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BY MICHAEL HAYNE
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
COMMENTARY
Captain Capitalist and Lord of the Free-Market, Mitt Romney, spent most of last week single-handedly derailing his presidential campaign by pretending to know stuff about foreign policy and diplomacy. Now it seems the multi-millionaire Macy’s mannequin is back to one of his all-time favorite pretend areas of expertise: arithmetic.
Romney, whose net worth is said to be $200-250 million and who could probably just a buy a country and invade it, took his brazenly blithe and categorically out-of-touch mentality to a whole new level of SNL parody when he recently weighed in on the incomes of normal people:
“No one can say my plan is going to raise taxes on middle-income people, because principle number one is (to) keep the burden down on middle-income taxpayers,”Romney told host George Stephanopoulos, according to the Huffington Post.
“Is $100,000 middle income?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less,” Romney responded.
So all of you teachers, firemen and nurses may just want to stop all your greedy whining since you’re middle-class and thus making at least $200,000 a year. So maybe $200,000 a year isn’t exactly dancing Olympic horse and car elevator money, but for those of us who don’t fly the Cayman Islands flag aboard our 150-foot yachts, 200 large isn’t exactly bourgeois. And guess what, it’s not considered “bourgeois” by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, either.
According to the Tax Policy Center, you’re in the top 20 percent of earners if your household income is above $100,000, and you’re in the top 5 percent if your household brings in more than $180,000. With the maldistribution of income and economic inequity at an all time high in this country, the middle-class is shrinking faster than a winkie in a cold pool. So it’s such a relief to know that Mitt Romney truly understands all the hardships of those driving mere Lexuses to crummy four-star restaurants every night.
Michael Hayne is a comedian/VO artist/Columnist extraordinaire. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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The New York Times printed the following two very revealing portions of the Romney crowd exchange after his disastrous dissing of 47% of the American people.
From a member of the crowd: “Women do not want to vote for you. Hispanics, the majority of them do not want to vote for you. College students don’t.”
And Romney thinks the above mentioned people do not get it but he does---well he will convince 5% of them and that will be good enough. Maybe be is he could change 47% it would be good enough.
And with his “team” is disarray and not too well line up in the first place, Romney told them:
“I can tell you that I have a very good team of extraordinarily experienced, highly successful consultants, a couple of people in particular who’ve done races around the world. I didn’t realize these guys in the U.S., the Karl Rove equivalents, they do races all over the world — in Armenia and Africa and Israel. I mean, they work for Bibi Netanyahu in his race. So they do these races and they see which ads work and which processes work best. And we have ideas about what we do over the course of the campaign. I’d tell ’em to you, but I’d have to, you know, shoot you.”
Wow, from around the world no less. And Romney neither banks nor buys local. Romney is both out of touch, out of country and out of it.
I too will vote for Obama---he gets it!