Romney: "I'm Not Concerned With the Very Poor"

[dajoki]

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/769247/romney%3A_%22i%27m_not_concerned_with_the_very_poor%22_%28while_fellow_.001ers_pony_up_for_his_super_pac%29/

Romney: "I'm Not Concerned With the Very Poor" (While Fellow .001%ers Pony Up for His Super PAC)


Oh, dear. Robot Romney's wires have malfunctioned again, just when he should have been soaking up his win in Florida last night.

Check out this unfortunate soundbite from a CNN interview this morning, in which the .006%er said he wasn't concerned about the very poor:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2012/02/01/point-romney-poor-safety-net.cnn


The Washington Post reports on the exchange:


“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney told CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90 percent, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”

Host Soledad O’Brien pointed out that the very poor are probably struggling too.

“The challenge right now — we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor,” Romney responded, after repeating that he would fix any holes in the safety net. “And there’s no question it’s not good being poor and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor .?.?. My focus is on middle income Americans ... we have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it. but we have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor.”



As one of the richest Americans with a now-revealed low tax rate and numerous offshore accounts, Romney can't come off this callous about the safety net--particularly when so many Americans are one misfortune away from joining that group.

[limpyhobbler]

1. I have a hard time imagining how any politician could be more out of touch. nt

[dimbear]

2. I see this as a Mormon thing. No Catholic or Protestant would put those words out,

too many Bible quotes make that an automatic ticket punched straight to hell.

The Mormons have in place an admittedly quite effective social system which takes care of the poor already. Mostly the Mormon poor. To them this isn't going to sound just flatout cruel.

[Taverner]

3. Mitt is concerned with Mitt. That's how the 1% rolls....

[arely staircase]

4. don't worry mittens, nobody said you were. k&r nt

[thelordofhell]

5. "I'm Not Concerned With the Very Poor"

"And I'm a Mormon"

Bet they didn't want that type of ad

[3waygeek]

6. Of course, to Mittens, the very poor

includes everyone who makes < $1,000,000 per year.

[Skidmore]

7. They have been dismantling the safety net for decades now.

People are joining the homeless and the hungry and the ill who make up the very poor now.

[johnnie]

8. " we will hear from the Democrat party"

This guy doesn't even know the name of the party he is running against?

[no_hypocrisy]

9. How redundant.

We knew this already about Romney.

[JI7]

10. Someone needs Audio of These Comments next to his "Corporations are People"

notice how defensive he was with corporations but hateful and dismissive about the poor.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. or his comments about how he loves to fire people

or make casual $10,000 bets. Something tells me the list will be getting longer, especially if Romney has more candid unscripted moments where he shows us how he really thinks.

[etherealtruth]

11. I could almost respect him for saying that out loud ...

As despicable as the thought is ..it is probably one of the few very true beliefs he's verbalized.

[quaker bill]

13. "we have programs"

This is a classic. It is why there are vastly underfunded and understaffed "programs" for so many things, politicians love the "we have a program for that" dodge.

Every so often they do an "accountability" audit of the underfunded and understaffed "programs", find them lacking and fire a few civil servants, put new ones in place and continue underfunding and understaffing with a "new management" that will make it all better....