If you’re running for president, or if your husband is running for president, it’s probably not a good idea to refer to the citizens of the United States as “you people.” Ann Romney defended her husband Mitt Romney’s decision to only release a few tax documents, saying “we’ve given all you people need to know” about her family’s financial records.
According to the Huffington Post, Ann argued that Mitt has been a very generous person throughout his life and has nothing to hide. Ann also said that Mitt didn’t take a salary while he was the governor of Massachusetts, which again, shows that he’s the type of person with nothing to hide.
Ann said:
“You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he’s been financially… He’s a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No. He is so good about it. Then, when he was governor of Massachusetts, didn’t take a salary in the four years.”
Ann came to the conclusion that her husband has released all the information that “you people” need to know about his financial background.
Romney said:
“We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and about how we live our life.”
Well, you people were pretty upset about the comment.
#youpeople, as well as Ann Romney, quickly became a trending topic on Twitter.
Twitter users were upset about two things: One, being called #youpeople. And two, that Mitt Romney’s charitable giving somehow make him exempt from criticism.
Ann Romney says “you people” on national television. Entire Romney campaign staff treated for head-desk injuries. politi.co/NzNi5D
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) July 19, 2012
Ann #Romney: “We’ve given all you people need to know”… i love being referred to as “you people”
— Paula Froelich (@Pfro) July 19, 2012
Hey Ann Romney, you know who else gave a lot of money to charity? Bernie Madoff. Despite that, it turns out he had plenty to hide.
— Melhi (@Melhi) July 19, 2012
And this isn’t the first time that Twitter has jumped on top of a Romney gaffe. Last week, Twitter mocked Mitt Romney after his adviser Ed Gillespie said that the GOP candidate wasn’t responsible for anything that happened at Bain Capitol after 1999 because Romney “retroactively” retired in 2002.
What do you think about Ann Romney’s “you people” comment?
I think it was a slip of tongue…but a foolish one. However, on the "charitable giving"…..everyone realizes that Mormons MUST give a full 10% of their income to the church, or risk losing their standing AND their place in the Mormon version of heaven? Doesn't soung like giving out of the goodness of your heart to me!
Is there any doubt that a Romney administration would favor the rich and increase the income gap in our country? Mitt is a pariah in Mormon Clothing and will stop at nothing to expand an empire of greed for the rich in this country. Can his sacred Mormon underwear gain him enough donations to buy this election? See for yourself as Mitt dons his tighty-whities from the Good Lord Himself at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-magic-mormon-underwear.html.
Keep flapping your tongue Ann, loose lips sinks ships. Seems like Mitt's ship is taking on a lot of water. Way to go girl!!!!!
I'm starting to think that they must have something to hide if, despite being pressured by both sides, they are still refusing to disclose their tax returns, something that most presidential candidates are willing to do. Ann also told the interviewer that, "Because there are so many things that will be open again for more attack… and that's really, that's just the answer," when asked why they wouldn't disclose their returns. To me, at least, that means there is something to hide. But that's just my opinion.
When Obama said "that, you didn't build that," he meant infrastructure, not private business. When Ann Romney said "you people" she meant the media, not the American public (and I can't stand Ann or Mitt.) The fake media outrage machine rolls on. Actual debate and relevant discussions… sorry, that doesn't make for high TV ratings.
I think if something was up with his taxes, the IRS would be investigating it. And I think a lot of this pulls the attention away from the fact that our president refuses to speak about fast and furious. It's deflection.
They wouldn't necessarily investigate it, because something that's bad for his political career may not be illegal. Check out this article: http://www.inquisitr.com/278950/why-mitt-romneys-not-releasing-his-tax-returns-despite-pressure-from-both-sides/. It shows a couple of speculations that, while not worth the IRS investigating, could be damaging to his political career.
I should note that personally, I'm not taking sides. As soon as an election becomes ugly and the attack ads start surfacing, whoever puts out the attack ads tends to lose my vote, even if I agree with their stance and like what they have done in the past. It's possible to have an election without them, and attack ads only serve to divide people more. We should be focusing on their records, what they have and have not done, and deciding whether they will improve the country or not…and also doing extensive research, instead of just taking either of them or their campaigns at their word. A lot of the time, the truth takes digging.
The thing is that the IRS maybe can't prove Romney broke laws in some cases where his returns look suspicious but if the returns were to be made public then maybe people outside of the IRS would be able to give information about Romney to the IRS that the IRS doesn't have yet. The point is that when Romney does his tax returns each year the IRS does not have all of the info about Romney that is available in the world. It isn't the IRS's job to do vetting of Romney. The IRS does the best it can with the limited info that it gets. But if Romney were to release his returns then fact-checkers and news companies and Barack Obama's investigative team would be going through all of the returns and checking all of the information that can be found in the world to see if Romney has done anything wrong. I bet it would be found that Romney has broken laws.
