It was actually an uninformed and bigoted statement. Most of the people that I know who now take food stamps, only did so when it was a choice to accept them or lose their home. Some have already gotten back off of them and most are trying to get to that place. Virtually everyone would rather have a decent job.
The elites have forced the working class to compete with illegals while sucking up taxpayer money themselves. Did Romney count his buddies who were getting bailouts in his figures? They are far more likely to be voting for socialism .
How wonderful for you and the people you know.
I live in a state nearly as red as your home state; we are also enjoying a very good farm and ranch economy, also something of a building boom, and definitely a spillover prosperity from the nearby Bakken play.
Yet my blood boils every time I stand in line at the grocery store watching healthy young people, sometimes with children and sometimes not, emptying their burgeoning shopping carts, food, snacks, dry goods, the customers wearing name-brand apparel and expensive shoes, running the tab up close to a couple hundred bucks---with the "EBT" designation showing bright on the checkout display.
We now have 50 million people, one in five "families," taking food stamps---not to mention other transfer payments of course. Carefree, job-free, shame-free.
Romney was stupid and gutless about a lot of things but he if anything he was over-optimistic about the forty-seven percent. Who would have thought to see the term "bigoted" thrown out by a conservative at FR in reference to our undeniably disastrous welfare state?