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Did Mitt Romney Really Say He‘s ’Not Concerned About the Very Poor’?

Did Mitt Romney Really Say Hes Not Concerned About the Very Poor?

CNN

On what was supposed to be a victory lap coming off his decisive Florida win, Mitt Romney made headlines Wednesday morning with a comment that he’s “not concerned about the very poor.”

“I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney said on CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90 percent, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”

CNN host Soledad O’Brien sounded surprised at his remark and asked him to clarify.

“I think there are lots of very poor Americans who are struggling who would say that sounds odd,” O’Brien said. “Can you explain that?”

“Well you had to finish the sentence, Soledad. I said I’m not concerned about the very poor that have a safety net, but if it has holes in it I will repair them,” Romney said. “The challenge right now — we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. And there’s no question it’s not good being poor and we have a safety net to help those that are very poor.”

“You choose where to focus,” he added. “You can focus on the rich — that’s not my focus — you can focus on the very poor — that’s not my focus. My focus is on middle income Americans.”

He continued, “We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it. But we have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor.”

As The Hill noted, this is not the first time Romney has drawn a contrast between helping the middle class and the poor, and he has previously referred to the “safety net” in place for those struggling the most. Nevertheless, his comments are sure to become a sound bite for his opponents, dovetailing with the narrative painting him as a heartless executive.

Watch Romney’s comments below, via CNN:

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  • sandrunner
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:06am

    Are you serious guys…You think Obama is going to let go of that comment. Hell no!
    Right now Obama is salivating.

    plus the hateful attacks to Gingrich, you think Gingrich is not going use that against him.
    if you think not…you are pretty naive.

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    • slr4528
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:14am

      I think you are confused…the poor never vote for the GOP…..so to be quite honest….I really don’t care how the lamestream media spins this statement. You must be a liberal lefty like Newt Gingrich. Anyone who is in the middle income and higher income groups completely see where Romney is coming from with his remark.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:18am

      What Romney should have said…if he actually believed a word the founding fathers wisdom is…

      Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.
      Thomas Jefferson

      “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.” -James Madison

      With respect to the two words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. — James Madison, letter to James Robertson

      Clearly…Romney either does not get this…or he does not believe it.

      Which one do you believe?

      Ron Paul 2012

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:28am

      I dont care about the perpetual poor either….. We’re all gonna be poor when this house of cards comes tumblin down… And who will care about us ??? Certainly not the perpetual poor…. Piss on em, we got bigger fish to fry, like borrowing 4 BILLION a day from our Grandkids to pay for the so called poor and third world turds… Im done, and i could not care less…. Disabled poor, now thats a different story….. Air Jorden poor, go ef yourself !!!

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    • RJL
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:29am

      Does this surprise anyone that a vindictive, aristocratic, condescending pontiff like Obama I mean Romney would say such a fool thing?

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:31am

      More words of wisdom that go right over Romney’s collectivist head…

      James Madison, Feb. 3, 1792 “…It is to be recollected that the terms “common defence and general welfare,” as here used, are not novel terms, first introduced into this Constitution. They are terms familiar in their construction, and well known to the people of America. They are repeatedly found in the old Articles of Confederation, where, although they are susceptible of as great a latitude as can be given them by the context here, it was never supposed or pretended that they conveyed any such power as is now assigned to them. …If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare…they may a point teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision for the poor;… in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit of the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions for the general welfare”

      Who other than Ron Paul get this?

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    • drattastic
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:42am

      Seems like a perfectly sane position to take .

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    • lakey98
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:48am

      The best way to help the poor is to make it easier to enter and remain in the middle class. Taxes, regulations, etc. have become the largest obstacle in escaping poverty. Current policies help the poor stay poor.

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    • TeaPartyForRomney
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:06pm

      Look at all the dumb clips the media has already gotten off of Gingrich, “ghetto languages”, “space colony,” his pushing for ObamaCare, while we were in DC fighting it.

      DOESN’T MATTER WHICH CANDIDATE WE GET, THERE IS PLENTY OF MATERIAL… EVEN MORE ON OBAMA.

