47 percent (!)

[misssylviadrake]

Dear friends and readers,

It's the 47% that's troubling. Mitt Romney thinks 47% of Americans are deadbeats, freeloaders, people who see themselves as victims and with a right to food, shelter and health care. More than half of the US population.  The other day he said middle class people were people with $250,000 a year.

Of course this includes all

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Quoting Scrooge

[misssylviadrake]

Thus Caroline:

If they are to die, let them do it and decrease the surplus population?

Me: Right. Scrooge. Are there no workhouses? I made a blog and now will add the Scrooge reference. I remember Nixon had an appointee who said he couldn't understand why Bob Cratchet should get a day off with pay when he didn't work.

Willard

[misssylviadrake]

"We have to try to understand Willard. No one's ever told him, "no." He's never thought about the poor, because that's not what the rich do. He never served in the military--that's not what the sons of privilege do. The poorest person he knows probably make 250K and he thinks that's where the middle class line should be drawn. $1200/month that's what my son earns in the U S Army and it wouldn't keep Rafalca in hay." Murray

Ann Romney

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A lot was made of the Bushes' life of privilege, at least since Prescott, but something the Kennedys and Bushes did was to raise their children with some kind of a sense of noblesse oblige. I remember George Romney and I never got this sense of a separate, entitled existence from him. But I wonder if the isolationism of the Mormon religion combined with the life of great wealth and privilege contributed to this "us versus them" mentality, even more than is found in most wealthy families. Remember Ann Romney also came from money, and her own parents were not permitted at her wedding because they are not Mormon. Jill

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"Jill, yes I understand the Bushes knew how to be good to their employees... What worries me is the number of people getting "help" from the govt who will still vote him because they somehow think they deserve what they get and nobody else does." Diane

Yes somehow they think they are special. They are not freeloaders, but people who are sincerely in need of help. And the teabaggers are these poor people who will vote for Romney so he's wrong. Part of his base is in the 47% -- or he'd stand no chance of winning. There are not enough middle class (over $250000) and fabulously wealthy to make a win - that's why they must suppress the vote.

[misssylviadrake]

But Romney and his ilk see them all as freeloaders.

Me: Yes. I wonder how he feels when he's talking to them. I wish i could believe _their_ feeliings are hurt and they feel threatened by his saying how he won't concern himself with the 47%. Does nothing get through? It's not pointed out by the news media you see and unless something is put into a sign with letters one foot high they don't make the connection.