Romney's comments were not well thought out or articulated.
I doubt there are many debutantes on this website. However, even the daughters of the rich and wealthy feed at the public trough via things like the mortgage interest deduction , food stamp programs which subsidize rich farmers as well as the poor. I am a libertarian and Ron Paul supporter who favors a smaller role of government in our lives.

Romney's dad was actually a great guy. Its a shame he didn't get the Republican nomination in 68 and Ron Paul didn't get it this year.

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Gee... I think the point is that we have more and more people who HAVE become fully dependent on government. Multigenerational dependance. I think the point is we have more people on food stamps now than ever before in history. I think the point is, when you're getting checks from the government, you might just be inclined to vote for a party that promises you more and more and more of the same because that feels safe (regardless if there's any real money to pay for any of it, regardless if its all going to fold like a house of cards).

We're 16 trillion in debt with no end in sight, we're becoming an entitlement nation with close to 50% getting more from the government than they're paying in and clamoring for government controlled health care which we can't afford. If you have no skin in the game (getting far more than you're paying in at the moment) you're very likely to say "tax the rich - to hell with them" without any concept for how that wealth is generated and without any sense of obligation because you have one political party twisting reality with the mantra "they need to pay their far share" when the so called rich already pay 90% of all the taxes. What the hell is FAIR about paying 90% of the taxes when some pay nothing? Many of the "rich" are businesses that are just holding on, can't expand, and face an uncertain future because of Obama care.

We're at a tipping point, a utopian fantasy of socialism while countries like Greece are going under from the same types of policies. Please wake up to reality before reality swallows you. Socialism only sounds good on paper. In reality, when you take to much from people they simply stop producing and then everybody gets poorer. Think about it. If I asked you to work an extra 40 hours a week and I took all the money you earned for 36 of those hours or even 20 of those hours wouldn't you just be inclined to stop working all the extra hours? Most would. That's socialism. It conflicts with basic human nature. I'm not going to bust my arse for somebody to sit on theirs.

And for the record, I grew up in a single parent home too. I grew up in a shack the size of a single car garage as a kid. My mother worked to keep food in our mouths in a job that just paid the bills. I took out loans for school. I don't credit the government for having done a thing for us. The roads and schools and everything else were built by THE PEOPLE. You don't credit the government for the sweat and work of THE PEOPLE who make it work unless you have some warped view of what a representative republic is.

When the amount spent on food stamps is less than 1/10th the amount spent on the military, I think we can find something other than helping out poor people to blame the debt on.

Federally subsidized loans?

Absent a government to levy & collect taxes, then use those taxes to hire people and materials to build roads, how do you think they get built?

In short, the government provides no benefit because you're only willing to credit it with any negative impact it's had on your life. Which is very typical of small government ideology and remarkably dishonest.

Ya gotta love how these "it's socialism!!" types pretend that they never make use of the medical system (thus getting nothing for their money), and that there is no chance of something happening that might make them unable to work.

I'm with Coyote on this one. So Romney is trying to say that the American economy is in such a terrible state because of "poor people"? I'm just a dumb Canadian, and even I can see that that is total B.S. Canada is social programs, there are subsidies for everything and everyone, even "free" health care. Does this guy really stand a chance of getting elected?

That's because we pay all of that income tax.

Sadly, yes.

I think his comments came out of one of his board meetings. He pointed out a fact and commented on reality. I can think of few things that he said that were in-actuate.

It's not the poor that are the problem, it is government both helping and enabling.

So why waste their time and money trying to win over part of the population that will never vote for him, because he might take away some of their income.

Board meeting? What? This was an expensive fundraising dinner for the ultra-rich.

Also, how is the government helping poor people a "problem?"

That's because we pay all of that income tax.

Damn, I knew that there had to be a catch

As Rachel Maddow pointed out, it's entirely possible that Romney himself may be one of the 47% of Americans he despises, since he may well have not paid federal income tax for several years - the majority of his tax payments are likely capital gains from investments, separately taxed at a low 15% and able to be offset by losses and loss carry forwards under certain conditions (like, say, the 2008 financial market crash) to reduce tax payments to zero.

Nice job, Mittens! You've offended half the country (including much of your base, if they think about it and add 2 plus 2) and you've also handed a huge hammer to the opposition and the press to beat you with while ramping up the pressure to release your taxes to prove you're not as much of an idiot and hypocrite as you seem to be.

His team should have him "trip" and break his jaw so they can wire it shut until after Election Day. Drinking Ensure through a straw for the next 6 weeks would be a small price to pay to increase his chance of winning through silencing his campaign's worst enemy - himself.

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I like graphs.



Oh, and I'm really starting to think that there's a good chance of Romney being in that "other" 6%.