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    • kegbuna
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:11pm

      I would love to know how someone making 10 dollars an hour at Walmart being unable to pay for an education or build wealth -because of all of their income goes to staying alive- is related to tax or regulatory burden. If we cut social programs to assist these people then their problems get even worse. Especially considering that I’ve seen many times people push that “47% of Americans don’t pay (income) taxes” is a problem for our country, I am left to wonder what the solution would be if not governmental assistance in bettering the individual through training, debt assistance, etc.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:24pm

      @drattastic

      In light of what the founders had to say about the role of the Federal government in regards to helping the poor, how on earth does this statement make any sense?

      “We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it. But we have food stamps, we have Medicaid, we have housing vouchers, we have programs to help the poor.”

      Just where in the Constitution do you find the federal government having ANYTHING to do with safety nets?

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:30pm

      @kegbuna

      What you advocate is for the politicians to bribe the poor by promising them money from the treasury in exchange for their votes.

      No nation can survive such insanity, and it is for this very reason that we are BROKE!

      “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
      Benjamin Franklin

      Get the Federal government OUT of the welfare business, no we will never get out of debt.

      Ron Paul 2012

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:32pm

      All you Romney supporters need to cut with the crap. When have you ever heard of journalists and political campaigns putting things into context. They never do. Romney said, and I quote, “I like to fire people” and “I am not concerned with the very poor”. He will never get elected to President…no way.

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    • Steve Neiling
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:34pm

      @Kegbuna
      The problem, as I see it, is that gov’t assisstance has undermined American charity. I think we are capable of taking care of ourselves and our own. I think removing the tax-funded safety nets would go a long way in incentivizing people to aspire to higher things. If a friend or family member of mine is struggling financially, I try to help out in any I can. And I hope the same from them if I have to struggle. I think the great adventure of being an American is striking out on your own–being independent. That’s the fun and the danger of living in a free land. Your success is entirely your success and your failure is entirely your failure. Tough? You bet it is. But it’s the price we pay to breathe the free air.

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    • netmail
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:35pm

      Mitt, Mitt…you bit the ‘class warfare’ bullet. You SHOULD have said: “My focus is on growing the economy, helping business and manufactures create jobs that ALL Americans need and will benefit from. Yes, from the poorest among us to the richest, a strong economy, rich in opportunities, will cure much of what is wrong in America today.” There, you can’t take THAT out of context.

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    • sandrunner
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:40pm

      you are really naive.

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    • kessi7
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:50pm

      http://fathersmind.blogspot.com/#!/2012/01/if-governor-mitt-romney-wins-pt-1.html
      Governor Mitt Romney seems poised to take the nomination for the presidential election primaries of the GOP, with a win in the Florida primaries tomorrow. It would take a miracle for Newt Gingrich to upstage the Governor in this race and maybe that is what Newt and his fans are counting on, as the polls have drastically and dramatically swung in favour of Governor Romney in the past few days. What the GOP electorate may need to consider is a few very salient factors that will come to play, should the governor win the Florida primaries and go on to win the nomination. Here are those factors. 1. Like Rush Limbaugh has said severally, it has become apparent that The Governor and his advisers employed a very new primaries’ campaign tactics. Usually, even with the DNC, the candidates ran to their base at the primaries and then pivoted to the center for the General election. What Mitt and his handlers have done is to run to the middle from the gitgo. The result has been what we can easily call a soap opera of a primary. In an interview last week, Reince Priebus, the GOP chairman said that hard fought primaries produce better candidates. I cannot disagree more with him. Show me a hard fought primary that has not left an indelible scare on the people and the candidates.. The political field today, is a product of the so called hard fought primaries of yesterday, and the hard fought primaries of today

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    • cboyd54
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:23pm

      The most interesting thing is how the media have everyone trained to respond to sound bites and overreact. Pavlov would be proud. There was a time when people tried to discern the meaning in the words and took them in context. That time is obviously not now. How sad for us.

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    • JRook
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:35pm

      Isn’t there an editor or someone who can explain context……

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    • kegbuna
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:10pm

      @Steve Neiling
      I appreciate the reply. I can see the argument you’re making, and while I think the government should provide more of a “spring” rather than a “net”, I do think the current role it is playing is helpful. I don’t think anyone is happy to be poor, or is necessarily complacent. Programs like the Pell Grant are geared to help those who wish to better themselves get access to what they or their families could not provide.

      I feel as though we can enjoy freedom within a country that is still actively trying to improve its less fortunate citizens. Strategically, I believe this is beneficial for our country. I admit though, there is a price to be paid for each step the government takes in controlling one thing or another.

