Romney to flood and tornado victims: "Suck it". What a damn chode!

[erodriguez]

KING: Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?

ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot…

KING: Including disaster relief, though?

ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.


What about tax breaks for millionaires like yourself? Can we afford those? You disgusting bucket of shit! URGH!


Video here
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/14/244973/mitt-romney-federal-disaster-relief-for-tornado-and-flood-victims-is-immoral-makes-no-sense-at-all/#comment_link

[digonswine]

1. Is that their plank?

Double-down on the deficit. That's how they will play this for the long haul.

[Zoeisright]

3. You mean the deficit THEY created?

With their ill-advised tax cuts and unprecedented spending on the war machine?

[SpiralHawk]

8. Exactly. The deficit the Republicons created

what a bunch of economic whackjob grifters they are

[digonswine]

10. Yeah-that one.

[erodriguez]

5. Idiot Fox news watchers will lap it up. Rich people like Romney are doing a smash and grab

all the while the house is on fire and collapsing on everyone else.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. It was the GOP which got us into this mess in the first place

I hope that a F5 sucks him up

[JAnthony]

4. AMAZING K+R This little tid-bit from Romney shows us all how..

utterly shallow and self-centered and mean a man Romney is!

THIS should be the lead clip about Romney...what a turd blossom.

Great catch!

[BeyondGeography]

6. What a fucking robot

Whatever the bullshit playbook calls for, right Mittens?

[bluestateguy]

7. Save the footage for a campaign ad

I'll be pissed if Obama does not make a full effort to win Missouri.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I have an idea: Let's abolish the federal government altogether.

Think the GOPers would bite on that? They're all about states' rights, after all. Let's just abolish the entire federal government in favor of something like the European Union - a common currency, a defense treaty agreement, no trade tariffs - but divided into 50 separate little countries, all of which could govern themselves. How 'bout that, GOPers? Sounds excellent, doesn't it?

Oh, wait -- if there were 50 separate countries, how could you abolish unions and abortion and gay rights in all of them? How could you *run* the big ol' government you claim to loathe? Bachmann, Pawlenty, Romney, Gingrich, all the rest of you fascist fucks, how would you like to sit back and let a pinko commie state like Massachusetts just run itself and let gay people get married and belong to unions?

We couldn't have that, could we...?

[erodriguez]

11. They'd try to invade them. Set up some kind of crusade. With Newt leading the charge.

[notadmblnd]

12. I wish people would stop expressing their fake concern for the children

suffering in the future. All the while not giving a damn about the children suffering now.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Abso-freakin-lutely.

teachers = lazy
education = more money won't help
head start = but they're brown
childcare = broads should stay barefoot & preggo at HOME
healthcare = but the aliens will use it

and so forth.

[laundry_queen]

21. +1 nt

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. Our kids?

I think he's only talking about his kids.

[MODem75]

15. They don't even bother to make it look like they care about their constituents anymore.

SW MO is deep red country. A lot of people are going to become rather disillusioned of the government they have consistently voted for.

I could see MO going blue this next election if the rethugs keep it up.

[ej510]

16. After he sells this as ending liberal freeloading it will improve his standing with

the moron vote.

[TwilightGardener]

17. All right, so his position is officially NO federal disaster relief. Good, let that sink in.

[gratuitous]

18. Romney: We can't waste money on citizens who are going to die someday anyway

Let's keep shoveling the Treasury into the overstuffed pockets of wealthy sociopaths like me!

[lonestarnot]

19. Oh yeah. We can afford those tax cuts for the rich. They are a priority.

[Hugabear]

20. Romney is not human. He simply does not understand human emotion and suffering.

The other rethugs are just pure heartless bastards.

Romney, however, I'm convinced that he's an extraterrestrial on a mission to observe human behavior. I'm guessing this is part of an experiment to see whether a space alien can actually be elected president.

[quaker bill]

22. Before government assistance, there was the private sector

The private sector did not get the job done, so government assistance was invented. So in fact, what Mitt is arguing for is not that the assistance should be provided by the private sector, as the private sector has no track record to prove that the assistance will be delivered.

What he is arguing is for a paradigm shift where we blame the lack of sustained assistance on the private sector and stop having expectations that government will fill the gaps.

What these folks refuse to get is that the people have the right to elect a government that will provide services and the freedom to choose this sort of social arrangement, further that we actually want it. This is in essence the political failure of the government model enacted by Bush before and after Katrina.

When things like this happen, people do not want to be self reliant, they actually want assistance, and the rest of us want to provide it. What we really want is a government that will organize and provide effective assistance, and I am pretty sure we would approve paying taxes to have it.

The argument "we can't afford it" is utter BS, unless you believe it will not be done by anyone. The bottom line is rebuilding Joplin will cost money. It will probably cost a bit less money if managed by government because the profit motive is reduced. If "we can't afford it" is true, then "we can't afford it" means that it will not happen and it really doesn't matter who is in charge, federal, local, or private.

The American people will not find the failure to deliver relief to disaster victims politically acceptable. They never have, this is why government assistance was invented.

[JAnthony]

23. Good points! n/t

[JAnthony]

24. Video of Romney making this point... note the lack of compassion!

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/14/244973/mitt-romney-federal-disaster-relief-for-tornado-and-flood-victims-is-immoral-makes-no-sense-at-all/

The video tells it all...he's a robot of private sector unregulated capitalism.