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Why Did Romney Fire the Lawn Company Now?
nationalreview/corner.com ^ | 12/04/2007 | Byron York

Posted on 12/04/2007 5:21:31 PM PST by JRochelle

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To: JRochelle

“Leaf removal?”

Well I think the illegals are now engaged in something called “Mitt removal”, where they take a presidential campaign and trash it.


61 posted on 12/04/2007 6:20:13 PM PST by FastCoyote
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I’m not a big fan of Gov. Romney, but this thread makes me wonder if every FReeper has interviewed all the employees of any firm he has ever hired, or all the employees at any manufacturer of goods he’s purchased.

Or perhaps we have a bunch of sanctimonious grandstanding?


62 posted on 12/04/2007 6:21:00 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Petronski

I have never met an illegal because they never admit it!


63 posted on 12/04/2007 6:22:16 PM PST by mojo114
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To: FastCoyote
How could he think he’d get away with this as a presidential candidate?

Because he is Mitt Romney?

64 posted on 12/04/2007 6:23:04 PM PST by JRochelle (Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA are at the reduced price of only $50.00!)
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To: mojo114
I have never met an illegal because they never admit it!

Apparently the Boston Globe reporters would say otherwise. Perhaps they engaged in some waterboarding...

65 posted on 12/04/2007 6:23:39 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: meyer

“Too lazy to mow is own lawn”
We don’t mow our lawn, we have a service because it is a hill and we are afraid with a regular mower we would fall over!


66 posted on 12/04/2007 6:24:25 PM PST by mojo114
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To: JRochelle

What is wrong with $8.00/hr. I get close to that and I am not illegal.


67 posted on 12/04/2007 6:25:41 PM PST by mojo114
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To: JRochelle

Who the heck is advising Mitt? Hillary?


68 posted on 12/04/2007 6:25:45 PM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: highimpact

I read a study once that examined the spending habits of the rich. It claimed that the rich are more cautious with discretionary spending than the poor are. I think the harder you work for the buck, and then the harder you try to save it from the government’s claws, the more cautious you may be.

A good definiton of rich is someone who has enough money that their money works for them, rather than they work for money.


69 posted on 12/04/2007 6:25:52 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
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To: highimpact

“Rich people want to be rich as much as poor people. Poor people suckle the teets of big government. Rich people work for their money. Poor people want the rich to give them money. That’s the difference between an entitlement mentality and an entrepreneurial mentality.”
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I’ve been thinking it’s just just the welfare class that has an entitlement mentality. The well-off who think they’re entitled to cheap labor, paying wages that won’t support a family, so entitled that they will break the laws or shape the laws to let poor immigrants in and drive down the wages of low-income Americans - what are they if not entitled?


70 posted on 12/04/2007 6:27:03 PM PST by heartwood
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To: JRochelle

if he or his sons mowed their own lawn,

they wouldn’t have this problem.


71 posted on 12/04/2007 6:27:38 PM PST by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: JRochelle

Gee! I didn’t know you were running for President! Learn something every day. Reaganesque appears to want to oppose your running. Ya think?


72 posted on 12/04/2007 6:29:18 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: heartwood

I’ve been thinking it’s just just the welfare class that has an entitlement mentality. The well-off who think they’re entitled to cheap labor, paying wages that won’t support a family, so entitled that they will break the laws or shape the laws to let poor immigrants in and drive down the wages of low-income Americans - what are they if not entitled?

BRAVO! You nailed it!


73 posted on 12/04/2007 6:30:00 PM PST by JRochelle (Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA are at the reduced price of only $50.00!)
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To: JRochelle
continued to employ a company that uses illegal immigrants to do lawn work at his home.

Hmmmmm, my condo association employes a landscaping company that has hispanics on its payroll. How do I go about insuring they are legal or is it really any of my business?

Isn't it up to the employer to insure they are legal?

74 posted on 12/04/2007 6:30:20 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: heartwood

Brilliant!


75 posted on 12/04/2007 6:31:40 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: pissant; JRochelle

“His timing is impeccable. LOL”

This is a body blow and it probably explains Mitts obsession with the religious issue this week as a distraction from this.


76 posted on 12/04/2007 6:32:54 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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To: Petronski

Hey Petronski it is the Boston Globe reporting here.


77 posted on 12/04/2007 6:33:03 PM PST by mojo114
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To: mojo114
Hey Petronski it is the Boston Globe reporting here.

Yep. What part of their report is false?

78 posted on 12/04/2007 6:34:24 PM PST by Petronski (Reject the liberal superfecta: huckabee, romney, giuliani, mccain)
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To: JRochelle
What is it about rich people who want to cut corners wherever possible?

Who is responsible for determining the legitimacy of its workers, the landscaping company or the individual who hires the landscaping company?

I'm not rich, I merely live in a condo association that hires a landscaping company to do the work the association members don't want to do. Is it my job to check the green cards of the landscaping workers?

79 posted on 12/04/2007 6:34:49 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It is the condo association’s job to hire a legal company.


80 posted on 12/04/2007 6:37:49 PM PST by JRochelle (Thanks to RomneyCare, abortions in MA are at the reduced price of only $50.00!)
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