You Are So Full of Mitt
Okay, so Romney says that 47% of the country doesn’t pay taxes, so they are dependent on government, consider themselves victims, and doesn’t take personal responsibility.
Is he talking about our friends in the military who don’t pay income tax because they don’t make enough money? Or, is he talking about himself because we know he doesn’t pay taxes and considers himself a victim of those of us who want to see his tax returns?
Goofy guy.
UPDATE: As of 10:25 tonight, I am told that Fox News still hasn’t mentioned Mitt Romney stepping on his winkie. They are concentrating on anti-American demonstrations overseas. They also didn’t cover his desperate press conference, where he looked like crap on a cracker.
He overlooks payroll and sales taxes, etc. The food stamp thing amused me – I think those who are rich think stamps cover everything for everyone. No paper goods, etc, and I’d like to see Ann Romney work with my $40 a month even with her mormon “years supply” pantry.( a tenant of the church, everyone should have at least a years supply of food as a backup. They have special “Beehive” stores to sell in bulk – and no instructions to share in the event of an emergency.)
1Wonder if he includes “entitlements” like SSI, Social Security, SS Disability, military retirees, Disabled Vets, heck–any vet that uses any VA benefits including the GI Bill, natural disaster victims, etc., or is he just talking about his rich friends with savvy accountants who can “disappear” anything that even remotely looks like a profit. hmmmm…..
2Your header is brilliant, and I’ve already swiped it to use in the Dallas Morning News forums.
3Mitt – what a loon! He is so out of touch that he thinks that he can dis half the population and still win election? Don’t think his majic underwear can save him from this major blunder. But hey, what do I know? I’m only a disabled vet. I’m just a leech on society…..
4That would be the fastest growing segment of the population not paying income tax–incomes above $75,000. Since turn of the century, this segment has increased 12 times, estimated as up to 500,000, and includes >20,000 with incomes over $200,000. I could easily argue that such people, if not paying income tax, believe in government entitlement….not to be taxed. But if they realized Mitt was talking about them, I don’t think they’d appreciate being told they weren’t good at taking personal responsibility.
I dunno if anyone’s brought this up yet here, but back when Mitt was bragging that he didn’t pay more taxes than he had to, and he thought people should want a President like that…it hit me that his attitude towards taxes probably mirrored his attitude toward service…a guy who won’t, even in the nation’s need, pay a dime more than he has to sees the job as just a job…and isn’t going to put anything into it that he doesn’t have to. I don’t know if he thinks it’s a 40-hour-week job…but I’m dead for certain sure that when he thinks it’s closing time (or some time he thinks should be closing time) the U.S. would just have to wait for a President Romney to hear the starting whistle next morning. Can’t see him pulling any late-nighters, or missing out on a weekend with friends at some nice lake place.
5Fighting Class Warfare with….Classless Warfare. It will almost be fun watching him try to walk THIS one back. Now we know exactly why the Koch Brothers bought Citizens United. Who needs principled, caring candidates when you can just buy enough twisted messaging to bag the White House? Ugly, filthy, horrible human beings.
6More video promised next week. What could be better than Willard salivating over people fighting to work in a dorm/factory 12 beds to a room, 120 people to a bathroom all tastefully surrounded by razor wire and prison – um, factory – guards?
7My mama raised me to believe that we *all* “are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.” Most of us do our darnedest to secure them for ourselves, but that doesn’t mean that any of us “aren’t entitled” to them.
Of course, ever since Rmoney told me I’m among the hopelessly lower class (I’ll never see $200k/year), I’m starting to wonder how I keep from starving to death…
8I’ve actually seen and stood in Chinese factory housing. They are built of brick, wood shutters on windows (no glass), and with corrugated tin roofs held in place by loose bricks tossed on top. The floors are generally dirt and of course there is no real plumbing. They even bring their own bowls and cups to the lunch room for the rice and bits of vegetables they are given. Workers – generally women – did want to be there, because their home situations were even worse. It’s devastating to see. To speak of it with what amounts to glee is horrific. And Gov. Smirk’s remarks don’t surprise me.
9I’ll listen to him when he pays his fair share of taxes.
10I was gobsmacked by his comments. Food is an “entitlement?” Let the peasants eat….what, air?
11Am I the only geezer here who remembers that the sainted Reagan taxed–for the first time–UNEMPLOYMENT payments? Oh, and he labeled retired military people who then got government jobs as “Double Dippers?” Why that fool got reelected in a landslide stills gets my knickers in a twist. What I DO know is that Mittens is older than me and he must have taken all this to heart.
