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kentuck

(111,103 posts) Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:34 PM Sep 2012

Who are these "victims"?

Mitt Romney said 47% of the nation considers themselves "victims" and will automatically vote for Barack Obama. That is about 130 million Americans!

Surely he must have been talking about the unemployed drawing their unemployment checks instead of working? But 8% unemployment only adds up to about 10 million people? And only about 50% of those are eligible for unemployment benefits? So, who are the other 120 million "victims" of whom he speaks?

Perhaps he is speaking of the old folks on Social Security and Medicare? Or the disabled that are on SSI benefits? Or maybe he is speaking of all those folks on food stamps? Yeah, just keep those food stamps rolling in if you want my vote Obama!

What other "victims" would Mitt Romney be talking about? Is he talking about disabled veterans? Perhaps he can tell us just who he wants to put to work?

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Who are these "victims"? (Original Post) kentuck Sep 2012 OP

I kknow! I know!!! The people whose jobs he killed when Romney's Bain bought the rustydog Sep 2012 #1

Are you excluding children? spooky3 Sep 2012 #2

The victims he is planning on leaving in his wake, the ones he was a primer mover in 2on2u Sep 2012 #3

Is he talking about my grandson who has Down Syndrome? Shame on you, Mitt. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #4

Rmoney & his ilk talk about ENTITLEMENTS are something people aren't entitled too but those people Raine Sep 2012 #5

Romney's a victim Generic Brad Sep 2012 #6

Here's something we can take to the bank (but not us). Romney is planning to strip RKP5637 Sep 2012 #7

rustydog

(9,186 posts)

1. I kknow! I know!!! The people whose jobs he killed when Romney's Bain bought the

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:37 PM

Sep 2012

company they worked for, then systematically fired them all, off-shored their jobs then gutted the company like a serial slasher in a darkened alley.
THEY are victims.

spooky3

(34,460 posts)

2. Are you excluding children?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:38 PM

Sep 2012

2on2u

(1,843 posts)

3. The victims he is planning on leaving in his wake, the ones he was a primer mover in

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:39 PM

Sep 2012

their factories shutting down, the ones that used to have jobs prior to his putting their companies in debt and bankrupting them. Those are the effing victims he should be talking about.

Tennessee Gal

(6,160 posts)

4. Is he talking about my grandson who has Down Syndrome? Shame on you, Mitt.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:40 PM

Sep 2012

Shame!

Raine

(30,540 posts)

5. Rmoney & his ilk talk about ENTITLEMENTS are something people aren't entitled too but those people

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:50 PM

Sep 2012

earned those so called entitlements. They are NOT hand-outs they're what people put into the system and are now ENTITLED to have. This is a sore point with me and makes me livid. I think of my parents paying into SS for all their working lives and being so glad to get what they were ENTITLED to and then these assholes acting like people are loser freeloaders!

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)

6. Romney's a victim

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:52 PM

Sep 2012

If only he had been born Hispanic.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

7. Here's something we can take to the bank (but not us). Romney is planning to strip

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:53 PM

Sep 2012

the assets of this country, sell them off, and then let the country go bankrupt for 47% of the nation. He a corporate hatchet man, a corporate raider. A parasite on the USA. People like Romney should be called out for what they are, parasites.

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