I have a brief reply to the bald-faced lie Mitt Romney chose to say to a private audience in May, but which he is now repeating nationally.
I work, I make enough that the temporary tax cuts which will be allowed expire at the end of this year will affect me. I pay into the system fully. I support re-electing Barack Obama.
I, like 33% of those paying federal income taxes, support the re-election of the President quite simply because he has never, not to my knowledge, EVER purposefully looked to divide the country like this, by insulting 47% of the country who support the President – calling them free-loaders and moochers.
My reaction to Mr. Romney is, outside of proving so completely why you should NOT be President because you look to divide the country and create resentment and derision for a vast swath of people, kiss my rear-end. I pay federal income taxes, you don’t. I don’t get special perks, special tax rates. I pay Social Security, unemployment, payroll, and Medicare taxes, and if your income is purely from Capital Gains, as you said in a debate with Newt Gingrich – YOU DON’T. I won’t call you a free-loader, though many wealthy truly are – in that they take public subsidies in amounts they’ve never contributed. They use funds from companies they help control, not their own money, to gamble in the market (as hedgefunds do - like Romney did with Bain). They expect to get paid personally if things go well while not suffering personally if they don’t. YOU sir, not me, gamble with other people’s money. So, I won't call you a free loader, I'll simply say that the system is rigged to benefit YOU, and then YOU have the audacity to complain about the pittance in support those of us who are willing and happy to provide, provide to the least (financially able) of us.
Bottom line is this, many of us in society who pay taxes (which is actually 82% of us pay payroll, Social Security and Medicare taxes) – we vote for social support because it’s the RIGHT thing to do, it’s the ethical thing to do, to not let folks starve on the street. It also works, Social Security keeps tens of millions of elderly from eating out of garbage cans. People SAY they’ll save, but they don’t save enough. To us, letting them starve when they fail isn’t an option we are willing to put up accept. Apparently, Mitt, you are. Apparently not feeding the hungry when they starve is your approach, after all they did it to themselves, right? My reaction, if you can't understand how people feel compassion even for those who made bad choices is go read Matthew 25 if you need some help understanding what Jesus would do, tells us to do, even for criminals. But understand one thing, those of us who feel it’s not ok to watch people die in agony, who pay taxes and don’t mind seeing them used for social programs – we’re just fine with it. We vote for those programs because we believe there are right and proper thing to do, and it was a LOT of us, an overwhelming majority of us who voted for it, THAT's what made it the law. It's called Democracy. The people decided it was right - not just "free loaders", but hundreds of millions of us who work hard – and while we may not have been given $20M to start a company by our daddy – we make an ok living. We don’t seek publicly funded sports facilities for the teams we own, we don’t seek special tax exemptions for our businesses – we are hardly free-loaders and that kind of commentary is deeply offensive. It suggests, it says, our charity is false - it maligns our good acts as being intended instead to steal. Clearly you don't get just how offensive that is, but equally clearly it means aren't qualified for office.
So, Mr. Romney, you’ve insulted ALL of us, ALL of us who support Obama and who are paying taxes – ALL of us. You’ve called us irresponsible, you’ve called us unscrupulous cheats. Furthermore, it shows not just you, Mr. Romney, but your conservative supporters, are mean-spirited, ignorant, greedy, uncharitable and easily mislead hypocrites. The indictment here isn’t just of Romney, it’s of you all. I’ll never think again that conservatives are merely misguided supporters of individual responsibility. I’m going to think they are deeply deluded and cheap, willing to believe lies not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to justify not helping anyone. They are willing to watch people die from health issues if they can’t afford insurance and willing to not provide any safety net for those who have no food and also willing to spew the most vile of lies. Rather than showing at least SOME small respect for those of us who value altruism, kindness and charity, these conservative unchristian self-righteous hypocrites are willing to call their neighbors, ANY of their neighbors who support their political opponents, lazy good-for nothing cheats. Well, I’ll try to forgive this sin of greed and pride, but I sure as HELL will never again consider a conservative candidate for office.