Melissa Stusinski did Obama really attack Romney? You will say yes, but that's not true. Romney presented himself as having the cures to the economic woes of America. He says his Bain experience taught him how to make economics work. Obama has the right to put that under a microscope since Romney is talking about how the economy under Obama is all messed up and blaming Obama. If Romney is allowed to look for the fault in the US economy under Obama then Obama should be allowed to look for the fault with Bain. You might say that Romney's taxes have nothing to do with Bain but that is false too. Romney asserts that negative stuff that happened at Bain is not his fault for the specific reason that he was not involved with Bain during some of the years that negative stuff happened at Bain but President Obama and Romney dispute the dates that Romney left Bain. So if Romney would release his taxes that would clear up that issue. As a matter of fact, one reason that Romney doesn't want to release his taxes is likely that if he did so it would prove that he was still getting paid lots of money from Bain in 2000, 2001, and 2002 and he was probably calling it earned income on his tax returns.
“We’ve given all YOU PEOPLE need to know and understand about our financial situation, and how we live our life,” —-Ann Romney.
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Here let me TRANSLATE? :
Dear 99%….: GO F**K YOURSELVE'S!
WE The 1% RUN THIS COUNTRY!
ANY QUESTIONS?
Actually, I would say that they are attacking each other, instead of talking about what they will do to fix the country–at least from what I have seen so far.
Actually, I would say that they are attacking each other, instead of talking about what they will do to fix the country–at least from what I have seen so far.
Melissa Stusinski, Yes they are attacking each other but they are both trying to make a point. Both points are fair points and actually they're both KIND OF honest but one of their point's is not totally honest. Let's start with Romney's point.
1. Romney says that President Obama's policies have failed to deliver economic prosperity. It's pretty easy to see that Romney is raising a fair point because American economy is still doing poorly. But it isn't totally a fair point because Obama is not getting to implement his policies. Part of Obama's strategy is to tax the rich to secure the money to hire a bunch of workers to do infrastructure work. The GOP (which Romney is a part of) is preventing Obama from doing this so it's not totally true that Obama's policies won't help America since the reality is that Obama's policies might save our economy if Romney's GOP (congress) would stop preventing Obama from implementing Obama's policies. Obama's policies might actually work if the GOP (Romney's team) would allow Obama's policies to happen instead of blocking Obama's policies.
So Romney is sort of telling the truth but sort of lying at the same time.
2. On the other hand, Obama is saying that Romney says he is a great business man and can save America because of his business and management experience. And Romney does appear to have great experience. But there is a catch – what if that great business and management resume of Romney's is all smoke and mirrors. What if it's a mirage. That's Obama's point and so Obama is saying we should put Romney's business and management experience/resume under a microscope and see if it's as sterling as Romney says it is. Part of putting Romney's business and management experience/resume under a microscope would be to see the total truth about his Bain experience and to see how he has done his own personal business, which would include his taxes. Romney says he is great at business and management and Obama says that Romney should have to prove that to be true.
Obama's desire to see the true records about Bain and to see Romney's tax returns are absolutely, totally, 100% fair given that Romney is using his business experience and management experience as his justification for being elected president. The president is being totally honest and reasonable in this because he is just asking Romney to prove what Romney himself is asserting. Romney should release 100% of the info about his Bain experience, the 2002 Olympics he ran, and his complete income tax returns going back to the year 2000 because Romney said he is great at business and management so he should us the true inner-workings of his business dealings including his tax returns.
Melissa Stusinski,
In all fairness to both candidates, it seems to me that they should both be allowed to talk about the negative aspects of the other side's philosophy. If all they did was site their own positions and the other side didn't get to disprove the stuff being said then we would get a lot of positive spin from both sides without hearing about the negative stuff. It is up to you as a voter to use your intelligence to figure out which side is closer to right and which side is closer to wrong. For me it's pretty simple:
1. Republicanism (under Bush) got us into this economic mess so it makes no sense to hand the economy back over to the republicans especially since Mitt Romney is talking about doing the same stuff Bush did but more so even.
2. Obama did keep us from falling into a depression after the republicans created this mess. We were at the precipice and Obama kept it from happening. He could do more except for the fact that the republicans in the house are blocking him from putting his ideas into motion. The republicans are blocking President Obama from putting his ideas into motion because the republicans know President Obama's ideas will work and if they let him fix the economy then he would be re-elected. The republicans are intentionally keeping our economy damaged so they can make voters angry at President Obama. The republicans in the house are trying to keep the economy messed because they figure that will make voters vote against the President.
