'Campaign contributions are highly correlated with the leverage of the affluent over policy.' Well, duh!
The ‘Merit-Based Society’
By THOMAS B. EDSALL, NYT
Mitt Romney is an evangelist for capitalism.
"Free enterprise is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class," Romney declared last week at the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Houston. "As president, I will show the good things that can happen when we have more free enterprise - more business activity, more jobs, more opportunity, more paychecks, more savings accounts."
In a speech in Washington in December, Romney described his ideal society:
Mitt Romney is an evangelist for capitalism.
"Free enterprise is still the greatest force for upward mobility, economic security, and the expansion of the middle class," Romney declared last week at the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Houston. "As president, I will show the good things that can happen when we have more free enterprise - more business activity, more jobs, more opportunity, more paychecks, more savings accounts."
In a speech in Washington in December, Romney described his ideal society:
In a merit-based society, people achieve success and rewards through hard work, education, risk taking, and even a little luck. The founders considered this principle to be one endowed by our Creator, and called it the 'pursuit of happiness.' We call it opportunity, or we call it the freedom to choose our course in life. A merit-based, opportunity society gathers and creates a citizenry that pioneers, that invents, that builds and creates. And as these people exert the effort and take the risks inherent in invention and creation, they employ and lift the rest of us, creating prosperity for us all. The rewards they earn do not make the rest of us poorer, they make us better off.Merit has been traditionally equated with intelligence, industriousness, educational attainment, creativity and competency. In a meritocracy, formal qualifications provide opportunity, position is no longer ascribed by birth, and rewards flow to those who excel.
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Point number 10 relates to Edsall's blather.
Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney:
1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting’s #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.
2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.
3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)
4. Can’t speak in a fake, southern, “black preacher voice” when necessary.
5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School . . . and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.
6. Doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today’s America?
7. Represents an America of “yesterday”, where people believed in God, went to Church, didn’t screw around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!
8. Has a family of five great sons .... and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that “choice” deserves America’s scorn.
9. Oh yes . . . he’s a MORMON. We need to be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.
10. And one more point . . . pundits say because of his wealth, he can’t relate to ordinary Americans. I guess that’s because he made that money HIMSELF . . . as opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad. Apparently, he didn’t understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable to Americans.
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