In a private setting, Mitt Romney is recorded expressing his opinion about 47% of the American public. Not just women who should not have total control of their body, not the Hispanics who are targeted for deportation because of their appearances, not African Americans who are perceived as inferior and not workers who want to organize. His remarks reflected his feelings about 47% of the American public, including union haters, women who will choose not to bear children and Hispanics who were born here legally. Notwithstanding, the canned speeches and public relations events, the recording reflected his true feelings about voters that he needs to achieve 270 electoral votes. You heard him, not with a voice over or a summation of words taken out of context, but a vile insult coming directly from the candidate. If he wasn’t talking directly about you, his 47% included your parents, your cousins, your in laws and many of your friends. How many people do you know directly who fit within his characterization, decent hardworking people whom he calls “victims?”
Nevertheless, you intend to vote for him despite the slur. If he thinks of you in that context, what do you expect he will do for you if elected? In his world, you are a “victim,” unworthy or full representation by the president. You heard him and you know that his remarks were sincere. 
For one moment, forget about him, what does that say about you? You intend to vote for a man who does not respect you or your contribution as an American citizen, accusing you of feeling victimized. What would it take for the Republican candidate to express his true feelings about you and your kind to convince you that you are being made a fool of? He talks about “jobs” outlawing birth control and abortion, but what about you? In his world, you have no ambition and are not worthy of his efforts so what do you expect? What would it take for you to understand that you are being used?
The participants in that room where the recording was made were in his class and he believed that he could let his hair down and repeat words that met their approval. When he made the offensive remarks, did you hear uproar? No, because that is how the wealthy think of citizens who collect Social Security or Medicare, speak a second language, serve in the military or are disabled. You make no contribution to their immense wealth so you have no value. You are the 47%.
They feed your insatiable need to feel superior; that you have the power to deny and that is all it takes to convince you to cast your vote for their candidate. I respect Mitt Romney for achieving great personal wealth in a capitalistic society, but I pity the poor fools who have heard the insult with their own ears and are so overcome with bigotry that they will accept it. Think for a moment, strip away all of the promises and criticism of the opponent, is there anything that Romney can do or say that would cause you to vote for Obama? I think not and that is sad because it says something about you.
Maint
You ask that I research Margaret Sanger. For what purpose? She was a pioneer on the subject of birth control and during her time had many supporters and opponents. I am a strong supporter of her position that a woman should not be exposed to pregnancy every time she engages in sex while the male partner merely satisfies an animal urge and then passes laws controlling the woman’s reaction. Mrs Sanger was human, filled with all of the weaknesses and strengths of our species. She is recorded as the founder of Planned Parenthood which may be the target of the Maint post but her voice and others liberated women from the total control of men who wish to transfer their superior physical strength to total control.
Tim J
The best barometer for the governing style of either candidate is their past. With Obama we have the deficit that he inherited from Bush with modest improvements in jobs. The progress has been slow from the depths left by the previous administration. What is often ignored is we have Romney’s record as governor. He signed a health care bill very similar to ObamaCare and even though he now distances himself from the basic concept of universal health care, he was once a convert but like on so many other issues like a woman’s right to choose he has made a conversion. On jobs he likes to talk about Baine Capital, but as governor he has a record of job creation and that record shows that his state was 47th out of 50 states when he left office. If he had such magic in creating jobs he failed to demonstrate it when he had a chance. In response to the job that he did as governor, the state of Mass now overwhelmingly supports Obama which seems surprising because if he was such a good governor one would expect their support.
Joe
I wish that I was in a position to solicit a commitment from the President Obama, but I no longer serve as president of the postal workers. If Obama is re elected I do expect to be in his presence at my brother-in-law’s church and as family may have the opportunity to engage in small talk. I once had the opportunity to discuss with him the importance of postal services but that was during the early days of his administration. I can assure you that he believes that government serves a social purpose, unlike Romney who believes that private enterprise should be unleashed to selectively provide the essentials of a civilized society. This is a fundamental difference that influences all decisions.
I suggest that you not make your decision on yesterday, but the philosophy that will influence the decisions of tomorrow. I want a president who has experienced the challenges of working for others and being dependent on their largess to have a meaningfull life. Romney does not comprehend the struggle of working people.
As I have been saying along. Mitt the Twit don’t give a shit.
The State of Working America, an ongoing analysis published since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, jobs, unemployment, wealth, and poverty that allow for a clear, unbiased understanding of the economy’s effect on the living standards of working Americans.
http://stateofworkingamerica.org/
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Mr. Burrus,
Thanks for your response, and wow didn’t think you would respone (thanks), I have no doubt that with a Romney Admin. us ordinary average “Joes” would not have a seat at the “table” let alone a voice. I do believe President Obama would grant the APWU at least a voice and even maybe a seat at the table. But how about some sort of strong, affrimitive, public statement from President Obama and/or the Demos for fixing us…..Its all I am asking. It would turn this one undecided into a decided for sure!
