better-america-romney
By: Jason EasleyApril 24, 2012
A little discussed excerpt in Mitt Romney’s Better America Tonight
speech revealed his true intentions using the White House to attack
public schools and unions.
Here’s the video:
Romney
said,
I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising
standards of living. I see children even more successful than their
parents – some successful even beyond their wildest dreams – and others
congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of
urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice;
we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to
their friends’ businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring
union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we
will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and
benefits than the taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness
of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.
In the America I see, character and choices matter. And education,
hard work, and living within our means are valued and rewarded. And
poverty will be defeated, not with a government check, but with respect
and achievement that is taught by parents, learned in school, and
practiced in the workplace.
Notice that Mittens managed work a little self-pity in there with the
line about children who were more successful than their parents being
attacked. Poor Mitt just doesn’t get the fact that he isn’t being
attacked. It is merely being pointed out that Romney made his quarter
billion dollar fortune by ruthlessly killing the jobs of middle class
Americans. Romney may not like that fact, but it’s the truth.
However, the most revealing part of the soon to be Republican
nominee’s entire speech focused on what Romney considers inequality to
be. Inequality according to Mitt Romney is not the
wealthy paying less in taxes than
everyone else. Inequality is not corporations who get to dodge their
tax bills, while the burden is passed on to those who can afford it
least. Inequality is not
Citizens United,
which has allowed a few wealthy billionaires and corporations to spend
unlimited amounts of money to drown out the influence of everyday
Americans. Inequality is not
ALEC writing legislation in secret behind closed doors that is designed to marginalize entire segments of the population.
Inequality according to Mitt Romney is the fact that we fund a public
education system with taxpayer dollars. Inequality is the fact that
unions are allowed to collect dues are allowed to use that money to
engage in political free speech. Inequality is the fact that public
sector employees belong to unions, and inequality is also the deficit,
which has been created and exploded by Republicans.
Mitt Romney who never attended public school is determined to defund
them. It is rather amazing that Romney is promising to defund public
schools, when federal funding only makes up 10.8% of public school
system budget. Much like Scott Walker and Rick Snyder, Mitt Romney is
using the language of a moderate to hide an extremist conservative
agenda. Romney wants to take Scott Walker’s union busting plan national.
What Mitt Romney unveiled tonight was a far right agenda coded in the
language of the center. Romney tried to do positive, but the aw, shucks
I’m just a family guy, please don’t look at my
record at Bain shtick was insincere. He quickly pivoted back to the negative realm where he is most comfortable.
At one point Mitt Romney told America that he doesn’t think we’re
stupid, but he must believe that we are dumb enough to buy what he tried
to sell tonight. Romney can’t talk about the true intentions of his
agenda, so he is speaking in code.
The problem for Romney is that code was cracked after the 2010
elections, and America isn’t going to be tricked into going down that
road again.
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