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Who Are the 47 Percent?
Posted by Big Eddie | Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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Mitt Romney's 47% aren't who he wants you to think they are. Like most Republicans, Mitt Romney wants you to believe they're single urban welfare moms with multiple children and no job, or unemployed slackers who refuse to work. But Big Eddie and David Cay Johnston are here with the truth -- the majority of the 47 percent are elderly Romney voters.  Watch it.

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Mr. Fargo
9/20/2012 3:13:03 PM
Middle Class $250K Mitt???..............you claim you created Middle Class jobs..........Sports Authority & Staples must pay pretty good..........$250K????REALLY????
Mr. Fargo
9/20/2012 3:11:41 PM
Staples & Sports Authority wages fall into the 47% category if you are trying to raise a family on those low wages................WOW Mitt doesn't give a damn about the so called middle class workers & jobs he claims to have created..........Come on Mitt $250K really??????
blueb
9/19/2012 5:30:58 PM
i meant i slid into the 1% group...oh you know what i mean ...i think the order is 1%, 6.9%, 10.9%
blueb
9/19/2012 5:25:23 PM
i meant the 6.9%, not the 10.9%, i am anxiously waiting to get into the 10.9% as its more socially acceptable. only 20 years or work before i slid into the 6.9 group, but it was a rocky road into it,



blueb
9/19/2012 5:20:53 PM
i am in 47% because of disability and when i applied for disability i kept tellling myself over & over, i do not know if i am really disabled as i applied(i meet ss blue book criteria on disabilty and have had 2 doc verify, i qualify) but i do know i am uninssurable and i need to get gov health insurancde, i will decide definitively if i am really disabled AFTER i get through the 2 years of waiting after SSDI is awarded to get gov health insurance....a better economy and AFCA(obama care) may change some of the 47%---but i thinkthat just moves them into a different category within the 47% from the 1% within the not paying taxes into the 10% off working poor not paying taxes..the whole thoing is rather depressing from this view.
ron mariposa
9/19/2012 11:21:02 AM
Gloria dont you know you and I and others are lazy, freeloaders, and dependent on the government. I guess working all our lifes, paying all types of taxes, and being dependent on the evil government to give us things like clean air and water, safe food and drugs, public education and protection, and help when mother nature kicks us in the fanny. If this is being lazy, being a freeloader, and dependent on the government I am gulity as charged by a man that does depends on the government. I wonder if he has any idea that when he flys and drives on roads to his campain talks or the men and women who protect him who paid for these thing I would guess it was paid by the lazy freeloading and dependent 47%ers.....
Gloria
9/19/2012 10:06:58 AM
Greed is the underlying factor in all this. Bill Maher said something to the effect that money is the new American God. We are kicking people to the curb in order to increase the bottomline. Trickle down is a sham. It has always been "tinkle" down---the rich just looking out for themselves as the only deserving Americans---and pissing on the rest of us. The rest of us hard-working Americans are freeloaders. Give me a break. How many of these rich guys have sons and daughters fighting to protect this country. Romney has FIVE able-bodied sons and not one of them has served. What about Paul Ryan? Any sons? any nephews? anybody? Romney disparages Americans who don't pay taxes. What about his hidden tax returns? He and his buddies are freeloaders in the true sense of the word. They are living off the tax codes freebies, they are hiding their money offshore for a better day. How many of these freeloaders have money stashed in the Cayman Islands? The RepubliKKKan party has got to be defeated in November... Everyone has a duty to get out to vote or look into absentee ballots. Make sure your vote counts in November!


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