Joe
Thanks for a thoughtful post. You inquire about the political response to self-interest and which candidate would meet those objectives. I differ with your analysis because you are basing your decision on static issues, USPS solvency and national debt. These are major issues but they arise within the overall framework of civil discourse, events of the day as influenced by government policy. The best that you can ask for is an audience for your point of view, not the results. Under a Romney presidency you will not receive an audience and this lock out at the discussion table will lead to unanticipated consequences. The basic philosophy of a Romney presidency is anti-union, anti-government service, anti-equality. These characteristics will play out in unanticipated ways throughout the course of the next administration. Over the next 4 years we will face the issues of the day that will shift from the issues of yesterday and you want an administration that operates from a base that is on your side. Without the Obama administration, the events of the past 4 years would have been dramatically different because the response in each instance would have differed on the side of forces diametrically opposed to average working people.
I blame the unions and progressive supporters for much of the turmoil within the Postal Service. They got bogged down in explaining the cause of the USPS financial dilemma, health care payment et al, without coming to grips with the cause of the revenue shortfall and offering a solution. The issue for public debate was an improved revenue stream to make up for the decline in single piece first class. This subject was drowned out by the exchange about health care and no meaningful debate occurred on fundamental adjustments like removal of the CPI cap on rates, changing the business model to require Standard mail to pay a greater share of institutional costs and empowering the PRC to strictly enforce the law on rate discounts. The entire public debate ignored the underlying issues.
Your decision is to support a regime of social restrictions on targeted groups, women, immigrants and unions will bring unanticipated consequences or an administration that will include voices for positive results. Looking back is not a recipe for a progressive tomorrow. The basic question to the voters is not what they promise because that is a lie. A different time, different circumstances and different issues will generate results not explored in the election debates. The question is, will we have a voice and only Obama promises that we will have a seat at the table?
Glad to have tuned in for another empty explanation of your views. I will say you can dish it with the best of them. What can I say, I don’t presume any response will sink in, but it feels good anyways. So you blame the current situation on unions and progressives, yet you want more progressives to lead you right off the cliff. Progressives led the way as part of this entitlement state which has brought us to this point in America that threatens our way of life. What has your seat at the Obama table got you these last four years? What good is that seat if there is nothing to show for it? That point you made is really pointless. Your claims of what a Romney administration would bring, just as pointless. Did Massachusetts return to the 1950′s as his critics like to claim his election would mean? Did he ban unions, end abortions, and kick all illegals out of his state…the answer is no. Did you know the great progressive FDR didn’t support public sector unions, it’s true. Now each and everyone is entitled to their opinion as many like to comment here, but your not entitled to your own facts. Obama and Romney each have their own vision for America. We have seen Obama’s the last four years, 23 million under/unemployed, 16 trillion in debt, rule by executive fiat, a healthcare take over which he stated would cost less than 1 trillion and now current cost est. to be nearly 3 trillion (but that shouldn’t bother you since unions got a waiver, gotta love them waivers), and countless lies to the American people. Thanks for the comment section here so that we can post our concerns here as well.
I view Mr.Burrus as concerned citizen. I can not understand why those visiting this site attack him. You do not have to come here and read any of his posts, let alone agree with him. It is his right to his opinions.
My comments only apply to this post/article. As I do not read Mr. Burrus’ post that often, I direct them at this entry. Lets just focus on the first few sentences of his article. It’s wonderful that Mr. Burrus is so concerned about a women’s reproductive system, yet fails to show his great concern and compassion for the unborn child living and growing inside the woman, this is about abortion, no two ways about it, many try to conceal this as a war on women, it’s not. I for one am prolife, but do see where exceptions should be considered, life of the mother for one. A women should be able to purchase contraception if she chooses, but not with other people having to provide it to her, go buy it with your own dime. Last point with which Mr. Burrus shows his lack of knowledge on illegal immigration issues, really, Romney wants to deport Hispanics simply because the color of their skin, get real, at least attempt to provide a real point or fact to support this idiotic position. We have a real illegal immigration problem in this country which requires real solutions and debate to solve, not misinformation and lies to support your own views. Thanks for your many years of service to the USPS and the membership of APWU, enjoy your retirement.
Mr. Burrus needs to do some research about Margret Sanger.http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
If the only issue facing this country is our postal jobs, then I would vote for Obama but fortunately there are much bigger issues facing our country. If the U.S. goes into another deeper recession, which I think is coming, small businesses as well as large ones will not be mailing anything with the postal service, therefore, the postal service will have to layoff more people and cut jobs. As simple as that! Obama has proven that he does not know how to handle the economy during the last 4 years. He failed!!! So if you want me to vote for this guy blindly, then you are short sighted and do not have a vision for this great country of ours!!! Besides this, I got this job not because of the union or the POTUS but because of my God and Savior!!! Amen to this and for those who still believe in Divine Intervention!!!
