

This and That, Then and Now


In all the tumult, self-inflicted by Mitt “The Loose Canon” Romney, few have noticed that he has released an ad that says, among other things, “I have balanced budgets.  …the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics…”

Back up there, Bucko.  I believe there is still some $2.7 billion owed to the federal government if one is to claim that the SLC Olympics balanced its books. 

Of course, this just points up the glaring problem of claiming to ‘having made it on your own’.  What company of any size–even a mom-and-pop terriyaki stand can claim to have made it on their own?  The interstate highway ssytem that brings dirt-cheap produce to your stand, the styrofoam containers made by the subsidized oil industry and invented by scientists trained at state-sponsored universities, the fire inspections that insure that your stand will not burn up and on and on and on, all mean that you have a better existence than say, 1300 AD England, 1800 Alaska or present day Cleveland.*

And then there is the Republican craziness of screaming that reducing the size of the military will cut jobs but decrying the size of all other government. 


One more on Romney and then I am going to let him finish himself off:

His statement to the fundraisers about ’47% of the American people not paying any federal taxes’ may have been his way of putting cushions down for himself for when it is revealed that he, himself, paid no taxes. 

If I am right on this, it would explain a lot of Obama’s seemingly nonchalance towards his own re-election.  My guess is Obama’s biggest concern is timing the release of Romney’s last five year’s tax returns (non-tax returns?) for maximum damage and making sure that Mitt and the Republicans don’t have time for damage control or to let the issue die down.


Where did the old Nic Licata go?  His rather sad attempt to explain his votes on the New Arena and the Yesler Terrace Plan had so many twists and turns, I rather expect he is down at the chiropractor’s getting the kinks out. 

Surely he knows that the conservative business types are still going to run someone against him.  And the way he is going, why bother to fight for him?


Oh, one more: If Romney can’t ‘speak elegantly’ and jumps into things where he does not know all of the facts like Libya, what are we to expect if he became President? 


Dick Falkenbury

*Sorry for the dig at Cleveland.  At one time, the city was nick-named ‘The Mistake on the Lake’.  And I am too lazy to come up with a new punchline.

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