How are Romney's Comments on the Poor any better "In Context" ?

[JI7]

i don't get it. it's very dismissive . it's not any better in context and probably worse . i think Romney has a hatred for the poor. he sees them as taking wrongly from people like him.

the way he said it just like the i like firing people just come off really bad.i said before that even in cases where one should be fired most people don't enjoy doing it.

[liberal N proud]

1. It's Class Warfare

Plain and simple!

[zbdent]

6. no no no no no! Class warfare is only done by the LEFT!!!

Didn't you get the memo?

[JI7]

7. no, it's only class warfare if you say anything about the wealthy

but you can hate, dismiss, attack the poor all you want.

[handmade34]

2. in context

Romney thinks the poor are already taken care of... he is woefully unaware of what it means to be poor, and of what society does and doesn't do to help the poor

Mr. Romney really doesn't understand, is not able to empathize and can't even imagine what it is like to be poor

[JI7]

4. even if he thinks that, how about maybe a poor person wants to do better

improve their life. maybe they have a business idea and need a loan or something but since they are poor with either no job or very low paying they can't get one.

i mean, even if you accept what he says about the poor as true it's still not good.

[gateley]

3. Well, since a lot of the poorest of the poor will be unable to vote with the snazzy new

Voter ID laws, he doesn't care about them. He's playing to the voters. "Don't worry, I won't focus on the poor people, I'm all about YOU!"

[FarLeftFist]

5. In other words: POOR PEOPLE ARE DOING JUST FINE, FUCK EM!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I think all you guys are being very unfair to Romney.

At least he didn't say we should harvest poor people to use as fuel. And if any Gingrich advisers are reading this. Don't even think about it. I came up with it first.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. and his comments about letting people lose their homes by letting foreclosures proceed to shake out

the market. For many people, their home is their only wealth, especially the lower classes. He can't seem to put himself in the position of someone who has to work his/her ass off and still can't get by. If you're poor, it's your fault, after all, and not the fault of the holy of holies rigged free market.

[saras]

10. He knows the comment was a lie, and is grateful no one's exposed it yet

His comment is based on a couple of assumptions. One is that there is a class of "poor" that is below the level of, as he says, "the 90-95%", and the other is that these people are the evil monsters conservatives have always made them out to be. He's hoping to get any Americans who haven't completely given in to poverty yet to see themselves as the 'upper' class held down by the 'poor'.

And he knows perfectly well that the numbers don't support this picture at all - it's a crock of lies concocted for the Reagan administration.

He DOES enjoy firing people, and he DOES think there is a class of Americans that deserves to die in the streets. There's nothing SURPRISING in this, any more than there's anything SURPRISING in the fact that Charles Manson doesn't make parole.