There is NO such thing as Republican union member. They are two opposites.I am short sighted? Your feerless GOP led us to this depression and you want to go back? Maybe we don’t need voter ID cards.Just voter IQ cards.
Racerray,
That’s the problem with liberals like you. You think everyone should think like you so don’t worry. Republicans like us will get out of your union and give each one a raise of our own!
This also shows how hateful your kind is and will never be able to work with those who don’t think like you, just luike your president BO.
Zephyr
You simply don’t get it. I and “blacks” do not have to justify our support for Obama. Frankly, it is none of your business. Whether it is 94%, 55% or 2%, individual intelligent citizens will make decisions and vote accordingly. It is evident that many have shared the same experiences and the vote expresses a rejection of deception. I suggest that you spend more time attending to your own miserable life than wasting time with conjecture about the decisions of others – or not. Either way, we intend to vote and hope that it makes a difference.
It’s unfortunate that any worker in the USA would vote for ” Robb” – me and Cryin – Ryan! No matter what our political affiliation may be, we all need to seriously weigh the ramifications of the outcome, regardless of our religious beliefs. Before you cast your vote, I hope you think about how it will affect your ability to feed and shelter yourselves and your family. Don’t rely on the TV or the media which is owned by the 1%. Besides, they have refused to shine the truth on Postal finances and the Postal Accountability Enhancement Act, otherwise known as PAEA. Think! Research! Have you read the Act?
Did you know it contains provisions that provide bonuses to Headquarter Level Management? And, tell us all where you believe the over ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS taken from Postal revenues has gone? Seriously, while we all have our opinions, think about this? And, please, please refrain from attempting to tell us that Democrats supported this legislation because I have done the research.
On another note, please, please, please research the facts surrounding the false claim that the President had the ” majority” for 2 YEARS! Research the facts! It took Al Franken 7 months to get seated in the Senate and by that time, Senator Ted Kennedy was dying. Then, his vacant seat was filled on 2.4.10 by Republican Scott Brown. So, to be clear, the President had the majority for a whopping 72 days.
As I have always and continue to do so in my lifetime, I will always respect you religion. And I believe we all must do the same. However, I will never try to “force” my beliefs on you and I pray you will do the same. I do not profess to be, nor will I claim any strict religious denomination, I am a religious individual and I know the Bible states that the meek shall inherit the earth. Remember how the majority of the Priests and Nuns in this country stood up for birth control, even though they were demonized by their own religious higher echelons. Why did they take this position against those who believed differently? Because, they know that it isn’t as important as feeding your family.
I am a white Caucasian American and I am not a racist and I am offended by veiled refences by anyone. I will never judge you by the color of your skin, nor by your religion. Most Americans that are not my race will vote for Obama because he is the Democratic nominee, not to mention other legitimate reasons. I will cast my vote for him because he is the lesser of 2 evils. I believe I may be more “morally” aligned with the Green Party, but I also have enough sense to realize voting outside of the current, longstanding 2 party system in this country is a wasted vote and I would be better off staying home on election day. Perhaps one day that may change, but I don’t see that ever happening unless we have a ” rise – up” revolution. Be smart! Stay informed! Research! Use your intelligence not your emotions! Peace and Love Always! Not only on Christmas Day!
In reply to Openminded, Reasonable Proud APWU Member.
I appreciate your commentary and views on the whole situation. Be blessed with long life and wisdom…..
Thanks Ru!
I appreciate that!
While I realize none of us will always agree with one another, it is a reflection of America’s heart and soul. We founded our Country with the “Freedom and Justice” for all, and that is something we all must strive to protect.
Why is it that blacks are STILL 95 percent in support of a proven loser of an administration as is Obama’s? Me? I would have loved to have seen Herman Cain versus Barack Hussein Obama in the final draw. That would have so showed the hypocrisy of the liberal types.
Oh by the way, Burris, have the black folk fared so wonderfully under Obummer, employment-wise. I verily doubt that you can produce statistics that would say as much. “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is far more the banner of a conservative than is the Democratic “golden mean” of helping out the unfortunate with food stamps, abortion, and other hand-outs–at tax-payer expense. There is dignity in having a job, sir. There is shame in taking handouts from taxpayers while doing nothing else with your life.
Your arguments fall dead to my ears. Obama is a proven flop as leader of this country. He needs to go. And no, I am not racist. I would have far preferred a Herman Cain to the joker now in the White House. I pray to God Almighty that our nation is spared another four years of this imposter of a leader.
Mr. Burrus,
As an Idaho independant I do have to speak my mind about this one. Let’s start with the facts. Under the Bush’s Admin we LOST facilities and post offices. Under the Obama Admin we LOST facilities and post offices. That being said neither the Repub or Demos party platform say anything about saving the postal service. The Republican platform does say that they want to move the privatize and the Democratic Platform mentions only for the right for workers to organize….Nothing about saving the USPS.
