{"id":9301,"date":"2012-05-15T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2012-05-15T21:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T04:19:17","slug":"how-did-mitt-romney-get-so-obscenely-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9301","title":{"rendered":"‘How Did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning<\/em><\/p>\n

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We covered the subject of wealth acquisition by the likes of Charles Koch and Mitt Romney in “Wealth vs. Democracy and the 2012 Presidential Campaign”<\/a> — “outsourcing, manipulations of the financial markets, of government and our laws” — not as character flaws but as variants of the behaviors one can anticipate from their class. <\/p>\n

As we approach the Fall campaign, we can anticipate a propaganda blitz that is based on variations of a line from the song “If I Were a Rich Man” of Fiddler on the Roof<\/em><\/a> — “When you’re rich, they think<\/em> you really know.” <\/p>\n

No doubt we will hear, time and again, that Mitt “Gordon Gekko” Romney’s wealth acquisition is a testament to his business savvy that will equate to jobs creation. Against that backdrop is this short video (below<\/em>) in which Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, provides a succinct rebuttal to the jobs scam<\/a> canard…<\/p>\n