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Offshore Bank Accounts

Perhaps Mitt Romey’s inability, or refusal, to offer a precise alternative strategy to the President is not dispositive to his election.  His handful of offshore bank accounts should be.

I do not begrudge the man for making loads of jack and stashing it away in foreign banks with better tax incentives than those in this country.  However, he is running an end-around against the very system, which he aspires to manage.  Tomorrow, dude should pledge that, if elected, he will move all of his fortunes into U.S. banks and will implement specific financial policies such that it is no longer beneficial to store money in foreign banking institutions.

Romney has a Swiss bank account, an account in the Cayman Islands?  What in the sam hell does this man know about life without a god-damned silver spoon lodged in his hole?  His priorities are not to assist the lower- and middle-classes, because he has never walked in their shoes.  He is not friends with those people.  He does not surround himself with anyone of that ilk.

Mitt bemoans the fact that Obama is a “career politician.”  There are several problems with that charge.  First, the only reason that Romney does not gloss himself a “career politician” is because he lost his Senate race to Ted Kennedy, then he lost his bid for the Presidential nomination to John McCain.  Dude, you are not a career politician.  It is not by your own choice, but because the voters have not wanted you in office.

The other problem with the “career politician” argument is that, as the quote suggests, Barack Obama has spent his career in politics.  As a politician, one is elected to [allegedly] serve the public.  Therefore, gaming the system through off-shore bank accounts is not looked upon favorably.  Theoretically, if one is working for the people, they must subject themselves to the same [or similar] rules/burdens, which face his constituents.

In contrast, in spending life in the private sector, Romney focused on his own well-being.  He worked hard to better his own life and the lives of his employees.  He has been very successful at it.  Hell, I am envious.  If I owned a villa in LaJolla, you’d not catch me within 2,000 miles of the District.  It is a stretch to think that Mitt, who has spent most of his life working to better himself, and those similarly situated, are equipped to implement policy to help those making $22,000 per year and a Wells Fargo bank account.

I am not stoked on another 4 years under President Obama, whose administration has been very flawed.  However, I have not heard one compelling reason why my vote should go to Mitt Romney.  Instead, as the weeks and months pass, the reasons aggregate as to why I should not vote for the GOP’s candidate.