And another thing when the Democrats had contorl of BOTH houses and the President why didn’t they fix our ills??? I truly question, if either of the two, main political parties truly want to save the USPS? I did vote for Obama in 2008, however, now in 2012 I am a undecided. I have been a union due paying member since I started with the postal service 8 years ago and was a union steward for two years. My late father was also a union steward for the federal govt..when he worked as a computer system anaylst….so I do have Democratic roots…..but since I am really starting to believe that niether party has our jobs here at the postal service as a priority (aka its a wash)……why not support the candidate that represents most of the other views I have about the world?
Rhonda
You have a very negative opinion about others who offer their services. The tragedy is that you do not offer yourself. If things have to be done you wait for others to do them and then pounce with criticisim. If it is so easy to meet the expectations of a constituency and there is a need to get things done, why not volunteer? By standing on the sidelines you will never experience the personal sacrifices involved in representing others. The days away from family; the airplane rides; the expectations and the personal defense against expectations. The pressure of satisfying the demands of some while knowing the results will does not meet the aproval of others. It is the critic that hides in the shadows and pounces out to degrade the best efforts under the circumstances when someone at least tried while others do no more than find fault. You find a place where you refuse to lead and refuse to follow. The world would be a very differant place, if everyone adopted your philosophy and did no more than serve as a critic.
Mr. Burrus,
Rhonda did not stand on the sidelines. She posted a thought/opinion in response. She also has a voice, one in which you disagree with an want to silence since it differs from your own. Failure is failure. I understand it doesn’t fit into your ideology, therefor you attack her. I’m not sure how you determined that she if fact doesn’t represent others or hasn’t in the past. Maybe she is a veteran, former police officer, fire fighter, PTA member, etc.
If I read your post correctly, you believe her to be weak and inconsequential. She apparentlly is an individual, strong onto herself. Stronger than a person that requires the collective to speak for her. By design, as the collective gets stronger, the indivdual gets weaker. If untethered, that individual maybe lost forever.
Tim
I really get tired of the APWU, both past and present, who will support candidate(s) who have been such terrible failures. Obama represents the same old same old non-transparent, say one thing and do another, take care of my cronies, liar politician that infects DC. SHAME on you, William Burrus!
Republican Union Member
Your post reflects the blind spot that this country has about race. Through passim you remark about the number of African Americans who will vote for Obama because he is black and the number is exceedingly high 94%. By extension you attribute this to blind support based on color. The other side of that coin is the white voters who will vote for Romney because Obama is black. Applying raw numbers those voting for Romney based on color far exceed those who will vote for Obama. Using your analogy that color is the deciding factor, it is gross hypocrisy for you to focus on a single group when in fact our entire society is inflicted with a preoccupation over skin color and the presidential race is but one manifestation of this clannish behavior. Bigot is defined as “One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race or politics and is intolerant of those who differ. In defiance, you define yourself as a Republican union member, but do you also by definition fit this description?
http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/obama-black-vote-how-much-does-skin-color-influence-support-1.4110029.
With all due respect, Mr. Burrus, maybe you don’t but a large percentage of African-Americans vote for Obama because he is black.
I believe this article explains it pretty well. It helped me to understand it a bit better too .
Hi Bill, let’s go back 30 years from 2010. What we see is 1980 and from that time until President Obama, how many Presidents came from the Democratic Party? Prior to Obama, only one President was a democrat and his name was Bill Clinton. In America, the only reason for our current condition is because of Republicans. Therefore, why would anyone with common sense vote for a Republican? Reagan destroyed many families and homes, but what did the 2 Bushes do? Should we analyze the Bushes? What happened to everybody’s pension during the Bush era? Do you remember that? You know… the saving and loans scandal; what about Enron? Although the Republicans destroyed America, what if Obama was white? How would the majority vote? Will there be a race card?
Since republicans hate Unions represeting goverment agencies so much, all those postal workers voting republican should resign and get rehired as a PSE or risk becoming a hyprocrite!!!
How about everyone resigns and gets hired back based on merit (i.e. work ethics, attendance and how about appearance). Minus one thing, not everyone is entitled to his/her job, thus new hires will be needed to replace those of us unworthy.
According to Washington Post, since 2004 to 2010, the average citizen has suffered a 39% loss in wealth since the great recession while the members of Congress have managed to boost their net worth by 5%, and one-third increased 14%. Also, 28% of Congress earned more income from their outside jobs than from their puny Congressional annual salary of $174,000.
To be fair, 27% of the congressional gang suffered a wealth decline, either because they were all thumbs as investors, or (please, no giggling) too busy doing the people’s business to tend to their own.
The median estimated wealth of House of Representatives was $746,000, and for Senators, $2.6 million. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi wealth shot up some $60 to $101 million due to her husband’s real estate holdings. Not to be outdone, that vigorous GOP prober of other people’s sins Darrell Issa, became the most affluent lawmaker in the nation, with a tidy net worth of $448.1 million.
