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Related: About this forum"Mitt Romney Blames The ‘Victims’" By LOLGOP at eclectablog
Mitt Romney Blames The VictimsBy LOLGOP at eclectablog
REMINDER: People on welfare didnt cost us 15 million jobs and trillions in savings. People on Wall Street did.
http://eclectablog.com/2012/09/mitt-romney-blames-the-victims.html#.UF3CjdcSeN0.reddit
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Thanks to a waiter with a small camera and gigantic metaphorical testicles, James E. Carter and David Corn at Mother Jones, we finally got a peek at the way Mitt Romney actually regards 47 percent of American voters the laborers, the janitors the home health care workers the working poor who in the last two decades have seen their life expectancy shrink by four years.
With a confidence and fluency that eludes him when speaking about most anything, Romney told us that what hes learned by becoming severely conservative is that these Americas most of whom work and pay a higher tax rate than him due to payroll taxes are people who see themselves victims. To him theyre dependent moochers who cant be forced to take responsibly for their lives.
Youd have to work 7 million years at Walmart to earn as much as the Walmart heirs. But if you work there 40 hours a week, Mitt Romney thinks youre a moocher.
Ezra Klein has pointed out that the working poor in America arent avoiding responsibility, theyre drowning in it. And thats obvious to anyone who has any sense of whats going on in our economy.
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"Mitt Romney Blames The ‘Victims’" By LOLGOP at eclectablog (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2012
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iemitsu
(3,888 posts)1. hear, hear
Cha
(297,885 posts)2. Excellent piece from LOLGOP
The worst possible tendency of those who are in power is the tendency to blame the powerless. And with this video we see that Mitt Romney is a man who does just that.
So it was a waiter! Yay for the Service Industry!
Thanks applegrove~
rizlaplus
(159 posts)3. What will Mitt do next?