When he doesn't know a camera's rolling, Mitt Romney shows his disdain for half of America.

what the fuck? where in any way did i say romney grew up in a shack? I agree with you! i know he was born into a very rich family!

I would really like you to explain to me how you NEED a rich daddy to be rich in this country, and why race stops you from being successful.

You must be pretty closed off to the world around you if you think race has nothing to do with success.

I can understand why in some cases it makes things harder yes. but i dont see how it can actually stop you from being successful.

Okay I can define hard work for yu quite easily. Hard work requires the kind of effort that a seventy year old can' t muster up....do you honestly think Greenspan is a hard worker? Hard work gives you calluses and wears out your body....hard work is the kind of work when you get home you got no energy left because you busted your hump....Don' t even compare the risks taken by welders and other workers to the financial risks of venture capitalists....these jackasses can protect most of their financial assets from the IRS, but often hard working people put their life and limb into their jobs. The hard work and sacrifice done by the majority of Americans is what makes guys like Romney rich. People become rich at the expense of others, and the special drive, ambition or mentality that you refer only serves to keep as much profit as is possible and other people refer to it as greed. Do you think Mitt maintains his wealth by caring for the welfare of others? Not a hope in hell cause it is cheaper to send the labor to China.

his dad was on welfare, he's fucked/thread

"success" is a very loose term, defined only by one's personal opinion of success. for me, succeeding would be achieving happiness, whether or not i'm rich has no bearing, i don't see more money than i need as having anything to do with my happiness. some define success as being rich, i've got no problem with that, but it's pretty ignorant to say that success is equal to riches for everyone. you only succeed when you've achieved your goals.
don't talk down the kid who flips your burgers, he flips your fucking burgers. don't talk down the janitor who cleans your school, he keeps your fucking school clean. just because you see yourself as being above such things, doesn't mean you don't need someone else to do them, while you're busy trying to achieve your own goals. don't dismiss anyone who does the stuff you won't just because you don't think it's for you. the farmer who grows food won't ever make as much money as donald trump or richard branson, but trump and branson still have to eat.

not saying physical labor and poor paying jobs cant be hard work, i worked on my uncles ranch over the summer in high school and it was the hardest shit ive ever done, getting up before 5 every day and working until dark, it was insane, and the guy's been doing that his whole life. I completely respect the effort and risks people like that take. but he loves it, he's much happier making a decent living doing that rather than sitting in an office all day.

exactly, for me success doesnt mean being a billionaire. i either want a job that is my passion, or a job that gives me enough free time and money to have lots of sweet toys and do cool shit and go to cool places as much as i can. but just because the "greedy businessman" has a different view of success than yours, doesnt make him wrong.

By your logic ER doctors dont work hard beacuse they dont have the hands of coal miners. By your logic cancer researchers dont work hard because all they do is look through microscopes and analyze data.

Who is out of touch with reality again?

also, as far as the outsourcing jobs to china thing goes, thats the same thing, its much more financially smart to outsource to china than it is to keep it here, well where does the problem start? if people are willing to go through the effort of outsourcing to china and keeping money in offshore accounts, thats says we are doing something wrong here. when you get taxed up the butthole here, and have to pay way more for labor and work around many strict and unnecessary regulations, you simply cannot compete with a similar company that outsources, when you are competing with companies that can sell the same product for less, or even a better for product for the less or same, you will loose. its not that these big companies, and romneys want to hurt US citizens, they are doing whats necessary to grow their company and stay in business.

My friends this is what many can call spin.....Wolff' s numbers actually indicate that average Americans today aren' t hurting because a market slowdown in generating wealth. Average Americans are being victimied because the wealth accumulated by the economy continues to cascade disproportionally to the top 1%. In fact between 1983 and 2007, the Wolff research mentioned by our fellow Newschooler XtReme11, the nation's richest took in over one third of the nations total gain in marketable wealth, over triple the 11.2% that went to the bottom 80% of American households. Furthermore since 2007, Wolff describes the top 1% of the nation's households have seen their overall share of the nation's wealth increase from 34.6 to 37.1 percent.....

Shut the fuck up you self righteous prick. Do me a favor, look at the tag on your shirt right now. Tell me where your shirt was made.

But damn that Mitt for sending jobs oversees. Lord knows you dont benefit from cheap chinese labor, not at all.

by the same token though, a greedy businessman can ruin a lot of lives when he gets too greedy. it wasn't burger flippers that fucked the entire economy over, it was executives and politicians. yes there are a lot of people who don't work at all but a percentage of those people have become disinterested with the human race, and for good reason. growth in business, especially in the USA, will always hurt somebody or something out there. most businessmen place value over the economy vs. the environment, when (in a perfect world) there would be a balance between both. that's why we've literally changed the composition of the pacific ocean, not because we were trying to, but because we weren't paying attention to the reactions of our actions, at least, most of us weren't. there's a plus and a minus to everything about business.

already have more money than they could ever possibly need, unless of course the cure to cancer is to build a fleet of giant spaceships and fly to the end other end of the universe and bring back the cure to earth.