If I was a textile worker in the northeast and had voted in the 1860 election I would have voted Republican. Even if it was in my economic interest to vote for Douglas – the pro slavery Democrat. Even as my job depended on the uninterrupted supply of cotton. Yet the issue of slavery would have been just too important for me to overlook. To look the other way. I would have proudly been a single issue voter and voted my conscience. Some things are just more important than even my family’s daily bread. Do you disagree?
Flash forward to today. The Democrat Party supports killing the unborn through the 9th month. If you happen to think, like myself, that the unborn are not a disease or a cancerous tissue, but a human being with a beating heart and an immortal soul, then the Democratic Party is disqualified from even a consideration of my vote. Just as much as when they supported slavery, their unlimited support and actual promotion of abortion with my tax dollars is evil. Attempts to remove God from their platform almost allowed the veil to fall.
On a side note, if you know a little of history Planned Parenthood grew out of the progressive movement. It especially targeted the American black population and they have been wildly successful in their evil endeavors. They have killed 10s of millions of minority babies in America. This is the future of America you want me to vote for? Never. Please do not tell me planned parenthood screens for cancer like the president said during the last debate. That was a lie. Planned parenthood will only refer requests for mamograms to a legitimate clinic. They have no such equipment in any of their facilities. Go ahead – call them and ask.
Postal jobs will never be secure until the economy rebounds regardless of what my contract says. The contract does not protect me. Postal Profits do. I know that because postal jobs have never been more threatened and the contract did not change – the economy did. I have enough small business experience to know that Mitt Romney is obviously emensely more qualified to be president and turn the economy around. It will be a landslide November 6th. Everyone I know – all union members are voting Romney/Ryan – except for the usual half dozen knuckleheads voting for Douglas, eh I mean Obama.
Mr. Burrus, why did the AFL-CIO and the APWU and you not come out against the President’s position on 5 day delivery? Why not stick up for labor when the President came out against the Social Security Annuity for all new Federal Employees? I see labor leaders marching with a communist fist and red star symbol, speaking out on every possible far left issue – dividing union members – and then stay quiet on labor issues? ?
Well, I obviously disagree with you politically, but I saw you speak once and have to say you are a good speaker and I enjoyed the event. I wish you all the best in your retirement
I agree with you completely, Rodney. Well said !
Right On!!!!! You said it so much better then I ever could!!!! I talk with “good hearted God lving Union Members” who tell me “Abortion/Gay Rights/other important moral issues do not matter when it comes to this Election or any other election!!!! They say it is all about their job!!! The Democratic Party is the only one that represents them!!!
Will any of this matter if you are standing in the unemployment line?
I think Romney will be elected. If you see people at an GOP rally holding the signs that say,”Keep Government out of my Medicare”, I think many in that 47% are totally hopeless. The other day on my route, one senior lady, while waiting for me to finish at the mail stop, with window rolled up tightly, I could still hear her radio blaring away with Rush Limbaugh voice. My next door neighbor, whose wife is a postal employee and he himself has been on SSI for years, has told me they will vote for Romney because of “Jobs”.
Many postal carriers I know, they are always calling a lot of people “Government T!t suckers” while they are 20 to 30 years on the job themselves.
Hipocricy has taken over the real politics. People are “driven” with paranoia, hatred and gross misconception.
Whoever is more ambitious and has more allies in spreading their propaganda may and will have a much better chance to win. Needless to say, in this race, it is Romney.
I voted early today, and voted for Obama. I don’t think he’s the ideal candidate, but I damn sure can’t vote for somebody hell bent on destroying the middle class, unions and classifies half the country as worthless cheats on the system. I believe President Obama will win reelection but it will be close. That 47% remark was devastating to Romney and although FOX News and their shills are desperately trying to ignore it, put it out of context and just flat out lie about it, the only people they reach are those already addicted to that mind poison.
Shills don’t seem to understand how few people listen to them. They are on cable news all day, the expert of this, the former expert on that, members of think tanks, etc., all spewing all day about their candidate and the opposition, thinking that their words are getting heard and the words they’re uttering are history makers. Sorry, media. Both sides make me ill. You do not reach the “undecided”, and you have done a huge disservice to journalism by making up news instead of reporting it. Both sides do it, and it’s the main reason I did not pursue it as my career. I see all your prognostications as biased propaganda and you provide a “service” to nobody. It’s all brainwashing and I’ll make up my own mind, fuck you very much.
I agree with most of what you say until you get to the both sides are the same story. There are alot of good probing news sources that lean to the left but report the truth. Among these are Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Brad Blog, The Nation, The Ring of Fire radio show, to mention a few.
“Are you calling me a Asshole, Asshole” no……..”Im calling you a Anus, Anus”!!!
