It's tough being middle class in America right now," Romney said. "The waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room and offer us refreshments, they're not having a good year. The people of the middle class of America are really struggling.
The middle class refreshment servers who 'come in and out of the room' are encountering poor quarterly returns.
At least he didn't slip up and say the servant class.
Romney said it is "not true," as some have insinuated, that the Republican Party is only concerned about the rich. "We're the party of people who want to get rich...We also want to make sure people don't have to become poor. And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor."
Sure he does. This is how he intends to keep people from becoming poor.
Education
What a shining example this is of Mitt Romney's policy ideas. In his stump speech yesterday, he mocked President Obama's vision of fairness and opportunity for all by saying he agreed with it. It's mockery because of course he does not agree with it, as he reveals a few short words later. Here is America, according to Mitt:
Let me tell you though, there's one thing the President said in his speech I agree with. He said that every American deserves a fair shot and I could not agree more. I think this is a land of opportunity for every single person, every single citizen of this great nation. I want to make sure we keep America a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot, they get as much education as they can afford, with their time they're able to get it, and if they have a willingness to work hard and the right values, they ought to have a shot at realizing their dreams.
This is a man who wants to privatize our K-12 education system, who slashed Massachusetts' education budget by large margins, increased class sizes to unmanageable levels, attended an exclusive private school, exclusive private colleges, and has the means to send his children to any college they can afford so that they too, can make tons of money by stripping other people of their jobs and futures.
Health Care
Romney is intent on repealing the only real hope [the uninsured] have of attaining health coverage that citizens of almost every other industrialized country somehow enjoy, and he has offered no plans on how to replace it.
In fact, Romney proposes to make it worse. To help finance his plan to cut individual tax rates by 20 percent, Romney proposes to slash projected Medicaid funding.
Taxes
according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the resultant tax cuts would produce average annual tax savings of $231,971 for the richest 1 percent of Americans, including many of those in Jackson who contributed more than $1.7 million to the Romney cause Monday night. But it will have almost no impact on the take-home pay of those waiters and waitresses.
Food Assistance
More than 30 percent of Mississippi [where the fundraiser was held] residents live in poverty. Some 650,000, including no doubt some of those waiters ferrying drinks and food, feed themselves and their children in part on food stamps, which Republicans want to slash drastically. The House Agriculture Committee just approved a measure cutting food stamps by $16.5 billion over 10 years. Among other things, the change would force some 300,000 children out of the free-lunch program at school.
Mitt Romney has said he is not
concerned with the poor, and his policies prove it. Neither will they address the middle class, which he claims he will help from falling into poverty.