It is nearly comical how you refuse to connect the very dots right in front of your face. Business people like Romney are the very reason why America is failling. These guys are winning because they don' t mind if the rest of us are losing. The people working at Wall street don' t mind passing on the risky subprime mortgages as triple A because it lines their pockets...Hell if the crash of 2008 has taught us anything it is that deregulation and laisse faire economics is absurd and the concepts of perpetual growth and sustainable development are ludicrous.....

i dont even....

Now now child no need for name calling....

Umm last time I check er doctors and cancer researchers don' t make over 1000 times my salary.

Might as well light your money on fire when you give it to cancer research.

so it is right to exploit chinese workers in order to have cheap stuff. Nice morals dude.

as a mac user, i take offense to this

macs are dope

but sending jobs overseas wont fix our economy.

>born into a life of privilege and riches<

people

what do you mean "swindled the rest of us our of our share"? why is it your share? so the top 1% have 37.1 percent of the nations wealth, why is it yours and not theirs?

fuck the rich.

stop fucking posting you live at home with your mom and dad. one day when you grow up you will learn how life works, because you clearly have no grasp on it.

The more the wealthy make the less the poor do. In 1960 the average ceo in the US made 30 times that of an average worker now that number is 1000. This means more wealth in one place which means more dying on the streets.

a business man can also help a lot of lives as well. nobody praises a big business guy for creating 1000 jobs, but we will demonize the crap out of him when he has to lay off a bunch of employees to keep his business running. of course when his actions hurt someone else its hurting them on a much much larger scale, but its all relative. when all you do is run a small doughnut shop or something and you gotta fire somebody or your shop puts the one down the street out of business nobody even notices. but when your a big company with 2000 employees and you have to lay off 100, or you put 10 local businesses in one town out of business, then yeah, people will notice. but its all still very basic and extremely necessary business practices.

So some one paying workers as little as possible to make more money is a good thing. ah I see.

yep this is why america creates poverty. no compassion or understanding that everyone in the nation is connected, no matter what differences. the rest of the civilized world figured it out a long time ago but right here we have a perfect example of someone who still doesn't get it. keep living in the 20's, america. who cares that their neighbour is poor? not their problem. just toss them in jail or feed them to the birds, that'll solve everything, anyone can get rich all it takes is effort, etc. etc.

yeesh.

ahahahahahahahahahahaha right, you're joking right? i mean i'm laughing so you must be

i worked at a local bike shop for minimum wage, so was my boss a cruel greedy evil man? or does that only apply if its a chain?

that oughta be enough to buy some ramen to eat dry while you live in your box under a bridge. good thing you moved up in the world.

I couldn't agree more with this. Well put.

Silly Mittens. I don't mind him saying stupid shit like this. Just gives Maher, Stewart, and Colbert more material and ensures even further that he's not getting elected.

Yeah being a white, middle-class kid growing up in a nice area makes you quite the expert on socioeconomic statuses, unrealized privileged and the American economy as a whole....

I usually find the people that support Mitt are the ones running on the platform of, "I'm white, my suburban town and gated community is doing alright, I'm having a good time so all these issues people are talking about really don't exist. They're all liars!"

Umm discussing stuff with youis like smashing my head into a wall over and over again....

Oh another cute anecdotal story form your life. Nice.

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An Open Letter To Candidate Romney

Dear Mitt Romney:

I saw your video.

I saw you speaking candidly and off the cuff about me. Don’t get me wrong, I know that you didn’t mention me by name or anything, but we both know you were talking about me.

When you were talking about 47% of the population that is never going to vote for you because we are “dependent victims” who lazily live on government programs like food stamps, I can’t help but take personal offense. In fact, once you decided to lump in anybody who is never going to vote for you, you weren’t just talking about me, but many people I love, and about 90% of the people I know.

My children eat because of food stamps, Mr. Romney. Now, sir, I want you to picture a Wyoming cowgirl: a mother, a fighter, a righteous, determined, God-loving woman. A Rocky Mountain Grizzly Bear Mamma that would make Sarah Palin’s makeup-wearing pit bull shudder. Picture me staring you in the eyes as I ask you, “What business have you got talking about me and mine like that?”

I am watching you run your Richie Rich mouth on TV right now, with your little flag lapel pin over your heart. You brag that you will bring “12 million new jobs and rising take home pay.” Quite frankly, I have no reason to believe you or your failures in arithmetic. Even if you did manage such a feat, I’d point to the 4.5 million job head start you had thanks to President Obama saving the nation from the failed GOP policies which you use as a platform, and which nearly caused a second Great Depression.

You said that you think that 47% of Americans “think they are victims” and you even said it wasn’t your job to worry about us.

First, I must argue with you. I am not a victim. I have been beaten. I have been bullied. I have been raped. I have been addicted. I have been alone. I have been poor. I have been homeless. I have been sick and broken. I have chosen — each and every single time — to stand up and pull myself and my family out of those circumstances. I beat every one of them without any riches to aid me. I did that without any inheritance, any gifted stocks or bonds, any loans, any rich family, or any elevators for my cars. I did it because I am not a victim, I am an American. I am the Mom-in-Chief of my house and nothing less than the very best that I can provide will do. I am the product of women who forded rivers to fetch the mail after working a hard day’s labor on the Laramie high plains. I am a force to be reckoned with.

