Mitt Romney Trashes California, Comparing Golden State to Financially Screwed Europe
By Erin SherbertThu., Aug. 9 2012 at 9:11 AM
Mitt Romney is in trouble with California Democrats -- not that he really cares. The Republican Presidential candidate was heard popping off again, but this time he was trashing California instead of Palestine.
While speaking to a group of Iowans, Romney talked about how another four years with Obama would lead the United States down a path similar to Greece, et al. Here's what he said:
Entrepreneurs and business people around the world and here at home think that at some point America is going to become like Greece or like Spain or Italy, or like California -- just kidding about that one, in some ways.
And here's what Gov. Jerry Brown's Office had to say back:
"Mr. Romney's weak grasp of foreign affairs was painfully evident during his recent trip to Europe, but these comments underscore the fact that he knows just as little about the Golden State as he does about the rest of the world," Gil Duran, a spokesman for Brown, told reporters.
Duran then gives Romney, who by the way owns property in San Diego,[actually it's beach front property in La Jolla] a crash course in just how great California is:
•California has a $1.9 trillion economy, the ninth largest in the world;
•It leads the nation in the number of jobs created, even if it's the leader in unemployment;
•Its bond rating outlook has improved and its borrowing costs have fallen, making it the "exact opposite" of Spain, Italy, and Greece;
•Unlike a country, which can run a deficit, California is constitutionally mandated to adopt a balanced budget each year;
•Greece's government spending makes up a much larger portion of its economy than that of California;
•Also, three words: Google, Apple, and Intel.
And don't forget, Romney, we are home to your No. 1. fan, the Queen of Porn, Jenna Jameson, who has certainly done plenty for California's economy.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
Romney has been sticking his foot in his mouth at every opportunity. While in Israel he had high praise for their health care and said that the U.S. should emulate it, because it consumes only 8% of GDP as opposed to 18% in the U.S.
Uh, Mitt, someone did tell you that Israel has a universal single payer health care system, right? Something that, had the U.S. had the common sense to have implemented instead of the half measures it managed to pass, you would have been railing against from the highest rooftops.
What a buffoon.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
Picking your candidate on the basis of "who can spend the most money", is always going to lead to this sort of debacle.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Just the latest in a long line of incidents where the Mittster says something that is true and appropriate, and the Lefties have a hissy-fit, trying to make it seem like it was a "gaffe."
Anyone who sees the governance of California as anything other than an object lesson in the idiocy of Leftism is so fucking blind to reality that they will probably vote for four more years of THIS.
Incredible.
No one outside the Democrat tent is paying any attention, so it is all meaningless.
The Wikipedia pages of US presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other members of the Republican party who may run alongside him have been locked down.
Wikipedia has put a silver padlock icon on the top right hand side of their entries.
This means that anonymous users cannot make editorial changes to content relating to the politicians.
The measures were taken after comedian Stephen Colbert suggested on US TV that viewers should edit the pages.
Mr Colbert was following up on earlier media reports suggesting that the popularity of election candidates could be determined by the number of edits their entries on Wikipedia had received, volunteer media coordinator David Gerard told BBC News.
As a result, more people started to tinker with the politicians' pages.
They now have a partial lock, meaning that anonymous users and those without a Wikipedia account are currently unable to make changes to the pages of Mr Romney, Senators Rob Portman and Marco Rubio, Governor Chris Christie and others.
No more gaffs being added then?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
