One cold December day in the early 1980s, Mitt Romney loaded up his Gran Torino with firewood and brought it to the home of a single mother whose heat had been shut off just days before Christmas. Years after a business partner died unexpectedly, Romney helped the man’s surviving daughter go to medical school with loans for tuition — loans he forgave when she graduated.
And in 1997, when a fellow church member’s teenage son fell seriously ill, Romney sprinted to the hospital in the dead of night, where he kept vigil with his terrified parents.
Hoosierman has noted before that there is a compassionate determined side to Mitt Romney that rarely is discussed.
The story of saving a friend's daughter's life is one of mythical proportions, which reads like an episode of NCIS, only the victim, in the end, is found and saved in time. It is the story of an errant young girl whose disappearance prompted Romney to shut down Bain, fly all Bain employees to NYC to look for her and scour the mean streets of the worst parts of the city.
See, self-earned money can be used for good, unlike what the Obama people will tell you, and it doesn't have to be a handout to buy influence.
You can hire fake SEIU "flash mobs" to complain about Romney and his money, as if rich people are the enemy of success, of America, of the worker, of the middle class.
You can do that, if you're a commie who doesn't believe in individual success and instead only believes in The Collective. The Borg.
Or instead you could see the good things people do with the money that corporations, small businesses and rich folks invest in philanthropic efforts, not to mention employing people and supporting 80% of the jobs in this country.
This is how Romney has used his money; he gives a great deal to his church and he's generous with others.
And now even the New York Times via Powerline has a story (how many others are there?) about Mitt Romney's use of his money to help someone. Does it seem likely that someone as busy and globally concerned as Mitt Romney would be interested 15 years ago in being the landlord of a little house out in Houston?
And that that mortgage held by an unknown couple who needed Romney's help would be refinanced as late as June of this year personally through Romney?
And, as we have learned through many instances, the Democrat party is sniffing around looking for bad things to say about any Republican, because they have so little good to say about their own people?
You can pooh-pooh that idea all you want, but it's true that Democrats are the party of scourges and of pigs, comfortably rooting in filth.
Romney's purchase of 5 small houses turned out to be a flop because of the 1986 tax reform law but the idea behind it is stated here:
“Mitt loves clever ideas that are designed to make everyone involved richer, and he loved this idea,” he said. “He could take a bit of tax depreciation up front, give the houses to his sons, and eventually the renters, after a five-, six-, seven-year period, could buy a home on their own. Everybody wins.”Yet when one of the couples who owned the little houses could not afford a bank loan, Romney personally called them and decided to finance the loan himself, even all these years later taking the responsibility on himself.
Romney's friend's statement concludes the NY TImes article with this statement:
Mr. Jolly, 76, laughed when told that Mr. Romney was still collecting mortgage payments on one of the houses he talked him into buying 30 years ago.
“That sounds like Mitt,” he said. “He never gives up.”So the character qualities we're talking about sound good in a president. Someone who never gives up, and someone who knows how to build businesses, cut his losses when necessary but compassionate enough to look at the little guy and give him or her a break.
Not like a guy who'd ruthlessly cut your non-union pension 70% and give the money to the union pensioners to advance your own distorted vision of an America where the successful are excoriated because they have money they earned not through government handouts.
Let's be honest about that.
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