Not surprising of what he thinks of 47% of Americans. Neither is surprising that a man who as part of 1% might not have been paying INCOME TAX......two words you'll never hear Mitt say.

Not a surprise from a man without a CORE. Is this going to be the last from awkward Mitt, nah.

3,000 people that earned more than a million dollars paid no (zero) Federal income tax

President Carter must be dancing in circles with joy... The GOP every four years drag his name through the mud just to make points... Well this time it's biting them in the butt...

47% of the people/voters Romney has tossed aside... By the way, most of those people are elderly living off a social security check... And then there are the unemployed and poor who go to bed hungry every night... Something Romney wouldn't know about or even understand...

When your born with a silver spoon in your mouth it's difficult to have empathy for the middle class and the WORKING poor... Keep talking Mitt...

Two things - I thought Romney "believes in America." I guess he believes that America is 47% deadbeat losers.

Secondly - he apparently believes that everyone is selfish. The purpose of tax cuts to him is not economic improvement, it is bribery. Here's a surprise Romney -- I earn plenty, and I still support tax increases even if I have to pay more. So do a lot of Americans who can do arithmetic and who love America. I am willing to sacrifice another 3% or so of my income to end the deficit. I guess that just is beyond the comprehension of a guy who hides his money in the Bahamas and would rather pay a tax attorney a million than the people of the united states 1.1 million.

NO APOLOGY AS Mitt "R-money" INSULTS ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY AND SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS

All right, there are 47 percent who are with him (Obama), 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," Romney said.

TYPES OF INCOME THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL INCOME TAXES- WHO ARE THE "47%"?

1) Active duty military- 1,468,364 million "entitled victims" and their freeloading families....

2) Social Security recipients- 62,000,000 million "entitled victims". Lazy bastards....back to work!

3) Disabled Americans - 13,981,000 "entitled victims" including children with severe disabilities. (Scum!)

4) Survivors receiving life insurance payouts- (slackards!)

5) Rich Republicans- who can derive their income from the following non-tax paying sources:

-give up to $13,000 gifts to each of their heirs

-sale of principal residences

-first $3,000 worth of capital losses

-municipal bond interest

But these non-taxpaying Republicans aren't "entitled victims". They're "entitled donors". Obama 2012

Dennis, Columbus, Ohio wrote:

"3,000 people that earned more than a million dollars paid no (zero) Federal income tax"

Romney can fix that.

ELLIOTT, you do know that Romney is talking about YOU!! He is saying half of ALL Americans, not just the ones who don't pay federal income taxes. By the way that does NOT include payroll taxes which EVERY working American pays.

How do we know that Mitt Romney, himself, paid taxes?? I think NOW more than ever we need to see HIS tax returns, to see if HE is one of those "victims" who doesn't take personal responsiblity by paying HIS TAXES and just looking for a handout!!!

Karma's a *itch! right Mitt?

elliot - You mean if we work for the government for a few years we will be free men? Do you know what an indentured servant is? You keep using that word...

Romney is a snake in a suit. This is a fact. The recently released comments just confirm what we already know.

@MkeMike:

Awesome post! You forgot one, though...

6)
Multinational corporations who use foreign investments and outsourcing and US
write-offs to dodge income taxes

It's almost hysterically funny...Here we have a bastion of GOP testosterone bashing away at the President for 4 years...criticizing everything and everyone who dares disagree with their egregious, abject policies and now? These wussy bois can't handle the frying pan even when they are the ones who lit the fire beneath it.

So the reality is a Republican can dish it out..but they are too cowardly to take. One might see this as the GOP expecting everyone to lay down while they whip the opposition mercilessly. With nary a whimper or cry, much less retaliation on the part of the Democrats. Finally, our Democrats are standing together to support the man in office as well as those who have already served.

When you look at Romney for who he is, he has the expectancy that he is wealthy; therefore, privileged to be untouched by criticism. He is a CEO and therefore, has no equal because his voice is law. If the GOP screwed up putting Bush and Cheney out front, they really did a number on themselves this time around.

Forgot one thing...

"Hey, corporations are people, too!"

LOL!!

"Absolutely" Really? No, not really. The great preponderance of that 47% are not nearly the slackers and deadbeats they are made out to be. The few that I know work hard and earn little, are sick or old and sick, and struggle to pay medical, housing, food and education expenses. It appears that you are commiting the error of stereotyping when stereotyping is inappropriate. Yes, we need to police those who collect welfare, disability and other such "entitlements". We also need to police the medicall "industry" to prevent overcharging medicare recipients. And we need to police hedge funds and Wall Street trades. Most of all, perhaps we need to police the congress, but justice means that we weigh and balance all the evidence. It doesn't mean that we throw the baby (or granny) out with the bath water.