Sounds like MSNBC…..
Mr Burrus- When that 47% grows to a majority there will be no more election and our fate will be sealed. We’re nearly to the tipping point now. You know exactly what he’s talking about, if you were not taking the comments out of context. Liberals are keen on making folk feel just that: victimized. But while the Pres is busy having the victims stand in the lines for government handouts, those of us who believe this country was built by people who want to get out the sack in the morning and make something of their lives continues to pick up the tab. If I choose to work longer and harder then my neighbor, why should I be forced to share the benefits of my toil? That’s exactly what you’re candidate stands for, and that is one of many reasons why he will not be receiving my vote.
Ben,Please tell us what Mr. Romney stands for? I know that he says he worked across the isle as Gov. yet he vetoed over 700 bills, 650 or so went back and were passed by the legislature. I know he owns factories in China where the people make less than 1 dollar an hour. I know that he had an investment in the group that bought Delphi and ultimately al 25000 union employees were fire, the company moved to China, and there pensioners left to the guarantee pension fund. I know that right now the company that he started up and uses his strategies, is closing down an auto parts manufacturer in Ohio named Sensata and movint the equipment to guess where, China. It seems he appreciates the people of communist China much more than the people of the US. Of course if you would work for $1 an hour he probably could find you a job, but you would have to move. In their world hard work isn’t rewarded, it’s all about what unfortunate company they can take advantage of. Vote for Romney but don’t insult our intellegence by claiming the man with a lie for every occasion is good for America!
Sounds like your anti Chinese!!! I dont like the idea of our nations work/jobs being sent overseas. Are you saying that $1 a hour is worse for those workers then 0$ an hour!!! I bet you a “Dollar to a eggroll” that they are grateful for that 1$ an hour. Sounds like someone has been spoiled by the all mighty Union Dollar
I didn’t say he was good for America. In my view he’s just not as bad as our other choice.
Mark
Yes, Obama was a member of the church pastored by Reverand Wright who recited anti American rhetoric from the pulpit. It has never been established that Obama was present or joined in the attacks but he was chastised for being a member. I found the accusation to be extremely hypocritical since millions of catholics continued their church membership during and after the serial sexual abuse of children. Where was the outrage and what did they do? Obama resigned his membership, what did you do?
Obama attended the church for 20 years and never heard the views of the pastor.LIE LIE and more lies.
You are talking apples and oranges. How can someone go to a church for twenty years and not hear the pastor speak his racist sermons? Resigning his membership was damage control. Also, as far as the Catholic Church there are 271,602 physical churches. However, that number probably does not include mission churches, independent churches, SSPX, FSSP, and many other orders. Reverend Wright was the pastor of one church. Surely if his sermons were found to be offensive one would have found another church in twenty years not stay there.
“I found the accusation to be extremely hypocritical since millions of catholics continued their church membership during and after the serial sexual abuse of children.”
Did you watch college football during and after the Penn State serial sexual abuse of children? How about the boy scouts? How about the high schools and grade schools around the country? Yes it is true that the Catholic Church has suffered the headlines. But it is also true that every institution in America has suffered through scandel. Including unions. Saying the President cannot be held responsible for his actions because the Catholic Church is not perfect is goofy moral logic.
I agree….
Mark
Your assumption that my vote is based on color is offensive. Shriley Chisom, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were candidates for president and each was “blacker” than Obama who had a white mother. I didn’t vote for them so your assumption that my vote can be had on color ignores the past when the only option was a white male and I voted. Your assumption that my vote is color related is awkward in that I assume you are white and would bet that you have never in your life voted for a person of color. I voted for Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama. That’s 10 to 1 and you have the audacity to say it’s color.
Wait a second Mr Burrus……….How many people have said “Im voting for him because he is black?” I know alot!!! If I would say “Im voting for that guy because he is white” you bet your ass I would be facing discrimination charges! I would be called all kinds of bad things!! Im not saying your racist, Im just saying that there are people who voted for Obama because he was black and nothing else!! You can close your eyes to the truth if you choose to do. Even Jesse Jackson said Obama needed his nuts squeesed because he wasnt!
However..one last note. When Herman Cain was running for President he was labeled a “Uncle Tom”!!
Romney’s own advisor said Mitt would shake up just like an etch a sketch. Remember that from a few months ago, when he was pandering to the Tea Party to get the GOP nomination? That 47 percent remark was the real Mitt Romney, not the etch a sketch guy you see on the debates. Burrus is right on with his commentary where was the outcry on the recording. If Romney gets elected,American workers rights, women’s rights, and civil rights return to the 1950′s. Not to mention the republican war machine will be off and running again. Did you ever wonder why they didn’t get Bin laden? Cause if you get him, that war machine stops. As Nicholson said ( Grab a weapon and stand a post) and like I found out you’ll find out just how EXPENDABLE YOU ARE. Semper Fi and keep up the great commentary Bill Burrus!
