LOL:
”There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.”
The best imaginable spin on this quote is that Romney doesn’t really believe it and is simply flattering the idiotic views of the rightwing donors he is asking for millions of dollars in campaign donations. But I don’t think that’s right. This is the sort of wingnutty stuff most Republican politicians openly say they believe these days. The Randian view of a society divided between worthy Job Creators producers and loafish moochers is so orthodox in Republican politics that this quote is frankly kind of boring. You just rarely hear it put so bluntly, and usually not from people who are supposed to be acting more careful like Presidential candidates.
Bonus fun: Romney is saying this at the estate of Marc Leder – a hedge fund billionaire with a taste for throwing raunchy sex parties:
It was as if the Playboy Mansion met the East End at a wild party at private-equity titan Marc Leder’s Bridgehampton estate, where guests cavorted nude in the pool and performed sex acts, scantily dressed Russians danced on platforms and men twirled lit torches to a booming techno beat.
The divorced Sun Capital Partners honcho rented a sprawling beachfront mansion on Surf Side Road for $500,000 for the month of July. Leder’s weekly Friday and Saturday night parties have become the talk of the Hamptons — and he ended them in style last weekend with his wildest bash yet.
“There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.”
This, from a man who got $70,000 Government tax break last year for his pet horse.
My husband died of cancer & I was left with 3 young sons to raise.
Our sons were 5, 9 & 11
Michael got sick right after earning his MArchitecture
Tho I have Masters in Teaching, I could “only” sub teach to be good enough
Only Parent–we have no family back-up/support. I was paid top dollar because of masters
$77/day. SSI survivor benefits made our marginal life possible.
No one, certainly not Mitt & cronies, works harder or is more responsible than a truly single mother with a job. I am lone lifeline & survival of 3 traumatized fatherless sons. That means I receive all their Grief (=Sorrow Horror Rage), stay present to & serve all their needs Alone. Plus work full days teaching children K-5. Taught classes up to 7 months, without benefits, for 66-77$/day.
It’s despicable for a man with such obscene wealth to scorn people who honestly need government assistance like SSI. Thanks to GOP policies I didn’t qualify for food stamps or Medicaid tho we were below poverty level.
We actually have wealthy family who scorn fatherless & single mothers, called cancer & tragic death of vital father “failure.” Fortune 500 Granny is Westvaco heiress. Hoards her wealth & scorns us-just like Mitt. We are forced to live this 1% Scorn for vulnerable people up close & personal. Mitt & cronies aren’t indifferent & cruel because they’re ignorant of our suffering. They’re ignorant of our suffering because they’re indifferent & cruel.
Worst possible president is man like Mitt, who truly doesn’t give a damn about human vulnerability, about majority of citizens.
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