Another "Oops" moment....

Poor Mitt... I guess he "forgot" one of his Swiss bank accounts...(or was it one of his Cayman Islands accounts?...I can never remember...)

"The Romney campaign is revising his federal ethics forms to report previously undisclosed off-shore holdings. "

Mitt Romney could face new questions about his overseas investments after a campaign official acknowledged to NBC News that his campaign is revising his federal ethics forms to report more than a half dozen offshore holdings, including income from a multi-million dollar Swiss bank account that was not disclosed last year.

The tax returns released by the Romney campaign this week showed that the Ann Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a bank account held at UBS in Switzerland in 2010. But interest from the Swiss bank account -- as well as holdings in other offshore investments in the Cayman Islands, Bermudas and Ireland that appear in the trust fund's tax returns -- were not disclosed in Romney’s financial disclosure form filed with the Office of Government Ethics last August.

A Romney campaign official emailed Thursday afternoon that Romney’s financial disclosure form is now being amended with the government ethics office “to address this minor discrepancy” and “to deal with some other minor issues.” The Romney campaign’s decision to amend the forms, and additional details about the failure to report the overseas holdings, was also reported Thursday by Los Angeles Times.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... s-accounts

Dang... Don't you hate it when that happens....I mean who among us hasn't forgotten an unreported Swiss bank account--on a government Ethics Report? Jeez, between this "offshore account envy", and the other guy who thinks "Family Values is using daughters from your first wife to convince everyone that your second wife is lying about your third wife".... I am SO loving the GOP field this year...

We now return you to the regularly scheduled cat-fight over "Who is the most like Ronald Reagan"... rofllol

The guy gets paid over $57k per DAY! And he's unemployed! So I guess not including these accounts IS "minor" - to him.

BTW...getting paid is NOT the same as earning or making the money. He has a work ethic akin to the bum on the street...he's just a very lucky bum from a privileged birth...the epitome of "born with a silver spoon in his :faint: mouth". I thought the American ethic was to despise the concept of "royalty", and reward hard workers who make something of themselves.

Sure he started with money, but he has worked hard to increase it. Btw, he didn't take a paycheck when he worked for the Olympics or massachussets.

plaidvillain wrote: The guy gets paid over $57k per DAY! And he's unemployed! So I guess not including these accounts IS "minor" - to him.

BTW...getting paid is NOT the same as earning or making the money. He has a work ethic akin to the bum on the street...he's just a very lucky bum from a privileged birth...the epitome of "born with a silver spoon in his :faint: mouth". I thought the American ethic was to despise the concept of "royalty", and reward hard workers who make something of themselves.

It's all a matter of scale is it not? I work all my life, I save and invest, and then my investments pay off in the future so I no longer have to work but still get income....what's wrong with that? But my neighbor does the same thing and makes waaayyyy more money than me, should I be mad or envious of his wealth?

And can you give me a source for the "silver spoon" Romney was given by his parents?

CritiKalbILL wrote:

plaidvillain wrote: The guy gets paid over $57k per DAY! And he's unemployed! So I guess not including these accounts IS "minor" - to him.

BTW...getting paid is NOT the same as earning or making the money. He has a work ethic akin to the bum on the street...he's just a very lucky bum from a privileged birth...the epitome of "born with a silver spoon in his :faint: mouth". I thought the American ethic was to despise the concept of "royalty", and reward hard workers who make something of themselves.

It's all a matter of scale is it not? I work all my life, I save and invest, and then my investments pay off in the future so I no longer have to work but still get income....what's wrong with that? But my neighbor does the same thing and makes waaayyyy more money than me, should I be mad or envious of his wealth?

And can you give me a source for the "silver spoon" Romney was given by his parents?

If you are a liberal, not only should you be envious, you should want to take the wealth from your neighbor and share it with all your liberal friends. Liberals don't know how to do an honest days work to save their lives. They want someone else to save their lives. Preferably the government.

How much day to day knowledge do you suppose he has over the trust? Don't most trusts that size have managers employed to handle them?

I think he needs to have a heart to heart with the fund manager for giving him a black eye due to incomplete disclosure, but I doubt it was an intentional omission by Romney himself.

"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity" - Robert Heinlein

Oh, I'm sure it was an "honest mistake"...And I'm just as sure that if it had been Obama's ethics report, you would be just as adamant in ascribing it to "stupidity" instead of "villainy" and giving him the benefit of the doubt... rofllol

Forgetting bank accounts, happens all the time. Colorado even prints newspaper ads letting people know about their old accounts.

Much ado about nothing...

Thanks for the "entertainment"...

LadyJazzer wrote: Oh, I'm sure it was an "honest mistake"...And I'm just as sure that if it had been Obama's ethics report, you would be just as adamant in ascribing it to "stupidity" instead of "villainy" and giving him the benefit of the doubt... rofllol

My estimate of Obama's intelligence would preclude me from jumping to the 'villany' conclusion.