Introducing the president tonight, Elizabeth Warren decided to lecture Mitt Romney on why corporations aren’t people:

And Mitt Romney tells us in his own words that he believes corporations are people. No Mitt, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love and they cry and they dance, they live and they die.

Learn the difference.

And Mitt, learn this. We don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.

Watch below:

The clip she’s referring to is from last year where Romney was talking about fixing entitlements and how some want to raise taxes on people to do that (he doesn’t). Someone shouted “what about [taxing] corporations” at which point Romney explained that corporations are people too because everything that a corporation earns eventually goes to people:

Why is this so hard for the left to understand? Corporations are businesses that are run by people and if they are successful real people benefit and if they fail real people lose jobs. The people that run corporations have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs (corporate ones!), they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance and they most certainly live and they die. They also poop at least once a day as well.

It’s ridiculous that the left thinks you can just raise taxes on corporations and it doesn’t affect real people. You raise taxes on corporations and they just pass the cost burden onto customers so that we pay higher prices and they likely lose customers. Keep it up and everyone loses.

This is why people like Elizabeth Warren sound so stupid when they try and play this talking point that corporations aren’t people. She doesn’t know what in the world she’s talking about.




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Frank Paolino
Frank Paolino

Corporations are not people to Elizabeth Warren and Cherokees are not people to her, either, they are tools to use as needed and discard and ignore once they have served their purpose.

notayot
notayot

Corporations are trying to strip-mine America like a swarm of locusts to suck us dry of our wealth and resources. Yes, corporations are made up of people, but so are unions. Unions are not people. Money is not speech, otherwise I could pay my electric bills with a quick phone call and chatter. Corporations can buy each other, merge, dissolve, re-emerge, split up, be in several places at once on different continents and get away with enormous theft without going to prison. When they gamble and lose, taxpayers (real people) bail them out so they can go gamble some more.

All the comments on this site sound like a bunch of school yard mean-kids taunting each other with name calling. No thoughtful discussion, no arguing the merits of just clinging to mis-begotten talking points with no substance.

(Go ahead, call me something if it will make you feel smug and superior.)

MikeTheEngineer
MikeTheEngineer

People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs,(FROM CORPORATIONS) they get sick( AND GET HEALTH CARE INSURANCE FROM CORPORATIONS), they love and they cry and they dance, they live and they die. THE ONLY THING THAT DOES NOT DIE IS GOVERNMENT OF WHICH YOU REPRESENT. IS THIS YOUR BEST ARGUMENT AGAINST ROMNEY?

WHAT A FRICKING MORON. How does the liberal left get away with so many idiots spouting lunacy and still win elections? How?

hp
hp

The source of all blonde jokes.

jackl92
jackl92

Funny looking white lady talk heap big BS, how.

NJK
NJK

Well, that's my argument when they say the Constitution is living and breathing. The pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?

911Infidel
911Infidel

I heard a Republican gave Pochofauxness a subscription to Geneology.com as a birthday gift recently. I thought that was a great gag gift. Speaking of gagging...I'm really tired of looking at her picture on adverts on Conservative sites.

Constance
Constance

I'm surprised she wasn't wearing an official Cherokee outfit to stand in solidarity with her peeps. Those cheekbones are ultra high, Ms. Warren. You putz.

warpmine
warpmine

This crazy squaw seems to forget the reason the Revolution was fought because the Crown put impossible demands on business(s) in the colonies.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

It's the liberal way to dehumanize everything they dislike. An unborn baby is a "fetus" and an abortion is a "medical procedure" and Corporations are not run by humans, but by giant robots from another planet.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

I think Spreading Bull speaks with forked tongue! Has she been at the firewater again?

Don
Don

Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, the list goes on and on with liberals demonstrating on a daily basis that liberalism is a progressive mental disorder that only gets worse with time Add their male cohorts, Bill Maher, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bill Press, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Ed Schultz,Van Jones and the list of those attacking the American way of life seems endless. With the bias of the mainstream media, the progressive hate and vitriole is to a point it may never be reigned in again. Time to consider the options and move forward. Do we survive as a nation or do we become the controlled "masses"?