Maxx,

Before the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 the number was 30%.

Most of the jump from 30% to 47% was a result of those tax cuts and the ATM.

Mitt Romney stands by his remarks. His true colors are showing.

What makes Romney think that the 47% who don't pay taxes and who are "moochers" are Obama voters? The poorest states are red states. The states with lowest per capita income are red states. Most of the states who pay in less to the federal government than they get from the federal government are red states. Sounds to me like Romney denigrated a lot of his own voters. And by the way, after payroll taxes, the percentage of people who don't pay taxes is under 18%---mostly seniors....most of whom generally vote republican (and most of whom worked hard their whole lives and earned their "entitlements"). And please, explain to me why it's not okay for a poor person to get help from the government to get food; but, it is okay for Romney to deduct $78000 for a dancing horse as a medical expense....isn't thateffectively Romney taking money from the government for medical care?

@ Pat from Boston. WHO CARES who took the video. Its Wormneys own words that haunt him. This isn't the MSM problem. This is Wormneys! HE created those words. Mittens Wormney hasn't a clue about anything. He can't create jobs, let alone the 12 million he is saying because they are already expected to be replaced anyways.

Re ad this: As it turns out, it is red states that are overwhelmingly the Welfare Queen States. Yes, that's right. Red States — the ones governed by folks who think government is too big and spending needs to be cut — are a net drain on the economy, taking in more federal spending than they pay out in federal taxes. They talk a good game, but stick Blue States with the bill.

Take a look at the difference between federal spending on any given state and the federal taxes received from that state. We measure the difference as a dollar amount: Federal Spending per Dollar of Federal Taxes. A figure of $1.00 means that particular state received as much as it paid in to the federal government. Anything over a dollar means the state received more than it paid; anything less than $1.00 means the state paid more in taxes than it received in services. The higher the figure, the more a given state is a welfare queen.

Of the twenty worst states, 16 are either Republican dominated or conservative states. Let's go through the top twenty.

• New Mexico: $2.03
• Mississippi: $2.02
• Alaska: $1.84
• Louisiana: $1.78
• West Virginia: $1.76
• North Dakota: $1.68
• Alabama: $1.66
• South Dakota: $1.53
• Kentucky: $1.51
• Virginia: $1.51
• Montana: $1.47
• Hawaii: $1.44
• Maine: $1.41
• Arkansas: $1.41
• Oklahoma: $1.36
• South Carolina: $1.35
• Missouri: $1.32
• Maryland: $1.30
• Tennessee: $1.27
• Idaho: $1.21

Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-18/politics/30039546_1_blue-states-federal-taxes-red-states#ixzz26pgSHlTm

What now Pat from Boston? Are those figures a MSM problem? No its a reality problem for the GOP and their Isheep! Red states are to blame for the economy sucking. The GOP, as well as religion is to blame for the ills of America. Wormney will get destroyed if he makes it to election day.

President Obama gets 450 electoral votes November to Mittens pittance.

I started working when I was 14 years old earning $10.00 a week. Over my working life I moved up to average over $50,000.00 a year. Not Romney, Adelson or Koch money for sure, but I paid taxes on every dime. That should put the lie to the Romney teascum that people who support Obama don't work.

However, I believe Romney when he says he cares. I just don't think he cares about me or people like me. Romney feels that I am not wealthy enough or Republican enough; therefore, Republicans have written me off as unworthy, Their loss,

The Washington Post and NPR posted the wealthiest among the GOP and how much their wealth grew in just the last 5 years...Top wealthhead? Darrell Issa ...increased his wealth by over $200 million. Followed by Ryan...from a paltry $980 thou to over $2 million. McConnel at No. 3...increased his wealth from $900,000 to over $2 million...Add in Cantor from $850,000 to over $2 million...Same with Boehner...no number was given for Romney because no one has seen enough of Romney's tax records...how sweet...Mr. Joy Boi Wannabee Pres....gets the IRS to keep his tax records so nice and secret while he investigates those of the Middle Class and working poor so he can use that data for his demonizing.

It's not nice, Mr. Romney, to bash people you want to collect votes from. Not "elegant" is that because "elegant" is a rich man's term for "stupid?"

