Sleight of hand

Well, now, those secret Mitt tapes bring so many ideas swirling into my mind.  Some of them I have already blogged about, others I haven't, and I think all of them will be spilling, not very neatly, into this entry.

Everyone is talking mostly about Romney's statement about that 47% of the public who won't vote for him, because, by golly, they already don't pay taxes, so why should they care about Mitt's tax cuts?  Well, I'd say many of the 47% that he's written off are as much concerned about his tax cuts for the top one per cent as they are about their own situation.  I think that the people in the middle class have finally started to catch on that there are magic tricks going on that involve their money.  "Look!" cries Mitt the Magician, "Those illegal immigrants are taking your tax money!"  And while you're eyeing the immigrants, Mitt the Magician is stealing your pension and your job.

There is no trickle-down.  There is only evaporate-up.

I've spoken before about wondering how the super-rich see the rest of us, and Mitt's pronouncements to his peers give us a good idea as to how at least one of them sees us.  How many of his cohort were nodding in agreement?

But the part of the tape that really got me was when Mitt said that he wished he were a Mexican, because then he'd have a better chance being elected.  Mitt Romney, multi-millionaire, who probably thought he and the Koch brothers had enough money to buy the presidency outright, actually has it in him to feel victimized because he's not a Mexican!  Oh, the advantages those Mexicans have over poor, poor me!

That's the mind-boggling thing, to me.  Mitt the poor little rich boy, envying the Mexican.

Meanwhile, everywhere I look, I see Mexicans working their asses off in minimum wage jobs.

In addition to the efforts of the Republicans to dismantle the New Deal, they're also attacking the unions while they are weak.  In this time when the difference between the income at the top and the income at the bottom has grown so large, we need stronger unions, so that people are paid what their work is worth, not what a Robber Baron like Mitt Romney thinks he can get away with paying.

There's my disorganized take on the Mitt Tapes.