Uncle Mitt: I Don’t Want You
(Sorry, it’s politics-induced spleenvent time)
For all his wealth, Mitt Romney can’t buy a clue. If you live in the US and not under a rock, you’ve probably heard by now, what Mitt Romney said at a fundraiser about the roughly 47% of people who pay no federal income taxes.
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. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Most full-time students don’t make enough to pay federal income tax, so they are included in that 47%. If you are a student and don’t pay federal income tax, Mitt Romney thinks that you are not taking personal responsibility and care for you life. Let that sink in for a moment — pursuing higher education, to him, means you aren’t trying to care for your life. It’s not a responsible thing to do. If you have to take out a loan and get some federal assistance with that, like a low interest rate, you’re a mooch. A loser.
On top of all this is the math-challenged implication that he thinks that this 47% is a static group of people — nobody moves in or out each year, depending on their circumstances — and that it’s the same 47% that support Obama. These victims, these entitlement freeloaders, none of whom take personal responsibility and for their lives. You students. You, who paid into social security all your life and are now retired. You, who got crushed by the economic situation Obama inherited, or devastated by not being able to get insurance, and ended up not paying income tax. You’re irresponsible, and not worth the candidate’s time or representation, should he be elected. He doesn’t want you, and doesn’t want to be your president.
Wow.
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Romney manages not sells. Management displaces discrete facts with overall ignorance. Management obsesses on what is measurable instead of promoting what is important. Management enforces processs not creates product. Management kills the future, for a trusted employee’s sole marketable asset is loyalty. That said…
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…when swine vote, the man with the slop bucket is always elected swineherd no matter how much slaughtering he does.
The Libyan US Embassy was overrun and its Ambassador murdered. US reprisal? giggle What intelligence (re Stasi informant lists in East Germany) and Classified hardware were carefully removed by Libyan operatives? US foreign policy: Harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend.
November is a choice between incompetent fascists, corporatists, and double-digit IQ christ-besotted jackasses against puerile bleeding heart Liberals, welfare pimps, Enviro-whiners, feminazis, Queer Nation, and Bernanke $trillions vomited from vacuum. Choose wisely.