Simply put, it is called poetic justice.

God Bless You, James Carter IV!

And God Bless your Grandfather and Grandmother, two of the finest people to ever occupy the White House.

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Yes...I'm sure the real issue here is how this video actually surfaced and not the content of the video itself.

"Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18

"Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!" - Butch Cassidy

Willard's team even outsourced strippers. It took five reads before that sunk in. That's Gods party, moral, clean cut and draped in red, white and blue. GNOP this is the U.S.A. you do not outsource the exploitation of women.

I hope 'The Hill' rips one apart in'16

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elliot-3020456

Romney is absolutely right.

This is just another hit piece by the Media Mafia. They think that this will anger people when it will actually resonate with the majority who are tired of this European socialist experiment we call 0bama.

elliot, you are incorrect.

It only resonates withe the idiotic morons over @ FOX NOISE'S pseudo-news team and "MYTH"Romney's GOP (Greedy Ole Party) . Survey says the morons who watch FOX NEWS WHITE NOISE know< than people who watch no news at all.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html

Amazing!!!! Leave it to the blather.

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elliot #1.11

It seems you have hit Romney on the head

If Obama wins a second term, just think of the mess he will inherit this time!

When did it become acceptable to elect a President who is only concerned about 53% of the population?

I'll stick with the man who cares about ALL of the people in this county!

Thank you...

Salvia...Since I'm not the 50% that's getting one tax cut after another to reduce MY taxes, I must be the 50% receiving what your naturally needlebrained righties call the handouts? Well...sorry to inform you big babies of the right...50% of the US pays 50% of all the taxes and don't get a check sent home for it either. We are the 50% Bush called "uniquely American"...salaries badly savaged back to 1970's levels by rich ass CEOs who use our hard work and 3 jobs to piece together what used to be called a "living wage." Not a one of Bush's 2 tax cuts put an appreciable dollar in my paycheck and neither did the 2009 tax cut the GOP demanded or they promised to refuse the extension of unemployment which by the way we also PAY for.

How many business tax cuts do you get to reduce what you pay? How many tax cuts do you get because you have kids? How much is the sales tax, Medicaid tax and as for Medicare...sorry dahlink ...that's a payroll deduction too...meaning...WE pay for it and damn well better get what we paid for just like rich asses do.

As if HOW the video was released has thing one to do with WHAT Mitt Romney says in the video.

As always with Republicans, blame the messenger, blame the poor, blame everyone else but themselves.

Why don't you try taking responsibility for what you say for a change?

When did it become acceptable to elect a President who is only concerned about 53% of the population?

The best part is, how much of those 53% are really in GOP states?

My reaction: I wish he would said it during his acceptance speech at the RNC.

This just proves that the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Da Noid

Yes...I'm sure the real issue here is how this video actually surfaced and not the content of the video itself.

You mean sort of like how last week the issue wasn't the attack on our embassies but rather Romney's comments regarding them?

But of course you're right, the "real" issue will always be whatever makes Romney look bad. If the situation were reversed, how the video surfaced WOULD be the issue today and we all know it.

With all the attention being placed on this video and potential followup videos from the same fund raiser dinner, here is a tidbit of information for all the folks that say they are "NOT" better off than they were 4 years ago when Obama was elected.

www.nationalmemo.com/eight-republicans-who-are-better-off-than-they-were-four-years-ago/

Just a few more facts for the neocons and Teapublicans to chew on. The proof is in the pudding you might say.

The real gem comes later this week into the weekend when the media breaks down who is exactly in that 47% that Romney disdains so much. Hopefully, they will have graphics that explain this so the average person can grasp how they fit in.

Probably 40% or so of that 27% are registered Republicans or voters who normally vote Republican since a good chunk are the elderly, disabled veterans, and just hard working people who happen to be in a lower income category and don't make enough net income after all deductions to pay taxes.

My parents, for example, are a perfect case of elderly living on Social Security and pension income, and having enough deductions for medical and other things to usually not pay any federal taxes. They depend on Medicare and Veteran's benefits. They are also straight Republican voters. I'll be interested in hearing them trying to still defend voting for someone who despises them for living off the government like leeches. They're only in their late eighties, so I suppose they should get jobs and stand up and start taking care of themselves and stop taking handouts from the government for living and medical help.

The people affected by natural disasters should probably also just be left to die and not depend on FEMA and government aid to get them back on their feet. Why should we even rescue victims of disasters since they'll only bleed the system for help anyway?

