“I feel the exact opposite. It sounded like an insult to me. We are all dependent on the gov’t in some Way 9military, SS..)...but he just told America that if you are dependent on the gov’t you shouldn’t vote for me.”
Words fail me how stupid this sounds.
YOU think that the discussion we have had here for YEARS about the number of people mooching off the government actually involved people in the military and people collecting SS money they paid?!?!?!
I know that several posters are trying to float this line of bull, so you will have to excuse me if I dont buy it.
If you aren’t just running some spin job troll BS, then you really need to stop and think.
Romney didn’t lump you in with welfare losers, you did.
That was the gaffe, he did not remove them from the 47%, he included them, Mitt made a huge mistake.
You are missing the point.
Romney didn’t say, “I’m talking about what FReepers have been rightly railing about for years and years,” he said, “47% depend on the government and are a lost voting cause” to a roomful of millionaires. That’s not going to play well over the next 7 weeks.
The figure 47% is made up of those retirees and military people and whatnot. It’s made up of lots and lots of people who are hard working conservative families who simply don’t make enough to pay income tax. THAT’S why it’s a stupid statement.
Do you think 47% of people in this country collect welfare or something?