Posts Tagged ‘47%’
Mitt doesn’t get it
The REAL "Entitlement" Programs Benefit the Rich By Mike Kirchubel (about the author) opednews.com Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance are not gifts from the wealthy to the workers of America. We pay our own way. The real "entitlement" programs are the ones we workers fund for the benefit of the rich. Mitt Romney Does Not Have the Right to Dismiss Us By Moby Not to mention the roads, clean water, streetlights, police departments, fire ... Full Story
The 47% responds with a poem
Oh, my god, Mitt I'm apparently unfit To deserve your concern I 'm on medicare, you see, And social security And you may as well learn I believe the fed Should help 'til I'm dead If I can't do it on my own Government should protect me Certainly not neglect me None can make it alone Not even you, for one A wealthy man's son Whose path was paved with green Don't tell me that you Had no helping hand or two -- Have the guts to come clean Yes,I belong ... Full Story
Romney’s theory of the “taker class”
Romney’s theory of the “taker class,” and why it matters Posted by Ezra Kline There will be plenty said about the politics of Romney’s remarks. But I want to take a moment and talk about the larger argument behind them, because this vision of a society divided between “makers” and “takers” is core to the Republican nominee’s policy agenda. In his comments, Romney says that “these are people who pay no income tax,” but they are people “who are dependent upon government, ... Full Story
