I met a guy who knew a guy named Mitt once

Working as a carpet cleaner in Salt Lake in 2005, I was sent to a job in Park City, my boss handed the order to me directly and said "this is a big one, make sure you do a great job!". The order only contained a name whom I didn't recognize at the time and an address that put the house in one of the most expensive areas of PC. These jobs usually came with potential but sometimes had baggage to. Working in the homes of the wealthy was common for me, these jobs usually had large commissions, but the price of these opportunities were dealing with snotty folks who were at times, extremely difficult to satisfy. My assumption in my boss emphasizing the importance of the job was the opportunity to add additional services as the order was very basic, clean 3 bedrooms and a hall way.

Upon arriving at the job I could see why my boss was so anxious, I wasn't cleaning a house, I was cleaning a mansion! IT WAS GINORMOUS, if I remember correctly the home had 7 bedrooms, each which had its own private bath. Gigantic living rooms, complete with wool rugs and a TV that came out of the mantle, I'd only seen anything like it on MTV cribs. We were met outside by a man who looked to be in his 50's introduced himself as the properties caretaker. To be honest, I hated dealing with hired help, they usually were very tepid about adding additional services. As he let us in and showed us the areas that they wanted done it turned out they wanted the entire upper lever of the home done, which included all 7 bedrooms! I was ecstatic, it would be a large jump in commission for us. He then left us to our work and we went about cleaning this monstrosity. After about 6 hours of labor, we were finished and met with the caretaker to settle the bill.

While going over the service and totaling the bill for him I became fairly nervous, I knew the bill would end up in 1000's. I had had an experience before where a nanny had us to add a bunch of services and the owners got upset and refused to pay. As I showed him the final total ready to provide a breakdown of the charges, and preparing for a possible reaction, the man didn't blink and pulled a very large roll of 100's from his pocket, I had only ever seen that much cash on one person except for in a movies. He counted out the cash, and then handed me and my partner an extra 100 each saying "Mitt wouldn't be happy with me if I didn't tip you guys". Shocked, and after many thank you's,  I asked him, "so who is this Mitt Romney guy anyways? His name sounds familiar." The man looked at me like I was nuts, and said, "You don't know who Mitt Romney is? He was the one who saved the Olympics when it was here." He proceeded to tell us all about Mitt, he couldn't stop glowing about how much he loved (yes he said LOVE) the Romney family. From what I can remember about the conversation he had been a family friend of the Romney's since he was a boy. And his only job, "they pay me fifty grand a year to watch this house and take care of it when they aren't around. They bought me a little house in town (Park City) where I live. I only have to come up here a couple of times a week. when they aren't here." I asked him where Mitt was at now, and he said, well son, he's the Governor of Massachusetts and he's going to be President someday!

I was impressed to say the least, I had seen a lot of beautiful homes of the wealthy, but I had yet to meet paid help that considered himself family. He considered himself family because he was obviously treated as such. There was no one there but us, he would have been free to say what ever he wanted about Mitt. I didn't pry much about Mitt and his family, the man was so honored and proud to be a part of their family that he willingly gushed about his employer.

That's the day I decided to vote for Romney. Romney won't make a great President because of what he knows. He'll be a great President because of whats in his heart, he IS truly a good man.

If you have a personal story about Mitt, let me know and I'll gladly post it.

An Economics Expirement in Socialism

I saw this posted in the comments of the article I posted on Facebook regarding President Obama's State of the Union address. I can't tell you the origins, or if this actually took place. But I think the story is intriguing and makes a valid point....

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

This example whether a true event or not, displays the danger of socialism, and clearly demonstrates why socialism will fail. Removing reward and consequence removes the desire to achieve, thus destroying ingenuety and prosperity. I don't believe any one has a "right" to a certain standard of living, they must pursue it and earn it.

Occupy VS Tea Party, who ya got?

Pa Olsen showed me this chart comparing the Tea Party with the Occupy movement. It seems Dems/Libs want to try and compare the two. Well I'm glad someone took the time to create a side by side comparison. Here is a big high five to who ever put this together.

REPORTED	OCCUPY PARTY	TEA PARTY
ARRESTS	4149+	0
RAPES	12	0
DAMAGE	$10,000,000.00	$0
PUBLIC DEFECATION	YES	NO
ANTISEMITIC RANTS	12	0
COST TO TAXPAYERS ( by 11/9)	$19,327,487.00+	$0
PUBLIC MASTURBATION	3	0
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN	10	0
FIGHTS STARTED	YES	NO
CHILDREN EXPLOITED	YES	NO
POLICE CARS DAMAGED	2	0
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS	YES	NO
DRUG POSSESSION ARREST	YES	NO
CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST	YES	NO
DRUG OVERDOSE	YES	NO
THEFTS	YES	NO
BURGLARIES	YES	NO
VANDALISM ARREST	YES	NO
TRESPASSING ARREST	YES	NO
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS	1	0
PUBLIC URINATION	YES	NO
URINATION ON OTHERS	YES	NO
ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED	2	0
AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED	1	0
AMERICAN FLAGS DANCED ON	1	0
AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATION	25	0
FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT	1	0
HEAD/BODY LICE OUTBREAKS	1	0
TUBERCULOSIS OUTBREAKS	1	0
MURDER	1	0
SUICIDE	1	0
SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE	1	0
SCABIES OUTBREAKS	1	0
OBAMA ENDORSED IT	YES	NO
PELOSI ENDORSED IT	YES	NO
CAIR ENDORSED IT	YES	NO
SOCIALIST PARTY ENDORSED	YES	NO
NAZI PARTY ENDORSED	YES	NO
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENDORSED	YES	NO
COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED	YES	NO
BIDEN ENDORSED	YES	NO
HUGO CHAVEZ ENDORSED	YES	NO
BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED	YES	NO
HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED	YES	NO
MARXIST UNION ENDORSED	YES	NO
9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED	YES	NO
BOLSHEVIK ENDORSED	YES	NO
IRAN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED	YES	NO
AYATOLLAH ENDORSED	YES	NO
NORTH KOREA ENDORSED	YES	NO
FARRAKHAN ENDORSED	YES	NO
NATION OF ISLAM ENDORSED	YES	NO