What an ass. Mittens, a multi-millionaire, joked with real unemployed folks about being unemployed. Want to bet he supports cutting them off of unemployment insurance? Being jobless is a big joke:
Mitt Romney sat at the head of the table at a coffee shop here on Thursday, listening to a group of unemployed Floridians explain the challenges of looking for work. When they finished, he weighed in with a predicament of his own.
“I should tell my story,” Mr. Romney said. “I’m also unemployed.”
He chuckled.
NY Times: Romney: ‘I’m Also Unemployed’
It's a little different when you have millions of dollars and many mansions. People are hurting out there and Romney wants to act as if he gives a shit. He does not; it's just an act for votes.
What a f--king pig.
Update I: From Think Progress:
Romney, who comes from a wealthy family and founded a major investment firm Bain Capital, was worth up to $250 million when he ran for president in 2008. He spent $42 million of his own personal wealth on his presidential campaign three years ago, enough to provide jobs for over 1,000 middle-class workers.
http://thinkprogress.org/
Romney's father was president of American Motors and later Governor of Michigan. Mitt never has lived like 99% of Americans. Out of touch.
Update II: More Mitt. From Steven Benen at washington Monthly, quoting Steven Colbert:
“You see, Romney made a Mittload of cash using what’s known as a leveraged buyout. He’d buy a company with ‘money borrowed against their assets, groomed them to be sold off and in the interim collect huge management fees.’ Once Mitt had control of the company, he’d cut frivolous spending like jobs, workers, employees, and jobs. […]
“Because Mitt Romney knows just how to trim the fat. He rescued businesses like Dade Behring, Stage Stories, American Pad and Paper, and GS Industries, then his company sold them for a profit of $578 million after which all of those firms declared bankruptcy. Which sounds bad, but don’t worry, almost no one worked there anymore.
“Besides, a businessman can’t be weighed down with a bleeding heart. As one former Bain employee put it, ‘It was very clinical…. Like a doctor. When the patient is dead, you just move on to the next patient.’”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/...