<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>From Mark Thoma's blog:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-style: italic;"><h3 class="entry-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/the-stock-came-from-mitts-father.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">'The Stock Came from Mitt’s Father'</a></h3><div class="entry-content" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; "><div class="entry-body"><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">Mitt Romney's <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/romney-faults-those-dependent-on-government/?hp" target="_self" style="color: rgb(116, 25, 139); ">comments about moochers</a> are getting lots of notice, but something else he said caught my attention. Does he really think people will believe this?:</div><blockquote style="line-height: 19px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; ">I have inherited nothing. There is a perception, 'Oh, we were born with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.'</div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">Here's Ann Romney <a href="http://ed.msnbc.com/_news/2012/04/18/11250976-in-1994-ann-romney-described-her-life-as-financially-struggling-college-student?lite" target="_self" style="color: rgb(116, 25, 139);
">discussing</a> their student days:</div><blockquote style="line-height: 19px; "><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; ">They were not easy years… Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; ">The stock came from Mitt’s father. ...</div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">That sounds pretty tough, doesn't it? One of them almost had to get a job! Thank god (or dad) for that stock.</div></div></div></span></div><div> The stock gift from George Romney was $60,000, the equivalent of $377,000 today. The poor dears had to scrape by on $60K per year. He was truthful that he inherited nothing from his parents. By the time they died in 1995, he was already massively wealthy, and didn't need it. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Dickow <dickow@turbonet.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> vision2020@moscow.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:52 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Who Dat?<br> </font> </div> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1973890922WordSection1"><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">It’s sad when it appears that some people (Mitt among them?) are wracked with terror that most everybody who gets government help is on welfare so they can somehow scam the system, take advantage of it, or make their comfy livings by leveraging the welfare system. Funny, I have personally never seen that sort of thing happening, though I suppose it’s just a matter of odds that somebody out there is happy to just take their single mom government checks and then sit on the beach in Cancun sipping Margaritas all day, saving up to buy a big yacht without lifting a finger to improve their lot in life. The last person I saw paying for food with food stamps at Safeway certainly didn’t look like they were doing anything along those lines. So, are there any hard figures out there that demonstrate how many bona fide ‘leeches’ are among
the U.S. government assistance recipients-- well-off, fat and sassy-- actively finagling the system so can *<b>avoid</b>* ever having to have a real job? Loaded question, I know. But hey, Mitt, there might be a couple of people out there like that, ok…. that’s maybe just the cost of doing business.</span></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Frankly, the way things are going, I’m afraid that. being a musician and academic, I might be accused of being a burden to society.</span></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;">Bob Dickow, troublemaker</span></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in
0in;"><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Hansen<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Who Dat?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Speeches/Who_Dat.mp3</div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal">“Moscow Cares”</div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal">http://www.MoscowCares.com</div><div class="yiv1973890922MsoNormal"> </div><div
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