Elizabeth Warren: Romney Wrote Off Half Of America As ‘Deadbeats’

Source: TPM

Elizabeth Warren, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, weighed in on Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comments on Tuesday.

“Romney just wrote off half the people in Massachusetts and half the people in America as deadbeats," Warren told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent. "This is a separate category of contempt for half of our fellow citizens.”

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Elizabeth Warren: Romney just `wrote off half the American people as deadbeats’
By Greg Sargent
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So I checked in with Warren for her take on Romney’s comments.

“Romney just wrote off half the people in Massachusetts and half the people in America as deadbeats,” Warren told me. “This is a separate category of contempt for half of our fellow citizens.”

“He doesn’t understand that millions of these people are working their hearts out, and paying plenty in taxes,” Warren continued, meaning many people pay no federal income taxes do pay other taxes. She added Romney has “no recognition of what people’s lives are really like.”

Warren said Romney’s comments clarified the choice voters face this fall. “It’s a party that says, `I’ve got mine and the rest of you are on your own,’ versus those who say, `We’re all in this together,’” she said. “There’s a clear choice in this election, between those who believe that to build an economy, the rich and powerful should get richer and more powerful, with tax cuts for the wealthiest and deregulation, while everyone else is left to pick up the pieces.”