Romney Brags about "Patriotic" Lapel Pins Made in China

[Crackerjack]

He doesn't say anything like that in the video, and you must either be incredibly dumb or an incredibly brazen liar to say that. What he's saying doesn't work is market fundamentalist dogma that says whatever the market does is good, and whatever the market doesn't do shouldn't happen. People do not exist to serve the market. It exists to serve us, and where it fails to do so, we have to balance it with public sector mechanisms.

And he seems to think that normal corrections of the market means it is broken, and government must step in to try to change that. Which, of course, is bullshit.

So, a primary asset collapse of 50% and a stock market fall of nearly 50% is a "normal correction"?

Is that right?

Can I interest you in some fine dutch tulips?

That would be what one gets when one attempts to use the government to iron out normal corrections.

Read and learn: A Global Market Correction Authored By Governments - Forbes

 

[8537]

And he seems to think that normal corrections of the market means it is broken, and government must step in to try to change that. Which, of course, is bullshit.

So, a primary asset collapse of 50% and a stock market fall of nearly 50% is a "normal correction"?

Is that right?

Can I interest you in some fine dutch tulips?

That would be what one gets when one attempts to use the government to iron out normal corrections.

Read and learn: A Global Market Correction Authored By Governments - Forbes

You can't be that stupid. A market correction in response to events of 2011 caused...a correction in 2008?

Bejeebers. I especially love the commentary about the Franc. Remind me: When was that again?

Tulips anyone?

 

[Crackerjack]

You can't be that stupid. A market correction in response to events of 2011 caused...a correction in 2008?

Bejeebers. I especially love the commentary about the Franc. Remind me: When was that again?

Tulips anyone?

The topic is government involvement in the market in general and not specific economic events.

Please try to keep up, son.

 

[8537]

You can't be that stupid. A market correction in response to events of 2011 caused...a correction in 2008?

Bejeebers. I especially love the commentary about the Franc. Remind me: When was that again?

Tulips anyone?

The topic is government involvement in the market in general and not specific economic events.

Please try to keep up, son.

You obviously didn't read it closely enough.

Did government interference force Bear Stearns to invest in CDO's? Did government interference force Lehman to increase leverage to 40:1? Did government interference cause non-depository institutions to loan money to unqualified borrowers?

 

[rdean]

Obamas debt paid for those pins. Get over it.

Another ignorant comment from the Teanut Gallery. And please don't ask me again why you are ignorant. I haven't figured that out yet, but I'm working on it.

Those pins were paid for by the American people. Seems Mitt asked the Republican senate for "many hundreds of millions of dollars" to bail out a "mismanaged" Olympics that Mitt swears he "saved'. Don't believe me, believe him.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpfeAIRYYHk]Romney - Several hundred million $ from govt. for Olympics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[GWV5903]

Instead, go vote for the guy who thinks capitalism doesn't work.

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Did you bother listening? That's not what he said. Can you imagine the country without regulation? Would you drive your family in a car without safety regulations or drive an unregulated road without speed limits? Would you want your child to be the first to drink poison milk because the "market" hasn't yet discovered it's poison?

Course, when you point these things out to Republicans, they say, "We aren't saying get rid of all regulations". Well, you better check with your leaders. Because that is EXACTLY what they are saying. Unless you believe in "let him die". Then I understand.

You're entertaining, what flavor did they get you to drink?

We have a city councilwomen who just help implementation of a ordinance to regulate the organizations that feed the homeless, this is the crap conservatives can't stand and liberals can't get enough of, so tell us all how good this regulation is...

 

[edthecynic]

Instead, go vote for the guy who thinks capitalism doesn't work.

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Now, of course, nowhere did Obama say that "Capitalism" didn't work, however he did clearly say that "Trickle Down" "your-on-your-own" CON$ervoFascism doesn't work, but you dishonestly edited that part out.

Here's the part you edited out!!!

