So it was a little awkward Thursday when Mitt stopped for a visit in Colorado, a state where up to 5,000 people are employed in wind industry jobs. Romney breezed through the meaningless rigmarole of another stump speech peppered with lame jokes and followed by routine applause and handshakes.
But a lot of Coloradoans aren’t interested in going through the motions with Mitt. Phillip Bump at the Grist wrote:
Some of the people in Colorado don’t want to clap for Romney. They don’t want to shake his hand. Why are they being so rude? Because Mitt Romney doesn’t care if they lose their jobs.Romney’s visit came just days after his campaign said he was against extending the wind-energy production tax credit, which three of the four Republican congressmen in Colorado support.
According to the Denver Post:
Conservative U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner and Scott Tipton have joined Democrats in Colorado’s congressional delegation in urging Congress to extend the credit, saying in a joint letter earlier this year that allowing it to expire this year could cause Colorado to lose “thousands” of jobs.So what is Romney’s reasoning for opposing the tax credit for wind-energy jobs? Well, those jobs are apparently unnecessary. His campaign spokesperson in Iowa explained:
He will allow the wind credit to expire, end the stimulus boondoggles, and create a level playing field on which all sources of energy can compete on their merits.Subsidies for fossil fuels are currently six times greater than subsidies for wind energy, so we’re not really sure what Romney thinks a “level playing field” is.
But here’s the point: Mitt Romney says he knows how to create jobs, but as far as we can tell he just doesn’t want to. He’s more interested in telling people their work is a “boondoggle” and they should be fired.
-- Union Thug
