[Vision2020] Who Dat?

[Wayne Price]

Ron,

Not bad for a first generation American of immigrant parents!

Wayne





On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Ron Force wrote:

> 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
> 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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