Comments on: Found it on Facebook: a poster summary of all the Left’s uninformed attacks on Romney

By: Kevin_B

Kevin_B — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:30:04 +0000

Just wondering, that picture of Mitt Romney, has it been manipulated or it is an unfortunate, badly times picture of Romney? For some reason or another, I can’t imagine Romney making faces like that or sticking his thumb up.

That said, very good and enjoyable take-down of leftist rhetoric, Bookworm. I’m afraid it probably will fall on deaf ears or be preaching to the converted though. But if I ever happen to come into a position where I have to debate such topics, I will try to remember posts like this one!

My understanding is that Mitt Romney is a businessman who understands economics and budgetting. He also understands how to run businesses. He has himself aqcuired quite a lot of wealth – which I see nothing wrong with, he has every right to do so – I’m sure he also has created jobs for others and helped to allow them to built there own wealth. I believe that perhaps not all, but certainly some wealthy business men can do a lot of good. I don’t agree with the way the left demonizes them.

I’m not very literate on economics, sadly. But I do understand that banks are an essential part of the current economic system. Banks may do things that are irresponsible or wrong, but they are not evil by a long stretch. Also, it seems that if banks are in trouble, today the entire economy often seems to be in trouble.

By: MacG

MacG — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:16:01 +0000

Danny that reminds me of a bumper sticker I once saw in the 70′s “I can’t be out of money, I still have checks”

I guess that’s what a 7th grad level understand of math will get you.

By: jnb

jnb — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:58:21 +0000

Really good analysis. Let me just add this. You wrote ” Banks are necessary, because they provide the funds people use to start and grow businesses. No loans, no free enterprise.”

Banks do much more than make loans. Banks are really the “blood” of the economy because banks move the money around. I run a small business. When my customers pay me, what do I do with their checks? I deposit them in my bank. And when I have to pay bills, how do I do that? I write checks on my account.

Small scale and local businesses might possibly exist without banks, although it would be inconvenient. My business involves customers in many states and countries. How would my customer in Hong Kong pay me without a bank?

I don’t work for a bank, and, sometimes when they come up with new fees for this and that, I don’t like them very much. But they are very necessary for modern economic life.

For Obama to say banks are evil only shows he is an economic illiterate.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:50:41 +0000

Just to give you an insight into math-challenged Liberal mindsets on economics, here’s a great example (warning…swallow your coffee before reading this):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1600092

It would be funny, but it is pretty much on par with the people that are currently running Obama’s economic planning process. Krugman? Krugman?

h/t Small Dead Animals

By: Cheesestick

Cheesestick — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:32:30 +0000

Normally I just block this kind of stuff out. They really don’t want answers or a discussion, they just wanted another “smart” way of calling you a racist bigot. But if I was going to respond, I’d just look at the last question and turn it around.

“Or is it just because he’s a white dude and you just HATE Obama?”

Roughly half the country has been voting for Republicans long before there was any black dude on the ticket. What has Obama done for the country to make a conservative Republican want to vote for him or the liberal Democrat party?…..besides being black?….and an ass?

By: SADIE

SADIE — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:47:43 +0000

Bookworm - I admire your strength by taking the poster point by point, but remember these are the same people who write and read this schlock are no different than a kid, who has been spun around about dozen times and told to “pin the tail on the donkey”.

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:23:32 +0000

Right you are M. Hammer. All of my encounters with Lefties, and Austin is absolutely crawling with them, have been disorienting for both of us. Their understanding of common matters like foreclosure, bankruptcy, mortgage lending, all the stuff that grownups not on the government teat encounter again and again in our adult lives, is so addled, that wandering into the miasma of their minds leaves me confused, too.

I can remember trying to explain matters in Congregational Church business meetings, and I felt like I was introducing cave men to fire. They were confused, and afraid. Twelve years ago, I suggested in Annual Meeting that we get out of the UCC’s poorly managed health insurance plan, buy our minister a high-deductible policy and start a Health Savings Account, giving him half the savings as a bonus. No, no, what about the retired ministers who would be left behind with less funding for the plan? I tried to explain that what I was suggesting was something that the retirees ought to do, too, but we need not wait for good sense to break out in the UCC, and in any case ought not to confuse bad business with charity. I think the motion had a second, but it was voted down, and I got a lot of very suspicious looks. I was not even a known Republican, then. Very little extrapolation is required to see why I eventually left.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:45:08 +0000

Book, nice job fisking this poster. But, really, none of the people who lap up this kind of idiocy would take the time to read it or have the cognitive ability to understand it.