KRUGMAN: "Mr. Romney has no idea what life (& death) are like for those less fortunate than himself"

[kpete]

Death By Ideology
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: October 14, 2012

Mitt Romney doesn’t see dead people. But that’s only because he doesn’t want to see them; if he did, he’d have to acknowledge the ugly reality of what will happen if he and Paul Ryan get their way on health care.

Last week, speaking to The Columbus Dispatch, Mr. Romney declared that nobody in America dies because he or she is uninsured: “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.” This followed on an earlier remark by Mr. Romney — echoing an infamous statement by none other than George W. Bush — in which he insisted that emergency rooms provide essential health care to the uninsured.

These are remarkable statements. They clearly demonstrate that Mr. Romney has no idea what life (and death) are like for those less fortunate than himself.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/krugman-death-by-ideology.html

[PearliePoo2]

1. Absolutely clueless

and not in touch with reality.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Not really....just living a different reality.....

John Edwards "Two Americas" statement rings true when you think of the different realities someone like Romney lives versus the 99%.

[theglammistress]

2. I appreciate Krugman

...and he had the brass to use the phrase "lying liars" in this piece -- and that's the truth!

A great piece I'll be sharing everywhere I can.

[Tigress DEM]

3. Sad to say, but Krugman has it exactly right. Sad that this is where America is at right now.

AND even sadder is that we have someone running for President that is completely clueless about real life and death right here in America.

UN Believable

[freshwest]

13. Not clueless -- callous and cruel. Both of them.

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[GoCubsGo]

18. Yep. He knows.

He just doesn't care, and I dare say he is like many others in his ratfuck party. They believe the unfortunate deserve their lot in life. Hell, just look at this story they keep pushing about how "compassionate" the fucker is. He helped out somebody in his church who was in a car wreck. That was one of his own. Nothing about helping homeless people, people who were losing their homes to foreclosure, people who had their jobs shipped overseas, and were losing everything they had... How many Hurricane Katrina victims did he help when he had the chance? Or, Joplin tornado victims? I am willing to bet the number is ZERO. Otherwise, why aren't they touting those stories?

[Aoxous]

4. Growing up, I saw my mother in tremendous of pain due to multiple sclerosis.

She was in terrible pain and pain meds did not work. I grew up lower middle class, and my mother even took manual labor jobs at times to help out. She was always selfless.

Unfortunately, I woke up one morning, as a young child, and found her cold and dead. The causes were unknown, but my grandmother swears to this day that it was the new steroid treatment that the doctor put her on since nothing else was working or alleviating the pain.

The day Ann Romney claimed that she knows what it is like to struggle to be a stay at home mom who bought thoroughbred horses to treat her MS made me vomit. While I empathize with the pain she must of been going through, I wish my mother had the option of riding horses to cure her MS, instead of dealing with it and working menial and sometimes manual labor jobs to help the family.

The Romney's are so bereft from reality and bankrupt on empathy.

[Barack_America]

6. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Even though it sounds as if it were some time ago. That must have been so horrible.

[Aoxous]

8. Thanks, but it has been over two decades now, but Ann Romney

did hit a nerve. Buying thoroughbred horses to deal with your medical problems is not exactly the best way to make the case that you struggle like everyone else.

[Barack_America]

17. I agree.

Your story did, however, remind me of Michelle Obama's description of how her father worked through the pain of MS. I think she understands.

[niyad]

9. cannot imagine what you have gone through, but so sorry for your loss.

welcome to DU

[Aoxous]

11. Thanks, but my post was not meant to garner sympathy.

It was to highlight the empathic bankruptcy of the Romney family. These people do not understand the word struggle or plight that some people face.

[renate]

15. that must have been absolutely horrible... I'm so sorry

I can't begin to imagine what that was like, to see your mother in pain, to find her dead one morning... and I can't begin to imagine how infuriating it must be to hear Ann Romney talk as if she knows what it is to suffer with MS. Well, okay, fine, she knows what it's like to have MS... but she has no idea what it's like to be someone like your mom, having to work through the pain.

What a heroine your mother was. Truly admirable.

[riderinthestorm]

5. A very distressed and sad K&R nt

[Lex]

7. He's like the exact opposite of most of the Kennedys, who advocate on behalf of those

less fortunate.

[raccoon]

19. Don't see many wealthy politicians like that any more, do you? nt

[Lex]

20. No one teaches to "give back" something when you are fortunate

enough to make it--because now you are encouraged to beat your chest and yell "I DID THAT! ALL ME!"

Disgusting state of affairs these days.

[99Forever]

10. K&R

[LibDemAlways]

12. Here's a guy born into great wealth who has

no idea what life is like for the masses. Yet he feels quite comfortable making up shit as he goes along. The saddest part is that we live in a country where millions - including a great many at or near the bottom of the economic ladder - will vote for him.

[WillyT]

14. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!