Tuesday, January 24, 2012

RICH MAN POOR MAN

GOP front runner Mitt Romney and his wife paid $3-million in federal taxes on $21-million income for 2010, according to the L.A. Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-releases-tax-returns-20120124,0,4945167.story 

Gee, things are tough all over, huh?

How do they manage to live on such a small amount? Only $21. Wait, it was $21-MILLION!

Holy crap!

Where is my private jet? My mansions? Remember when a reporter asked then-GOP presidential candidate John McCain how many houses he and his wife owned? He said, "I'll get back to you on that." He didn't even know. Yeah, things are tough all over. Turned out, they owned seven.

Isn't it wonderful that these big-time GOP honchos get their hands dirty, just like the rest of us? How do they even know who we are? How do they know what our lives are like? How do they know what our problems are?

My advice to Romney: Put all your holdings in a blind trust, and cut off your family's access to all your wealth. No income for five years, and GET A JOB!

BTW, that was the premise for an old movie, with Joel McCrea, in which a rich man travels around the USA as a bum during the Great Depression. The character learned something about real people, ordinary people, the salt of the earth.

I wonder if Mitt would learn anything. I doubt it. But we'll never know. That will never happen, not in the money-driven world of GOP politics. Too bad.

Yeah, things are tough all over. Especially for us voters.

-- Roger


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