You have the comment wrong,
there are those individuals who would vote for Obama no matter what
that truth may reveal.
why waste your time talking to a brick wall.
Time is better spent talking to individuals with an open mind.
example:
“According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, President Obama is beating his Republican opponent among black voters by a whopping 94 percent to 0 percent.”
so why waste you time talking to the black caucus?
if the soul reason they are voting for Obama is his skin color.
You are wasting your time even trying, And time is in such short supply.
example:
if you are here illegally, and you find Obama circumventing the law to prevent
deportation , Who are you going to vote for?
add in the no voter Id required. sign sealed and deliver.
People are being bought and paid for.
same goes for unions,
we are being bought and paid for.
Obama did nothing to help us, when he had control of both houses.
I am voting for what’s good for the country.
this time.
that Means Romney
As a taxpaying, Vietnam era USAF veteran.I can not vote for a draft dodging,tax cheating,stop the poor vote,buy the White House,spoonfed rich guy,that can’t keep his money in his own country,and who distains 47% of his own people. PERIOD!
well said raceray
It would appear my reply was erased earlier, so let me try again:
As a Taxpaying, Iraqi War Vet x2 I disagree with you.
1) Did Obama serve in the military? Do not think so! Did Clinton serve in the military? Do not think so!
2) The 47% was a statment on the fact that that many people do not pay income taxes after all their deductions. I say get rid of the deductions
3) Are you saying that you were in Vietnam or just in the military during that war? There is a difference
I am always amazed americans blame Obama for huge spending. The fact of the matter is Obama’s rate of NEW SPENDING (1.4%) is the lowest since Eisenhower. Compare that with Bush’s 8% plus. Yes spending is high but its not due to new spending rather its due to old spending. Two wars, medicare part D, no child left behind, and the devaluation of the dollar. Congress has not allowed Obama to spend, only pay old bills.
is the lowest since Eisenhower.
16.2 billion and counting $6 billion under Obama. Most of that was the first 2 yrs when Obama had the majority in Congress. Yes I agree 1.4% spending but that is because you add on the last 2yrs. Most of the spending is SS and Medicare. But when you have all that spending from past bills you dont add more for future generations like OBAMACARE.
The success of the Conservative propaganda machine is quite evident from some of the replies to your insightful and cogent article on the Romney/Ryan campaign and their basic disrespect of the working men and women here in America.
I suggest that some of the people out there just basically do not understand that the Republican Party, who now openly refer to retirees and seniors as “THE TAKERS” after they have spent their entire lives as gainfully employed wage earners that now are “TAKERS” by getting a RETIREMENT CHECK, SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE…and that the GOP cruelly and openly disdains them for not continuing to work until we die…
Look at what myopic people like “sucka” say…”people who don’t pay Federal Taxes.” and they obviously don’t understand this simple issue because they have been sold a bill of goods, hook,line and sinker…and the “DEBT FREAKS” like “ERICK” who also has swallowed the Conservative line…
These poor people who think that ROMNEY/RYAN and the GOP CONSERVATIVE AUSTERITY GAMBIT are the way to go, obviously don’t understand that they are walking directly into a BUZZ SAW that will rip them to shreds while THE ONE PERCENT MAKE OUT JUST FINE with bigger tax breaks and a bigger larder for their FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNTS THAT ARE ALL THE RAGE IN THE GOP.
Look what happen in Europe and will happen here if we dont get our fiscal house in order. We cant keep spending like a drunken sailor. I pay my credit cards every 30 day, pay my mortgage on time, and have no other debt. If i can do it then the government can.
Yes Erick, you are a good American, but you are only 1 among say millions. If you are a present or former postal worker, the Unions paved the way for you to be middle-class, so what’s to happen to the thousands of future employees that the government must also protect for their tax dollars? Only a drunken sailor who has received a decent wage or earnings can freely spend without thinking of tomorrow…
If your a woman or anyone working for a paycheck the only vote is for Obama. A wiseman (my father) once told me….”if management is in control, they will pay you a Buck an Hour, if the Union is in control, the company will be bankrupt by the End of the Day. The real decision is, do we want Cheap Chinese products or a Fair Wage for American Workers? This countries economic structure is headed back to the late 19th Century….where The Fisks, The Rockafellers, The Melons , worked people for much less than a Buck an Hour and in conditions that were dangerious and deplorable. Only this time the family names are Koch and Adleson. Economically these families will slowly, but surely take our freedoms away. Long Live The Middle Class…..The True Soul of America.
So, Mr. Burris, following your “logic” President Obama is no different from Governor Romney because he sat in the pews of the Reverand Jeremiah Wright’s church and listened to his hate talk for years. Please be fair and balanced, not a narrow minded man.
