I thought vote-buying was illegal.

GAT_00: Why would someone on the campaign trail have $150 in their pocket? And why does Romney think he's going to look like an average Joe for having that much money in their pocket? Who carries that much cash?

Romney carries 10,000 on him at all times to make bets.

Give one unemployed woman some money and you're charitable.
Help all the unemployed people live until they can get a job again and you're a liberal.

what a flagrant display of bullshiat. next week they'll stage an accident and Mitt will pull a puppy out of a fire or something.

Oh, so this makes him Jesus?

GAT_00: Why would someone on the campaign trail have $150 in their pocket? And why does Romney think he's going to look like an average Joe for having that much money in their pocket? Who carries that much cash?

Romney has a shiatload of money. He probably carries $100 bills around as toilet paper.

GAT_00: Why would someone on the campaign trail have $150 in their pocket? And why does Romney think he's going to look like an average Joe for having that much money in their pocket? Who carries that much cash?

Um, most people carry a couple hundred around for shiat like lunch and so on. Basically anyone who doesn't like using a credit card for all the 5 to 10$ shiat will easily have 150$ or so.

Campaign trail makes it even more likely, you have to tip the people associated with travel, bellhops and the guys that park your cars and group dinners and shiat. I guess you could make them go get the manager for a credit card swipe thing every time, but that'd be pretty douchetastic.

Romney is an out-of-touch rich guy, but this isn't one of the things that shows it, really.

Around these parts we call 'em hookers

Jim_Callahan: GAT_00: Why would someone on the campaign trail have $150 in their pocket? And why does Romney think he's going to look like an average Joe for having that much money in their pocket? Who carries that much cash?

Um, most people carry a couple hundred around for shiat like lunch and so on. Basically anyone who doesn't like using a credit card for all the 5 to 10$ shiat will easily have 150$ or so.

Campaign trail makes it even more likely, you have to tip the people associated with travel, bellhops and the guys that park your cars and group dinners and shiat. I guess you could make them go get the manager for a credit card swipe thing every time, but that'd be pretty douchetastic.

Romney is an out-of-touch rich guy, but this isn't one of the things that shows it, really.

You honestly think "most people carry a couple hundred around"?

namatad: GAT_00: Why would someone on the campaign trail have $150 in their pocket? And why does Romney think he's going to look like an average Joe for having that much money in their pocket? Who carries that much cash?

LOL
me?

really you think 150 is a lot of cash??
nothing personal, but, bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

I came here to say he gave her only 150?? what a cheapskate

I'm sorry your credit rating is so bad that you can't own a credit card like normal people.

At least he didn't tell her she should trade in her car.

Hotdog453: You honestly think "most people carry a couple hundred around"?

Initially. Over the course of a couple weeks, it gets spent down. But "100$" and "200$" are default withdrawal buttons on most ATMs for a reason, nobody's going to make a separate run to a bank machine every time they need 20$.

If you use cash, you carry what you need. 20$ a day or so for lunch and dinner, another 5$ for the bus, etc. Plus you probably want another 20-30$ on hand in case of unusual costs. If you make one withdrawal for miscellaneous expenses a week, that's in excess of 150$ pretty easily.

I dunno, look at how much you spend on your credit cared over the course of a week when you're not eating at home, it's probably well in excess of 150$ as well.

If you're running a campaign your incidental expenses are magnified by the fact that you've got a staff and you're not working from your house/hometown. Plus the potential semi-urgent expenses and "in case a card gets declined" stuff are similarly more expensive. Having 150$ to spare in your operation's petty cash seems pretty reasonable, honestly they likely keep much more than that on hand.

Theaetetus: I thought vote-buying was illegal.

THIS.

Vodka Zombie: FTFA: "I was on the highway praying and said, 'God just show me how to get [my] lights on,' and I pulled up to a stop sign and his bus was there," said Williams, who has been unemployed since last October. "And then God said, 'Follow the bus,' and I followed the bus to the airport."

Mitt Romney: Not mentally ill, but #1 with the mentally ill.

There's something singularly vile about this. Is there not one person on his staff to tell him not to act like he's giving alms to the poor? Sickening.

The last time I carried $100 in my wallet was also the time I blacked out behind a bar and got pick-pocketed.

I know this is Fark and all but if you guys are supposed to be what real liberalism is all about then no thank you.

Way to make sure that no good feed goes unpunished. You have shown yourselves to be some of the most petty hypocritical people I've ever come across. You do Ovama no service by lauding his name when your moral characters are as bad as or worse than the people you vilify.

Again I know this is Fark, but this is also who you really are.

My spelling errors are a function of the time of day and the use of an iPhone, good day.

Rockefeller only gave out dimes, but he was a Rockefeller Republican.........oh, wrong one...... Nevermind

CougarJeff:
Give one unemployed woman some money and you're charitable.
Help all the unemployed people live until they can get a job again and you're a liberal.

Conservatives believe gov't assistance programs should be replaced by private charity so the few hundred in taxes they pay every year to support the needy can be replaced by the $20 their church spends on their behalf, or the few bucks they might toss to a panhandler. But most of all, they want to have the ability to individually judge every person who receives help - look down their nose and say "you're worthy of my dollar" or "get a job, you filthy hobo" - and they feel the gov't steals that from them.

Have you people not heard of debit cards?

/cash? wtf? what century is this again?

bullwrinkle: At least he didn't tell her she should trade in her car.

or walk into a store, buy ice cream cones, and give the guy a dollar.

Well, that's it. I'm voting for Romney. If he's willing to give a random person $50-60 once in a blue moon he obviously cares for the underprivileged.

No Such Agency: But most of all, they want to have the ability to individually judge every person who receives help - look down their nose and say "you're worthy of my dollar" or "get a job, you filthy hobo" - and they feel the gov't steals that from them.

Hence Santorum's remark a couple weeks ago about not wanting black people to get welfare. I'm guessing he also doesn't want it to go to gays or atheists, just to white heterosexual Christians.

I'm sure Romney feels the same way; he's just too discreet to blurt it out.

farkityfarker:
I'm sure Romney feels the same way; he's just too discreet to blurt it out.

Well that's a first.