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I am the 47%
« on: September 17, 2012, 06:26:21 PM »
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I am the 47%
I am one of the 47%. I am definitely going to vote for Obama. So will my mother and her husband. My husband and my 21 year old son plan to vote for him as well. So will my sister and her adult daughter. That makes all of us part of the 47%. What do we have in common (besides a desire to see Obama serve a second term)? According to Mitt Romney, we are "dependent on government" and "believe that (we)are entitled to health care, to food, to housing".

Let’s analyze these claims one at a time, starting with health care. I have employer sponsored health care that covers me, my husband and my 21 year old college age son, so none of us gets healthcare from the “government”. Obamacare will allow my healthy son to stay on my insurance for five more years, but I am not sure that counts as being “dependent on government” for his health care. My mom’s husband is covered by his aerospace industry employer. My mother, a NASA retiree, is covered by NASA, Medicare and her husband’s insurance. That makes her super-insured. Is Romney trying to claim that her Medicare is a government handout? Does he think that federal agencies like NASA should not provide retirement insurance? My sister gets insurance for her and her two kids (one college aged) from her employer, a petrochemical refinery. She has a union and good benefits, but no one could call her insurance a government handout.

On to food. None of us gets food stamps. On the contrary, we donate to area food banks. None of our kids gets free school lunches. The only “free” food we get is that which we grow in our own gardens. Romney and Ryan may complain that the food my mother buy’s with her Social Security check is a government handout. But she is over 70 years old and worked her entire adult life paying into the Social Security system, so I tend to think of it as retirement income.

My home is paid for. My mother’s home is paid for. My sister is still paying a mortgage on her new home, but no one helps her make her payments.

I guess you could say that we are “dependent on government” since we use the roads and if we have a fire, we call the fire department and the public health department sprays for mosquitoes when West Nile is a problem and we rely on the FDA to make sure the food (which we buy with our own money) is safe to eat. But we aren’t getting any government services for “free”. All of us pay taxes. We pay income tax. We pay sales tax. We pay property tax. We pay fuel taxes and alcohol taxes. And when all the taxes are paid, we give to charity, too---

Come to think of it, we are not dependent upon the government. The government is dependent upon us. And we want to be sure that our tax dollars are spent wisely. We want to see our taxes spent on roads and disease prevention and good schools and clean air and water and national security and all the other things that government is supposed to provide. We absolutely do not want to see our tax dollars diverted into the accounts of people who are so rich they will never be able to spend all their money.

You know how I define the so called “47%”? We are the ones who want to have some control over how our country is run and our tax dollars are spent. We are the ones who think America is worth investing in. And Romney/Ryan despise us because we are too smart to buy their "trust us, we can pay for those tax cuts and still balance the budget" line.


1)  If you're part of the 47%, the government sure as hell isn't dependent on you.
2)  If you're part of the 47%, there is no such thing as "your tax dollars".

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2012, 06:57:59 PM »
DUmbass didn't pay attention and is to stupid to figure out he/she/it is one of the stupidest of the 53%
« Last Edit: September 17, 2012, 07:00:42 PM by Randy »
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2012, 07:02:12 PM »
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On to food. None of us gets food stamps. On the contrary, we donate to area food banks. None of our kids gets free school lunches.

Greenbriar is dependent on your generosity.

As to the school lunches, I thought the rich folk got free lunches to stop makings the kids of deadbeat DUmmies from getting an inferiority complex.


You beat me to it by posting this. I was trying to nadin the "I am the 47%" to see if it was plagiarized.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 07:02:32 PM »
I think the 47% she is talking about is 47% of the country will vote for Barry Big Ears, not the 47% that pay no taxes, although many of that 47% will vote for 0bama.

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2012, 07:03:04 PM »
Does she even know what the 47% she talks about is?
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2012, 07:04:41 PM »
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I am the 53%


 
I pay income taxes. And property, sales, gas, and other taxes as well. I am a middle class, white American and....


