Joe Biden to Latino Meeting : "Mitt Romney wants you to show him your papers but he won’t show us his." ( Tax returns. Offshore Moneys ) - Romney would deliver policies that eliminate opportunity, equality and government assistance in even the most extreme crises

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NCLR 2012: Joe Biden Paints Bleak Picture Of Romney Presidency For Latinos
By Janell Ross 
 July 10, 2012


NCLR 2012: Joe Biden Paints Bleak Picture Of Romney Presidency For Latinos

Some excerpts :

LAS VEGAS -- In a Tuesday speech in front of Latino activists, advocates and voters Vice President Joe Biden described how a Mitt Romney victory in November would initiate fiscal and social Armageddon.

Romney would deliver policies that eliminate opportunity, equality and government assistance in even the most extreme crises, Biden said. Romney’s America would heap benefits on the rich while clawing back critical government supports for minorities, the poor and middle-class, including civil rights protections, college financial aid, Social Security and job programs, he told the National Council of La Raza conference. And Romney’s spending plans would hobble Head Start and nutrition assistance programs and remove 19 million people from the Medicaid rolls, Biden said.

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Later, Biden asked those in the audience to close their eyes and imagine an America where a President Romney has the opportunity to appoint, “two more Scalias, two more Roberts, two more Alitos,” to the Supreme Court.

“Imagine what it would mean for civil rights, for voting rights for so much more that we have fought so long to accomplish,” said Biden. “Imagine a Justice Department that supports the continued effort to suppress rather than challenge the right to vote. That is what will happen if Gov. Romney wins.

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Biden’s remarks cast Romney as an immensely wealthy and “out-of-touch” American who is unfamiliar with the immigrant experience of Biden’s Irish ancestors and those of many Latinos in the room -– discrimination, economic struggle and setbacks that must be overcome with hard work. Romney’s distance from the “ordinary” and the Republican Party’s growing disdain for compromise led Romney to describe Arizona’s S.B. 1070 as a “model” for other states, Biden said.

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Romney’s “support” for the Arizona law, which allows police to detain people and demand immigration documents, also makes him a hypocrite, Biden said. “He wants you to show him your papers but he won’t show us his,” Biden said. He was referring to Romney’s release of one year's tax returns.

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Biden insisted that Romney’s wealth makes the former Massachusetts governor prone to believe that trickle-down economic policies and market forces will deliver solutions for the 16 million Latinos -- a third of the group's under-65 population in 2010 -- who didn't have health insurance. Romney also would rely on the free market to protect families from same fate as 1.3 million Latinos who have lost homes to foreclosure, Biden said.

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