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1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2012, 12:53 PM Sep 2012

I just turned red when I heard what Romney said

Open your mind's eye: Poor bastard standing along side the road, unemployment ran out two years ago and he ain't got a god damned thing in the world except the half a pack of Newports left in his pocket. The cigarettes cost four and a half bucks, two fifty of that was state and local tax.

Yeah, smoking is a filthy and deadly habit, but does Romney think the poor don't pay taxes?

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I just turned red when I heard what Romney said (Original Post) 1-Old-Man Sep 2012 OP

A bit of wisdom from Charles Dickens: Ednahilda Sep 2012 #1

Wonderfully apropos quote, Ednahilda! Welcome to DU. Mnemosyne Sep 2012 #3

I guess this one clinched your decision not to vote for Romney slackmaster Sep 2012 #2

Mitt Romney's NeoContempt is gonna cost him dearly Blue Owl Sep 2012 #4

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1. A bit of wisdom from Charles Dickens:

Reply to 1-Old-Man (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 01:09 PM

Sep 2012

'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future none other of my race,' returned the Ghost, 'will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

'Man,' said the Ghost, 'if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered what the surplus is, and where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. O God! to hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!'

A Christmas Carol: The Second of the Three Spirits