I work, I make enough that the temporary tax cuts which will be allowed expire at the end of this year will affect me. I pay into the system fully. I support re-electing Barack Obama.
I, like 33% of those paying federal income taxes, support the re-election of the President quite simply because he has never, not to my knowledge, EVER purposefully looked to divide the country like this, by insulting 47% of the country who support the President – calling them free-loaders and moochers.
My reaction to Mr. Romney is, outside of proving so completely why you should NOT be President because you look to divide the country and create resentment and derision for a vast swath of people, kiss my rear-end. I pay federal income taxes, you don’t. I don’t get special perks, special tax rates. I pay Social Security, unemployment, payroll, and Medicare taxes, and if your income is purely from Capital Gains, as you said in a debate with Newt Gingrich – YOU DON’T. I won’t call you a free-loader, though many wealthy truly are – in that they take public subsidies in amounts they’ve never contributed. They use funds from companies they help control, not their own money, to gamble in the market (as hedgefunds do - like Romney did with Bain). They expect to get paid personally if things go well while not suffering personally if they don’t. YOU sir, not me, gamble with other people’s money. So, I won't call you a free loader, I'll simply say that the system is rigged to benefit YOU, and then YOU have the audacity to complain about the pittance in support those of us who are willing and happy to provide, provide to the least (financially able) of us.
Bottom line is this, many of us in society who pay taxes (which is actually 82% of us pay payroll, Social Security and Medicare taxes) – we vote for social support because it’s the RIGHT thing to do, it’s the ethical thing to do, to not let folks starve on the street. It also works, Social Security keeps tens of millions of elderly from eating out of garbage cans. People SAY they’ll save, but they don’t save enough. To us, letting them starve when they fail isn’t an option we are willing to put up accept. Apparently, Mitt, you are. Apparently not feeding the hungry when they starve is your approach, after all they did it to themselves, right? My reaction, if you can't understand how people feel compassion even for those who made bad choices is go read Matthew 25 if you need some help understanding what Jesus would do, tells us to do, even for criminals. But understand one thing, those of us who feel it’s not ok to watch people die in agony, who pay taxes and don’t mind seeing them used for social programs – we’re just fine with it. We vote for those programs because we believe there are right and proper thing to do, and it was a LOT of us, an overwhelming majority of us who voted for it, THAT's what made it the law. It's called Democracy. The people decided it was right - not just "free loaders", but hundreds of millions of us who work hard – and while we may not have been given $20M to start a company by our daddy – we make an ok living. We don’t seek publicly funded sports facilities for the teams we own, we don’t seek special tax exemptions for our businesses – we are hardly free-loaders and that kind of commentary is deeply offensive. It suggests, it says, our charity is false - it maligns our good acts as being intended instead to steal. Clearly you don't get just how offensive that is, but equally clearly it means aren't qualified for office.
So, Mr. Romney, you’ve insulted ALL of us, ALL of us who support Obama and who are paying taxes – ALL of us. You’ve called us irresponsible, you’ve called us unscrupulous cheats. Furthermore, it shows not just you, Mr. Romney, but your conservative supporters, are mean-spirited, ignorant, greedy, uncharitable and easily mislead hypocrites. The indictment here isn’t just of Romney, it’s of you all. I’ll never think again that conservatives are merely misguided supporters of individual responsibility. I’m going to think they are deeply deluded and cheap, willing to believe lies not out of ignorance, but out of a desire to justify not helping anyone. They are willing to watch people die from health issues if they can’t afford insurance and willing to not provide any safety net for those who have no food and also willing to spew the most vile of lies. Rather than showing at least SOME small respect for those of us who value altruism, kindness and charity, these conservative unchristian self-righteous hypocrites are willing to call their neighbors, ANY of their neighbors who support their political opponents, lazy good-for nothing cheats. Well, I’ll try to forgive this sin of greed and pride, but I sure as HELL will never again consider a conservative candidate for office.
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