      Anyway I am glad to have read your reply.

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    • JRook
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:29pm

      Unfortunately they only edit the posts being accurate or using the correct context.

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    • grassroots
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:37pm

      I agree! Now I believe anyone who wants to run for President of the United States should have to be required to live and work for minimum wage for 6 months. Take away their credit cards, expensives cars, maids and live in housing comparable to their monthly take home pay.Than and only than can they understand the hardships that come with being poor.

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    • jzs
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:30pm

      First of all it is true Romney doesn’t care about the poor. Why would you expect any different from anyone born into a wealthy family like him, and having received every benefit that goes along with that?

      Do you notice how now that Romney feels he has gotten the nomination locked up, he’s now talking about the middle class and his support for them? Don’t be fooled, Romney doesn’t care about the middle class but does care about the rich. That’s why his budget busting tax proposal benefits the richest at the expense of the poor and middle class. His proposal, in fact, would dramatically lower his taxes while raising taxes on the poorest, the people he’s not concerned with.

      You‘re going to hear a lot about Romney’s support of the middle class. But don’t believe it.

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    • bhohater
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:34pm

      Since he knows everything else I‘m sure good ole Mitt knows what it’s like to be poor too. What a guy, wouldn’t surprise me to learn he invites a few down and out poor people over for a pool party and dinner every Sunday after church—or do Mormons go on Saturdays?

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    • deloclem
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:36pm

      I totally understand Mitt Romney’s comment about not being concerned for the very poor. I’m not concerned for the very poor either. They are already on the receiving end of the government teat! I‘m concerned for people like myself who lost their jobs months ago and can’t find work, who are willing to work, but because of Obama’s policies, nobody is hiring.

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    • last frontier
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:50pm

      First off, if you think the “very poor” would vote for him your smokin CRACK! so no loss there, second there is a safety net and most of the very poor are content getting there hair weaves and nails done at walmart and cashing there welfare checks at the casino, and the next time your shopping compare the type of meat cut in your kart vs the very poors kart.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:02pm

      @Keg, I think the best way to help those making $10 an hour at Walmart is to make sure that $10 is worth something by going back to a sound monetary system and ending the Federal Reserve. …where have I heard that before? Oh well, got to get my plugs in where I can since the media seems to back to ignoring my boy. I almost wish they’d uncover something else in a newsletter.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:52pm

      Any political operative that is awake can use Romney’s quote to make an ad that will incite the very poor and get them to the polls. That is the name of the game…getting them out to the polls to vote.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:01pm

      I think the notion to require people to attend some kind of training program to build a marketable skill set (with a minimum grade requirement) in exchange for drawing unemployment is an awesome idea and I don‘t understand why it doesn’t get more traction. I wouldn’t have a problem with my tax dollars going to something like that.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:54pm

      Kegbuna-
      Americans working at wallmart getting $10 an hour spend everything to stay alive? Your joking right? Less than 6% of income is what Americans pay for food. Most of their income goes towards entertainment, to include booze and tobacco. $10 an hour is actually pretty good money for the type work they do, it is more than I make.

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:57pm

      @ slr4528 who Posted: “I think you are confused…the poor never vote for the GOP…..so to be quite honest….I really don’t care how the lamestream media spins this statement. You must be a liberal lefty like Newt Gingrich. Anyone who is in the middle income and higher income groups completely see where Romney is coming from with his remark.”

      I understand exactly what he meant, and even agree with it. But since it appears inevitable that we will be stuck with him for a candidate, I wish he would stop giving his opponents so much ammo to work with. You just know they are not going to quote the part about the safety net. It will be,
      “Mitt Romney said ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor.’

      I can tell you how it’s already being spun. Headline on Yahoo News:
      “Mit Romney Snubs Very Poor”

      And I think you are missing the point here. In order to beat ODUMBER, we don’t just need the usual GOP votes. We need some of the idiots who were deluded enough to vote for this loser in the FIRST PLACE to change their minds and vote for SOMEBODY BESIDES ODUMBER. That is NOT going ot happen if Romney is the nominee and keeps making dumb comments like this one. Besides that, I’ve been hearing a LOT of disenchanted Republican voters saying if Romney is the nominee, they won’t vote. How is THAT going to keep ODUMBER from winning 4 more years? Un-freaking-believable!

