Romney, Whose Net Worth Is $250 Million, Whines That He Makes Less Than Federal Employees

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Romney, Whose Net Worth Is $250 Million, Whines That He Makes Less Than Federal Employees

By Marie Diamond

During his current campaign for the presidency, Mitt Romney has been desperately trying to shed his image as an elite millionaire out of touch with the concerns of average Americans. He’s ditched his business wardrobe and now tries to look like a man-of-the-people in jeans and plaid shirts.

Romney’s also made some laughable claims trying to relate to voters, telling a group of unemployed people that he’s “also unemployed.” But far from sympathizing with the plight of the jobless, on Monday Romney promised to put even more people out of work by cutting 10 percent of the federal workforce if elected. He even complained that government employees make more than he does:

Multimillionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) told employees at a steel fabrication plant on Monday that government employees “are making a lot more money than we are.”

Wearing his best plaid work shirt and Tommy Bahama blue jeans, the candidate explained to workers at Giese Manufacturing that he would slash the number of federal employees if elected.

“We have to cut back on the scale of the federal government,” Romney declared. “And for me that will start by reducing federal employees by 10 percent. You do that through attrition.”

“And then something else that is just as important, and that’s to make sure the people who work for government don’t get better pay and better benefits than people that work in the private sector.”

Romney’s complaint that he’s worse off than federal workers is hard to take seriously given that he has a net worth of $250 million. In September, he claimed that he was part of the middle class.

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The proposal to cut 10 percent of the federal workforce (or nearly 500,000 jobs) when 14 million Americans are already out of work illustrates Romney’s misguided public policy. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) authored a bill to do just that last month, and although both men say those jobs would be eliminated “through attrition,” the language and short timeline make it obvious that only mass layoffs could accomplish their goal.

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Wonder if Mitt told them he set up shell companies in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda to avoid U.S. taxes?busting]?

[JoePhilly]

1. I bet his investment income is MUCH larger than most public servants.

[Vincardog]

2. Mittens made his money firing American workers and outsourcing their jobs AKA M&A

There is no way he deserves a place at the helm of the US economy

[kestrel91316]

3. If his investment income ONLY paid 1% (in which case his accountant should be fired)

he would have an income of $2.5 million per year.

Mittens is apparently confessing that HE IS A TERRIBLE MONEY MANAGER.

[Booster]

4. Aw, give him a break. He's just talking about if he had a real job.

[Pirate Smile]

5. Mr. "I'm Unemployed" & "I'm Middle-Class" is now also "I make less then Fed Workers"

Gawd, he is full of sh@#!

[Ilsa]

6. Thom Hartmann said his campaign released income figures of $9.6 mil to $39 mil for last year

On his investment income, on which he paid 14% in taxes. Reporting therange of income is allowable under the disclosure rules, I guess.

He will never convince people he is having financial problems in Obama's America.

[Worship Money]

7. Where did Mitt Romney get a rep for NOT being dumb?

Because the other characters are patently batshit crazy and walking parodies of right wing kook? Sorry, that's not even close to enough.

He's a dumb shit. It's amazing how much of a windfall he's gained vis-a-vis the other "candidates", the economy, etc...and this moron is still nowhere NEAR charismatic or intelligent enough to really better his position.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. make is different from hoarding

[montanto]

9. The 1% has its own class system.

Romney IS in the middle (of the 1%) class! Romney's n.w would make 250 American families Veeerrry happy.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Romneybot is delusional.

He is the 1%.

[valerief]

11. He's one nasty, evil MF. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

12. And people will still support that piece of shit..nt

[CreekDog]

13. Because he does!

he makes less than Federal Workers. all of them.

[Glimmer of Hope]

14. Oh please! Has he finished adding rooms to his beach house mansion yet?

[Crunchy Frog]

15. He's POOR by rich people's standards. No wonder he's insecure.

[surrealAmerican]

16. Do people really fall for this crap?

Apart from the obvious, making "sure the people who work for government don’t get better pay and better benefits than people that work in the private sector" doesn't help anyone. Firing more public employees (or even just not hiring new ones) will only increase competition for private-sector jobs and DRIVE DOWN WAGES.

[Politicalboi]

17. People who don't work for the government

Either aren't smart enough, or have a dirty past or piss, or they just aren't hiring. Why should people who are smarter, make less or the same as those who didn't achieve anything in their life? I think it's jealousy that drives the hatred of those in unions. Mittens makes more in interest in one day that supersedes any federal workers yearly salary.

[Harry Monroe]

18. He REALLY needs to be hit upside the head with a clue-by four!!!