While trying to get his Mitts on R-money, the GOP candidate clearly believes he and his 1% crony capitalists are somehow the real victims, of the 99%, especially the lower economic bracket he characterized as the 47% (along with Ryan and Chip Cravaack). Mittens needs to be sat down hard, by these nuns and to have his warped right wing 'thinking' straightened out. It doesn't matter what religion someone is; nuns are formidable -- and the pope would be wise to remember that too.
It's time for the right to pull their collective heads out of wherever they've been stuck, and to return to objective reality from their revisionist ideologocial delusions. "Out of touch" is a gross understatement.
Nuns On A Bus: Romney’s 47 Percent Comments Show ‘He Has No Idea How Hard It Is’ To Be Poor
By Travis Waldron on Sep 25, 2012 at 1:40 pm
The leader of the Nuns On A Bus tour that has criss-crossed the nation highlighting the effect the House Republican budget would have on low-income Americans said Monday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent comments about the “47 percent” “show that he is “out of touch” and “has no idea how hard it is at the margins of our society.”
ThinkProgress spoke to Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby, in New York, where the Nuns got off the bus and onto the Staten Island ferry to highlight the GOP budget’s impacts on poverty programs in New York City. Aboard the ferry, Campbell said Romney’s comments “broke my heart” because they demonstrated his lack of knowledge about the living conditions of America’s poorest citizens:
The Nuns tour, which hit nine states earlier this year, was in New York to protest the House GOP budget authored by Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Even before he chose Ryan as his running mate, Romney supported the Ryan budget, which makes a majority of its spending cuts from programs that benefit the poor, including food stamps, Medicaid, and other assistance programs.
The Nuns On A Bus tour invited Romney and Ryan to join them during a stop in Ohio early in October but have yet to get an answer. But that visit, Campbell said, might be exactly what Romney needs. “That’s why we’ve invited them to come October 10 to Cincinnati, to have him listen to folks experience,” Campbell said. “Not speak, we want him to listen, to let his heart be broken by the truth of people in the U.S. That’s what he needs.”
It's time for the right to pull their collective heads out of wherever they've been stuck, and to return to objective reality from their revisionist ideologocial delusions. "Out of touch" is a gross understatement.
Nuns On A Bus: Romney’s 47 Percent Comments Show ‘He Has No Idea How Hard It Is’ To Be Poor
By Travis Waldron on Sep 25, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Nuns On A Bus supporters rally in Staten Island
ThinkProgress spoke to Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby, in New York, where the Nuns got off the bus and onto the Staten Island ferry to highlight the GOP budget’s impacts on poverty programs in New York City. Aboard the ferry, Campbell said Romney’s comments “broke my heart” because they demonstrated his lack of knowledge about the living conditions of America’s poorest citizens:
CAMPBELL: I mean, it was shocking to me that a person who says he wants to be the leader of our nation believes that 47 percent of our country is basically lazy or dependent or indolent. That was shocking to me. But then, it broke my heart that he would be so out of touch, that he would so not know the truth of folks at the margins of our society who work so hard. And he obviously doesn’t know that if you work a minimum wage job, if you’re a child care, if you’re providing janitorial services, or if you’re a day laborer, if you work for minimum wage, you’re still in poverty. He has no idea how hard it is at the margins of our society.
The Nuns tour, which hit nine states earlier this year, was in New York to protest the House GOP budget authored by Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Even before he chose Ryan as his running mate, Romney supported the Ryan budget, which makes a majority of its spending cuts from programs that benefit the poor, including food stamps, Medicaid, and other assistance programs.
The Nuns On A Bus tour invited Romney and Ryan to join them during a stop in Ohio early in October but have yet to get an answer. But that visit, Campbell said, might be exactly what Romney needs. “That’s why we’ve invited them to come October 10 to Cincinnati, to have him listen to folks experience,” Campbell said. “Not speak, we want him to listen, to let his heart be broken by the truth of people in the U.S. That’s what he needs.”
Three of my aunts were nuns. One died when I was quite young (my mother's younger sister) and I never really knew her.
ReplyDeleteThe other two were my dad's older sisters and both went into holy orders to relieve the family of their upkeep and to get an education during the Great Depression.
Sister Maureen (nee Dolores), the older of the two was a very talented artist but a major pain in the ass and a serious beadroller. Every time that she and Sister Callista (nee Beatrice) came to visit, Sister Maureen made us all do about 15 decades of the rosary--until the night that my dad told all of us kids to go out and enjoy the sunset. She didn't talk to him for six months.
Sister Callista was an awesome human being. Compassionate, funny, intelligent and curious. Her one weakness was in taking the cant of the RCC as unquestioned fact. But, even in that, I always felt that she was being PC for us. If she were still alive and active in her vocation, I suspect she would be far less PC.
Requiescat in Pace, auntie B.
'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matthew 25:40).
ReplyDeleteThus it would seem that somehow Bishop Romney has forgotten his instructions :
In your calling as bishop, you have a divine mandate to seek out and care for the poor (see D&C 84:112). It is your responsibility to direct the welfare work in your ward. To fulfill these responsibilities you should:
Know in your heart that you are the one the Lord has called to take care of the poor and needy in your ward.
And let us point out that Paul Ryan and Raymond Cravaack profess the Catholic faith … yet somehow must have missed hearing the one of the best speeches given during the political conventions ... by Sister Simone ... a transcript and other comments by the Good Sister are in this post
Now, considering Sister Simone's comments, the instructions from the Mormon Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the Bible, doesn't that explain why discussing religion and politics is not encouraged ... it makes the politicians uncomfortable.
Greedy Mitts seems to believe that if you just administer tough love by leaving people to die from being sick or starving them so they can pay more of the 1%'s tax tab, he's doing god's work (small g). Or he believes God wants him to be president - you know, like Michele Bachmann did. I suspect his unfamiliarity with the concepts of truth or fact will result in a similar failure to gain the office.
DeleteI'm sure he will be as surprised as she was that God changed his mind (ROFl). No doubt they use the conservative Bible that has been re-written to take out charity and accountability and altruism (as contrary to right wing nuttiness).
The man is just scum, and Lyin' Ryan is no better. They are so horrible they have lost any capacity for shame.