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:00pm

      @ TeaPartyForRomney, who Posted: “Look at all the dumb clips the media has already gotten off of Gingrich, “ghetto languages”, “space colony,” his pushing for ObamaCare, while we were in DC fighting it. DOESN’T MATTER WHICH CANDIDATE WE GET, THERE IS PLENTY OF MATERIAL… EVEN MORE ON OBAMA.”

      Yeah, I agree – but even more, when are the GOP going to start USING some of the WEALTH of material they have against OBAMA and quit fighting each OTHER!? I don‘t understand why they haven’t been using it all along, instead of just letting him tell one LIE after another without even being challenged! Far as I am concerned, the GOP has REALLY fallen down on the job on this!

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    • reform
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:09pm

      It’s amazing the front page of our newspaper has all four candidates guess which one is not smiling? who brought it to my attention my 87-year-old mother she said I guess what they say of him is true he looks like an angry old man. The man was none other than Newt Gingrich, so I asked her you’ve watched the last couple of debates does he not smile and seem happy? She said yes but once again you see how the media plays it out which was her first reaction, like I said when I asked her then does he seemed angry to you when he speaks and she said no. Perception is everything why would Romney care about the poor or the rich if you can’t figure that out I say the nation is lost. You see the Rich will vote for him because the applecart can‘t be upset and he knows the poor have a very disconnect with him so he’s pandering to the middle class. Detroit paperboy if you‘re really from Detroit where I came from then you know all about the Romney’s in that state very privileged people. Mitt Romney went to one of the best prep schools then on to Harvard paid for by daddy then daddy got him his job through his connections to Bain capital. So you tell me what Mitt Romney knows about being middle class?

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:30pm

      I though romney wanted to end the class warfare talk???

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:39pm

      Besides painting Romney as this election’s John F. Kerry they are just about to unload on Mormonism in general of course tying that to Romney. I believe they have a TV series ready to go in Sept. about Mormon everyday life with multiple wives. No coinsedense though. Better get ready.

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    • CobraBill
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:22am

      Being so stupid to say some thing like that. How the heck did this guy make millions of dollars?
      I think I will write in my vote for Big Foot.

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    • TruthDarts
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:02pm

      Romney is OBAMA-LITE…
      which is why the Left leaning media is hoping Romney will be Obozo’s opponent.

      There is little difference on many subjects between Romney & Obozo…which if one is honest…and asks oneself…

      WHY do Dems WANT Romney to be GOP candidate?

      DUH…this “I don’t worry about the poor”, or “it wasn’t much money from speaking (engagements)” reality being over $300,000 <<NOT MUCH MONEY??? –what the #***?

      …typical examples of someone that has been running for president for SIX YEARS and still is not acting presidential or can be considered understanding the unemployed or underemployed, etc.

      Romney fits right in with Obozo's current whining…"that the rich don't get it"…blah, blah, blah.

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:02am

    Some one once said: “….the poor we will always have with us…” I think it was in the Bible… The middle class, however, comes and goes. Ours is going!

    The half sentence at a time media will play this line to his detriment…part of their politics by personal destruction.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:47am

      Face it folks, Romney is a Socialist, and just like the Socialists who came before him..he either does not grasp this…or he does and is simply rotten to the core.

      “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the Public with the Public’s money.”
      Alexis de Tocqueville
      Democracy in America

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:00am

    When I was a grocery clerk I use to see the poor with their food stamp cards and a balance of hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of food stamps, their gold jewelry hanging off their fingers and necks, their nails done up fancy, and their new doos all done up perfect. This is the poor in America that I have seen.

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:33pm

      they’re just trying to boost their self-esteem. Can’t blame them for that, can you? (sarcasm alert)

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:00pm

      man they are owed, owed big tv, owed free minutes owed Romney big government progressive

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  • PATRIOTMAMA
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:59am

    A Frickin Men!!! Romney has come up in my esteem a little more now. They DO have a safety net and guess what folks, we pay for that!!! If you don’t start focusing on helping us and soon their safety net is going to disappear. You can go after the rich to pay for it but since they have the means, they‘ll just LEAVE and then where will you be when the employers all leave and now the people that pay the most for the safety net don’t have any more to pay. Oooo the stupidy of the left is just mind-boggling!!! Stick to your guns on this one Mitt!!!!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:08am

      Agreed. He didn‘t say ANYTHING here that we didn’t already know. :^)

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:16am

      Little TIFOSA is scared that her welfare check may go away…

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:31am

      I dont care about the Air Jorden poor either…. I hope they starve and are forced to eat their shoes !!!

