{"id":8876,"date":"2012-09-18T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8876"},"modified":"2012-09-18T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T20:33:19","slug":"willard-does-not-care-for-the-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/willard-does-not-care-for-the-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard Does Not Care for the 47%"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/font>If you voted for Barack Obama\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you are a vet and were maimed defending our nation\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you worked all your life, and paid for Social Security\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you paid for your Medicare\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you have a student loan\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If your children receive a free meal at school\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you receive unemployment benefits, even if Bain Capital outsourced your job\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you receive food stamps\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

If you receive a penny from the government in any way (except corporate welfare)\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

Then Romney does not concern himself with you, because you are a lazy moocher, you refuse to take responsibility for your own life, and you consider yourself a victim.<\/font><\/p>\n

How do we know?  <\/span>Willard said so himself!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18RomneyCares\"Republican nominee Mitt Romney, speaking to donors at a closed-door fundraiser this year, said that supporters of President Obama failed to take personal responsibility for their lives, relied on government for their needs and paid no income tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care of them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it,\u201d Romney said in a videotaped speech to donors that was given to the news organization Mother Jones, which posted it online Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s an entitlement," Romney said. "And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. \u2026 These are people who pay no income tax.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the remarks, Romney said he had no hope of swaying those people to his side and would instead focus on unaligned voters.<\/p>\n

"[M]y job is not to worry about those people,\u201d Romney said, referring to Obama supporters. \u201cI’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives<\/strong>."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Willard said he was speaking off the cuff.  He was, and to me that means he was unguardedly saying what he really thinks.  He certainly was with those with whom he has most in common: people who can afford $50,000 for dinner.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ed Schultz covered the story with Ted Strickland and EJ Dionne.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a proclamation of class warfare.  Romney\u2019s statements only acknowledge the policies of the Republican Party.  I am a proud member of the 47%.  I AM entitled to my Social Security and Medicare.  I PAID for them.  But the Republican War on America, extends beyond just 47%.  It\u2019s a war against the 99%!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you voted for Barack Obama\u2026 If you are a vet and were maimed defending our nation\u2026 If you worked all your life, and paid for Social Security\u2026 If you paid for your Medicare\u2026 If you have a student loan\u2026 If your children receive a free meal at school\u2026 If you receive unemployment benefits, even […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}