Romney is worth an estimated $264 million dollars, according to disclosure documents filed with the Federal Election Commission earlier this month. The Romney's recently sold their $3.5 million home in Massachusetts and got more than $5 million for a ski resort home near Park City, UT. They still have a townhouse outside of Boston and another vacation home in New Hampshire.
I don't have anything against a person being wealthy. I wish I were wealthy. I wonder why someone with all that money would want the headache of being president. I would want to enjoy spending all that money.
It just seems odd to me he would flaunt his riches now by spending millions on a vacation home rebuild when he is running for president. It sure doesn't make him seem like a typical guy that would understand the problems most Americans face. Been out of work for 2 years... that's nothing. Mitt has to suffer the squalor of a tiny $12 million vacation home.
This is a man that recently stated that corporations are people. He wants to cut taxes, cut spending, and reform entitlement programs. Of course, he doesn't provide any specifics about what he would cut or how he would reform entitlements. However, this is a man that couldn't even win against John McCain. I don't think he'll win again.
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It's because these people are so far removed from the average person, that they don't even see how much they have with respect to everyone else. He probably feels he "needs" to rebuild his home for whatever strange reason. The recent report on the wealthy having zero empathy could not be more true. It's not that they don't understand what their policies and beliefs do to people like us, it's that they just don't care. And now that they have gotten us so far indebted to them and addicted to whatever their Corporations produce for us to consume, it's gotten to the point where they don't even care who knows they don't care about anyone else. At least in the 60's and 70's and before that, they pretended they cared, even though they didn't. After Reagan, they increasingly didn't bother even hiding it.
And now, they can buy their elections and make any rules they want. And they won't care who it hurts, as long as it doesn't hurt them.
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