Sales taxes, state income taxes (for some of us), property taxes, Social Securty taxes, Medicare taxes, “user fees,”–how have 47% of the population avoided all these, eh Mitt???
12F. Scott Fitzgerald was right, the rich are different, and they hate us.
13And his hastily called presser to “explain” all this…only made it WORSE in my mind. this guy TRULY is NOT reAdy for prime time…..and should never be allowed out of the Platinum View Home for the Insanely Rich and Sorely Lacking in Social Graces …….
14OOOHH!!! I can hardly wait for the debates! C’mon Mitt – tell us what you really think!
15What actually bothers me the most is the subtext…that all devout Democrats are freeloaders. And that they somehow don’t pay taxes. What an out of touch, assinine ignoramous.
16I saw Mitt’s hastily assembled press conference. I could smell the flop sweat through my television.
17He is far too high class to be crap on a cracker. He is excrement on puff pastry.
18Mitt claims to be religious. Did he miss the story in the Bible about the poor widow who offered two coins? Jesus then gathers his disciples to explain that she gave more than all the others, because it was everything she had. Mark 12:42. And what about a camel getting through the eye of a needle? Do Republicans think their elephant will fit any easier?
19Jose Orta — thank you for your service and your sacrifice. As more of this video comes out, Romney also says that he made it on his own — no silver spoon here. He not only stepped on his winkie, he ground it into the dirt. Sheesh! Ryan keeps lying about everything, Santorum insults his own base (although at least he wasn’t lying), and Romney pretty much says that only rich people deserve to live. I’m not sure here if Romney is affluent or effluent — I know affluent means rich — does effluent mean filthy rich?!? Anybody? Just askin’ here.
20Did anyone else see Rachel Maddow’s show last night –
21just wow, nearly everyone working on FOX are people who are also workers on Romney’s campaign and advising him!
Even chinless wonder O”Donnell,s wife who is trying to help out her husband making Obama a 1 term president.
djw, we need to go for that beer dammit! That was the first thing I thought when I saw this shocking statement, that well, yes PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO FOOD AND SHELTER!!! Because they are PEOPLE. No other reason required! In the event one was requested, because they are made in the image and likeness of God was the preferred response where I was drug up. Sheesh!
And somebody tell me that canard again about how Rethugs just LOVE small businesses. OBAMA 2012!
22If it was sad and disgusting it would be almost funny.
How anybody in this day and age thinks he could get away saying what he did and it not being repeated?
What an idiot. A pathetic, mean, nasty idiot.
I think you all know my story about being disabled when I was 45. So now my retired husband and I depend on Medicare, SS(his) SSI(mine). We pay $180/month for medicare.
I guess the only “free” thing I don’t get are birth control pills.
What I don’t think I told you all here is that my dad was killed in a plane crash when I was 10. So I am doubly horrible. I grew up Social Security.
But, I started working before my 16th birthday. I sometimes worked 2 jobs in college.
I did what I needed to do if we needed money. I paid for the “entitlements” I now receive., just as my dad did for our SS.
Romney is running for POTUS and doesn’t think he should be bothered with those of us, who did everything right and caught some tough breaks? I cried the day the MD from SS told me that I should not be working and apply for disability.
Believe me, we pay taxes every year. And I would bet that I pay a higher tax rate then Mr. ” I can’t be bothered to be POTUS to them” Romney.
And ANN? I think you need to go back and look up the word ’empathy’. You don’t understand the meaning and your husband doesn’t have any!!!
23No doubt about it…if I had to pick which “Gilligan’s Island” castaway I’d vote for in a Presidential election, it would be The Professor (smarts)…or The Skipper (leadership)…or Mary Ann (compassion)…even Ginger (style).
Definitely would not be Thurston Howell III or Luvie (aka Mitt and Ann)…or poor Gilligan (reminds me too much of Dubya).
24For those who might be interested in where those 47% are, see the link at bottom.
The figure is 47% (it has been far lower) because of Reagan and Bush II tax policies and Bush II economic failures.
http://s1148.photobucket.com/albums/o571/904dem/?action=view¤t=d06721f5.jpg
25Generally speaking, Fox viewers ONLY watch Fox, hence if it doesn’t air there, they will NOT know what Mitten said about a bunch of them, hence they won’t get mad at him!
conclusion: Fox will not air it!!
26It seems odd that Mitt would choose as a running mate someone who started out as a moocher by taking Social Security survivor benefits all the way through college.
27Kellybee……that’s funny……Gilligan as Dubya….no wait that should be the other way Dubya is Gilligan …..
