Their legislation has been equally heartless toward children.
Tomi and Sukichi, played by Ozu regulars Chiyeko Higashiyama and Chishu Ryu, are an elderly couple who make the arduous journey to Tokyo to visit their heartless grown-up children, only to discover that they are just too busy with their professional lives and young families to find any time for them.
Sheriff Jim McDonnell and the Board of Supervisors, led by Don Knabe, have embraced a movement that treats juveniles in the sex trade as trafficking victims rather than criminal prostitutes, while focusing enforcement efforts on those who profit from the heartless abuse of children.
"You sound so heartless," one of the children said.
In anticipation of the veto, William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, had this to say: "First of all, whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it's a good idea.
Now, for the first time in this campaign, video has surfaced of Romney making those bigoted claims about gay parents while pushing his heartless policy against their children.
It makes a child seem permanently heartless, rather than capable of feeling empathy, which almost all are.
But what impact can these images have and what can be done to stop people looking at them? "Offenders are not normally heartless people," says Donald Findlater from child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works with sexual offenders and organisations to help prevent abuse.
That sort of heartless exploitation of parents and children is what the Osborne tax can go after.
He added: "The accusations that she was unreasonable and selfish and heartless with respect to young children inevitably caused her great anguish".
