Mr. Foot in Mouth Mitt certainly did it back in May, his comment that 47% of the American People don't pay taxes and it not his job to worry about them certainly will get him a lot of votes on election day. Put it brings into sharp focus exactly who and what Mitt Romney is. It also brings his refusal to release more that 2 years of tax returns into very sharp focus.
I don't want a man in the Oval Office who believes In the video, recorded at a Florida fundraiser in May, Romney says 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes and believe they are entitled to extensive government support. "My job is not to worry about those people," he said.
After the video posted late Monday afternoon on Mother Jones magazine's website, Romney refused to take them back. He told reporters that while his comments were "not elegantly stated," he stood by his remarks.
"Those who are reliant on government are not as attracted to my message of slimming down the size of government," Romney said in Costa Mesa, Calif., doubling down on his statement.
Well Mr. Romney they are Americans, and the American you will have to rely on to fight your wars, (and judging from you own mouth, you will start or intensify one somewhere). Maybe Mr. Romney really ought to see exactly how many Americans do pay taxes, and on what levels of income. Here's a handy link for everybody http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats---Individual-Income-Tax-Return-(Form-1040)-Statistics it covers personal income taxes and rates paid. I found it interesting. Its kind of hard to argue with the IRS' own data.
Mr/ Romney would have you believe that 63% of Americans carry the water for the rest of the nation. That's plain bullshit, but it shows exactly the character of the man the Republican have chosen as their standard bearer. I said yesterday in another forum that being President is more about character and the perception of being a leader than it is about experience. I stand by those words, and the fact a a presidential candidate has now said that he is not worried about 47% of the American People, "My job is not to worry about those people," tells me he doesn't want to president of the United States, he wants to be President of his version of what the United States is.
The more I have learned about Mitt Romney and "his Republican Party" and its vision of America, the more convinced I am that it is totally out of touch with reality. The United States has the world's 3rd largest population, surpassed by only India and China. It is the home to more than 312 million people, Mr Romney only want to be president to a little over half of them. That means that 147 million Americans don't count. Anyone with 47% of a brain knows that's the most repugnant comment a presidential candidate has ever made.
I feel sorry for Mr. Romney in one way, he just doesn't get it. His logic is medieval, he truly must believe he is the "lord of the manner" and the rest of us are just serfs to work the land. His comments remind of a time in this country when slaves were counted 7 for 1 in order to determine how much representation a state was entitled to in the US House of Representatives. Such beliefs aren't welcome here regardless of the Bill of Rights, because in fact they run contrary to the Bill of Rights.
No liberal could have done as much damage to the conservative cause as Romney did with these comments, one this snowball gets moving, there will be no way to stop it, no spin to deflect it, no way to reengage 147 million people Romney has written off. I ask those who consider themselves conservatives, Is this what you believe the US is ?
Will the last conservative to leave the room please turn the lights out, America is going GREEN. There really is such a thing as global warming.
Tai Pan
I don't want a man in the Oval Office who believes In the video, recorded at a Florida fundraiser in May, Romney says 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes and believe they are entitled to extensive government support. "My job is not to worry about those people," he said.
After the video posted late Monday afternoon on Mother Jones magazine's website, Romney refused to take them back. He told reporters that while his comments were "not elegantly stated," he stood by his remarks.
"Those who are reliant on government are not as attracted to my message of slimming down the size of government," Romney said in Costa Mesa, Calif., doubling down on his statement.
Well Mr. Romney they are Americans, and the American you will have to rely on to fight your wars, (and judging from you own mouth, you will start or intensify one somewhere). Maybe Mr. Romney really ought to see exactly how many Americans do pay taxes, and on what levels of income. Here's a handy link for everybody http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats---Individual-Income-Tax-Return-(Form-1040)-Statistics it covers personal income taxes and rates paid. I found it interesting. Its kind of hard to argue with the IRS' own data.
Mr/ Romney would have you believe that 63% of Americans carry the water for the rest of the nation. That's plain bullshit, but it shows exactly the character of the man the Republican have chosen as their standard bearer. I said yesterday in another forum that being President is more about character and the perception of being a leader than it is about experience. I stand by those words, and the fact a a presidential candidate has now said that he is not worried about 47% of the American People, "My job is not to worry about those people," tells me he doesn't want to president of the United States, he wants to be President of his version of what the United States is.
The more I have learned about Mitt Romney and "his Republican Party" and its vision of America, the more convinced I am that it is totally out of touch with reality. The United States has the world's 3rd largest population, surpassed by only India and China. It is the home to more than 312 million people, Mr Romney only want to be president to a little over half of them. That means that 147 million Americans don't count. Anyone with 47% of a brain knows that's the most repugnant comment a presidential candidate has ever made.
I feel sorry for Mr. Romney in one way, he just doesn't get it. His logic is medieval, he truly must believe he is the "lord of the manner" and the rest of us are just serfs to work the land. His comments remind of a time in this country when slaves were counted 7 for 1 in order to determine how much representation a state was entitled to in the US House of Representatives. Such beliefs aren't welcome here regardless of the Bill of Rights, because in fact they run contrary to the Bill of Rights.
No liberal could have done as much damage to the conservative cause as Romney did with these comments, one this snowball gets moving, there will be no way to stop it, no spin to deflect it, no way to reengage 147 million people Romney has written off. I ask those who consider themselves conservatives, Is this what you believe the US is ?
Will the last conservative to leave the room please turn the lights out, America is going GREEN. There really is such a thing as global warming.
Tai Pan