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

Elizabeth Warren, or as I like to call her by her Indian name "Spouting Bull," doesn't know the difference between corporations and people because like most far-left liberals she's never even been in a major corporation. I guess when General Motors was going bankrupt and thousands of people were about to lose their jobs, the fact that the corporation was going under had no real effect on regular people, right? If the corporation does well, the people who work for the corporation do well. If not, they're out of a job, which doesn't help anybody. A kid knows that. I mean, a kid who has a real job, unlike Warren.

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

Warren, Pelosi and the rest of the loons are the one's that are and attempting to control everyone's lives. Plug in the self serving illegal's vote and we have a USA nut house.

Brian Skinner
Brian Skinner

She has been taking lessons in dynamic public speaking from Harry Reid.

E. Lee Zimmerman
E. Lee Zimmerman

Good point, Liz. And you're not a Cherokee just 'cause grandma said so.

Caddywhumpus Poncho
Caddywhumpus Poncho

Warren is clearly a Marxist elitist.

That said, corporations are not people. A corporation is a government-chartered legal entity. I am co-owner of an S-corporation.

BAICHAN
BAICHAN

Pitiful "people of the lis" type.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

Harvard... your idiot is missing. (sorry, couldn't resist.)

IS she one of the finest Harvard has on its teaching staff?

hbnolikeee
hbnolikeee

Apparently Hardcrud has many so you must be specific when you say that.

NCHokie02
NCHokie02

First, got a chuckle that at the end of the article the ad was for setting up an LLC in 5 minutes, ha!

Second, Warren is an idiot.

Third, as Mitt pointed out where does this money that "corporations" have go to? To some robot or something? Some evil capitalist robot?? No, as Mitt pointed out, to people. And as RS pointed out when you do things to corporations the people that work for it are affected and the people that buy the products are affected. Plus I'm sure the left doesnt' want to acknowledge all the corporations that they frequent everyday unless all the do is go to local farms for their food and little mom and pop shops for their goods (ones that aren't incorporated that is).

The left is so dumb on this issue that it pains me to hear them rant about it.

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

Warren, her party and the GA. Stones, have hearts made of the same marteria, stone.

Without people there isn't the heart of anything, and in any of lifes adventures there must be people, because the rest are only animals.

Warren is truly a danger to all homo sapiens. The women is mentallly challegened.

i'm not monkeying around

tea party patriot

virginiagentleman1
virginiagentleman1

One marxist opening act before the main American marxist comes on. Got yer rotten eggs ready?

John
John

I will take it a step further scoop. When revenues decrease municipalities lose revenue to help pay for our teachers, cops, etc. Without the private sector NOBODY WINS! So why the hell would you bite the hand that feeds you? Ask the left the next time they think it is a good idea to raise taxes!

odin147
odin147

Bleeding heart libs, without the corps the people won't have jobs to feed themselves and live, to pay bills when they get sick, to pay the tuition fees for their kids... etc one of the most important entities in fact the most important entity in any society is a business large or small because without a business you don't have a Job and without a job you don't have a stable family that is why we keep taxes low.

Brian
Brian

I work for a corporation and I can dance, get sick, cry, and laugh in this liar's face.

I'm pretty sure I can die, too. But, I'll wait to test my theory until later in life.

What is wrong with these people? Do they think IBM is just a building? They do know that Facebook has employees that are people and it isn't just a computer plugged in and connected to the rest of the world, right?

sDee
sDee

What more should we expect from a bunch of self serving marxist idealists who have never had to produce anything or show a profit their entire lives.

They survive because of us, the producers. If it were not for our corporations and the crucial protection of capital, these parasites would stand helpless in the streets unable to provide for themselves.

WestGAFlash
WestGAFlash

"Those who cannot do - teach."

Prophetic, don't you think?

Simeon Washington
Simeon Washington

Nope. From iowahawk...

'Government' is just a word for things we do together.

'Corporations' is just a word for things we do together voluntarily.

EdHerold
EdHerold

...and you lie Elizabeth!

librtifirst
librtifirst

Corporations are not people legally. They should not be afforded the same rights as individuals. This becomes more important to understand every day, now that we have a corporate crony government.