If you don’t believe me, you could ask the doctor who has to take fluid from my spine on a regular basis to preserve my ability to see, due to a rare disease. If you don’t believe me, you can ask our Ambassador to China Gary Locke, who personally invited me to a bill signing when I helped Washington State legislate protection for children in schools against bullying by sharing my own experiences. If you don’t believe me, you can ask my children who have seen me struggle but always, always provide for them. Any one of these people will tell you, that this American is not a victim.

You call me entitled. I devote every day of my life to bettering the planet I live on, with no hope of profit. I am sorry, sir, but you calling me entitled is like the pot calling the dove black. That isn’t going to work. I challenge you to stand at my side and let the American public judge which of us is entitled. I spend every dime of my and my husband’s earned income as quickly as it comes in, right here in my town. Every dime I earn and spend stays in America. I am the ultimate Job Creator. Who are you to challenge me?

You call me entitled. Every year on April 15th, I am certain that I have shown every cent that went through my pocket honestly. I dream of a day when I am well enough off to pay taxes. I fantasize of the flourish with which I will write my first check to the IRS. I would give any earthly belongings I have to be self-sufficient enough to be able to pay it forward to the society that I love.

No, you cannot challenge me, Mitt Romney. I challenge you: where are your tax returns?

I fought, I graduated at the top of my class in college, and I pursued graduate studies. I took loans against myself, believing that this would pay off, but then, in 2009, something happened.

No, it wasn’t Barack Obama’s inauguration; it was a sudden injury to my spine that ended up revealing not one but two severe spinal diseases. Since then I have been unable to finish my studies or to work. I’d like to know, Mr. Romney: how many months of physical therapy, how many of my surgeries, how many of my scars must I share to prove my devotion to wanting to be better? How many of my efforts must I submit before you’ll see me, an American citizen, as worthy of your worry? When you tell me to take responsibility for myself, I ask you: what after that?

This evening, when you justified your awful statements in that video, you said that you had said what you did because you were reassuring your donators that you could win this election. I’m sorry that you have to pander to your base like that. You seem to have sold out your soul. You have forgotten “the eye of the needle” with that wealth you’ve got. You’ve left behind Matthew 24:50. I hate to be the one to tell ya buddy, but you are not the promised one. The promised one understands that the 47% you are talking about are more than low wage workers and elderly people who worked their whole lives and paid into the system, they are the 100% that your God is concerned with when he said “Love thy neighbor.” You may pay a tithe with your wallet, but it’s obvious you’ve neglected to tithe your heart.

My husband left for work at 7 AM. It is now 9 PM and he won’t be home again for two more hours from his second job today. I spent yesterday at the emergency room. I have been waiting for two years for Social Security. I do not understand. How much more do we have to work to show you that your call for jobs isn’t enough? You must also be concerned for the whole nation, and whether we eat, and whether we have medicine. You must care if a hardworking, devoted family like mine is unable to survive after investing their best efforts. How many jobs do you expect every American to take? Three? Four?

You simply must stop and consider those you dismiss as beneath you or you cannot be our leader. It is an unwritten but widely understood rule of the presidency. I don’t know what they taught you when you were out there scalping businesses hard-won on the backs of people like that 47% you so rudely kick around, but in the real world, we care when Americans suffer. We care when you forget the young military men and women who serve our nation by sacrificing their lives. We care when Americans go hungry. We care when Americans jobs are sent overseas and rich men hide societal resources in offshore accounts. We care that we are being ripped off and even if you find profit and power in our suffering, we still exist, we still care, and we will still stand up.

See? You called me a victim, you called me entitled, you called me a lot of other things in that video, but on every count you are wrong. Just by writing you this letter, I’ve proven I am not your victim. Just by living my life of hard and dutiful effort I have proven that I am not entitled. In fact, I consider it a duty as a citizen of this Great United States to shout loudly and proudly: “Mitt Romney is not and never will be my President!”

I warn you Mr. Romney, the one thing that I have not, and will not ever lose, is my voice. I will sound it each and every one of these 50 days until Barack Obama is re-elected, we will vote with Compassion, and Wisdom, and Empathy…and you, sir, can keep your spite and your hate and your rhetoric and see your way out.

Sincerely,

Sarah Zacharias, a.k.a. The Bucking Jenny

i stopped there.

Doesnt matter who you vote for. Romney is a turd sandwhich and Obama is a giant douche.

i almost did but you gotta realize america is still full of people who believe in god, to dismiss them would be pulling a romney

this

if your nose was any higher you'd drown in a rainstorm.

same wit obama when he be talkin to people he be like lookin over dem and shit like he better....


seriously though no one notices this?

lol @ anyone that doesnt know how well Romney's businesses that he created as well as jobs that he invested in and built from the ground up.

I'm self-employed, my family on both sides are business owners, but it is a given fact that he has a hell of a lot better resume than mr. O