Watching republicans and democrats with " crab mentalities " attempt to negate or diminish the value of Mitt Romney's success is quite frankly embarrassing, ignorant and short-sighted.
Mitt Romney reported earning over $27.1m from investment income in 2010, effectively putting him on track to pay US income tax twice on his earnings; once on corporate taxes and once again on capital gains taxes. Romney paid a reported 14% in income tax, and gave away over $3M in tax-deductible charitable donations.
What's wrong with this picture, America? Shouldn't we be elevating these "tall poppies" instead of castigating them?
Prior to becoming British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher explained her philosophy to an American audience as "let your poppies grow tall". In essence, what she was trying to impress upon americans was the importance of promoting american exceptionalism, and zero tolerance for mob rule.
Consider that some individuals calling for "fairness" contributed only $10,000 in charitable donations from a annual income of $1,000,000. That's 1% in contrast to Mitt Romney's 15%, as reported by Bloomberg.
The uncivilized and irresponsible "eat the rich" class warfare that's being promoted by instigators who thoughtlessly wear $500 running shoes to America's soup kitchens is exploitative of the vulnerable, it's oppressive, divisive, disengenous and it does nothing to address the seriousness of this nation's underlying problems.
Is this the new American way? Is this "take to give" philosophy to redirect the public's attention from this administration's failures really what we want our children taught and oppressed by? Benjamin Franklin pointed-out decades ago that one cannot add to the stature of a short person by cutting off the legs of a giant.
And who could miss the giant tie-dyed elephant swaying back-and-forth in the middle of the room begging for peanuts?
The promises:
"On energy, Barack Obama said in 2008 that it was time to end our foreign oil addiction. In 2011, he admitted, “we’re not where we need to be.” He called his own energy policy “just a hodgepodge.” And last week, he blocked the Keystone pipeline project, which would have provided America with a safe, affordable energy source.
On campaign ethics, Obama called Wall Street executives “fat cats” and then acted like a fat cat himself: he’s accepted more Wall Street money than all other presidential candidates -- combined.
Health care was supposed to be Obama’s great achievement. He promised his plan would bring down premiums “by $2,500” for the typical family. Last year, they rose by 9 percent.
Obama boldly promised that lobbyists would never “find a job in my White House.” He’s hired almost 100 of them.
In 2008, he said adding $4 trillion to the debt was “unpatriotic.” He’s increased it more than $4.5 trillion and is on track to add trillions more.
Obama promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Instead, he racked up three record deficits of more than $1 trillion each.
He promised he could create thousands of jobs with green energy spending. Then he lost a $535 million taxpayer-funded loan to the now-bankrupt company Solyndra.
With his $825 billion stimulus, Obama promised unemployment would stay below 8 percent. Not only did unemployment shoot past 8 percent, it hasn’t come back to that level since.
And then there’s the biggest promise of them all: the economy. Barack Obama was so confident he could turn around the economy that he promised in early 2009 that if he didn’t have it fixed in “three years” then his presidency would “be a one-term proposition."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/22/obama-has-given-up-on-doing-his-job/#ixzz1kWjy68U6
Add to that this administration providing banks with yet another opportunity to prey-off already underwater homeowners when modifying loans on their over-valued homes. Not requiring federally insured lenders to provide modification recipients with a updated professional home appraisal of the true market-value of their homes at the time of their loan modifications, and allowing financial institutions that received bailouts to tack modification amounts onto the back-end of troubled borrowers loans, only served to compound the damage and prevent the residential real estate market from ever fully correcting.
Are americans really better off than they were three years ago?
Healthcare costs are up 19%
Unemployment is up 45%
12 million more americans are on food stamps
Foreclosures have soared, with 3 million more homeowners expected to become renters by 2015, according to census data analyzed by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies and The Associated Press.
Gasoline prices have ballooned by 85%
And this administration allowing politics to obstruct job creation as americans saw recently with its blocks on Boeing and the Keystone Pipeline, both of which were offensive to anyone with intelligence who was paying attention. Could the POTUS be anymore out of touch with under / unemployed americans who've been begging for opportunity?
Over the past three years, the current administration has failed miserably to deliver on its promise to turn the economy around. Not only did it not deliver, its policies made the economy worse. And it has become painfully obvious that its in over its head. The disturbing implications associated with the "Fast and Furious" and "Solyndra" scandals are nothing short of frightening. Mistakes americans cannot afford.
A question begs to be asked...what else haven't americans been told about?
Enough of the; recycled empty promises, divisiveness, blaming, and unattractive envy. America is crying for real change and the decisive action, ethics and proven expertise required to pull this nation out of it's death spiral. Someone who knows how to turn negatives into positives. Someone like Mitt Romney.
Just imagine the business acumen Mitt Romey could offer american businesses.
