Mitt's taxes part 2

[JaneV2.0]

...when he was a little kid in a foreign country where dogs are food. I'm pretty sure he didn't make a lifelong habit of it, but perhaps that's where the stool sample comes in.

[Gregg]

...perhaps that's where the stool sample comes in.

I'm sure we'll get there soon enough Jane.

[iris lily]

If there hasn't yet been a cartoon of Romney driving the White House the with the US public strapped to the roof, there should be.

That's pretty funny, actually.

[iris lily]

A terrible lapse in judgement to be sure. Still, I think poor Seamus probably came out better than the dog President Obama ate.

oh nooooooo! That's beneath you.

Let's beat up on Michael Vick who REALLY deserves it.

[JaneV2.0]

oh nooooooo! That's beneath you.

Let's beat up on Michael Vick who REALLY deserves it.

I can't argue with that sentiment. But I say we strap Romney to the top of a big rig for a lengthy guest shot on Ice Road Truckers as well...

[Gregg]

I can't argue with that sentiment. But I say we strap Romney to the top of a big rig for a lengthy guest shot on Ice Road Truckers as well...

If we're going for an eye for an eye I say we let Mr. Obama become unemployed for a while.

[JaneV2.0]

If we're going for an eye for an eye I say we let Mr. Obama become unemployed for a while.

I'm not getting the drift. If President Obama's American Jobs Act had made it past Senate obstructionists with a filibuster-proof 60 votes (how the hell did we come to this? Whatever happened to a simple majority? New Senate rules, please.), we'd have better employment numbers, but as others have pointed out, we're in a worldwide recession, and with the Job Exporters doing what they can to outsource everything but their profits (and even those, if you count offshore deposits), I don't see unemployment improving markedly no matter who's in charge. Not to mention Ryan's stated goal is to gut the federal government, so all those people will be out in the street, and Romney's record shows he's more committed to firing people than getting them hired. Leopards, spots.

[ApatheticNoMore]

If we're going for an eye for an eye I say we let Mr. Obama become unemployed for a while.

Short of complete revolution, it could never happen, that threat is not real to the elite and can't conceivably be. If he lost the election, he could pull in even more money giving speaches etc.. That's pretty much what they all do, Carter is notable as he choose not to go the ever more and further self-enrichment route.

[ApatheticNoMore]

we're in a worldwide recession, and with the Job Exporters doing what they can to outsource everything but their profits, I don't see unemployment improving markedly no matter who's in charge.

yes, how does anyone know what employment should be? We have no good baselines. We have the data points of this recession and maybe that's the new normal. We have the data points of two unsustainable booms that are pretty much agreed by all to have been unsustainable (the Dot Com and the Housing), one almost immediately following the other. And to go back further to a normal non-boom, non-recession economy your talking what, early Clinton years? Your probably talking BEFORE NAFTA and GATT even not to mention all the dozens of trade agreements since then. That's your baseline, and some might wonder how appicable it is in a post trade agreement world.

My favorite article on the election yet:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/...s-at-the-gate/

"The election of the next puppet president of the “world’s only superpower” is about two and one-half months off, and what are the campaign issues? There aren’t any worthy of the name." (though Ryan may have handed Obama some)

[bae]

Carter is notable as he choose not to go the ever more and further self-enrichment route.

Carter is one of my personal heroes for the way in which he has devoted himself to public service.