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  • BODYBAG
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:57am

    http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/money-insider-foresees-civil-unrest-in-u-s-this-year/

    “The transformation of a contented and silent Majority into an irascible and
    vocal Majority will break many conventions in the United States and in
    other developed nations as incontrovertible evidence piles up weekly and
    perhaps daily over coming months that the status quo is broken for young
    and for old, as well as for workers and investors alike,” he warns.

    Ortel foresees that civil unrest will intensify in the United States and in
    other developed nations that have been following ineffective, re-
    distributive economic paths for decades, including the creation of elaborate
    European-style social welfare programs providing extensive government-
    funded benefits to a wide range of increasingly dependent constituencies.

    “In our view, the stage has already been set for continuation of protests
    that first began to surge in 2010,” he writes. “Some will manage to contain
    their activities to peaceful protests. However, we believe the far more likely
    scenario is that violence will result, especially in the United States where
    the wider population has more ready access to weaponry and where mobs
    have proven impossible to restrain.

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  • dannyo
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:49am

    he’s right..enough said..next..

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    • RJL
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:06am

      Let me interoperate.

      The poor have no money so I can’t get my greedy hands on. And them rich people “hey I’m rich so I aint gonna tax me”. Its them middle class suckers that I’m gonna take from. They got more than they need.

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    • GoliathOnline
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:47am

      well if you think about it, the rich and middleclass provide the safety net for the poor, and it looks like the middleclass is starting to disintegrate into the poor themselves, so the very few rich people are the only ones left providing the safety net for the poor in which is increasing now. the rich can only take care of so many people..

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    • Brian Leslie
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:01pm

      Dannyo, care to provide reasoning, or are you happy under the bridge, troll? This goes to the rest of the blips here without anything to contribute to the conversation.

      Speaking as a college instructor, the safety net that needs to be repaired is education, not welfare. It’s a giving fish versus giving fishing lessons kind of thing. Our people are very hungry… for knowledge. It‘s too bad it’s going to get worse even under Obama.

      The notion that the middle class needs more help than the very poor is just plain stupid. Think about it–following that logic, it should be responsible to allow the middle class to transform into the very poor. Problem solved! Romney is pandering, counting on the ‘very poor’ to stay disenchanted at home on election day, and his numbers are grossly overestimating the middle class.

      In short, Mitt Romney gaffes harder than Joe Biden.

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  • sandrunner
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:47am

    Mitt… you idiot. You just gave Obama a nuclear bomb. Now Obama spin team is on it and they will destroy you. with obama’s billions compared to Mitts millions.
    Romney you are toast.
    you dug your own hole. because they will say your nature came thru.

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    • dannyo
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:53am

      uh, the election is ten month’s away, this will be a speck on the winshield of a semi by then…plus he’s right..next…

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    • floridacockleburr
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:21am

      No, I’d say the voters are idiots. Hand Obama an opponent that fits perfectly with his game plan for the election. A 1%er that is tied to the original Obamnicare and won’t back off it. I’d say this is very minor compared to what Obama and the MSM will “uncover” about good ol’ Mitt.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:26am

      Amen Dannyo.

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    • Tigress1
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:42am

      Do you really believe that ANYTHING Obama says will have an impact on your vote? How many people out there are truly wavering between Obama and whatever Republican nominee we choose? Obama could throw $10 trillion worth of negative ads on our candidate and it will NEVER sway my vote towards Obama. We already know that Obama is a compulsive liar so who cares what he or the media says? Just vote for who you like.

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  • ROMNEY2012
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:46am

    Romney is correct.

    Let the class war begin!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:54am

      Romney is absolutely correct! There are all those various programs to help the very poor in place already! The very rich don’t need help! It’s the vast (and vanishing) middle class that really need help – he is just stating the truth!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:07pm

      You folks just don’t get it, and based on this statement neither does Romney.

      “We have a very ample safety net and we can talk about whether it needs to be strengthened or whether there are holes in it.”

      WTH? Talk about strenthening it?

      How about talking about the fact that nowhere in the Constitution does it mention allowing the Federal government to pay money to the poor?

