Secret Mitt Romney Video: Barack Obama Voters 'Dependent On Government'

[tjdee]

Last edited Mon Sep 17, 2012, 04:31 PM - Edit history (3)

""There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney says in one clip. "All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.""

To a closed door meeting of 30 donors. Full video has been given to David Corn, editor of Mother Jones.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/mitt-romney-video_n_1829455.html


GETS WORSE:

""My job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.""
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

And a hearty F*** You to you as well, Willard.

Does it not strike anyone as horrific that he thinks that a full FORTY-SEVEN PERCENT of this country are basically dependent on government teat? It's not that we don't like him guys. He thinks he is absolutely fine. *smh*

[Hokie]

1. What is with splicing all the commercials into a 2 minute video?

That was damn annoying of HuffPo. I will wait for the unedited version. This is HUGE and very damning.

[banned from Kos]

2. My parents believe that and they depend on SS/Medicare

everyone else is on "welfare".

[nc4bo]

3. Oh my damn........wtf? Is this from the first clip about the China laborers? Same function?

I hate this guy. I really despise even the air that surrounds him. Not enough bleach, Lysol or anti-bacterial soap out there to clean the filth.

[PotatoChip]

9. Yes, that part got to me too.

Well, all of it was sickeningly Mittish, but that in particular struck me as very condescending. More so than usual because I think he believed he was among his buddies.

You get much more of a sense of who this guy is, and it ain't pretty.

[lumpy]

4. Damn right I depend on our government to care for us by doing the job in the

area of national defense, paying on our investments in social security, Medicare, Medicaid, workers compensation, money designated by tax dollars for food programs, health care (Medicare, Medicaid), Housing assistance, small business assistance, growing education and all that stuff that is for the benefit fo US citizens. That is why we pay tax dollars to the US government. After all, the money the government gets comes from the people, no one else. We have the right to choose where our money goes.
Romney and his cohorts have benefitted from government assistance in many areas, one in allowing him to stash his money outside the US, letting him get way by not paying his fair share in taxes (incidently, perks and tax breaks that Reagan barreled through Congress)
The American people do not believe we are 'victims'. That is nothing less than an ultimate insult to people who have worked damn hard to contribute to the strength and health of the government designed for and of the people.

[Lex]

5. They leaked that shit on purpose.

Because Romney can't straight-up say it at a presser.

[lumpy]

11. If Romney's little speech to his rich friends downgrading Americans who get any

benefits owed them by tax dollars paid for their welfare, Americans would want to have him tarred and feathered. We own the government and the government is not in place to only benefit slackers who don't pay their fair share and stash their money overseas to avoid paying same fairshare.
I have to say it. Romney is the first prez candidate that I would consider truly unAmerican.
And I will say this, he is a bastardly self-centered SOB.

[tjdee]

7. "hesitant to hammer the president too hard out of fear of alienating independents who voted for

Obama"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

These are just the splices from the full vid too.

[Lex]

8. I guess he's not talking about Corp Welfare

where corporations and millionaires think they have a right to big tax breaks, write offs, off-shore tax shelters, and the like.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Is there anyone who ISN'T dependent on government in some way, shape or form?

[Lex]

12. I like the interstate highway system. And that the FDA checks food for safety.

It's not perfect, but those 2 things are off the top of my head.

[LTR]

13. He is NOT a self-made man!

I find it amusing how Rmoney
claims to have worked his way up from humble origins. His dad was a GOP insider and ran a car company, for crying out loud! Mitt Romney was never poor. He never ate ramen. He was never unemployed. And he never owned a company that manufactured anything, including a single job. Mitt Romney is th biggest fraud that ever walked the planet. At least Dubya never shied away from his origins. Hell, he all but admitted to being
a spoiled brat!