[zencycler]

We don’t need the missing segment. If you read what he said carefully, there is absolutely nothing wrong, or even controversial, in anything he said (well, okay, the comment on the Palestinians may be controversial, but not wrong, IMHO).

[Uncle Chip]

If in that "the 47% dependent upon government" he included the myriad of underworked overpaid unionized government workers at all levels, then he might be correct.

After all those are the ones most dependent upon government.

But I doubt that is what he meant.