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Why are people trippin about this comment. Did he say anything we didn't know already. He is a republican, you actually expected him to care about the poor?
Being Poor is not that bad. Consider the facts below between the poor and the middle or working class.
By being "poor" you will get:
Pay no tax (the benefit is you will never get the taxman to harass you)
Free money from Earned income credit (you work just enough to be call "poor" or get pay under the table)
Free or very low cost housing
Free Medical & Dental ($0 out of pocket)
Free food (food stamp)
Free cell phone
Best of all: You retire early
By being "middle" class or the working class:
You pay tax 1/2 to 60% go to tax man
You every market price for housing
You pay for your own medical/dental. (I'm paying 500/mo for my family thought my company and there are copay)
You pay for your own food
You pay for your own cell phone
You work until you die
If you think being poor is so great why don't you become poor. Its really not that hard.
Regardless whether or not it was taken out of context. Comments like these will come back to haunt him in the general election. He is already seen as a wealthy elitist, which is what hurt John Kerry in 2004. Those comments will only back up what most people believe about him. Get ready to see this statement in political ads.
Being Poor is not that bad. Consider the facts below between the poor and the middle or working class.
By being "poor" you will get:
Pay no tax (the benefit is you will never get the taxman to harass you)
Free money from Earned income credit (you work just enough to be call "poor" or get pay under the table)
Free or very low cost housing
Free Medical & Dental ($0 out of pocket)
Free food (food stamp)
Free cell phone
Best of all: You retire early
By being "middle" class or the working class:
You pay tax 1/2 to 60% go to tax man
You every market price for housing
You pay for your own medical/dental. (I'm paying 500/mo for my family thought my company and there are copay)
You pay for your own food
You pay for your own cell phone
You work until you die
Which was sort of his point. There are safety nets in place for the very poor that the working poor or middle class who have suddenly lost their income do not have access to. That is the hardest hit segment of the population in this economy.
OK - it's one thing to say you don't like someone and disagree with their ideas, but lying is a different matter entirely.
Your hatred of Mitt Romney is pathetic.
He did NOT inherit his money from daddy.
While he did inherit some money from his father, more importantly he inherited his name and the doors that it opened for him.
That was pretty much...priceless.
Anyway, back to the OP: I agree with what he said - the very poor do have safety nets that the not so poor and the middle class do not. He definitely could have phrased it better, but, from a purely logical standpoint, I understand exactly what he was saying.
So, nowhere in that article does it say "Romney doesn't care about the 'very poor.'"
Are liberals incapable of telling the truth about anything?
You are absolutely correct. He said "I'm not concerned about the very poor.". But, to his credit, he did say there was a safety net for them. Of course it may have a few holes in it. One thing I see a bit disturbing, is when he refers to Retirees living on Soc Sec as Middle Income. Errr?? But then I remember all those thousands and thousand of store clerks and stock boys at Staples that are earning "Middle Income" wages, and I understand what Romney really is.
Why are people trippin about this comment. Did he say anything we didn't know already. He is a republican, you actually expected him to care about the poor?
He cares enough about the poor to donate millions to charity.
Please show me where Obama cares at all about the poor. Not just sound bites, spoken off his teleprompter. True caring. Bet you can't come up with anything.
Oh boy, for an inevitable nominee, Mitt Romney is sure shaping up to be an inevitably easy target for the DNC super PAC attack ads come October of this year. First the non-rich were 'envious'. Then he wouldn't release his tax returns. Then we found out why he was hiding his tax returns. And now he's not concerned with the poor. Not exactly the thing you want to say at a time when millions of Americans have lost wages or nest eggs over the past five years.
But please, keep 'em coming, Mitt.
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