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To: Metacomet who wrote (253450)	6/20/2014 12:52:21 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541025

Mitt Romney is a typical politician. It was painful watching him jump through right-wing idealogical hoops. Talk about a long-running face palm. My left hand is permanently disfigured...ha. At the same time I know he has personally volunteered thousands of hours of unpaid compassionate service as well as acting as an unpaid administrator of various Mass. stakes in the Church for years at a time. (We have no paid clergy or teachers, etc. We all take turns teaching and running things at the local, state, and regional levels, usually while holding down fulltime jobs. Only a handful of folks at the top of the organization are paid--modestly paid comparatively speaking.) My expectation concerning Romney is that he, once elected, would govern acc. to his own personal convictions. Isn't that what they all do--on both sides of the aisle? Do and say what it takes to get elected, once in they will govern as a reflection of what they REALLY think? Gordon Gecko? I don't know enough about his particular running of mergers and acquisitions. The whole field gets constant bad press from the left but I don't know if he was ruthless or not. Wasn't Gecko an actual criminal? I worked in the investment world for 15 years and am basically OK with capitalism, including the efficiencies that come from reorganizations of businesses, brutal though they be. I wouldn't want us to become Europe, stuck with low growth and 25% unemployment of it's young people. OTOH, I definitely don't like the way Romney and others of his ilk get to enjoy such low levels of taxation. I voted for Obama and fully expected his team to fix that pronto and here I am, still waiting.