Irvin
We agree to disagree without resorting to personal attacks and I respect that. The attack that president Obama has engaged in unconrollable spending has been repeated so often that it is accepted as true. By your post it is evident that you understand our government but you ignore the basic principle. The president cannot spend what Congress does not appropriate and I ask you to name one spending program that was originated under Obama that was approved by Congress beyond the stimulas and health care. The stimulas was necessary to prevent a depression and the cost of depression far exceeds the 700 billion approved to protect the financial system and keep public employees on the job. Without it, tens of thousands of school teachers, policemen, firemen and other public workers would have been terminated bedcause the states were desperate for assistance. The health care Bill has not added to the deficit yet, and it is expected to contain future costs greater than the federal contribution. The deficit that you attribute to Obama was the two wars, the tax cut, Medicare and No Child left behind. These were initiated under Bush and if you hold Obama responsible it was for their continuation.
My point was that Mr Romney accused a large percentage of American citizens of seeing themselves as victims and if that is his view of 47% of the population one can reasonably expect that he will govern accordingly. The result would be government policy that favors the wealthy leaving them to set the life style of working people. With respect.
Most of that $700 billion was waisted or not spent. A lot of it was given to green companies as I stated in an earlier post. Those companies collased and their owners gave kickbacks so Obama and the Dems could be reelected. It was just a giant slush fund.
If you actually listen to the recording, he was talking about taxes and lowering taxes. Since 47 percent of the people don’t pay taxes, any ‘tax cutting’ message won’t resonate with them. That’s why ‘we’re not going to worry about them.”
You are worried about a 47 percent comment taken out of context, but completely dismissing the facts that 100 percent of America is worse off than they were 4 years ago
I’m not sure what Romney weed you are toking but over 30 months of job growth vs losing 750,ooo jobs a month under Bush is making all Americans 100% worse off??? It is obvious that you are not smarter than a fifth grader. Could it be you are one of the millions that just can’t handle being led by a black president……I am 100% better off now than then.
Mr Burrus I usually agree with your comments but in this case I have to respectfully DISagree. Your blind faith in Obama and his spending in sad. Mr Romney did not say he wouldn’t take care of the 47%. He said the 47% would not vote for him so he did not need to care about them (as in seeking their vote) because they are already committed to voting for Obama. That’s the way the democrats get votes, by pandering, not by principles. Used to be a chicken in every pot but now it’s “I’ll make the evil bank reduce your mortgage because they ‘forced’ you to buy that house you couldn’t afford’. We need to go back to states rights and get the federal empirial government out of everything not specifically spelled out in the Constitution. IMHO
In the wake of the Treasury Department’s newly released summary of federal spending for 2012, it’s now possible to detail just how profligate the Obama years have been. Here’s the upshot: Under Obama, for every $7 we’ve had, we’ve spent nearly $11 (or, to be more exact, $10.95). That’s like a family that makes $70,000 a year — and is already knee-deep in debt — blowing nearly $110,000 a year.
To illustrate this a bit differently, for every Jackson ($20) we’ve had available to spend under Obama, we’ve also borrowed a Hamilton ($10) and a Washington ($1) and spent those too. The only thing is that, under Obama, we’ve (literally) spent the equivalent of 342 billion Jacksons, 342 billion Hamiltons, and 342 billion Washingtons — borrowing all of the Hamiltons and Washingtons.
Let’s take a look at the scorecard, based on official government figures. In fiscal year 2012 (which ended on September 30), the federal government acquired $2.449 trillion in tax revenue and other receipts. It spent $3.538 trillion — 44 percent more than it had available to spend. The resulting deficit was $1.089 trillion.
Can we stand another 4 yrs of this???
Great post. I agree…….
I paid into Social Security and Medicare. I worked for 35 years to receive my pension from USPS. I served in the military which is more tham Romney did. I earned what I receive and I am one of the 47%. But Mr. Romney I vote but not for you unless the GOP finds a way to supress it. One for President Obama.
I don’t believe Obama served in the military either……..
And exactly which service of the armed forces did Obama serve in?
Nice try but he was talking about 47% who don’t pay federal taxes.
Mr. Burrus: BRAVO!!!!!!! I always keep an open mind, but everything you said is true. I weighed out the GOP candidates when they were downing each other; and alas out of the fight came Mitt. Other than the obvious that you have pointed out Mr. Burrus I am very concerned about Mitt’s overseas policies. Lets see in tonight’s debate if he maintains his hawkish views expressed in his recent VMI speech; or if he flip flops to appeases the voters as he has so often done. Bottom line for us at the USPS is that by the end of Mitt’s four years, if he squeezes in, we won’t have a job. PRIVITIZATION. Perhaps higher management has made a secure deal; as well as some of, what I feel are, the corrupt APWU officials will crawl into the nitche they have bargained for; but the workers will be left out in the cold. We live in a country of sheep. Be aware. Think outside the box. Keep people on the notice Mr. Burrus. Thank you.
T O U C HE !
Obama or Clinton did NOT serve