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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been criticized for 'vulture capitalism', of preying on dying companies and making large profits for himself and his shareholders. Vultures only clean up already dead animals, and provide a service for everyone in their environment.

Romney is a pathological liar and panderer. He is a draft dodger like Bush who has repeatedly and vocally supported wars including Vietnam and Iraq.

The last twenty years of our country since Reagan and Reaganomics has been marked by a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the upper class. The rich have gotten richer and the middle class is struggling to stay afloat while healthcare and education costs have skyrocketed. More and more people are in poverty. The Ryan budget and all of policies of the Republicans are just a continuation of this wealth transfer. Scott Walker and Wisconsin is more of the same, and the Super PACs were, with millions of dollars, able to sell to the people of Wisconsin that the teachers and fire fighters were the ones who were at fault for the economic crisis. Not the corporations sitting on record profits and trillions of dollars and receiving new incentives, and not the two trillion spent in Iraq, and not the tax breaks for the super-rich.

Can a man of Romney's character really win the presidency in this country? Will the middle class vote for people who just want to take their money? It is so hard to understand...