Mitt Romney - Net Worth Over $200 Million - Tells Unemployed People ‘I’m Also Unemployed’
Mittens Muttney is lucky he wasn't mugged at his Tampa campaign stop.
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TAMPA, Fla. — 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. The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter.
“Are you on LinkedIn?” one of the men asked.
“I’m networking,” Mr. Romney replied. “I have my sight on a particular job.”
The references to Mr. Romney’s own unemployment status added yet another humorous, but occasionally awkward, moment to his ever-growing catalog of off-the-cuff remarks that he makes as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. He spent the morning doing more listening than talking — a woman in the crowd openly urged him to talk about the deficit — and it was unclear whether he persuaded any voters to join his effort.
Tom Yarranton, 55, lost his job in March 2010. He had spent 31 years as an internal auditor at a manufacturing company. He said he liked Mr. Romney’s mind-set as a businessman, but added that he did not blame Mr. Obama for still being unemployed.
Jul 13, 2011 at 11:32 AM
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/candidates/articles/2006/12/01/illegal_immigrants_toiled_for_governor/
Note: This is more than a single incident....
http://bostonist.com/2007/12/04/breaking_illega.php
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During a dustup over illegal immigration at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate, Rudy Giuliani said of former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney: "There was even a sanctuary mansion. At his own home, illegal immigrants were being employed."
Turns out he wasn't just being bitchy. He was right. Not only did Romney employ illegal immigrants in the past, but the Globe broke the news that he employed them right up to this day.
The Globe was the same outlet that busted him for having a "sanctuary mansion" in 2006, and apparently Romney didn't learn anything the first time around. So, it's not okay for illegal immigrants to be here, but it's okay for them to mow his yard?
http://blog.algore.com/2011/06/good_for_mitt_romney_though_we.html
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While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party:
http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2001/12/31/story1.html
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Shattuck, 47, was a candidate for the top slot at the U.S. Olympic Committee when he walked away from his hugely successful investment banking career at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown in September.
Busy making money on Wall Street most of his life, Shattuck relished a larger public-service role and new intellectual challenges. He is good friends with Mitt Romney, a former Bain & Co. Bain & Co. Follow this company executive who is now running the Salt Lake City Winter Games. Shattuck worked with Romney at Bain in the 1980s and raised money for Romney's unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts in 1994.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/16/harvard_may_turn_to_partners_to_revive_allston_expansion/
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Harvard came under fire from Allston residents. At the time, Menino chided the university’s “total arrogance.’’ The university sought to make amends. It agreed to pay the city millions in lieu of taxes for its exempt property, and embarked on an aggressive campaign to prove it was a good neighbor.
But the university also kept buying land. It now owns 359 acres in Allston — almost double the footprint of its Cambridge campus. Late in 2003, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers laid out a grand vision: a new Allston campus larger than the university’s main campus.
“The only constraint,’’ Summers told the Globe in 2003, should “be the constraint of our vision and our ideas.’’
US universities in Africa 'land grab'
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/08/us-universities-africa-land-grab?CMP=twt_fd
Assholes !
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663
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Al Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management (GIM). According to Gore, the London-based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green......
......Along with Gore, the co-founder of GIM is Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson. Last September, Goldman Sachs bought 10% of CCX shares for $23 million. CCX owns half the ECX, so Goldman Sachs has a stake there as well.
Mitt is a twit, wait till you see the crap that is going to happen if he gets in, or I should when.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44011308
Please read the first 3 links I made in comments on this post.....