Do you support our military? Then why would you support a draft dodger for president? Romney is a draft dodger!

The concept of sacrifice has different meanings depending on context,
but it denotes offering up something for a cause whether it is a deity,
an ideology, or a country. True sacrifice is giving up something
voluntarily such as a soldier jeopardizing their life for their comrades
or a parent going hungry so their child can eat, and even animals
jeopardize their own lives to protect their offspring. For the past year
in America, there has been talk about shared sacrifice where everyone
gives up something, whether it is paying more in taxes or supporting
across-the-board cuts in programs for the greater good of the nation’s
economic health. Republicans believe in shared sacrifice, but only if
99% of the population shares in sacrificing to benefit the wealthy, and
their presumptive presidential candidate, Willard Romney, promises to
sacrifice the economy and American’s tax dollars to further enrich the
wealthy.

The idea of sacrifice is willingly giving up something, but Romney
and his Republican cohorts believe in legislating sacrifice on
ninety-nine percent of the population so the rich and their corporations
prosper. Romney is even willing to sacrifice the economic health of the
nation to benefit the richest Americans while him and his wealthy
elitist friends reap the rewards. The notion of advocating for someone
else to sacrifice is a pattern he has adhered to since he was a
nineteen-year-old college student.

In 1966 during the Viet Nam war, Romney attended Stanford University
in California and while hundreds-of-thousands of young Americans across
the nation were protesting the war and the ever-expanding military
draft, Willard was participating in a pro-draft demonstration to support
sending young Americans to fight and die in South East Asia. While
Romney’s classmates were protesting a test designed to help authorities
decide who was eligible for the draft, he joined 150 other conservatives
to show their support for expanding the draft. Willard did not just
join demonstrators, he told a protest leader that “he had some experience with the press, and that he would handle the press for him if he wanted him to.”

Romney’s experience with the press was most certainly from observing
his father, George Romney, deal with the media while serving as head of
American Motors and governor of Michigan until Richard Nixon appointed
him Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. George Romney, like his
son, was an advocate for the war but later changed his position, but
Willard’s support for sending Americans to fight while he dodged the
draft informs his cowardice and rank hypocrisy.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with supporting an unpopular war
and advocating sending your classmates to sacrifice their lives for
their country, and indeed, taking such an unpopular position would have
merit if Willard enlisted in the military or put his name at the top of
the list for the draft. Instead, he held the esteemed designation of
Mormon missionary and was exempt from having to sacrifice anything for
his country. After spending one year at Stanford, Romney went to France
for 30 months to proselytize membership into his cult. It is a sign that
Willard’s penchant for wanting others to sacrifice when he knows he
will never have to is a lifelong trait he intends on maintaining if he
is elected president.

Early in the Republican primary, when Romney talked about the virtue
of self-sacrifice and serving in the military for the good of the
country, he was asked if any of his five sons were serving. His response
was that his 5 sons were serving their country by working to get him
elected president. Americans should be worried that Romney assembled
George W. Bush’s team that pushed for the war in Iraq to counsel him on
starting a war in Iran so he can send their sons and daughters to make
the ultimate sacrifice while his sons will never serve except as
campaign workers or proselytizers for the Mormon faith.

The real danger of a characterless man like Romney is his intent on
sacrificing Americans tax dollars and the economy to enrich the top 1%
of income earners. Like his support for sending young Americans to fight
in Viet Nam while he played Jesus in France, Romney’s economic scheme
and Draconian budget will force 99% of Americans to sacrifice everything
when he will never have to. ged, his economic plan will ruin the
economy and send more jobs to China, Mexico, and South Korea while he
reaps the profits. One has to wonder what other sacrificesRomney’s budget gives approximately $6.5
trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy over ten years, and despite cruel
spending cuts to programs that assist the poor with food and shelter, it
will add at least $3.1 trillion to the nation’s deficit. In fact, like
his time at Bain Capital when he sacrificed Americans’ jobs and nearly
25% of the companies Bain mana Romney will
force on the American people when he knows he will never have to give up
anything, and instead will reap handsome profits from other Americans’
sacrifice

Romney is despicable, and not just because he is wealthy. It is that
he intends forcing 99% of Americans to make sacrifices while he
sacrifices nothing except his time hiding his enormous wealth in
off-shore accounts and secret Swiss banks. He has gained a much-deserved
reputation as a flip-flopper, but he has maintained that most
dishonorable trait of supporting other Americans’ involuntary sacrifices
when he is exempt from giving anything. There is a reason Americans
dislike Romney the more they learn about him, and as the general
election campaign heats up and more Americans learn that he dodged the
draft after protesting to send other young Americans to their death in
Viet Nam, they will despise him. As Americans learn that his economic
plan entails every other American making sacrifices to enrich Willard
Romney and his wealthy friends, they will discover that besides being a
chicken-hawk and a coward, that he is nothing more than a low-life
charlatan.

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