Romney Hypocrisy

[Howey]

Who woulda thunk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLZpMFbxyxU&feature=player_embedded

The business owner, Jack Gilchrist, is featured in the Romney ad hitting Obama for allegedly claiming that business owners “didn’t build” their own businesses.

According to the Union Leader, Gilchrist received $800,000 in tax exempt revenue bonds issued by the state to build a plant — bonds that are partly supported by the federal government — and also received several recent Navy and Coast Guard contracts.

Gilchrist told the paper that the bonds were ultimately a “loser” for the company because of associated legal fees. But he insisted that his acceptance of defense contracts didn't conflict with his criticism of Obama’s comments. And this from Gilchrist jumps out:

    “Defense business is a good way to help the economy. But the President wants to cut the crap out of the defense budget.”

That would appear to mean that the star of Romney’s ad believes federal spending — on defense, at least — is good for the economy. That would make him a “weaponized Keynesian,” i.e., someone that does believe federal spending creates jobs and is good for businesses, but will only say so when it concerns defense.

I asked Gilchrist himself — a personable guy who seemed to enjoy bantering with someone he disagreed with — whether he thinks federal spending is good for the economy. He allowed that spending on roads and bridges does, in fact, create jobs, and said he supports federal spending on at least maintaining them.

“If we’re going to spend money on roads and bridges, certainly keeping them in good condition is prudent, and it’s certainly putting people to work,” Gilchrist said. “Obviously if people are fixing things, then they’re working.”

[uselesslegs]

It doesn't work.  No matter how many degrees of separation you want to ignore...unless you were thrown in the woods as an infant and raised by wolves...AND EVEN THEN...the wolves provided for your existence, until you could do it on your own.

I know of no one, who willed themselves into existence, used absolutely zero resources of a community or country and became a billionaire.

[ekg]

I know of no one, who willed themselves into existence, used absolutely zero resources of a community or country and became a billionaire.

and up until Obama said it, it wasn't 'anti-American' to admit that...

[Rana]

It doesn't work.  No matter how many degrees of separation you want to ignore...unless you were thrown in the woods as an infant and raised by wolves...AND EVEN THEN...the wolves provided for your existence, until you could do it on your own.

I know of no one, who willed themselves into existence, used absolutely zero resources of a community or country and became a billionaire.

Do these people have customers?  I agree with you, no man is an island.  I heard a guy on all radio say he made it one his own, bought his first rental unit with money his step dad loaned him!  "those people" are that stupid!  I had a good laugh about that all day long!  The host of the show didn't even correct him, e just went along with it.  It boggles the mind!

[uselesslegs]

It's willful ignorance and being pridefully stubborn.  Even the guy who goes up and down the highway and scours dumpsters for aluminum cans didn't find them as a result of nature naturally producing them...and even in bizarro world if they were naturally occurring, SOMEONE has to exchange them for money.

This doesn't diminish the hard work, long hours and effort or innovation that people exert every day to make a buck.  But through a new rhetoric filled filter being used now...that hard work, long hours and effort or innovation carries with it an extreme type of pride (or greed) that disallows the acknowledgement of the symbiotic nature of capitalism required to make their bank account work.  And that symbiotic nature can't continually or mostly flow in one direction, or it's not symbiotic anymore.  Even Vampires realize that they can't completely drain their victims, if they wish to continue to have a symbiotic relationship that will sustain them.  If your extraction is infinitely larger and the amount returned doesn't offset what's required to maintain a safe stable economic environment in all it's various forms, then you're playing a very dangerous game that only has one eventual outcome.

If you wake up tomorrow and everyone's gone, you're not a billionaire anymore. You need other people and a system that acknowledges a certain type of value associated with your items, ideas, labor and a currency.  We need each other in this particular type of economic set up, whether it's acknowledged or not.  I'd really rather avoid implosion.