Mitt Romney: 'I'm Not Concerned About The Very Poor'

[JoeB131]

My question was perfectly well worded - neither pro nor anti the 'Great Society'. I notice you have to go and read up and quote others to answer it. I don't. I already knew.

And you still haven't answered my questions. You can't.... I understand that. I know the numbers and I know the percentage of people that were 'helped' out of poverty. Eventually, even the liberals will realize that it hasn't worked. It is not doing what it was supposed to do. We're just dogpiling money into one very, very deep hole.

It's not "doing what it was supposed to"? Five million people were kept out of poverty at the height of the last recession by SNAP, a Great Society program. Eight million were able to retain access to health care over the last few years--even as they lost jobs, income and employer coverage--by enrolling in Medicaid, a Great Society program. Nearly fifty million people (60% of which are children) in total have access to care through that program. Almost forty million seniors retained access to care through the depths of the last recession thanks to Medicare, a Great Society program.

Meanwhile, foodbanks operated by community action agencies (a War on Poverty holdover) have fed the hungry during this downturn, disadvantaged young folks continued to develop important skills through Job Corps, and others entered into the service of their communities through AmeriCorps. Eligible college kids retained an easy pathway to jobs through the work-study program, another War on Poverty remnant.

The conversation is taking an absurd direction.

They usually do when Cali-Ghoul tries to defend Romney's lack of humanity towards non-millionaires.

You see, I think we should have a safety net, but it shouldn't be a hammock, which is what some Democrats would like to see happen. Unfortunately, Republicans like Cali seem to think that people getting knocked into the net so that folks like Romney can get richer is perfectly okay, as well.

The self-destructiveness of the GOP has been that it has spent much of the last few years dismantling the middle class, which is the firewall against the very socialism they decry.

40% of people on food stamps have jobs. They have jobs, but jobs that don't pay well enough because someone is making a huge profit by underpaying them. So they need to turn to govenrment to get by.

Until the point, where if Government is doing more for you by simply the act of voting for a Democrat, than your employer does for you by busting your hump 40 hours a week,where are your loyalties going to lie?

Pictured: GOP Firing Squad

 

[Mac1958]

I suspect the GOP would be smart to concentrate on holding the House, and maybe trying to pick up a Senate seat at this point. And I also suspect that the more pragmatic Republicans know this, too. The sheep are the sheep, they're going to convince themselves that Romney can beat Obama. Fine, knock yourselves out.

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[mudwhistle]

My question was perfectly well worded - neither pro nor anti the 'Great Society'. I notice you have to go and read up and quote others to answer it. I don't. I already knew.

And you still haven't answered my questions. You can't.... I understand that. I know the numbers and I know the percentage of people that were 'helped' out of poverty. Eventually, even the liberals will realize that it hasn't worked. It is not doing what it was supposed to do. We're just dogpiling money into one very, very deep hole.

It's not "doing what it was supposed to"? Five million people were kept out of poverty at the height of the last recession by SNAP, a Great Society program. Eight million were able to retain access to health care over the last few years--even as they lost jobs, income and employer coverage--by enrolling in Medicaid, a Great Society program. Nearly fifty million people (60% of which are children) in total have access to care through that program. Almost forty million seniors retained access to care through the depths of the last recession thanks to Medicare, a Great Society program.

Meanwhile, foodbanks operated by community action agencies (a War on Poverty holdover) have fed the hungry during this downturn, disadvantaged young folks continued to develop important skills through Job Corps, and others entered into the service of their communities through AmeriCorps. Eligible college kids retained an easy pathway to jobs through the work-study program, another War on Poverty remnant.

The conversation is taking an absurd direction.

They usually do when Cali-Ghoul tries to defend Romney's lack of humanity towards non-millionaires.

You see, I think we should have a safety net, but it shouldn't be a hammock, which is what some Democrats would like to see happen. Unfortunately, Republicans like Cali seem to think that people getting knocked into the net so that folks like Romney can get richer is perfectly okay, as well.

The self-destructiveness of the GOP has been that it has spent much of the last few years dismantling the middle class, which is the firewall against the very socialism they decry.

40% of people on food stamps have jobs. They have jobs, but jobs that don't pay well enough because someone is making a huge profit by underpaying them. So they need to turn to govenrment to get by.

Until the point, where if Government is doing more for you by simply the act of voting for a Democrat, than your employer does for you by busting your hump 40 hours a week,where are your loyalties going to lie?

Pictured: GOP Firing Squad

Explain how the GOP is going about dismantling the middle-class.

The reason 40% of people on food stamps have jobs is because prices keep going up but wages don't go up as fast.

I've started threads on this topic. Grocery prices keep climbing but wages aren't going up to match them. When your government has policies coming out of the EPA that are intended on boosting the costs of energy of course you're going to have higher grocery bills.

It used to be you could fill a grocery cart and only pay $50. Now you're lucky if it stays under $200. This is because of a combination of strict government regulations driving up prices and inflation that goes unreported by the government.

 

[JoeB131]

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Explain how the GOP is going about dismantling the middle-class.

Take your pick.

Right to work.
Free trade.
At will employment.
ending collective bargaining.

Where the hell have you been, they've been at it for 30 years. I just don't really understand why. Because ultimately, it's self defeating. If you are the party of self-reliance and small government, you don't want to make more people dependent on government.

The reason 40% of people on food stamps have jobs is because prices keep going up but wages don't go up as fast.
I've started threads on this topic. Grocery prices keep climbing but wages aren't going up to match them. When your government has policies coming out of the EPA that are intended on boosting the costs of energy of course you're going to have higher grocery bills.

No, the problem is, wages are going DOWN. When there's a recession, companies fire all the people they had to hire at good wages and replace them with folks they were able to hire for a little less (usually because their companies fired them.) Good manufacturing jobs are going overseas, and being replaced with bullshit McJobs at Staples. So, yeah, if you want to get by, and there's a government program to help you, you'll take it. Shouldn't be that way. There should be fair divisions of the profit of labor.

It used to be you could fill a grocery cart and only pay $50. Now you're lucky if it stays under $200. This is because of a combination of strict government regulations driving up prices and inflation that goes unreported by the government.

Actually, inflation has been relatively mild. It's that middle class wages are vanishing, not that mean old regulations are making things more expensive.

 

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[ABikerSailor]

The thing that's got me stymied, is why does he keep saying Obama's policies have failed?

We've had steady job growth, the stock market is almost up to 13,000 and manufacturing jobs are coming back.

 

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