      Seriously, until folks like you figure out that what Romney said was downright blind in light of the wisdom of the founders, the Republican party is lost.

      The ONLY candidate who actually understands the Federalist papers and the Constitution is Dr. Paul.

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  • dannyo
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:46am

    he’s right…enough said…

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    • SekndAmendment
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Agreed. All these nut jobs in their paranoia have made a huge deal of nothing. He’s right.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:42am

    Romney wins a primary and he thinks he’s president. This race is just beginning.

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:41am

    Well, that didn’t take long. 13 hours an he’s got his foot caught on those impeccably maintained teeth! Mittens NEEDS something- — I got it a teleprompter!! No wandering around in the forest of words!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:29am

      He did use a teleprompter in NewHampshire, btw, he didn’t in Florida?

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    • scuba13
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:40pm

      And Obama used one when talking to grade school children.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:41am

    Jesus said, that the poor would always be amongst us and Mitt Romney knows that.. He is worried about the middleclass because they are the ones whose taxes pay the bills and Obama has us so bankrupted somw of us will not live long enough to see this debt paid off. He should be worried about the middleclass more than any other class because.. they are the lifeline that makes America great. And how many are unemployed now? We will always have the poor and thats not just America thats everywhere. And what has America always done, we have taken care of our poor.. Not to mention all the money ever given to disaster area’s, given once from our taxes and then again given freely from our wallets, whether by giving to our churches or to some group of people raising money for such disaster. We are the most giving country ever! Its time to save America NOW. Vote out Obama, President spend spend! God help us!

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  • slr4528
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:40am

    Romney is concerned about the Middle class because this nation is losing the middle class. This country is turning into a 2 class system. You are either mega rich or you are poor and dependent on government programs like food stamps welfare and unemployment checks. The good jobs are going away. People with expensive college degrees can’t find work. 401K’s have been on a roller coaster ride due to QE1 and QE2.

    In order to create good paying jobs that will help the middle class, we need to reduce corporate taxes,remove regulations and make the business environment competitive with other countries around the world…this in turn will help the wealthier business owners.
    The needy and poor always have been taken care of in America, either through charity or govenment programs.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:38am

    Romney has no clue; I pray he doesn’t get the nod.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:55am

      It’s a done deal Tron. It has been since late 2008.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:03am

      Agreed, GONZ. Was the real reason behind Mitt’s bowing out to McCain. The voting process has been corrupted completely. I can’t begin to imagine what the rest of this year is going to look like…..much less our country in the next decade.

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    • crazyrightwingmom
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:33am

      You are clueless….who pays the bills?? The middle class! We will always have poor, and we can take care of them.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:37am

    The war on poverty is an industry…. And the Democrats have been skimmin 40% off the top for fifty years……they need poverty cuz its got a great profit margin !!! And thats why those people must never be allowed to leave the plantation… EVER !!!!

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    • DD313
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:09am

      And how are things going in Detroit these days? B.O. is supposedly going to run on the success of the GM and Chrysler bailouts, so it must be a boom town, right? That guy, he just cares so much about the working class!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:35am

      @DD13
      How are things in Detroit ? About the same as they are in BahgDad… With a little more tribal violence…. and lots of Air Jordens !!! A real Democrat utopia, that Detroit is …. Yep !

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:36am

    What did he say that was so wrong…?
    That the poor have a safety net and he does not have to worry about them ?
    They do.
    They have a damn govt. cocoon that they never leave.
    Poor people are fat.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:46am

      Fat??? Christ said we would always have the poor. You lump all of the poor together and that is wrong. What abut the disabled poor?? What do we do with them, we are American’s and we should take care of our disabled poor. Those capable of working should. But lets not forget that some are different the others. God help us!

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    • RagingJudge
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:04pm

      We should take care of the disabled poor through charity, not government-sponsored theft (taxes). There are industries they could work in to earn their pay even (imagine that!). Did you know most military-issue personal equipment is made by blind people?

      As for the “Air Jordans” poor, I hope they trip over their untied shoelaces choke on the Bread of Shame they’ve got crammed in their mouths..

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  • MaverickCoast
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:36am

    The middle class are really the ones who get hit the hardest. the rich can afford it, the poor have the government looking out for them, but the middle class are on their own!

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:54pm

      If we were truly on our own, it would be a step in the right direction. TEA!