3. President Obama can not install his plans unless he is re-elected PLUS the senate stays in the hands of democrats, PLUS the voters find the good sense to throw the republicans out of the house of congress. As long as republicans have control of any of the 3 (the house, the senate, or the presidency) then they can stop the democrats from fixing the mess that the republicans created under Bush.
4. President Obama has a number of plans to fix the economy. Here is one of them: He would increase taxes on the rich ONLY and use that revenue to hire about 2 million people off of the unemployment roles to do infrastructure work. And the infrastructure work is actually needed to be done anyway. Independent analysts are reporting that if we hired a few million people off the unemployment rolls to do the needed infrastructure work it would take 10 years to get it all caught up. The work needs to be done anyway!!! It is not make work.
5. I admit that President Obama had control of the house, the senate and obviously the Presidency for the first two years he was in office. He should have started this infrastructure project then but he did not. I bet he wishes he had another crack at a majority in the house and senate one more time to get it right. Listen he was focusing on the healthcare reform bill and trying to keep the economy from falling into depression. He could have done those things quicker and then rammed the tax increases on the rich through when he had control of both houses (senate and congress). But he wanted to try to get some consensus on the health bill so he blew lots of time trying to work with republicans. He was trying to be bipartisan but the republicans would not negotiate. They kept saying that they would negotiate but that was just a stall tactic because they were hoping that if they stalled long enough something would break their way and they would be able to kill healthcare. So President Obama was reaching out to republicans and republicans were kind of using a stall tactic to try to kill time. Finally, after many many months of this the President said to heck with it and passed it over the objections of the republicans because republicans wouldn't budge and they were just stalling and stalling and stalling. President Obama wasted some real time but he did it because he was trying to give republicans a chance to work with him and make some changes that would make the bill agreeable to the republicans. He made a mistake. He trusted that the republicans would meet him halfway and a bipartisan deal could be reached without cramming the whole thing down the republicans throats. The President was wrong. But his heart was in the right place. He was trying to forge a bipartisan agreement and the republicans were disagreeable to any healthcare agreement and they were stalling. That is the one mistake he made in his presidency. He tried to work across the aisle and all that ended up happening was that the republicans were able to delay and delay and delay and then all of a sudden he lost his super-majority in the senate because Scott Brown got elected. At that point he had no choice but to ram the healthcare bill through and get it done.
7. If he had taken that same attitude and just rammed healthcare down the throat of the republicans quickly then he could have focused on also using his majorities in both houses (the senate and congress) to increase taxes on the rich and hire those workers off the unemployment rolls and put them to work doing the infrastructure work that our country needs to have done anyway. But he didn't. He wasted time trying to be bipartisan…trying to work with republicans instead of cramming legislation down their throats.
8. It gets down to this: President Obama has surely learnt that it was a mistake to waste time trying to get a bipartisan deal on healthcare. He's learnt from this. Look, we need to re-elect him, re-elect democrats to the senate, and give the house of congress back to the democrats so that we can increase taxes on the rich and use the money to hire millions of people off the unemployment rolls to do the infrastructure work that needs to be done anyway. The republicans are blocking him from doing this because they are the protectors of the rich and the rich don't want their taxes raised. We need to increase taxes on the rich and use the money to hire unemployed people off the unemployment rolls and put them to work doing work that needs to be done anyway. That is a big part of the Obama plan.
9. On the other hand the Romney plan is to give millionaires and mufti-millionaires even bigger tax breaks. Tax cuts for the rich is how George Bush did it and the way George Bush did things is what got us into this economic calamity in the first place. I hope you have enough sense to vote for Obama and democrats so they can fix this mess that the republicans made. If you vote for Romney then you are voting for more of what Bush did. It will put us into a depression and then you will be wishing you could change your vote but it will be too late.
10. Again, the President wants to increase taxes on the rich and use that money to hire people to do infrastructure work that needs to be done anyway. The republicans own control of the house and they are using that power to stop the President from making his plan happen. The republicans want to make voters mad at Obama so they are intentionally keeping the economy damaged in the hopes that voters will blame Obama and elect republicans instead.
The logical and intelligent thing to do is to vote for Obama and all the democrats we can so we can increase taxes on the rich and use that money to hire people off of the unemployment rolls and put them back to work. It's common sense.
Listen You People of the baiting Leftist Media! The American People don't care whether or not the guy releases all his tax returns. Get That? This media crap is no longer speaking for us The American People. I don't care whether is the right going after birth certificates or the left continually harping on tax returns. If you got something on the guy then Prove it. Stop poisoning the waters. That was never your job to run the show. Your job is to report the show. Get back where you belong!
all politics suck the life right out of you., left or right .
& while your at it choose your religion too!! a much wider choice.