I am not supporting this woman, but I get tired of the complacency of people who seem to ignore our rule of law and let government get away with corporate crony criminality and tyranny on the people. The income tax was based on corporations being taxed in the beginning. This was considered to be constitutional. They then incorporated the individual, and now we have the IRS. It is unconstitutional and needs to be abolished.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

I wonder if Obama slipped her a couple bullet points to talk about...

Or maybe she was channeling her inner Cherokee?

Yep, she's a Democrat.

Mark Smith
Mark Smith

How could anyone in Massachusetts who gets up and goes to work at a white collar job vote for this complete idiot? She's gonna rob you blind.

neko_dachi
neko_dachi

Liberal Logic:

A group of people that form a union and then use their combined money to support candidates that they believe in = Wonderful example of Democracy in action!

A group of people that form a corporation and then use their combined money to support candidates that they believe in = An unconstitutional abomination that will stomp upon everyone's rights and destroy everything in its path!!

wales777
wales777

LOL. Maybe we should introduce Ms Warren to Solyndra!

bindare
bindare

Solyndra died! (But I think it was pre-meditated murder buy the crony who had access to the money.)

stage9
stage9

Why is this so hard for the left to understand?

The sooner you learn that the left is stupid and unredeemable (at least in terms of common sense) the better off you'll be. You just can't argue with the mentally insane. It's that simple. And that's what we have; the patients are running the asylum!

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

What does sitting Bull know about corporations anyway? She claims they are "running" the country for the people. Oh hey sitting Bull, when a nation is divided into hyphen Americans, it's kind of hard to "run" for everyone. When you divide the people according to class, race, gender... there's bound to be some groups out there who don't recieve the same respect as those specially created hyphen groups.

You say corporations are non living. Funny, I never saw a corporation start itself from the ground up... only individuals with a dream, an idea, some spirit and grit have started corporations.

KenInMontana
KenInMontana

Well Lizzy, NAACP (corporation) The Center for American Progress, et cetra, are not "people" either. We will turn your own weapons upon thee with extreme prejudice, and you can take that to the bank.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

Who is Warren running against Mitt Romney or Scott Brown?

Corporations are groups of people working to earn money. Where else does the earnings go...to robots?

We really need economics and logic taught in our high schools.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

'People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love and they cry and they dance, they live and they die' - 'Pocahontas' Warren

Usually they do all that because the Corporations afforded them the living to do so.

They also have a heritage, a culture, a family background. What did you come up with this week? Have you become Jewish, or perhaps you're a native Swahili now? Maybe you're a melting pot, or perhaps you're just smoking it in the peace pipe again.

Alborn
Alborn

Name me one corporation without people Lisagauwan. Many people incorporate to protect their private property in case their business fails so they do not lose the house they live in to debtors. This woman is an idiot. This is like saying the government is not people because it never dies. It is impossible to kill any of the programs that government starts. But there is no government without people. Oh what a wonderful thought, no government.

toongoon
toongoon

And you're not an American Indian.

The non-Tonto speak with forked tongue.

Lone Ranger: Look at all those Indians coming this way, looks like we might have some trouble.

Tonto: What you mean "we" white man!

Mike Leavitt
Mike Leavitt

Corporations don't die? Really? Anyone heard of Eastern Airlines? Plenty of companies die, and when they do jobs are destroyed and families have to start over. Just ask the city of Norfolk how corporations die.

http://www.therightscoop.com/city-of-norfolk-using-eminent-domain-to-take-78-year-old-company/

Here's the good news. The death of a company can be the fertilizer for a new and vibrant company... unless the do-gooders and union bosses try to prop up our dying company using taxpayer money and then we get... THE VOLT! (GM sucks!)

3D 81
3D 81

and yet you abort babies and leave new born babies to die on a cold steel table at the abortion clinic? What kind of "people" are you?

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

They are the kind of evil people who leave new born babies to die in a garbage can yet claim the death penalty is cruel and unusual. Don't even try to figure them out- it will hurt your brain.

1vote
1vote

She speak with forked tongue.

hbnolikeee
hbnolikeee

really she should just go fork herself!