The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video

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By David Corn

In the week since I made public the secret video of Mitt Romney at a private Boca Raton fundraiser denigrating almost half of America as moochers and victims, I've been repeatedly asked what I consider the most damaging—or damning—portion of Romney's remarks.

"I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

My view of this one line was reinforced this morning. I walked into a store to buy some cleaning products. The 40-something woman at the counter rang up the purchases and kept looking at me. Once I had paid, she said in a low voice, "I really don't want to bother you, but..."

Go ahead, I said.

But I know who you are, and I just want to say that Mitt Romney doesn't know what he's talking about. Not at all. I am college-educated, but look where I'm working now. I can't find a better job now. And, and….​

She paused and lowered her voice more:

I'm on food stamps. I didn't have a choice. I'm making about $12,000 a year now. And I need them. I work hard. And I'm looking for other work. But just because I'm on food stamps doesn't mean I'm not taking care of myself. Doesn't he know that? Doesn't he get it?​

Apparently not. Many people on food stamps, Medicaid, and the like do strive to provide for themselves and their families. The working poor…work. They may even park cars at fancy fundraisers for minimum wage. Romney all-too glibly characterized anyone receiving any public assistance as a parasitic freeloader, and he revealed an us-versus-them attitude that was tremendously ungracious, mean-spirited, and predicated on ignorance of the real world.

"Thank you, thank you," the woman said. "You showed us what he really thinks of us, what he thinks of me."

Mitt Romney built that.

More: The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video | Mother Jones
 
Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.
 
Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.

She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.
 
By David Corn

In the week since I made public the secret video of Mitt Romney at a private Boca Raton fundraiser denigrating almost half of America as moochers and victims, I've been repeatedly asked what I consider the most damaging—or damning—portion of Romney's remarks.

"I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

My view of this one line was reinforced this morning. I walked into a store to buy some cleaning products. The 40-something woman at the counter rang up the purchases and kept looking at me. Once I had paid, she said in a low voice, "I really don't want to bother you, but..."

Go ahead, I said.

But I know who you are, and I just want to say that Mitt Romney doesn't know what he's talking about. Not at all. I am college-educated, but look where I'm working now. I can't find a better job now. And, and….​

She paused and lowered her voice more:

I'm on food stamps. I didn't have a choice. I'm making about $12,000 a year now. And I need them. I work hard. And I'm looking for other work. But just because I'm on food stamps doesn't mean I'm not taking care of myself. Doesn't he know that? Doesn't he get it?​

Apparently not. Many people on food stamps, Medicaid, and the like do strive to provide for themselves and their families. The working poor…work. They may even park cars at fancy fundraisers for minimum wage. Romney all-too glibly characterized anyone receiving any public assistance as a parasitic freeloader, and he revealed an us-versus-them attitude that was tremendously ungracious, mean-spirited, and predicated on ignorance of the real world.

"Thank you, thank you," the woman said. "You showed us what he really thinks of us, what he thinks of me."

Mitt Romney built that.

More: The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video | Mother Jones

Wow, he is so right. Most of them ARE the Democratic party. The Democrats who aren't in the 47% are certainly enablers. The lack of personal responsibility is clearly the biggest problem we face in this country today, and nothing is less responsible then living off a check provided by the confiscation of wealth using guns. Actually most people refer to that as robbery. Which would certainly be a correct way of stating it.

Thanks for sharing that Lakota, I hadn't realized how well he put things in perspective.
 
Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.

She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.

Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.
 
"I really don't want to bother you, but..."

Go ahead, I said.

But I know who you are, and I just want to say that Mitt Romney doesn't know what he's talking about.


A grocery store clerk knows a Mother Jones bureau chief on sight?

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Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.

She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.

Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.

I thought "payroll" taxes were actually wise investment vehicles where people fund their own retirement? Are you saying if I fund my own retirement, I'm paying taxes? Cool, let's go with that system.
 
Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.

She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.

Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.

Yea and most Federal Withholding is returned, if they have kids they can get back more than they paid in.

