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I’m really psyched for this new movie where Mark Wahlberg smuggles Mitt Romney a new counterfeit soul..
The $56,986 Dollar Per Day Man…”Hey Willard, How Do You Justify Making The U.S. Median Annual Income In A Day?”
Willard says that he does his own laundry…..and….that he worries about “pink slips”….and….he’s just an average guy….Willard says, he’s just like you….except, that he makes more money in a a day than you do in a year….That’s right Jack and Jill Six-Pack, Willard (Mitt) Romney is the $56,986 Dollar A Day Man!
On last night’s “Daily Show” Jon Stewert took on Tuesday’s other big news: Mitt Romney’s newly released tax returns and the shockingly low tax rate they revealed.
When Romney decided to “release the Quicken” Tuesday morning, the nation finally learned what he is really worth. Turns out, he made over $43 million in 2010 and 2011 combined — and paid just $6 million in taxes. That makes his tax rate 13.9%, approximately what someone making $50,000 a year who isn’t a venture capitalist might pay.
Right off the bat, Stewart realized how trivial the infamous $10,000 bet Romney made with Perry back in December really was (“I’ll bet you whatever I make in the time it takes me to finish this sentence,” he mocked). But what really made Stewart mad was the fact that Romney makes nearly $57,000 a day, more than most Americans see all year, and he doesn’t even want his current job.
“How in the world do you, Mitt Romney, justify making more in one day than the median American family makes in a year — while paying the same tax rate as the guy who scans shoes at the airport?”
Stewart also brought up a related point: that in 2007, Romney’s Bain Capital was one of the companies who lobbied against a bill that would have made private equity owners pay a 35% tax rate (instead of %15, which is still higher than what Romney pays now). And yet, on the campaign trail, Romney has called the 47% of americans who pay no income tax because they are underemployed or otherwise disabled, “unfair.”
“Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists,” Stewart lamented.
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Courtesy of Katla McGlynn
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes explains the Republican clown show…
NEWS FLASH: Mitt Romney Is Rapper Jay-Z’s “Brother From Another Mother”…
Mitt Romney’s riches and venture capitalist past have already come back to bite him in the presidential race. Late night hosts have made their fair share ofrich guy jokes, but we’ve never heard it put quite they way we did on “Real Time” Friday.
On this week’s episode, Bill Maher offered up an interesting analogy: that people like Mitt Romney for the same reasons they like rappers. They like a rich person because they want to be rich themselves, but fail to see the huge wealth inequality chasm that separates them.
Consider this: many rappers flaunt their wealth and power in music videos and repeatedly imply that it’s VIPs only, yet listeners feel included despite not having it all. Romney says he wants everyone to be rich, yet says a $374,000 speaking fee is “not much” when the annual U.S. median income is $26,353 a year. Instead of feeling ostracized, his supporters think they’re part of the 1% by association.
“No matter how clear Jay-Z makes it that the hot tub is only for the coolest and most beautiful people, somehow when the song ends we think, ‘That is us,’” Maher said. “That’s how Romney rolls — straight outta Salt Lake. Get equity or die tryin’.”
To drive the point home, Maher took a look at some photos of rich old venture capitalist and popular rappers both flaunting their cold hard cash. Not that we’d say Romney is the second coming of Tupac or anything, but the similarities are pretty uncanny. Watch the full segment above.
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Courtesy of Katla McGlynn for HuffPost
Research based on consumer credit-card spending finds the conservatives states are the biggest consumers of online pornography.
A nationwide study based on credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment company shows online pornography is popular in both liberal states (blue – Democrats) and in conservative states (red – Republicans). But the red states consume more porn than the liberal states.
One may expect the opposite, since conservative states teach abstinence education, no contraceptives, and they are the more religious of the two states. But the study shows contrasting results.
Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School wrote in his report:
Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by.
One of the adult entertainment sites (their name was kept confidential) provided two years of credit card data from 2006 to 2008 that contained the consumer’s purchase date and their zip codes. All the data was anonymised before studying in order to protect the users’ identities.
He then compared the download rates (bandwidth used) from each of the states: it found Utah to be the biggest consumer state with 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users, and Montana had the least with 1.92 adult content subscriptions per 1000.
Edelman noticed though the differences are low, he found one notable difference. In eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states, conservative Sen. John McCain was the big winner in the 2008 Presidential race; Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions. Among the lowest 10, six out of 10 states chose Obama.
Other prominent facts found were:
* - Church-goers bought less online porn on Sundays — a 1% increase in a postal code’s religious attendance was associated with a 0.1% drop in subscriptions that day. However, expenditures on other days of the week brought them in line with the rest of the country.
* -Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don’t explicitly restrict gay marriage.
Edelman also compared this data with a previous study on public attitudes toward religion. He found that in states, where a majority agreed with the statement, “I have a old fashioned values about family and marriage”, they bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed with the same statement.
A similar difference also existed for the statement, “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior”.
You can check the full study here.
Why Republicans Love Iowa and New Hampshire…..
Iowa and New Hampshire have long played a definitive role in presidential politics. Iowa kicks off the season, with the caucuses that Mitt Romney barely won last week. New Hampshire is fighting proud to be the first in the nation to vote every four years. In both major parties, the way candidates perform in these races determines much about who gets to compete moving forward—the establishment gels around a leader, the big money donors follow and the pressure goes up on everyone else to drop out. Colorlines.com’s Shani O. Hilton wrote last month about how distorting this can all be to national politics, because both states are incredibly unrepresentative of the nation as a whole. Here, Hatty Lee breaks it down visually in advance of tomorrow’s New Hampshire vote.
by Hatty Lee
