From: Judy Miriga
Folks,
You get what you get when you ask a celebrity to deliver without specifics….The delivery was an “Empty Chair”…….equal to when a Presidential contender refuses to produce his 10 year Tax Return as public demands …….He Orders No Government Incentives to 47% of the disadvantaged VICTIMS….. equal to when they call the same circumstancial VICTIMS the 47% PARASITES and Corporations are People….EQUAL to The 1% Corporation CEOs, Commission Agents and Directors PEOPLE…
Where shall the rest disadvantaged, middle-class and the poor in Mitt Romneys’ Plan people? It is why He cannot produce a Plan for how he wishes to Govern incase he becomes the next President……..It is why, Mitt is not able to produce 10years Tax Return……It is why the GOP Republican blocked and betrayed the Veteran Job Plan of President Obama’s “The Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012” to create jobs for vets returning from Iraq. He does not care about the 47%…..Dont you get it…..???
There is only one ticket to save the country from further economic crisis and collapse….It is people’s vote which shall determine those committed to serve all people the same without discrimination to be given the votes to work with President Obama in a Bi-Partisan and complete the Reform Package he already set up……This is because, it looks like Leadership under mitt Romney is hell on earth to those of the middle-class and the disadvantaged ……It is not a secret anymore people……all came out freely from the horse’s mouth.
Government Shut-Down is not a wonder……..Some analysis think Government Shut-Down is a conspiracy to shut 47% from receiving any support or benefits from the Government the close-up Retirement Fund with other Government facilities and utilities; commercialize Education and Health Care Plan …….so No one should stand on the way of “Free Trading” and Corporate Business for Special Interest take control of monopoly for all innovations, Trickle Down (for start-ups)………Instead of President Obama’s plan for Government Service being distributed from Centre outwards…….proping bottom-up job creation to the majority middle-class, dissadvantaged, the poor and the rich without any discrimination……..
It is an evidential fact that either Mitt Romney is totally and thoroughly incompetent or he is very Faithful and Truthful to the 1% Corporate (People) by revealing and defining himself (The Real Romney) [telling it like it is] to the general public and the whole world…..so we all know what to expect from Mitt Romney’s Presidential leadership…….
In this case, People of the world and Africa in Foreign Policy are more comfortable with President Obama than with Mitt Romney……..Now that the Global Economy is shaky and there are fears of the unscrupulous Corporate Special Interest investments in the world with Chinese Commission Agents in the scramble to Africa is very shaky and worisome………It is President Obama who can be trusted with good Democratization formalization Success Story in Africa to gain roots; but not Mitt Romney……..It is our hope the World will have an improved sustainable Progressive Development where safety and security is guaranteed……..For this all must think and vote President Obama to complete his Reinvestment Plan of Action within the next 4 more years.
Again the choice rests with voters……..Voters/People must understand America is on the cross-roads …..the fight is between the Rich and the poor or the disadvantaged…….voter fraud and discrepancies must be curbed as they trigger in the offing ……people must play smart in advance and take matters to court of law for remedy because; rigging is gonna play BIG in Real Time……
Livelihood and Survival is at stake here people……..
Shall we just sit and watch or Act and Act
Smart by voting Responsible, Committed
leaders with integrity…..???
Cheers everybody…..!!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Obama widens lead over Romney to seven points: Reuters/Ipsos poll
By Alina Selyukh | Reuters – Thu, Sep 13, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama widened his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters on Thursday, the latest survey to show the Democrat ahead in the run-up to the November 6 election.
The daily online poll asked 990 likely voters over the previous four days which candidate they would pick if the vote took place today, with 48 percent choosing Obama and 41 percent picking Romney.
The gap has been widening since Obama grabbed the lead in the rolling poll on September 7 when he scooped up 46 percent of likely voters to Romney’s 44 percent after the Democratic convention.
“What that really means is that Obama is in good shape,” said Ipsos pollster Julia Clark, attributing some of Obama’s uptick to the slowly improving sentiment toward the direction of the country shown in Wednesday’s telephone poll.
Among all 1,231 registered voters surveyed online, Obama led with 45 percent to Romney’s 39 percent.
Thursday’s online poll also found far more registered voters preferred the incumbent’s policies and approach on taxes (41 percent picked Obama, 30 percent Romney), healthcare (44 percent Obama, 28 percent Romney) and Social Security (39 percent Obama, 27 percent Romney).
