slvrbugjim
13th October 2012, 11:43 AM
Yesterday I got an email from friends urging me to vote for Romney, as if it's a matter of life and death. Mortified that people I associate with actually believe there's a difference between the candidates, I responded as follows:
"How bad would a candidate wearing the label 'Republican' have to be for you to write someone in? Would you pull the lever for Hitler-R over Stalin-D?
The reason I ask is that I can find no material differences between the two buffoons on the ballot, and no one here has identified any (beyond labels).
In case anyone missed it, a global financial crisis started raging 4 years ago, and it hasn't stopped. The crisis was caused by fraud on Wall Street, it has totaled $12 TRILLION losses to U.S. taxpayers, and yet not one banker has been prosecuted. Not. One. (By way of comparison, the S&L crisis cost the U.S. just 1% of current losses, and yet 1000+ financial executives went to prison for fraud.)
Wall Street's fraud is so profitable that it's enabled the criminals to purchase the entire political process, which is why we now have the choice between 2 sock puppets for president. Behold their similarities:
Just like Obama, Romney opposes the prosecution of bankers who commit massive financial crimes. (Romney is either so owned by Wall Street or such a coward—take your pick—that he won’t even mention the theft of $1.6 billion by MF Global CEO Jon Corzine, one of Obama’s biggest fundraisers.)
Just like Obama, Romney has no plans to force derivatives trading—now at $1.2 QUADRILLION annually—onto an open market.
Just like Obama, Romney supports Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary despite Geithner’s documented giveaways to Wall Street (and Citigroup in particular) at the direct expense of Main Street.
Just like Obama, Romney supports Quantitative Easing 3 (i.e., paying Wall Street banks par for their worthless mortgage-backed securities).
Just like Obama, Romney opposes auditing the Federal Reserve.
Just like Obama, Romney supports bailouts of banks that failed. (This comes naturally for Romney because Bain Capital survived due to a bailout.)
Just like Obama, Romney opposes the restoration of Glass-Steagall and has no plans to break up any too-big-to-fail banks, which are now 20% larger than they were before the crisis hit.
Just like Obama, Romney supports federal stimulus plans costing U.S. taxpayers $100’s of billions of dollars.
Just like Obama, Romney passed massive universal coverage health-care legislation that was written and will be interpreted and executed by lawyers for the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Just like Obama, Romney opposes competition for health-care services and supports the exemption of the entire industry from antitrust laws, which is why prices in this sector have risen at 9+% per year for decades.
Just like Obama, Romney supports the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, without trial or even charges, via the National Defense Authorization Act. They also support warrantless wiretapping and the suspension of habeus corpus.
Just like Obama, Romney supports foreign wars that we cannot afford.
So thanks, but no. I cannot in good conscience vote for either slated stooge
"How bad would a candidate wearing the label 'Republican' have to be for you to write someone in? Would you pull the lever for Hitler-R over Stalin-D?
The reason I ask is that I can find no material differences between the two buffoons on the ballot, and no one here has identified any (beyond labels).
In case anyone missed it, a global financial crisis started raging 4 years ago, and it hasn't stopped. The crisis was caused by fraud on Wall Street, it has totaled $12 TRILLION losses to U.S. taxpayers, and yet not one banker has been prosecuted. Not. One. (By way of comparison, the S&L crisis cost the U.S. just 1% of current losses, and yet 1000+ financial executives went to prison for fraud.)
Wall Street's fraud is so profitable that it's enabled the criminals to purchase the entire political process, which is why we now have the choice between 2 sock puppets for president. Behold their similarities:
Just like Obama, Romney opposes the prosecution of bankers who commit massive financial crimes. (Romney is either so owned by Wall Street or such a coward—take your pick—that he won’t even mention the theft of $1.6 billion by MF Global CEO Jon Corzine, one of Obama’s biggest fundraisers.)
Just like Obama, Romney has no plans to force derivatives trading—now at $1.2 QUADRILLION annually—onto an open market.
Just like Obama, Romney supports Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary despite Geithner’s documented giveaways to Wall Street (and Citigroup in particular) at the direct expense of Main Street.
Just like Obama, Romney supports Quantitative Easing 3 (i.e., paying Wall Street banks par for their worthless mortgage-backed securities).
Just like Obama, Romney opposes auditing the Federal Reserve.
Just like Obama, Romney supports bailouts of banks that failed. (This comes naturally for Romney because Bain Capital survived due to a bailout.)
Just like Obama, Romney opposes the restoration of Glass-Steagall and has no plans to break up any too-big-to-fail banks, which are now 20% larger than they were before the crisis hit.
Just like Obama, Romney supports federal stimulus plans costing U.S. taxpayers $100’s of billions of dollars.
Just like Obama, Romney passed massive universal coverage health-care legislation that was written and will be interpreted and executed by lawyers for the medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Just like Obama, Romney opposes competition for health-care services and supports the exemption of the entire industry from antitrust laws, which is why prices in this sector have risen at 9+% per year for decades.
Just like Obama, Romney supports the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, without trial or even charges, via the National Defense Authorization Act. They also support warrantless wiretapping and the suspension of habeus corpus.
Just like Obama, Romney supports foreign wars that we cannot afford.
So thanks, but no. I cannot in good conscience vote for either slated stooge