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 designed to redirect the public's attention from this administration's failures really what we want our children brainwashed 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 unfairness for taxpayers!
Here are just a few of Barack Obama's unfair 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.” Yet in January of 2012, this same administration unfairly allowed politics to obstruct independent energy and job creation with its blocks on the Keystone Pipeline and Boeing. Could the POTUS be anymore unfair and out of touch with americans seeking energy independence and the under / unemployed americans who've been begging for opportunity?
On campaign ethics, Obama called Wall Street executives “fat cats” and then unfairly 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 were unfairly increased by 9%.
Obama boldly promised that lobbyists would never “find a job in my White House.” He ignored his promise to taxpayers and unfairly hired almost 100 of them.
In 2008, Barack Obama said adding $4 trillion to americans debt was “unpatriotic.” Yet once he was at the helm he unfairly 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 unfairly racked-up three record deficits of more than $1 trillion each.
Barack promised he could create thousands of jobs with green energy spending. Then despite repeated warnings, unfairly lost over $535 million in taxpayer proceeds to campaign backers behind the now bankrupt and shuttered, Solyndra.
With his $825 billion stimulus, Obama promised unemployment would stay below 8 percent. Not only did unemployment shoot past an unfair 8 percent, it hasn’t come back to that level ever since.
And when January 9, 2012 came around, the anniversary of his 3rd year as president, he failed to honor the easiest of all his promises...to leave office if his policies failed. Where is the accountability for this president who over-promised and under-delivered, in order to get elected?
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
Gasoline prices have ballooned by 85%
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.
And to add to all this unfairness, the 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.
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 unfairness, the oppression, the recycled empty promises, the divisiveness, the blame game, and the incredibly unattractive promotion of envy crafted to deflect accountability. 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, a man who has paid more than his fair share.