I hate Romney's Guts! I will NEVER EVER vote for a sociopathic BASTARD like Willard Romney. There is nothing he can ever say to change my mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021364200

Hope you enjoy paying taxes because if 0bama gets 4 more years you will get to pay a ton more.

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2012, 07:08:26 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 17, 2012, 07:04:41 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021364200

Hope you enjoy paying taxes because if 0bama gets 4 more years you will get to pay a ton more.



Plus a hell of a lot more for gas and food thanks to QE3.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2012, 07:11:12 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 17, 2012, 07:02:32 PM
I think the 47% she is talking about is 47% of the country will vote for Barry Big Ears, not the 47% that pay no taxes, although many of that 47% will vote for 0bama.



The democrat party could print "Name not important - we'll fill in the blank after the election" on the ballot and still get at least 47% of the vote.

I'm afraid that if we don't win this one, it's over. With the way the northeast votes and the Pacific west coast, the democrat party has 200 electoral vote before any votes are cast.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2012, 07:12:39 PM »
Quote from: Carl on September 17, 2012, 07:08:26 PM
Plus a hell of a lot more for gas and food thanks to QE3.

Don't remind me.

Yeah we are so much better off now than in 2008.  :banghead:

Quote from: Tucker on September 17, 2012, 07:11:12 PM
The democrat party could print "Name not important - we'll fill in the blank after the election" on the ballot and still get at least 47% of the vote.

I'm afraid that if we don't win this one, it's over. With the way the northeast votes and the Pacific west coast, the democrat party has 200 electoral vote before any votes are cast.

Yeah me too, if Romney loses than America loses. There won't be anything left to salvage when 2016 comes around.  :banghead:
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2012, 07:15:46 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 17, 2012, 07:12:39 PM
Don't remind me.

Yeah we are so much better off now than in 2008.  :banghead:

Yeah me too, if Romney loses than America loses. There won't be anything left to salvage when 2016 comes around.  :banghead:

By 2016 there will be 30,000,000 more illegal aliens newly legalized democrat voter on welfare that will vote to keep the free money.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2012, 07:16:49 PM »
The MSM is hoping to make Romney's realistic comments on the non-income-tax payers as some sort of "gotcha moment" proving he is really EVIL and UNCARING about po' folk.

The real point: many of the 47% are retired people who have worked hard and might not want America to become completely parasitical.  And another chunk of the 47% might have enough self-respect and ambition that they would not support MAObama either.

Romney therefore needs to frame his comments: such people are not ipso facto immediately pro MAObama.  A good percentage might not like being on the dole.

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2012, 07:17:04 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on September 17, 2012, 07:15:46 PM
By 2016 there will be 30,000,000 more illegal aliens newly legalized democrat voter on welfare that will vote to keep the free money.

Jokes on them then, there won't be any left.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2012, 07:22:56 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 17, 2012, 07:17:04 PM
Jokes on them then, there won't be any left.

The sweat of our labor belongs to the Government. They only let us have some of it because of their benevolence. If they need it all, they'll take it.

20,000 new armed IRS agents.

Seizures of your 401K

Tax rates from 28 to 75%

First thing that they'll go after is the guns. The Hildabeast is already working on this.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2012, 07:26:34 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on September 17, 2012, 07:22:56 PM
The sweat of our labor belongs to the Government. They only let us have some of it because of their benevolence. If they need it all, they'll take it.

20,000 new armed IRS agents.

Seizures of your 401K

Tax rates from 28 to 75%

First thing that they'll go after is the guns. The Hildabeast is already working on this.

If they opt for lawlessness they will find a very unpleasant situation on their hands.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2012, 07:27:12 PM »
Oh my.

That is such a boring Dependency Manifesto, my brain actually started beating itself against the inside of my skull before I finished the first sentence.

Try harder, DUmmie.  
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2012, 08:13:30 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on September 17, 2012, 07:11:12 PM
The democrat party could print "Name not important - we'll fill in the blank after the election" on the ballot and still get at least 47% of the vote.

I'm afraid that if we don't win this one, it's over. With the way the northeast votes and the Pacific west coast, the democrat party has 200 electoral vote before any votes are cast.

