[Vision2020] Who Dat?

[Ron Force]

>From Mark Thoma's blog:

'The Stock Came from Mitt’s Father'
Mitt Romney's comments about moochers are getting lots of notice, but something else he said caught my attention. Does he really think people will believe this?:
I have inherited nothing. There is a perception, 'Oh, we were born with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.'
Here's Ann Romney discussing their student days:
They were not easy years… Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
>The stock came from Mitt’s father. ...
That sounds pretty tough, doesn't it? One of them almost had to get a job! Thank god (or dad) for that stock.
 The stock gift from George Romney was $60,000, the equivalent of $377,000 today. The poor dears had to scrape by on $60K per year. He was truthful that he inherited nothing from his parents. By the time they died in 1995, he was already massively wealthy, and didn't need it. 

Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


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 From: Robert Dickow <dickow at turbonet.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Who Dat?
 

It’s sad when it appears that some people (Mitt among them?) are wracked with terror that most everybody who gets government help is on welfare so they can somehow scam the system, take advantage of it, or make their comfy livings by leveraging the welfare system. Funny, I have personally never seen that sort of thing happening, though I suppose it’s just a matter of odds that somebody out there is happy to just take their single mom government checks and then sit on the beach in Cancun sipping Margaritas all day, saving up to buy a big yacht without lifting a finger to improve their lot in life. The last person I saw paying for food with food stamps at Safeway certainly didn’t look like they were doing anything along those lines. So, are there any hard figures out there that demonstrate how many bona fide ‘leeches’ are among the U.S. government assistance recipients-- well-off, fat and sassy-- actively finagling the system so can *avoid* ever
 having to have a real job? Loaded question, I know. But hey, Mitt, there might be a couple of people out there like that, ok…. that’s maybe just the cost of doing business.
 
Frankly, the way things are going, I’m afraid that. being a musician and academic, I might be accused of being a burden to society.
 
Bob Dickow, troublemaker
 
From:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:40 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Who Dat?
 
http://www.TomandRodna.com/Speeches/Who_Dat.mp3
 
Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
 
“Moscow Cares”
http://www.MoscowCares.com
 
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
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