Asked which of the candidates had a better plan, policy or approach to the war on terrorism, more registered voters again favored Obama: 39 percent to Romney’s 25 percent.
Foreign policy moved to the center of the campaign this week after four Americans, including an ambassador, were killed in Libya as protests raged in Benghazi and Cairo in neighboring Egypt against an anti-Islam film made in the United States.
The two candidates ranked closely on the U.S. economy: 36 percent said Obama’s approach was better, versus 35 percent for Romney. Obama held a slight lead of 38 percent to Romney’s 35 percent on jobs and unemployment, despite poor unemployment figures last Friday.
But 35 percent of registered voters found Romney’s policies and plans on the federal deficit were better than Obama’s. Thursday’s poll showed Obama with 31 percent.
Independents – a key voting bloc – favored neither of the candidate’s policies on many issues.
“Neither candidate has established credibility on these issues,” Clark said. “Neither candidate is really doing it for these independents.”
Asked for whom they would vote for in Thursday’s poll, the small pool of independents preferred Romney with 35 percent to Obama’s 26 percent, which Clark attributed to their high focus on economic issues.
The precision of Reuters/Ipsos rolling daily online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points for all respondents.
(Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)
Obama betters Romney on foreign policy
By David Kilgour David vs. David –
September 20th 2012
The foreign policy strengths of incumbents and opposing candidates don’t appear to have affected presidential election outcomes in recent decades.
An exception was 1980, when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter decisively in part because of their perceived strengths in dealing with Iran over American hostages who were then in Tehran.
This might well explain why Romney is seeking to demonstrate that he’ll stand up for America more vigorously than Obama. He is probably also mindful that in a July New York Times/CBS poll, 47% of Americans surveyed nationally said Obama would do a better job on foreign policy, whereas only 40% preferred Romney.
Since 2008, Obama has promoted universal values internationally, maintained a largely hands-off approach towards the Arab Spring, achieved some national security successes in Afghanistan and Libya, rid the world of Osama bin Laden, ended the war in Iraq, and pressed the Egyptian military to transfer power to a democratically elected president.
Relations with European countries are much improved largely because Obama listens. The same holds for Latin America, Africa, and Asia, except for China, where some of us think he has failed to assert human dignity and U.S. economic concerns effectively. If he wins the election, Romney pledges to name Beijing as a currency manipulator, which would no doubt restore some American manufacturing jobs. Obama should make a similar commitment.
Obama pays attention to the tone of his speeches even during crises. He did not politicize the recent crisis in North Africa and the Middle East as Romney did in his initial response. Anxious to build bridges with the Arab world, he sensibly admits that America is not always right. In his 2009 speech in Cairo, he stated, “No system of government… should be imposed on one nation by any other …America does not presume to know what is best for everyone.” Compared to that of George W. Bush, his is a much kinder and gentler foreign-policy. Many view him a prudent and steady international leader.
The Real Parasites are Romney’s Beloved Corporations
Not the 47 Percent
By: RmuseSeptember 20th, 2012
The idea of assigning personhood, or life, to objects lacking the qualities or features of living beings without any sign of life or consciousness is something young children do as an expression of their imagination. There are adults who give gender specific names to inanimate objects like cars, boats and even musical instruments, but like children, they know the object is not really a person. Willard Romney believes legal instruments, corporations, are people and it is childish, but the conservative Supreme Court bestowed personhood on corporations as the law of the land so legally, Romney has a point.
A few days ago, a hidden video surfaced that exposed Romney alleging that 47% of Americans “believe they are victims and the government has a responsibility to care for them” and “should give them entitlements.” Romney complained that the 47% “are people who pay no income tax” and that he could “never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Willard’s point of contention is that people who do not pay income taxes are leeches on Americans that do pay income tax, but there is serious incongruity in his argument. There is a percentage of Willard’s people (corporations) that do not pay income taxes, and yet he and Republicans’ long-standing assertion is that corporations (people) are victims of high taxation and cannot possibly prosper unless their taxes are slashed because the “government has a responsibility to care for them.”