I live outside Philadelphia and the democrats there are so DUmb, they once reelected a guy who was in prison   on election day.   :banghead:

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2012, 08:15:52 PM »
Probably not the most politically astute thing for Romney to say, but it is the truth.  Is there any doubt that the overwhelming majority of the 47% of USA citizens who pay no federal income tax will vote for Dear Leader?  They aren't giving up their freebies for anything.

The more I study this election, the more I'm convinced Dear Leader will win.  There's just too many stupid people, many of whom believe themselves to be intellignet, to overcome.  They'll be worse off in 2016 than they are now, but the possibility they'll understand why is virtually nill.  As long as they can get the gov't to fill in the missing pieces, they'll continue to walk down the same dead-end road they're on now.  The rich will get richer, the poor poorer, and the middle-class will diminish, all brought to you courtesy of the Democrats while blaming the Republicans.

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2012, 08:22:40 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on September 17, 2012, 08:15:52 PM
Probably not the most politically astute thing for Romney to say, but it is the truth.  Is there any doubt that the overwhelming majority of the 47% of USA citizens who pay no federal income tax will vote for Dear Leader?  They aren't giving up their freebies for anything.

The more I study this election, the more I'm convinced Dear Leader will win.  There's just too many stupid people, many of whom believe themselves to be intellignet, to overcome.  They'll be worse off in 2016 than they are now, but the possibility they'll understand why is virtually nill.  As long as they can get the gov't to fill in the missing pieces, they'll continue to walk down the same dead-end road they're on now.  The rich will get richer, the poor poorer, and the middle-class will diminish, all brought to you courtesy of the Democrats while blaming the Republicans.

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I think you may be wrong, it may be wishful thinking, but I think we may win this yet.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2012, 08:44:43 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on September 17, 2012, 08:22:40 PM
I think you may be wrong, it may be wishful thinking, but I think we may win this yet.


Like a manic depressive, I swing between optimism about how obvious it must be that BIG BRObama will lose, and at any moment the deepest abyss of pessimism about the overwhelming indolence, stupidity, and hatred of present-day America among a large percentage of the electorate will drown my optimism.
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« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2012, 08:46:55 PM »
<<resolutely steady about Romney-Ryan.
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2012, 09:30:03 PM »
The Conservatives have gone wild and taken over the comments section where MotherJones posted the youtube :lmao:

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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2012, 09:31:22 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on September 17, 2012, 08:15:52 PM
Probably not the most politically astute thing for Romney to say, but it is the truth.  Is there any doubt that the overwhelming majority of the 47% of USA citizens who pay no federal income tax will vote for Dear Leader?  They aren't giving up their freebies for anything.

The more I study this election, the more I'm convinced Dear Leader will win.  There's just too many stupid people, many of whom believe themselves to be intellignet, to overcome.  They'll be worse off in 2016 than they are now, but the possibility they'll understand why is virtually nill.  As long as they can get the gov't to fill in the missing pieces, they'll continue to walk down the same dead-end road they're on now.  The rich will get richer, the poor poorer, and the middle-class will diminish, all brought to you courtesy of the Democrats while blaming the Republicans.

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Yeah, I had to sit back and watch while that greaseball used car salesman from Arkansas beat an honorable man, G. H. W. Bush and then go on to beat another honorable man, Bob Dole, all the time wondering how the U.S. electorate sank so low so close on the heels of Ronald Reagan. It's hard to swallow. This one's still close, though. I feel there's a good chance we can pull it out, especially if Romney does well in the debates.
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« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2012, 09:48:34 PM »
Today, Romney spoke truth to power and every internet DUmmy went crazy.   :rotf:

Right now the rich DUmmies are bragging about massive wealth and the poor ones are lying about phantom wealth.

It's HILARIOUS !!!
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« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2012, 11:03:10 PM »
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Re: I am the 47%
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2012, 12:07:41 AM »
When I can stop being forced to pay for the birth control of a 31 y/o law student who is attending a university that costs $40,000 per year, I will listen to your whoa is me BS arguments. 
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