We simply cannot return to this brand of your-on-your-own economics if we’re serious about rebuilding the middle class in this country. We know that it doesn’t result in a strong economy. It results in an economy that invests too little in its people and its future. It doesn’t result in a prosperity that trickles down. It results in a prosperity that’s enjoyed by fewer and fewer of our citizens.

 

[Unkotare]

Millions of chop sticks are made in Georgia (USA) and exported to China. (They have not enough wood to waste on chop sticks)

Yes they do. Those chopsticks made in Georgia are just a good deal because of an especially appropriate wood that grows really well there.

 

[Stephanie]

Well thank goodness thinkprogress is doing that important work about where pins are made..

maybe they can investigate all the politicians who buy stuff made in China and make a list for us..then we can vote their asses out

 

[LoneLaugher]

Instead, go vote for the guy who thinks capitalism doesn't work.

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Capitalism does work. China is a dictatorial, pseudo-communist, capitalistic state....and we owe China Trillions of American dollars!

I run into quite a few Chinese who think it's ironic that we're embracing socialism while they're rejecting it.

Why do lies come so easily to you. That comment is a complete fabrication.

 

[Toro]

Millions of American flags are made in China.

You may be okay with that, but I find it shameful.

Millions of chop sticks are made in Georgia (USA) and exported to China.

Unless they use the chopsticks as mini-flagpoles, it hardly qualifies as relevant.



Yeah - he doesn't care where they're made, because he doesn't care whether there is any truth behind his rhetoric. He wants the performing circus seals to clap for him, so he throws them some pseudo-patriotic chum Made in China.

This is not out of the ordinary. Check your local Wal-Mart...

Why the hell would I go to Wal-Mart? They're one of the worst companies in America.

You have no real grasp on the workings of global economics. If the US labor unions had not driven American businesses OUT OF BUSINESS, you might find some of these cheap shit campaign buttons made in the USA.

No, it is clearly you who have no grasp of global economics. Wages in China are not decided by a free market - the government keeps them at subsistence level by force. Labor unions are illegal. Now if your "criticism" of American workers is that we're not willing to be slaves, guilty as charged - the problem is that Republicans seem to think they're entitled to use labor that has no freedom to negotiate. That's what Mitt Romney wants for America - to make owners into a new medieval lordship class, and the rest of us to have no choice but to work for them at the wages they choose to allow us.

There are plenty of sources of patriotic buttons, pins, and flags made in the USA, because there are plenty of Americans who aren't sociopathic hypocrites with no loyalty to this country like Mitt Romney is. People like him, and you, just don't care enough to pay a few extra cents to serve your country at the same time you're throwing around its symbols to advance your agenda.

Wages in China have been rising significantly.

BTW didn't Obama go on a "job-creation" tour in bus partly made in Canada a summer or two ago?

 

[editec]

Romney is an internationalist.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about the fate of Americans.

What he cares about is whatever will make him richer.

His history in business proves that.

Vote for him if you care more about the rich than you care about your nation.

It's your right as an American to be a tool, after all.

 

[Conservative]

He told a story about the “We Stand United” American flag pins he commissioned for the games, which took place just months after the terror attacks on 9/11. [...] Complicating Romney’s patriotic message is the fact that the pins were made in China, according to a website run by the Utah state government’s culture department, as TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro pointed out on Twitter.

Mitt Romney Commissioned Pro-America Pins, Made Them In China

Wow. I think it's a perfect example of what Mitt Romney means when he talks about American prosperity - himself hiring Chinese people to do work cheaper than Americans. He seems to think American workers are lazy and overpaid, and need to learn something from the workers in China who know their place (and the Chinese government that makes sure of it at the point of a gun).

you would prefer we close trade with other countries and require all goods and services in the US be provided by US companies, with all products sold in the US made in the US?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Romney is attacking problems and Obama is attacking Romney.

Pathetic

 

[LoneLaugher]

Romney is attacking problems and Obama is attacking Romney.

Pathetic

Great post!

 

[rdean]

Romney is attacking problems and Obama is attacking Romney.

Pathetic

Name two if his "solutions". Not "talking points", but real solutions.

