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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Romney tin ear: protestors too young to understand economy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/12/mitt-romney-bank-of-america-protests_n_1511868.html"Mitt Romney said the protesters rallying against Bank of America in Charlotte this week are too young "to really understand how the economy works."
Unfortunately, a lot of young folks havent had the opportunity to really understand how the economy works, and what it takes to put people to work in real jobs, and why we have banks, and what banks do," Romney told WBTV in Charlotte, according to National Journal. "It's a very understandable sentiment if you don't find a job, and you cant see rising incomes. You're going to be angry and looking at someone to blame.""
I'm pretty sure that they understand that putting companies out of business (and their employees in the unemployment lines) to fatten stock portfolios doesn't employ anyone either.
I'm really starting to hate this dick.
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More Romney tin ear: protestors too young to understand economy (Original Post)
ibegurpard
May 2012
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ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)1. kick
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. Yeah, this guy obviously is waaaay too young to understand...
Protester arrested for trying to jump a barrier outside the B of A meeting in Charlotte. (Getty Images)
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)3. yeah, that lazy dumb teenager!
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)6. Good catch
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. Rmoney's dickishness apparently has no end.
What an unbelievable tool.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)5. If protesters are "too" anything
it's that they are too empathetic to the suffering of large numbers of Americans. Conversely, Romney is too arrogant, insulated and callous to understand the effects this economy has on poor and middle class Americans.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)7. This from a guy who gave each of his sons
250 million.
ck4829
(34,974 posts)8. "If I don't have a job and no safety net, then how am I supposed to pay for goods and services?"
Not hard to understand.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,119 posts)9. I hate that condescending crap.
The protesters know all too well how this economy is working -- and that's why they're protesting.