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Top Ten Mitt Romney Insults to Spain

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment

readersupportednews.org

08 October 12

 
itt Romney has caused a tiff with Spain by saying that its economic crisis was caused by government over-spending and saying he doesn't want the US to end up like Spain. The Spanish are bewildered, since Romney's charge (like most of the things he said in last week's debate) is simply untrue. So here are the top ten lessons we can draw from Romney's ongoing War on Europe:

1. Mitt Romney is the least diplomatic politician in America, having by now managed to imply that the British might not be up to hosting the Olympics, that Russia is our Enemy No. 1, that the Palestinians do not exist, and that Spain's economic woes come from budget deficits.


2. omney doesn't know anything about Europe's economic crisis, since in fact Spain's government ran lower deficits than most European countries in the run-up to the 2008 crisis.


3. Romney consistently tries to shift blame for any problem away from the private sector onto the government, even when this approach involves out-and-out falsehoods.


4. Romney doesn't know that Spain's crisis mainly derives from the private sector and has to do with the bursting of a real estate bubble.


5. Romney doesn't seem to know that last year Spain elected a conservative government headed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, which is dedicated to exactly the kind of fiscal discipline and austerity that Romney favors.


6. Romney doesn't know that Rajoy's determination to stop running budget deficits have repeatedly provoked tens thousands of people to take to the streets in Spain, including students objecting to cuts to education.


7. Romney doesn't know that Rajoy's austerity policies have demonstrably worsened Spain's crisis and increased its unemployment. Romney thinks Obama's 7.8 percent unemployment rate is an illusion, but it was achieved by government spending to kickstart an economy from which entrepreneurs like Romney had withdrawn- i.e. Obama did the opposite of what Rajoy is doing, and Obama's way is working.


8. Romney doesn't know that sacrificing all just for the sake of a balanced budget has turned Spain into a nation of hobos and has deeply damaged the education system. (He wants to do the same thing to us.)


9. Romney only seems to trust 'Anglo-Saxons.'


10. Romney seems to think that the entire nation of Spain is in the 47%, along, perhaps, with everyone of Spanish heritage.

   READER COMMENTS   

 

+102 # CAMUS1111 2012-10-08 11:35

unnecesarily complicated explanation: obvious truth is Romney is simply an f'ing pathetic a'hole who also is a pathological liar.

 

+16 # tahoevalleylines 2012-10-08 15:31

Pants on fire...

All hands believers or not may be interested in the Old Testament Book of I Kings, Chapter 22, v.22 & 23. Lying spirits brought to leadership as segue' to death and collapse... Teapot Bible thumpers beware-

Of course Bishop Mitt must know these things, or should have were his belief system not notorious for cherry-picking scripture... Plus the little matter of character issues, overlooked by more than a few professing believers! Maybe the Missus can slap some sense into him!

 

+79 # Barebonesart 2012-10-08 13:49

You are being much too hard on the Mitten. It is not his fault that he was born with a silver brain in his anus. He is unable to see the truth, much less speak it. His truths are all manufactured, exactly like his reality.

 

+27 # Doll 2012-10-08 14:50

That was a laugh out loud moment for me.

 

+64 # Barbara K 2012-10-08 13:49

Romney is a lying cowpie. He wouldn't know the truth to anything if it fell into his face. The Rs admit that lying is how they are going to take over the Whitehouse and Government. They know that their followers are gullible and will believe their lies. We know better. We need to outnumber their votes. The thing that really matters and is most important of all is our voting. We need to get out and vote and help others to get out to vote. Everything else is just dressing. Yes, he is a pathetic a'hole. To see one of the corps who brought down this country in the White House would be devastating to all Americans. We know that he will must be using enough digits to hold a pen. The likes of the Kochs, Rove, and the rest of the Big Corps will be writing up the legislation as they want it, and it won't be in our favor, we can be sure of that.

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