 

[Crackerjack]

I run into quite a few Chinese who think it's ironic that we're embracing socialism while they're rejecting it.

Why do lies come so easily to you. That comment is a complete fabrication.

You think I'm lying about my own personal experience?

O-kay.

 

[Dr.Drock]

The American people don't want to hear $1 billion of Obama negative ads,

Then tell your sociopath candidate and his billionaire buddies to stop airing them.

they want to hear to things will get better.

They are getting better. Just not for thieving Republicans who hate America and want everybody to be poor.

Even Axelrod acknowledges Obama's been a disaster

Even you acknowledge that you're an imbecile. See how easy it to just make shit up like that?

Instead, go vote for the guy who thinks capitalism doesn't work.

He doesn't say anything like that in the video, and you must either be incredibly dumb or an incredibly brazen liar to say that. What he's saying doesn't work is market fundamentalist dogma that says whatever the market does is good, and whatever the market doesn't do shouldn't happen. People do not exist to serve the market. It exists to serve us, and where it fails to do so, we have to balance it with public sector mechanisms.

The American people are tired of folks like you who say they should just shut up and learn their place, obey their corporate masters, and accept lower wages in exchange for more work and fewer benefits while the people who fund Republican campaigns just keep getting richer and richer. You're a pack of thieves, and we're not gonna take it anymore.

Did I just read an Obamabot complain about gov't controlled wages?

 

[Crackerjack]

Instead, go vote for the guy who thinks capitalism doesn't work.

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Now, of course, nowhere did Obama say that "Capitalism" didn't work, however he did clearly say that "Trickle Down" "your-on-your-own" CON$ervoFascism doesn't work, but you dishonestly edited that part out.

Here's the part you edited out!!!

We simply cannot return to this brand of your-on-your-own economics if we’re serious about rebuilding the middle class in this country. We know that it doesn’t result in a strong economy. It results in an economy that invests too little in its people and its future. It doesn’t result in a prosperity that trickles down. It results in a prosperity that’s enjoyed by fewer and fewer of our citizens.

I didn't edit the video, dip$hit. Thi$ i$n't my feed.

My point $tand$. Obama doe$n't believe in the U$'$ capitali$t $y$tem. Keep making excu$e$ for it, though.

 

[California Girl]

Millions of American flags are made in China.

You may be okay with that, but I find it shameful.

Millions of chop sticks are made in Georgia (USA) and exported to China.

Unless they use the chopsticks as mini-flagpoles, it hardly qualifies as relevant.



Yeah - he doesn't care where they're made, because he doesn't care whether there is any truth behind his rhetoric. He wants the performing circus seals to clap for him, so he throws them some pseudo-patriotic chum Made in China.

This is not out of the ordinary. Check your local Wal-Mart...

Why the hell would I go to Wal-Mart? They're one of the worst companies in America.

You have no real grasp on the workings of global economics. If the US labor unions had not driven American businesses OUT OF BUSINESS, you might find some of these cheap shit campaign buttons made in the USA.

No, it is clearly you who have no grasp of global economics. Wages in China are not decided by a free market - the government keeps them at subsistence level by force. Labor unions are illegal. Now if your "criticism" of American workers is that we're not willing to be slaves, guilty as charged - the problem is that Republicans seem to think they're entitled to use labor that has no freedom to negotiate. That's what Mitt Romney wants for America - to make owners into a new medieval lordship class, and the rest of us to have no choice but to work for them at the wages they choose to allow us.

There are plenty of sources of patriotic buttons, pins, and flags made in the USA, because there are plenty of Americans who aren't sociopathic hypocrites with no loyalty to this country like Mitt Romney is. People like him, and you, just don't care enough to pay a few extra cents to serve your country at the same time you're throwing around its symbols to advance your agenda.

What cell phone do you have?

How about your car?

Laptop or computer?

TV?

Every item you buy? You know where it's being manufactured?

What are you doing to buy American?

Fucking sociopathic hypocrite. Put your own money where your mouth is, then bitch about others. idiot.