Romney Complains Federal Employees Make More Than He Does<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMultimillionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) told employees at a steel fabrication plant on Monday that government employees 'are making a lot more money than we are.'<\/p>\nWearing…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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I don't know which is worse — Romney's lambasting of government employees (because GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ARE EEEEEVIL!) or his "just plain folks" facade that those government employees (EEEVIL!) "are making a lot more money than we are." Dolt. #ddtb Embedded Link Romney Complains Federal Employees Make More Than He Does Multimillionaire Republican presidential candidate Mitt … Continue reading “It's always a gas watching a multi-millionaire play the populist card”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26410,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/no-retreat-no-surrender-on-contraception.html","url_meta":{"origin":23555,"position":0},"title":"No retreat, no surrender (on contraception)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-12 5:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, let's see if I have this straight:1. 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