If they paid in when they had jobs why did Obama threaten to withhold their checks if he didn't get his way. Yea, he cares a lot about them old folks.

Most old people love the GOP unless they have been on the government dole for generations. ;)
 
Dang I thought you were gonna say he didn't build that!!

Problem is you won't convince people to give up "free" stuff!! Whether it's 10%, 47% or 99%.

She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.

Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.

Do payroll taxes pay for roads and bridges?

Do payroll taxes pay for national defense?

Do payroll taxes pay for food stamps?

Do payroll taxes pay for NASA?

Do payroll taxes pay for schools?

Do payroll taxes pay for post offices?



What's that you say? The 47 percent don't pay for these things, and so we should make someone else pay MORE than they already do?

That's liberal logic for you!

"Gimme gimme gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it!"



.
 
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By David Corn

In the week since I made public the secret video of Mitt Romney at a private Boca Raton fundraiser denigrating almost half of America as moochers and victims, I've been repeatedly asked what I consider the most damaging—or damning—portion of Romney's remarks.

"I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

My view of this one line was reinforced this morning. I walked into a store to buy some cleaning products. The 40-something woman at the counter rang up the purchases and kept looking at me. Once I had paid, she said in a low voice, "I really don't want to bother you, but..."

Go ahead, I said.

But I know who you are, and I just want to say that Mitt Romney doesn't know what he's talking about. Not at all. I am college-educated, but look where I'm working now. I can't find a better job now. And, and….​

She paused and lowered her voice more:

I'm on food stamps. I didn't have a choice. I'm making about $12,000 a year now. And I need them. I work hard. And I'm looking for other work. But just because I'm on food stamps doesn't mean I'm not taking care of myself. Doesn't he know that? Doesn't he get it?​

Apparently not. Many people on food stamps, Medicaid, and the like do strive to provide for themselves and their families. The working poor…work. They may even park cars at fancy fundraisers for minimum wage. Romney all-too glibly characterized anyone receiving any public assistance as a parasitic freeloader, and he revealed an us-versus-them attitude that was tremendously ungracious, mean-spirited, and predicated on ignorance of the real world.

"Thank you, thank you," the woman said. "You showed us what he really thinks of us, what he thinks of me."

Mitt Romney built that.

More: The Most Damning Line in the Secret Romney Video | Mother Jones
Yeah, people who live off the gov't. tit is hurt by the truth. Wha WHa WHa. Romney is right, truth hurts.
 
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She won't give up the check she gets for just being an American Indian. She's one of the deadbeats the rest of us support.

Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.

Do payroll taxes pay for roads and bridges?

Do payroll taxes pay for national defense?

Do payroll taxes pay for food stamps?

Do payroll taxes pay for NASA?

Do payroll taxes pay for schools?

Do payroll taxes pay for post offices?



What's that you say? The 47 percent don't pay for these things, and so we should make someone else pay MORE than they already do?

That's liberal logic for you!

"Gimme gimme gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it!"



.
YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

Payroll taxes are part of the General Fund, you know that Bush raided to pay for his income and capital gains tax cuts.
 
Out of the 47 percent that pay no federal taxes, 2/3rds of them still pay PAYROLL taxes, and most of the rest of them are people living on social security who HAD jobs, paid into the system and are now retired.

Why does the GOP hate the old people? They're their biggest supporters.

Do payroll taxes pay for roads and bridges?

Do payroll taxes pay for national defense?

Do payroll taxes pay for food stamps?

Do payroll taxes pay for NASA?

Do payroll taxes pay for schools?

Do payroll taxes pay for post offices?



What's that you say? The 47 percent don't pay for these things, and so we should make someone else pay MORE than they already do?

That's liberal logic for you!

"Gimme gimme gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it!"



.
YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

YES!

Payroll taxes are part of the General Fund, you know that Bush raided to pay for his income and capital gains tax cuts.
They've also been part of the general fund that socialist dickweeds like you are perfectly good with raiding, in order to fund your bveloved socialistic welfare state.
 

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