47 Percenter Single Mom: 'Who Wants To Be Poor?'

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Gracie Fowler didn't earn enough money to pay income taxes last year. She won't make enough this year, either, and has turned to Medicaid to make sure her two small children have access to health care.

Despite what Mitt Romney seems to believe, she's not content to go on being one of the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes.

"Who wants to be poor? Half of Americans? What an ugly, ugly statement about Americans," said Fowler, a 35-year-old single mother who lives in Orlando, Fla. "Being poor has never been the place you want to be."

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"You just said about Americans that half of us are cool with feeling like we need a handout, we need to be babied?" said Fowler. "That's what you think of us? Us hard workers, us college-educated, us non-criminals, us parents, us workers?"

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"You jerk. My children are entitled to health care. They're humans," she said.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/47-percenter-single-mom_n_1909722.html

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Gracie Fowler of Orlando, Fla., is one of Mitt Romney's 47 percent and has enrolled her children in Medicaid.

[HockeyMom]

1. Growing up in Manhattan and literally rubbing elbows

with the likes of Donald Trump (met him) and shopping cart ladies (homeless), I never wanted to be either.

I never wanted to be homeless, but I never wanted to be ultra rich either. The Romney's, and Republicans, would never understand the latter.

[Warpy]

2. The true American dream is to be neither slave nor master

and that means being paid enough to save so that you can afford to say "no" once in a while.

That's the other reason our wages have been depressed since the 70s.

[HockeyMom]

4. Oh, I can fully understand our wages have been repressed

I did fine in Manhattan on $8/hour back in the 70s. Where anywhere in the country can even ONE PERSON, let alone with a family to support, being doing "fine" on $8/hour in 2012?

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Read some of the nasty, vile comments from repukes. Pathetic!