It is interesting then, that another group of people, veterans, who are unemployed and pay no income taxes were denied a jobs program by Senate Republicans who advocate for more corporate-people entitlements in the form of tax cuts. President Obama has pushed for the Veterans Jobs Corps bill to help out-of-work Veterans find gainful employment and gain access to the infrastructure to assist in job searches. The Republicans in the Senate said America could not afford $1 billion over five years to hire 20,000 young veterans for public lands jobs and to prioritize veterans for first responder jobs such as police, firefighter, or EMT that they most likely trained for while serving their country. Perhaps Senate Republicans, like Willard Romney, differentiate between corporate-people who pay no income taxes and do not need assistance, and real people who do not pay income taxes and need assistance.
The real people Romney complained are not paying income tax do not earn enough to qualify for even the lowest tax bracket, and it includes retirees subsisting on their Social Security retirement accounts, out of work veterans and combat troops, and the working poor. Many of the real people who pay no income tax benefit from tax credits for the elderly, working poor, or students, or President Obama’s historically low tax rates that help families make ends meet in the Bush-Republican post-recession economy. The Tax Policy Center notes that only 7% of the population is non-elderly with no tax liability, and most earn less than $20,000 annually. Romney and Republicans’ corporate-people, however, are in an entirely different income situation.
Since Romney complained that 47% of real Americans paid no income taxes were parasites on the government and could not take responsibility for their lives, it is hypocritical that he failed to include 26 highly profitable Fortune 500 companies that paid no income taxes and in some cases got a refund since 2008. Why did Willard not complain that companies like Bain Capital’s Mattel, General Electric, Boeing, and Wells Fargo received taxpayer-funded entitlements while they paid nothing in income taxes? If Romney is irritated that real Americans living at poverty level cannot be taught to take responsibility for their lives and start paying income taxes, when will he teach highly profitable corporate-people to start taking some responsibility for their corporate-lives and pay income taxes? Besides not paying income taxes when they are making record profits, they live off entitlements funded by Americans who do pay income taxes.
Nearly all of the 26 Fortune 500 who did not pay income taxes use resources taxpayers fund like ports, highways, and the transportation system, or police and fire protection, water and sewer systems, and tax breaks for shipping Americans’ jobs overseas. When will banks and companies like Bain Capital that received taxpayer-funded government bailouts start taking personal responsibility for their corporate lives after they gambled with other Americans’ money and caused the global recession? They certainly are not poor like the 47% of Americans who paid no income taxes or they would not be listed in the Fortune 500 most profitable companies. If Romney is going to impugn real Americans who do not pay income taxes because they are poor; why does he give highly profitable corporations a pass and campaign on a promise to reduce their tax rate even more? Because those inanimate legal instruments are his “corporation-people,” and unlike a child’s imaginary person, they help Romney earn millions.
Romney and Republicans cannot have it both ways. It is Romney’s standard argument to decry the high corporate tax rate, and Americans should start asking how much lower than zero can he possibly reduce corporate taxes?
According to Citizens for Tax Justice, 30 of the 280 biggest, profitable Fortune 500 corporations paid no net federal income tax from 2008 through 2011, and 26 of the 30 enjoyed negative federal income tax rates. That means they made more money after tax than before tax over four years, and overall, they had an average effective federal income tax rate of negative 3.1% between 2008 and 2011. All the while, Romney travels around the country telling voters his plan to stimulate the economy and create jobs is to cut corporate tax rates while Republicans cannot allow a vote for $1 billion over five years to help real Veterans find jobs.
Another way of looking at Romney’s corporations-are-people who need to take responsibility for their lives, is if they paid the 35% corporate tax rate, they would have paid $78.3 billion over four years. Instead, they received $78.3 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies or as Willard calls them for real people; entitlements. Perhaps Romney needs to reassess his assertion that corporations are people because if real “people who do not pay income taxes” are parasites and need to learn to take responsibility for their lives, then his corporation-people have to start taking responsibility for their lives. The difference is glaring to any human being with half a brain; Romney does not profit from 47% of Americans who do not pay income taxes, and it explains his plan to raise taxes on the poor to pay for his tax cuts if he prevails in November. The idea behind cutting corporate taxes is to increase his wealth that he will hide in offshore accounts. It is high time for Romney to get some continuity in his “people who do not pay income taxes” are parasites meme because the real parasites are his corporations-are-people, and not Veterans, senior citizens, or the working poor.