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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow are Romney's Comments on the Poor any better "In Context" ?
i don't get it. it's very dismissive . it's not any better in context and probably worse . i think Romney has a hatred for the poor. he sees them as taking wrongly from people like him.
the way he said it just like the i like firing people just come off really bad.i said before that even in cases where one should be fired most people don't enjoy doing it.
liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)Plain and simple!
zbdent
(35,392 posts)Didn't you get the memo?
JI7
(89,283 posts)but you can hate, dismiss, attack the poor all you want.
handmade34
(22,759 posts)Romney thinks the poor are already taken care of... he is woefully unaware of what it means to be poor, and of what society does and doesn't do to help the poor
Mr. Romney really doesn't understand, is not able to empathize and can't even imagine what it is like to be poor
JI7
(89,283 posts)improve their life. maybe they have a business idea and need a loan or something but since they are poor with either no job or very low paying they can't get one.
i mean, even if you accept what he says about the poor as true it's still not good.
gateley
(62,683 posts)Voter ID laws, he doesn't care about them. He's playing to the voters. "Don't worry, I won't focus on the poor people, I'm all about YOU!"
FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,509 posts)At least he didn't say we should harvest poor people to use as fuel. And if any Gingrich advisers are reading this. Don't even think about it. I came up with it first.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)the market. For many people, their home is their only wealth, especially the lower classes. He can't seem to put himself in the position of someone who has to work his/her ass off and still can't get by. If you're poor, it's your fault, after all, and not the fault of the holy of holies rigged free market.
saras
(6,670 posts)His comment is based on a couple of assumptions. One is that there is a class of "poor" that is below the level of, as he says, "the 90-95%", and the other is that these people are the evil monsters conservatives have always made them out to be. He's hoping to get any Americans who haven't completely given in to poverty yet to see themselves as the 'upper' class held down by the 'poor'.
And he knows perfectly well that the numbers don't support this picture at all - it's a crock of lies concocted for the Reagan administration.
He DOES enjoy firing people, and he DOES think there is a class of Americans that deserves to die in the streets. There's nothing SURPRISING in this, any more than there's anything SURPRISING in the fact that Charles Manson doesn't make parole.