Romney: 47% Of Americans Are Parasites - YouTube
OK.....so I supose this could be merged with brother Lovely Lanes' "Mitt the Twit" thread, if it's still open, but I aint seen it recently, and with all the deep rooted resentment on this board, I suppose it was likely closed for any number of rules violations.
However, I don't want this thread to go the way of partison bickering and ridiculing. This is NOT about Romney's false religion. It's not about my fellow conservatives and their blind allegiance for their ticket or about Obama's failures.
This is about Mitt Romney's inability to understand what he's talking about.
Firstly let me say a few things about myself for those who don't know me. i am one of the 47%. I have worked VERY hard since I was 14 years old and have held a grand total of 14 jobs over the course of 25 years in the work force. I was a blind conservative until I was 33, having never considered voting for anyone other than the R ticket simply b/c I assumed the D ticket was pro abortion and pro gay rights. However, I was ALWAYS part of that 47% paying little to NO federal income tax.
That said, having been MOSTLY self employed as a sub contractor the past 11 yrs, I have paid 15% of my net income in SS tax. Or self employment tax. I pay a standard for my state of 7%+/- for my toiletries, diapers, shampoos, medicines, and all the things we pay for and take for granted.
I want ppl to know.....and it's vital to know, that working poor use MORE toliet paper than the rich. We use MORE medicine than the rich, and we use MORE shampoo and soap than the rich.
Having done a personal tax evaluation of my own, I pay roughly 17% of my gross earnings in taxes. But not one cent in federal income tax and only 4.5% of my net income in state tax.
Now, enough about me.
What this thread is really about is that i am not the only one. There are far more in the 47% who are just like me than there are ppl who are lazy, unaccountable govt dependents. And nearly as many elderly on SSI/SSD as there are working poor in that 47%.
And of US, those working for say 30K, and those elderly, living off $1K/mo, almost 25% of us identify ourselves as Republican, conservative, or independent. 155 million people, and of us, almost 38 million who Mitt Romney had in his corner before that statement.
Now, for those like me, who have worked sometimes day and night, to make their mortgage. To put food on the table for your 2 children or 4 children or for your sick mother or father. For you who worked your entire adult life trying to contribute to the economy, taking God's Word as truth, that "by the sweat of your brow shall you toil this earth, all your days" and now in your final days, unable to continue, you've begun being repaid the hundreds of thousands you paid into SS taxes.............
DO YOU consider yourself, IN the Bucket for Obama?
DO YOU consider yourself entitled?
DO YOU consider yourself a VICTIM?
Do you swear allegiance to Obama b/c he'll make certain your benefits are not cut?
I myself was not voting this election. Not because I don't think Obama can steer us right. Right the ship sotosay. No, but rather because I live in Kentucky. A red state. A state in which the color of a man is a primary detractor in his ability to govern. A state in which a woman could not get voted into the presidency. We moderates are overwhelmed in KY by racists and sexists. And until the Democrats put a white man back on the ticket, he'll not be winning this state.
However, I do own a part of my grandmother's home in Cleveland OH. I may just up for the drive next month to re-establish my residency. I had been thinking about moving to Youngstown anyway. Why not make the drive to start my move back to the rational state I had moved from? Anyone know if that's legal?
OK.....so I supose this could be merged with brother Lovely Lanes' "Mitt the Twit" thread, if it's still open, but I aint seen it recently, and with all the deep rooted resentment on this board, I suppose it was likely closed for any number of rules violations.
However, I don't want this thread to go the way of partison bickering and ridiculing. This is NOT about Romney's false religion. It's not about my fellow conservatives and their blind allegiance for their ticket or about Obama's failures.
This is about Mitt Romney's inability to understand what he's talking about.
Firstly let me say a few things about myself for those who don't know me. i am one of the 47%. I have worked VERY hard since I was 14 years old and have held a grand total of 14 jobs over the course of 25 years in the work force. I was a blind conservative until I was 33, having never considered voting for anyone other than the R ticket simply b/c I assumed the D ticket was pro abortion and pro gay rights. However, I was ALWAYS part of that 47% paying little to NO federal income tax.
That said, having been MOSTLY self employed as a sub contractor the past 11 yrs, I have paid 15% of my net income in SS tax. Or self employment tax. I pay a standard for my state of 7%+/- for my toiletries, diapers, shampoos, medicines, and all the things we pay for and take for granted.
I want ppl to know.....and it's vital to know, that working poor use MORE toliet paper than the rich. We use MORE medicine than the rich, and we use MORE shampoo and soap than the rich.
Having done a personal tax evaluation of my own, I pay roughly 17% of my gross earnings in taxes. But not one cent in federal income tax and only 4.5% of my net income in state tax.
Now, enough about me.
What this thread is really about is that i am not the only one. There are far more in the 47% who are just like me than there are ppl who are lazy, unaccountable govt dependents. And nearly as many elderly on SSI/SSD as there are working poor in that 47%.
And of US, those working for say 30K, and those elderly, living off $1K/mo, almost 25% of us identify ourselves as Republican, conservative, or independent. 155 million people, and of us, almost 38 million who Mitt Romney had in his corner before that statement.
Now, for those like me, who have worked sometimes day and night, to make their mortgage. To put food on the table for your 2 children or 4 children or for your sick mother or father. For you who worked your entire adult life trying to contribute to the economy, taking God's Word as truth, that "by the sweat of your brow shall you toil this earth, all your days" and now in your final days, unable to continue, you've begun being repaid the hundreds of thousands you paid into SS taxes.............
DO YOU consider yourself, IN the Bucket for Obama?
DO YOU consider yourself entitled?
DO YOU consider yourself a VICTIM?
Do you swear allegiance to Obama b/c he'll make certain your benefits are not cut?
I myself was not voting this election. Not because I don't think Obama can steer us right. Right the ship sotosay. No, but rather because I live in Kentucky. A red state. A state in which the color of a man is a primary detractor in his ability to govern. A state in which a woman could not get voted into the presidency. We moderates are overwhelmed in KY by racists and sexists. And until the Democrats put a white man back on the ticket, he'll not be winning this state.
However, I do own a part of my grandmother's home in Cleveland OH. I may just up for the drive next month to re-establish my residency. I had been thinking about moving to Youngstown anyway. Why not make the drive to start my move back to the rational state I had moved from? Anyone know if that's legal?