Mitt Romney On 47% Comment: ‘I Was Completely Wrong’
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday admitted that he was “completely wrong” when he claimed that 47 percent of Americans were “victims” and dependent on government.
In attempting to magically take back his original comments, Romney declared:
“Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you’re going to say something that doesn’t come out right. In this case, I said something that’s just completely wrong.”
Of course, as we all know by now, Romney’s speech was not a simple slip of the tongue but rather a private event address made in front of his rich fundraising friends.
At the time of his comments, Romney said 47 percent of Americans will vote for President Obama “no matter what.” Romney stated:
“There are 47% 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.”
Romney then said his “job is not to worry about those people.”
He then added:
“I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
Before concluding:
“What I have to do is convince the 5 percent to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful.”
In attempting to fix his extremely long “slip of the tongue,” Romney told a group of reporters after his speech:
“We have a very different approach – the president and I – between a government-dominated society and a society driven by free people pursuing their dreams.”
Surprisingly, President Obama did not attack Mitt Romney over his comments during the first round of debates, a contest Mitt Romney handily won in the eyes of many observers.
Romney’s new claim is now that he will help the 100 percent. After all, his rich buddies need the same help the 47 percent of American degenerates require.
Tags : 47 percent, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Hates Apology
Posted: October 5, 2012
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Oct 6, 2012
Now you notice….He still HAS NOT APOLIGIISED!
He just said it was Wrong.
Oct 6, 2012
The First Debate: Mitt Romney's Five Biggest Lies.
The truth behind that $5 trillion tax cut, pre-existing conditions and more.
By Tim Dickinson.
October 4, 2012 9:32 AM ET.
Mitt Romney turned in a polished performance in last night's presidential debate – and revealed himself to be an accomplished and unapologetic liar. In an evening where he sought to slice and dice the president with statistics, Romney baldly misrepresented his own policy prescriptions, made up numbers to fit his attacks and buried clear contrasts with the president under a heaping pile of horseshit.
Here are mendacious Mitt's five most outrageous statements:
1. "I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut." Romney flatly lied about the cost of his proposal to cut income-tax rates across the board by another 20 percent (undercutting even the low rates of the Bush tax cuts). Independent economists at the Tax Policy Center have shown that the price tag for those cuts is $360 billion in the first year, a cost that extrapolates to $5 trillion over a decade.
2. "I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans." Romney has claimed that he will pay for his tax cuts by closing a variety of loopholes and deductions. The factual problem? Romney hasn't named a single loophole he's willing to close; worse, there's no way to offset $5 trillion in tax cuts even if you get rid of the entire universe of deductions for the wealthy that Romney has not put off the table (like the carried interest loophole or the 15 percent capital gains rate.) The Tax Policy Center report concludes that Romney's proposal would create a "net tax cut for high-income tax payers and a net tax increase for lower- and or middle-income taxpayers." Moreover, some of Romney's tax cuts are micro-targeted at American dynasties, particularly his proposal to eliminate the estate tax, which would reduce his own sons' tax burden by tens of millions of dollars.
3. "We've got 23 million people out of work or [who have] stopped looking for work in this country." Romney is lying for effect. The nation's crisis of joblessness is bad, but not 23 million bad. The official figure is 12.5 million unemployed. An additional 2.6 million Americans have stopped looking for jobs. How does Romney gin up his eye-popping 23 million figure? He counts more than 8 million wage earners who hold part-time jobs as also being "out of work."
4. Obamacare "puts in place an unelected board that's going to tell people ultimately what kind of treatments they can have." Romney is reviving Sarah Palin's old death panels lie here. Obamacare does establish an Independent Payment Advisory Board to help constrain the growth of Medicare spending. The body has no authority to dictate the practices of the private insurance marketplace. And the law also makes explicit that this body is banned from rationing care or limiting medical benefits to seniors.
5. "Pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan." In the biggest whopper of the night, Romney suggested that his health care proposal would guarantee coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions. This is just not true. Under Romney, if you have a pre-existing condition and have been unable to obtain insurance coverage or if you have had to drop coverage for more than 90 days because you lost your job or couldn't afford the premiums, you would be shit out of luck. Insurance companies could continue to discriminate and deny you coverage, as even Romney's top adviser conceded after the debate was over.
Oct 6, 2012
GOP sees no reason to cheer jobs report.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other Republicans downplayed the significance of a drop in the national unemployment rate announced Friday.
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Gee What a F**KING Shock? NOT!
You Rat Bastards! Get Together on INAGURAL DAY! 1/20/09….
And AGREED to say : ' NO! ' to EVERYTHING that The President has TRIED to do.
To get us out of the MESS that President CHUCKLE NUTS left us!
Put up FILLERBUSTER! after FILLERBUSTER! in The Senate.
VOTE AGAINST Bills that would bring Jobs BACK to The Country! Via Tax Credits.
Recently republicans VOTED AGAINST a Bill in the Senate, to BLOCK a Jobs Bill to help the Vets coming back From Iraq!
VOTE AGAINST Minimum Wage Increase! ( To keep up with COST of LIVING Increases! ).
And ON! And ON! And ON! And ON!
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4 More Years!
Oct 6, 2012
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch Says Jobs Report Was ‘Cooked’.
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I see….The Man who INVENTED OUTSOURCING of AMERICAN Jobs!
Oct 6, 2012
Can you believe him, now? Romney is chimerical stealth agent of the Mormon Church, which will buy the White House at any price, and he will say anything to seal the deal. To gain an existential understanding of the cult that produced Mitt Romney, and to get your socks scared off, read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available in paperback and e-book at:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Assassination+of+Spiro+Agnew
Its unwilling, part-Mexican Mormon assassin dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex, manifesting it as racism, sexism, jingoism and an anti-federal government temperament. His research in the new library reveals ominous similarities between Islam and Mormonism. The spiritual power behind the cult, which is not the Holy Ghost, acts out.
“With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski's Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Do we need a novel, even as brilliant as this one, about a young man on a divine mission to assassinate the Vice President because he is too liberal? Yes, now more than ever. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.”.
Tom Whalen
http://www.tomwhalen.com
Read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.
Oct 8, 2012
Just like Emily Litella, nevermind.