - and main street became a dustbowl.

Also - recognizing a growing outrageous disparity between the rich and poor - is not attacking the rich. It is simply stating fact.

There is something wrong in a country when it is easier to be arrested as a protester for speaking truth to power than defrauding billions of pension funds via selling them crap mortgage backed securities.

Stating the obvious - that there is something wrong with this picture is not attacking - it is a statement of truth.

[a simple pattern]

26. The defining characteristic of a scapegoat is its innocence.

So what he's saying is that the protestors stole the government and all the money and are looking for someone innocent to blame for their own misdeeds?

Every day's opposite day when you're a Republican, I guess.

[daleo]

27. Two streets are connected, anyway

Wall Street to K street.

[mvd]

28. Ha ha - the Repukes get more lame in their attacks every day

Bet he didn't say the Teabaggers are dividing! Occupy Wall Street is a REAL movement of people that have had it with the rich looting America. The Teabaggers are only made up of brainwashed/ignorant people and greedy people, funded BY that 1%!

[guitar man]

29. They attacked us first

It started 3 decades ago with that SOB Reagan. This is what the breaking point looks like, Mittens. :grr:

[No Elephants]

31. Scapegoat this, Mitt.

[raccoon]

32. He just removed any doubt that he's full of it, if anyone had such doubts. nt