Just when I thought my opinion of Mitt Romney could sink no lower, here we go with these leaked videos at Mother Jones of Romney talking at a private fundraiser.
I've got just a few things to say to you, sir.
First off, I'd like to address this one:
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax."
Ok, Mr. Romney, I'm sure there are a lot of people who share my rage at this idiotic, shameful statement of yours. I've worked since I was sixteen, worked three jobs at one point to help pay for school, took loans to go to school and paid them off. I've been responsible my whole damn life. In fact, my life is one giant responsibility from dawn til dusk! And to say that I pay no taxes, well, that makes my blood boil.
I pay a LOT of taxes. And you know what I get for them? Not much. Compare how much taxes I pay to my French and Swedish friends. I pay a little less, but not a lot less. They get free higher education, free healthcare, tons of vacations, free language training if they need it (the Swedish friend was an immigrant to Sweden). I get NONE of that.
So how dare you imply I'm a free-loader, that I pay no taxes, and that I vote for Obama just to get a handout. How dare you?
This one caught my eye, too. Mitt, you are an over-privileged, entitled, deluded jerk-face.
"I have inherited nothing." He remarked, "There is a perception, 'Oh, we were born with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.' Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you can have: which is to get born in America."
I know why you say, "I inherited nothing" with a straight face, and you will cry foul when people call you out on it. I know your little secret.
You "didn't inherit" anything because you come from a rich family, knowledgeable in the ways of avoiding taxes and penalties, not because you made your fortune "the old fashioned way", you a-hole.
You "didn't inherit" anything because your father knew how to plan an estate, or had advisers who told him only suckers leave inheritances for their kids. Smart, rich people leave trusts, give gifts, buy property, do ANYthing to avoid having an estate when they die. So perhaps you didn't "inherit" in the technical sense of the term, but most Americans who didn't get sh*t from their parents would call the stock you lived off of as "poor" young parents eating tuna fish an INHERITANCE.
I'll close with this hum-dinger:
If it looks like the president's going to win, the markets should not be terribly happy. It depends of course which markets you're talking about, which types of commodities and so forth, but my own view is that if we win on November 6th, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. We'll see capital come back and we'll see—without actually doing anything—we'll actually get a boost in the economy.
This is the clincher for me, because Mitt Romney finally tells us his grand master plan for the economy. Do nothing, and the economy will recover all on its own because the country and the world and the heavens and earth will just be so tickled that Mitt Romney is president that the world economy will heal itself.
Please, Mitt Romney, I'm begging you. LISTEN TO YOURSELF. Listen to what a blow-hard you are. How delusional. How deluded. Listen to what a jerk you are. Reflect on these things, on how you can be a better person, a better citizen and a better human being.
Perhaps then people will stop claiming you are a robot.