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  • copatriots
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:36am

    Mitt isn’t my first choice but I do agree with him on this subject. We have gone off the deep end from helping the poor from the 1930′s post-Depression to helping today’s poor. From social security to Medicaid to homeless shelters to emergency room healthcare, our poor is not only well taken care of the government programs have become a hotbed for corruption. I have seen the bills of what the govenrment pays on behalf of the poor and it is mind-numbing. One poor person racks up hundreds of thousands of dollars EACH YEAR……..far more than they ever would have contributed in their lifetime. Our country cannot sustain the cost from the wealth generated from those making money off of the poor.

    Mitt doesn’t have to be too concerned about losing many votes from his comment. The poor will vote Dem until they die. It has been ingrained in their minds that “Dems help the poor”. No matter how much one tries (and I surely have) there is absolutely no changing their minds about that.

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:36am

    He is Right
    enough is enough
    50 years of this generation to generation handouts has to be controlled

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:34am

    You know what, im not concerned about the very poor either… In fact i say piss on em, if you gave each one of them a million dollars , it would be gone in a year or less…. And they would be poor again… Just like we will never change Afghanistan.. The poor will always be poor… Cuz it aint a financial issue, its a mental issue, a state of mind, a way of life, a condition that cant and wont ever change, and they like where they are… Just keep sending the checks, thank you Democrats….And you could also take away the money from the very wealthy, and in a year, they would have it all back…. Cuz , that too is a state of mind, a way of life, a disciplined work ethic…. PERIOD !

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    • Espada
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:31am

      Absolutely right. The difference between “broke” and “poor” is that “poor” is forever.

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    • justin.blake
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:23pm

      Amen Paperboy! I cant believe how much is being made of this comment and its misinterpretation by both the lefties in Obamas camp and the righties who can‘t stand the fact that Newt is a has been and that the average american citizen sees through the religious bigotry that Mike Huckabee started throwing around in 2008 and is alive and well amongst the ’Evangelical’ voters of today. They would vote for a serial adulterer and proven prevaricator as they demonstrated in South Carolina over someone whose true values are much closer to their own, albeit from a different religious denomination. Pathetic and sad. Anyway, the middle class needs to be the focus of this country for the first time in years. We own the small businesses that provide the vast majority of jobs in this land. We pay our taxes, we are involved in our communities, schools, churches. We keep this place rolling on and I am tired of being ignored, disrespected, and flat out despised, while being asked to fund the lives of those who are the source of the derision. Romney gets it, he understands the difference between the power of a State and the Federal Government and that States should have many more rights than people realize, while the Federal Government should not have what they do.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:32am

    The media is going to take a very broad statement with no direct implications and now try to reshape it into as if Romney is saying the poor all need to be wheeled off the cliff with grandma or something, all the while they‘ll ignore Obama’s direct assaults on everyone and everything.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:31am

    The safety net needs to be dismantled over time,you can’t just cut people off cold turkey but eventually it has to be abolished,all forms of welfare that is.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:36am

      Romney sure is heck won’t do it Slayer. I know you know that.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:43am

      @slayer
      I disagree, you can and MUST cut these people off cold turkey… Then maybe they will take some of these jobs that Americans JUST WONT DO !!!!!!! hunger is a great motivator ….. And so is fear !

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:06pm

      @DETROIT PAPERBOY In a perfect world all forms of welfare wouldn‘t exist and our politicians shouldn’t have ever created those unconstitutional programs.Since we have them I think they should be phased out maybe one year max then you’re done.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:30am

    Romney continues to make the case for 4 more years of Obama.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:38am

      He will get plenty of help from our unbiased media.

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:14pm

      @ GONZO

      I believe he already is. Well, getting the help from the media and those commenting on this thread, who obviously either haven’t read it, comprehended it if they did read it, or listened to the audio and understood it.

      A whole bunch of ‘knee-jerk’ reactions.

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  • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:27am

    Once again, tainted journalism meant to brainwash the masses rather than communicate the issues and potential approaches to a solution. More Ob polarizing. Only hear what you want and attack.
    It’s time we ALL stopped listening to these SOBs. IF you know someone is intentionally trying to brainwash you, do you keep listening? Seems America does.

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  • Obama Snake Oil Co
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:22am

    I have to agree, where is the safety net for the middleclass? And if you think our poor in this country compare to the poor in other countries…they are the weathly in those countries.

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