Mitt Romney is an “Emperor Without Clothes”. A vain presidential aspirant who privately cares for nothing but his own ambition and tax dodging status hires political professionals who promise him the finest, best contrived political campaign to take down an incumbent president. The strategy conceived before the president was inaugurated sought to make political capital by forging an absolute obstructionist policy at the cost to most of the country but to the benefit to those who caused an economic and financial calamity. This strategy was supposed to be invisible to anyone who was not a plutocrat especially made for; angry or resentful whites, evangelical, Tea Partiers, the uneducated, bigoted, fearful, military imperialists or just the "hopelessly stupid".
Mitt could not perceive the logic himself, so he has had a hard time articulating it, but he pretended that he could for fear of appearing unfit for his position to his plutocrat handlers. When the professionals told him the campaign theme is in place he ran with it: A failed economic recovery that they had engineered by the plutocrats and made worse by Congressional Obstructionists so he brought it out to the public. But they forget the power of the Internet and the “elite, smart people” where Mitt tends to say things he thinks his audiences only wants to hear as if will play along with the pretenses. Now the country is calling him out like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson fable who cried out that “the Emperor has no clothes!” Now however America is saying this guy is no Preisdent! Romney and his advisers are cringing, suspecting the assertion is true, but continues in his assertion. The thing is Romney is so insulting.
Romney's personal insult to roughly half the nation (145M-151M), note Romney's wavering 47%,48%, 49% and its corresponding electorate, recorded displayed for the world to watch and listen goes to the fundamental underlying divide in the U.S., perpetrated and cultivated by those who have gained an institutional advantage in a political economy.
Yes I am a victim of the political economy, I am smart enough to know it. I did not subscribe or agree with the financial industry deregulation the created a system where the nation lost $16.4T in wealth valuation where CNN where home ownership equity dropped by $4.2T and a corresponding loss of 7.5M jobs, almost than a million more jobs lost in the four previous recessions. In that wake I lost my job in the 4Q of 2007where I was ironically a Headhunter that served private equity and the banking industry. Seeking a new job in 2008 I was a victim of inaccurate Bush Administration Labor Reports where if I had known we were in a major recession in November 2007 I would not have wasted my time seeking another headhunting position at a time when job losses going from tens of thousands per month growing to a crescendo of half to three-quarter of a million per month.
Being a smart person I can do the math since I now teach math and science in middle schools (though on a temporary contract). 7.5M – (4.3M private sector jobs – 1.1 public sector jobs lost = 4.2M net jobs lost. But then there is this additional quotient of roughly an average of 125,000 people entering the labor force each month or since January 2008 equaling 7M and coincidentally the additional number that is counted as not active in the Labor Force between 2007 and 2011. So in reality we are roughly 11M jobs short. I am a victim, Mr. Romney but I am not seeking government to care for me or my family.
Well before my 99 weeks ran out I did get a job, 25% of my previous income and not full time or possessing any benefits where I also have picked up short term or daily work when it comes around. My wife works one full-time job which has lost 25% of her take home pay as health care contributions have risen in those four years, plus two weekend part-time jobs. Our children who go to the state university are self-funded through a series of academic scholarships and receive grants also work part time and contribute to the household as they live with us. We also use every legal tax break we are legally entitled to (like you but now you blame me for it but not yourself) and pay our FICA, Medicare, State and Federal Income taxes, plus all sales and all excise taxes.
But we do not support President Obama simply because of being in your arbitrary 47% (last two years), we support him because I am smart enough to know that we are victims of the Republican Party and Reagan Revolution that has transferred America's wealth to top 2%, many who primarily are part of the Financial-Wall Street Sector. Once I owned and operated a sophisticated small business, had over 75 employees but it was chewed up primarily because of how jobs and work were exported to Asia. The reason was that in this political economy the tax codes that you and your PE ILK got a tax advantage for moving work off-shore. My family supports President Obama because in a political economy when the elite and privileged are so reckless that they hurl their own society into a financial historic calamity but then because of their privilege and lack of accountability they now benefit from the veryt calamity they got bailed out and now blame those who were victims for the distress they caused. We know President Obama is not divine or possesses a magic wand where he can defeat the entrenched surrogates of the elite and privileged with a wave or word, but we also know he is incrementally far better than you and your complete and utter lack of conscience.
But what is best is that you are now exposed by your own words as an Emperor Without Clothes, totally exposed but with your minions and advisers saying your outfit is so well suited. Yes, former high school classmate, the former Senator Santorum, smart people will notice and will not support your invisible viewpoint.