28Additional…
29http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-47-percent-fundraiser-florida
The very word “entitlement” gets my goat – I’ve been paying into SS/Medicare since 1968 and to me, that is not an entitlement, they are benefits which should have been given some sort of interest payment. Mitt is done, his hair was mussed up last night while he sweated through his non-explainable talking points to the wealthy – which are the only people he cares about. It will take a few more days for this story to filter through the “unwashed masses” but it will be full blown by the time of the first debate and Mittens will just fold up like a cheap chair, which I am sure he has never sat upon.
30There is so much giggle material here. I flipped to FOX a few times while preparing to work this morning, and I didn’t see the clip or coverage there. Of course to be fair, I might have missed it since I can’t watch more than two or three minutes at a time.
One of the best things about this gift is Thurston saying he wants to see the “entire video.” Really, sir? We want to see your “entire tax returns” for the past TEN years, and then we will confirm what so many suspect: you did not pay any federal income taxes for two or three years in the past decade.
31He finally grows a spine and it’s to defend these comments?
There’s so much other good stuff on here. He wishes he’d been born to Mexican parents because he’d be elected easier. He didn’t have a silver spoon. The stock market will go way up if he wins. And his pet unicorn will poop out extra rainbows…
I used to just think he was inept and out of touch. Now I think he’s diagnosably delusional.
32This will be going to my Facebook page where some Republicans actually visit … whether they read anything there is questionable since I put a lot of Juanita’s reading material on there!!! This disgusting video hit both Facebook and the TV like a lightning bolt out of the blue!!! How anyone can watch and hear this disgusting video and still swear allegiance to Mitt & Ryan is beyond me!!
33Those of us who draw VA disabilty pay are drawing on the TAXABLE portion of our military retirement.
34Mitt will never understand us and neither will the $20,000 a year millionaires who vote for his ilk.
Oh, I left off the other little gem – the campaign uses Lovie “sparingly, so people don’t get tired of her.” That one is yummy on a number of levels. lol
35Would someone tell me how people get out of paying sales taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes, property taxes and federal payroll taxes. I would really like to know so I can get out of paying them.
36The stories of your lives, the sharp wit, the accurate information, the logic, and the arithmetic on this site all work to keep my head from spinning off into space…thanks, y’all!
37Has it occurred to anyone that Mittens actually loathes himself, hence all the foul ups?
38@Eykis: Actually, the word entitlement is correct – there is nothing wrong with it. I paid SS taxes all my looooong working life. When I retire, I am ENTITLED to get social security. The word has just taken on a bad air because of the sneer used when politicians say it.
For example: “This woman is expecting the entitlement (use appropriate sneer) of social security, when I want to use that money to fund war for profit.” Well, they don’t use those exact words, but the meaning is real.
39I understand that Morning JOe was delightful today. Heck, even David Brooks who is selective in his use of statistics about people in America who receive government assistance, appearts to be throwing in the towel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?src=me&ref=general
I’m thinking we need a new word into our political lexicon that describes a politician who knows better than to speak but just can’t seem to stop himself how does “Mittidiot” sound?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?src=me&ref=general
40Mitt, you don’t want to talk about taxes !
41More video reported on NPR this morning- Mitt on Palestinians: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=161332990
42Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi!
Straight from ‘Mother Jones’:
43http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-secret-video-marc-leder-sex-parties
And…
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/watch-full-secret-video-private-romney-fundraiser
44MITT VOTING FOR OBAMA? Follow the logic; 47% of the population pay no federal taxes, Romney says “they will vote for this president no matter what.” Mitt Romney won’t show us his tax returns because there may be years in which he paid no taxes. Mitt is not the 1%, he’s the 47%! And they are voting Obama, “no matter what.”
45Mitt has 2 classes: People and Meatbags.
People are the rich. The rest of us? Meatbags that can work for free until robots are improved. Palestinians? Obviously meatbags. As a matter of fact, the world has a huge population of meatbags and Mitt probably has a “solution”.
46As of 10:25 tonight, I am told that Fox News still hasn’t mentioned Mitt Romney stepping on his winkie.
He couldn’t step on that winkie with any more vigor if he were Michael Flatley.
47Gov. Rmoney HATES poor people!
48Would someone tell me how people get out of paying sales taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes, property taxes and federal payroll taxes. I would really like to know so I can get out of paying them.
In order
1. itemize & save receipts
2. & 3. farm exemption use
4. Rental deduction w/ a loss offset
5. head of house w/ max dependencies
this’ll get ya some mittens
49Where in the world did anyone get the idea that military members don’t pay taxes. Only those on the ground in a combat zone do not pay taxes, all others do. Even the lowest ranking members make more than enough to qualify to pay taxes.
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