By OcJim

Now that Mitt has released his 2010 tax statement, we can breathe easier knowing, by example, how the rich do it. Ergo, we can become as rich as Mitt. Instead of envying the rich from afar, we can watch rich in our own mirrors behind closed doors.

Mixing the ingredients are as easy as watching Paula Dean bake a no-fault, butter-rich cake on her TV program.

Number 1, we must have enough money and power – basically the clout to guide Congress into delicious tax reductions, tax loopholes, and tax breaks that make greed moist and tasty. Number 2, we must open up wealth pursuits that are an easy cook, and enable anyone with money to use others without the power and privilege to fight back. Number 3, we must have money, power, the punch (something like a spiked punch bowl), and the connections that push luscious deals that were legalized in ingredient number 2 and taxed at 15% through ingredient number 1.

We want something like a hospital, something not touched by the dirty masses: something sterile, not messy, like investment in infrastructure or people.

And of course there is the old Cayman Islands batter whipped up through process number 1 above. The batter is free of lumpy taxes and can be mixed into your rich life style.

It all brings us back to why people like Mitt and Newt want to run for President. As president you have the connections and the power to ensure additional tax dodges, eliminate pesky corporate regulations, kill opportunity perks for the poor (a sort of reverse Robin Hood), and turn safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security into privatization schemes for the rich, another easy portfolio that can fall like an unbaked cake for the participants, but rise with plentiful fees for financiers.

And you have a media that lets you do presentations like a cooking show.  For example, after Newt’s win in South Carolina, for his braggadocio minutes before the camera, his head doesn’t really appear to grow large like a loaf of bread full of yeast. His lies about Obama fall with barely a sizzle in his skillet of ingredients — baloney, bravado, egomania, butter, bluster, lard, and manufactured Obama bugaboos all cook well before TV filming. Specifically, racist comments that connected Obama and blacks with food stamps, nor other denigrations of blacks being lazy draws no media comments.

TV networks, by omission, tell everyone that Mitt and Newt’s verbal fabrications are all natural ingredients of a democracy.

We must remember: “Corporations are people, my friend.” That means that like the ballots of voters, big corporations can cast their own ballots with cash, and stand affirmed by their own media.

Voter ballots need to be counted and attributed. Billionaire cash ballots don’t.