Fallout from Romney's comments
60% Income less than $50,000
25% Senior Citizens
15% Unemployed
That's the breakdown of the 47%. Actually there's a few thousand millionaires in there too, that amazingly pay no income tax. But taking these numbers, it is clearly ludicrous to say a huge % of the country prefers a handout to personal responsibility. Some Republicans get it.
Arizona Senator Jon Kyl : [i] "I think if he were to recharacterize what he thinks about the vote he's going to get, he would appreciate that a lot of the folks that are currently receiving some benefit from the government are very likely to vote for him." [/i]
Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon: [i] "I disagree with Governor Romney's insinuation that 47% of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care. I know that the vast majority of those who rely on government are not in that situation because they want to be."[/i]
Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown: [i] "That's not the way I view the world. As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in."[/i]
Nevada Senator Dean Heller: [i] "I just don't view the world the same way he does."[/i]
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: [i] "We have a lot of people that are at the poverty level in New Mexico, but they count just as much as anybody else. There is a net that does allow them to be caught and taken care of, whether it be through medical services, whether it be food services, whether it be with funding for apartments, for housing."[/i]
[QUOTE=Toymann;426370]Ps. You so underestimate Americans dude. Shame. Shame. Shame.[/QUOTE]It has become very clear; the people who underestimate Americans are Mitt Romney and those who agree with him.
As usual you just don't get it SnakeBoy!
[QUOTE=SnakeOilSales;426530]If only your comparison was accurate; it is true, Barack Obama probably isn't much better than Pee Wee Herman, however, Mitt Romney is certainly no Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, which is the reason why Obama is leading in all polls and is the clear favorite to win the election in seven weeks. It is amazing how the Republicans can continue to put up terrible, borderline unelectable candidates for two consecutive election cycles; how could they, in their right minds, nominate a MORMON Wall Street Shark worth more than $250 million who was born with a platinum plated and diamond encrusted spoon in his mouth- during a period of economic turmoil largely caused by out of touch Wall Street Sharks just like Romney? How can anybody in Middle America even begin to relate to this guy when he is caught on video trashing the 47% of the electorate who receive some form of government benefits and pays just 13% of his yearly millions in taxes? The republicans should have nominated Chris Christie or some other ostensibly middle class politician who the undecided electorate in Middle America can actually relate to.[/QUOTE]In spite of your fantasy that the election is a prom queen contest, you again, as always miss the point. The 6% that will decide this election want someone who has a track record of getting the job done! Period! End of story! All polls of independents have been favouring Romney from the get go. Factor in the battleground states are mostly in the midwest (Florida is already in the bag dude) , and a Romney landslide is all but a forgone conclusion. It's not a popularity contest dumbo, america needs a closer and Obomanation has shown he is anything BUT! Keep howling at the moon. I am sure after the election you will crawl under your rock and never be heard from again on this board. It was just 20 months ago that the country voted for the greatest liberal slaughter in history. What makes you think anything has changed! It never fails to amaze me how you dudes like you and esten fail understand even the basics of small town america. Luckily most americans don't live in huge cities (at least not yet) , and the country remains a center right mosiac. Keep whistling past the cemetary SnakeBoy. Happy Mongering All. Toymann
Our Vets have 35% unemployment
So what did the GOP do to Help Them?
[url]http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/g-o-p-blocks-veteran-jobs-bill/[/url]
Why are you howling at the moon WT69?
[QUOTE=WorldTravel69; 426534]So what did the GOP do to Help Them?
[url]http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/g-o-p-blocks-veteran-jobs-bill/[/url][/QUOTE]There is NO money to pay for this dude. You just don't get it, do you? It's just a political play by senate liberals to appear like they are doing something. Why aren't you ranting about your liberal buddies in the senate looking at a budget for the country. There is one on the table but Reid and his ilk act like it doesn't exist. Where is your rage about this. This is such a two way street. You so don't get it dude. Monger on. Toymann.
Ps. Is this the same US military that you bad mouthed after they came back from Vietnam. Oh how you have changed your tune!
The new Ant and the Grasshopper Story
[u][b]The ANT and the GRASSHOPPER[/b][/u]
This one is a little different ....
Two Different Versions ...
Two Different Morals
[u][b]OLD VERSION[/b][/u]
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
[u][b]MORAL of the OLD STORY:[/b][/u]
Be responsible for yourself!
[u][b]MODERN VERSION[/b][/u]
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing 'We shall overcome'.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns the ants.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight..
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackled but once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
[u][b]MORAL of the STORY:[/b][/u]
Be careful how you vote in 2012.
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.
Can not grasp the concept
WT69, Esten, SOS and all the other liberals who just can not grasp the concept of "cutting entitlement spending'.
For liberals a "cut" in entitlement spending means you stop the entitlement program from growing any further not actually reduce the amount currently being spent.
This falls in line with liberal's idea that if Bush tax rates are not continued it represents a 'tax cut for the rich'. The actual 'cuts' took place years ago and the continuation of the CURRENT RATE does not represent another 'tax cut for the rich' as these are the prevailing current rates, no body's taxes went up or down. But still liberals call this a TAX CUT.
When we are borrowing 40 cents of every Federal dollar spent, we have a SPENDING PROBLEM. Entitlements such as Medicaid, Welfare and the host of other Federal handout programs must CUT BACK.
ANT's UNITE AND OVER THROW THE GRASSHOPPER OBAMA
NO, NO, NO, NO! It's much worse than that.
[QUOTE=Doppelganger;426574]For liberals a "cut" in entitlement spending means you stop the entitlement program from growing any further not actually reduce the amount currently being spent.[/QUOTE]A cut almost always means the entitlement program continues to grow. In the case of some programs, like Medicare, it continues to grow faster than per capita GDP. But since it was supposed to grow, say, 6% per year before the change but only 5% after, it's a cut.
