Mother Jones is out with this surreptitiously recorded video of Mitt Romney talking to wealthy donors and making the allegation that 47 percent of Americans are lazy and believe "the government has the responsibility to care for them," and a lot more. Watch as Romney casts outrageously wide generalizations about Democrats.
Mitt Romney caught in the act of being Mitt Romney!!!!!!
Compare how At Home & Comfortable Mitt looks & feels around "his people"......the big shots......... compared to video of him picnicking around "those people".......the average guy/gal..................the REAL MITT is the one in the above video.........Mitt was caught being Mitt............and there is a reason Mitt feels uncomfortable around average folks........ya... he was Mitt pretending to be the guy next door in the other videos where he was afraid to touch the picnic food or eat the American made bakery goodies...........looked like he wished he was wearing rubber gloves so he wouldn't have to touch anything like a picnic table & picnic food or shake the hand of average folks who work for a living............
Linda S Houston
9/18/2012 1:58:14 PM
There he goes again. Shoot first, aim second.
Linda S Houston
9/18/2012 1:56:43 PM
This is low information pandering at its finest. Most who support this idiot really do think like this. Yet you have to wonder why they think like this. SS is not an entitlement, we pay into it. You know what, I believe Harry Reid was right, I don't think this man paid any taxes whatsoever in the last 10 years. Why should he? Bush and Co fixed him and his buddies up just peachy as soon as they got in power. So we're back to rubber and glue again. Romney pays little or no taxes yet he has declared nearly half of America as non tax paying and "not like him."
Rob, Oregon
9/18/2012 10:26:47 AM
Good God, who hasn't Romney insulted? I love it when a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth with a giant leg up on most of Americans calls 47% of the country Lazy freeloaders. You talk about a broad generalization. One day he talks about America as the greatest country on earth, the next, half of us are lazy freeloaders. This pretty boys arrogance precedes himself. What else you got Flip? Put the cheap insults in the bag and talk specifics on how your going to rescue us. What a douche this guy is. Talk about entitlements. This guy thinks he is absolutely entitled to be President no matter what spills out of his racist mouth on any given day.
Buggzee
9/18/2012 5:57:27 AM
....and to blueb....yes I believe this will have legs, but hopefully it will only carry Mitty so far. This was disgustingly racist against our president and low-brow tactics in it's implications!
Buggzee
9/18/2012 5:53:56 AM
I really doubt that this was not meant to be seen.
My thought watching it on the NBC evening news was that Romney's campaign is getting a FREE campaign ad! (ironic isn't it?)
I noticed a local citizens wearing T-shirts, by the way just yesterday, that said "I work hard, so laziness can be rewarded" (not quite the quote, but close enough to 'get' the message.)
This isn't a 'dog whistle' issue; this is loud and clear.....and Mitt says he doesn't engage in class warfare! Really?
Because of the Reagan on down tax breaks for wealthy -ahem coff coff - "investors" (read schemers, liars, and outright thieves) our country has been decimated to this point of scrambled-ness.....and the likes of Romney continue to blame poor people!
John, Los Angeles
9/17/2012 9:33:13 PM
They don't pay any income tax because they don't make enough income to pay income tax Mr. Rich guy. I guess you want to them to pay income taxes on their miserly incomes because that would only be fair, right. What about a guy, YOU,Rich guy, who pays only a 15% income tax rate on $22 million income. This is far less than I pay on my income which is far, far less than your $22 million a year. And oh, I think most people dependent on the government for food and shelter in these economic hard times would prefer to have a decent job with a decent income; you know, Mr Rich Guy, like the jobs you helped to send to China and India.
Puyallup Girl
9/17/2012 9:11:41 PM
You are correct Harold! The reason they don't pay taxes is because under the current tax system, they don't Make"Enough"Money"!!!!!!! all this stuff is going to come back to bite em all in the ass! You wait and see!
Harold3225
9/17/2012 8:36:33 PM
Romney is talking about very poor people and our seniors who worked all their life and paid into social security system and medicare and paid into savings or pension plans so when they were old could retire a few years before they leave earth. He says these people are lazy freeloaders.
I think the question of who Romney is and what he will do is finally settled.
According to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, it is true that 38 percent of "households" — which can be singles, couples, or families — are projected to have zero or negative income tax liability in 2009. About 60 percent of these households make $20,000 per year or less. The remaining 40% of the 38% that pay no federal income tax are seniors.
Puyallup Girl
9/17/2012 7:57:23 PM
Its auite amazing that, These people don't have all the facts before they go shooting their mouths off. So, when my husband retires next August and we go back to Washington, my husband will be according to you Mr. Robme, a freeloader, because he will be on medicare, and social security and me too! Is that what you are saying??
Most of the people who receive some kind of help work for Corporate Welfare and the largest one comes to mind, is our friend, Walmart"!! I Did some fact checking, and found that most of Walmarts 500 thousand employees make only minimum wage about $ 7.75 an hour, and work a minimum of about 34 hours a week, which means that their check is $238 a week, and this is before taxes. Conservatives, when are you going to get it through your thick skulls, that this is not a decent living wage, and that is that exact reason that they have to rely on somethings else like food stamps to help them along!! People need at least 15 dollars an hour, which averages out to $1200 a paycheck before taxes. And they do pay taxes to the dismay, and bewilderment, of you Republkkkans!!
Oh Romney, I forgot, you don't like to deal with the facts!
