Romney is fucked. Most Americans really don't give a shit that he's a millionaire many times over. They like to dream (and many aspire to) one day reach those type of numbers. Hell, from those specific returns, it even looks like he was more charitable than the Obama's...
...BUT...those returns were the embodiment of a major discourse taking place. Are we a society that provides the instruments and the means to enrich others, that in turn benefits the society locally and at large...or are we a society that that provides the instruments and the means to enrich others who make little or no effort to re-infuse that good fortune back into the local or national community where it was derived. Because as far as I know, that shit didn't come from thin air.
It's like Jenga. Instead of putting pieces back as one is taken out, you literally destabilize the foundation and like the game...eventually that shit crashes. What good does making money, off of money, do for society? It's stability? What good does it do to allow people to build incredibly vast sums of wealth if society in general suffers as a result? You can make 500 million dollars off of a hedge fund, a year, and pay 15 percent on capital gains. That is the epitome of the biggest FUCK YOU to the society that made your wealth possible I can think of. Everyone keeps acting like they made all their shit entirely on their own and as far as I know, the society where you derived it, made it possible through it's structure and resources in various ways. Remove both and you don't have anyone to pay for your shit or facilitate your ideas/work.
So what's the big idea? We'll shrink Government, which sounds great on the face of it, until you get into the details. Who needs the fuckin EPA, who needs SS, who needs Medicare/Medicade, on and on and on. I got my shit, fuck you. I don't give a fuck HOW wealthy this society made me, the rest of you can suck it. Yea, I used foodstamps once. Yea, I used unemployment once. Yea, I used assistance once. But I'm in the big leagues now, so lick my hairy balls! You know who I create work for, my bankers and my investment guy, I'm a job creator baby, hahahaha, WOOT!
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