And our military got paid while they served. Why should we think we owe it to them to take care of them for being wounded in the service of our country? They can sink or swim like the rest with no help from Uncle Sam.

In a free market, only the strongest (financially that is) should survive.

@MikeMike

TYPES OF INCOME THAT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL INCOME TAXES- WHO ARE THE "47%"?

1) Active duty military- 1,468,364 million "entitled victims" and their freeloading families....

Since when? I was in the military and paid income taxes. I think you are mistaken here.

Whatever happened to the group that broke into the accounting firm and stole Mitt's tax returns? Since there's no news about an arrest, I assume Mitt paid them off. What's he hiding? Must be pretty bad if you are willing to pay an extortionist. September 28th is coming. Was it a hoax?

The DNC must beat the drum with this latest Romney tidbit. I can see commercials flashing pictures of a student, a young mother, a new immigrant, and one of our seniors each saying 'I paid more in taxes than Mitt Romney'.

I can see billboards with piles of money stacked showing each of my 'person' examples pulling tax dollars out of their pile next to Mitt pulling his to reflect how much they pay percentage-wise to each other in taxes. Anyone with a job pays more in payroll taxes on a percent basis than Mitt does.

This man is disgusting and scary, and not qualified to lead this country. But Mitt was right about one thing. He is talking to his base that believes what he says and will vote for him against their best interests. The DNC needs to pound corporate welfare and entitlements showing simple examples in their campaign ads. You know, the examples of CEOs geting paid more than their company pays in taxes, or the size of the refunds and tax credits that our top corporations get every year. Or the percent increase in CEO pay, 24% last year, versus the Republican vote against raising the minimum wage. Or the Republican Bill to end the cap on overseas workers coming here to take American jobs.

C'mon DNC please do make it about the economy and show where and to whom all the money this country has is really going.

elliot-3020456

Red Cloud, I just wish 0bama and his administration would stop apologizing for America.

elliot,

Is the word apology is messing with your head???? Show us and example of one time where our President actually said I'm sorry. Blther on we all know you have the IQ of a pre-schooler!!!

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Why don't you actually listen to the tape. Romny isn't saying what he thinks about the 47%, he's simply stating the facts about them.....they don't pay income tax, many suck from the federal welfare teat, and they will all vote for the man who owns the federal teat. No controversy here, just the facts.

Here's another fact Spider (Anna Molly linked this earlier): http://www.theamericanconservative.com/where-do-the-47-percent-live/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-do-the-47-percent-live

For Bluingoregon -- You said that everyone pays payroll taxes, even the 47%. Well, I'll tell you one person who doesn't pay them: Mitt Romney! If you look at his 2010 and 2011 tax forms(online) you will note that the line for income listed on a W-2 is blank; that means he had no "payroll" income, therefore, no payroll tax was deducted. So, he paid NO Social Security or Medicare taxes either year. I guess he will depend on his $100 million IRA.

Re: ewent As I wrote before, I am for closing the loopholes on the rich and raising their tax rates. However, some of the entitlement programs need to be cut back unless you want to be speaking Chinese. First, the programs should be based on need. Do you know how many rich senior citizens get medicare and medicaid ? They don't get it because they are in need- they get it because seniors as a group are known to go out and vote. It's called politics not called good governing. Did you read the recent article about SS handing out all this money to bogus claims ? If you want to know what I think is the underlying problem. It is the party system. George Washington warned against it in his farewell address. He was for a zero party system to avoid special interest control of the government, gridlock, animosities, division, and corruption of the system.

TAX AVOIDANCE IS A HUGE PROBLEM...AND NO, I WON'T RELEASE MY TAX RETURNS.....

47% paid NO Income tax because their income was below the level requiring tax.

52% paid higher income tax rates, on less income, than Mitt Romney did.

1% refuse to tell us how much they DID pay....and hid their money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

When did it become acceptable to elect a President who is only concerned about 53% of the population? I'll stick with the man who cares about ALL of the people in this county! Thank you...

Did you all like this surprise? Just wait for the next one. This one is nothing, a much bigger one on the President coming next.

President Berraco Obama only cares about wining and getting votes. He will give out prises to those that he needs and will divide the Country to no end.

I hope your the usual libreal hound dogs have me on ignore as they promised. I don't feel like writing much.

I said it before about Romney's statement, and I will say it again about some of the conservative posters today.

UNBELIEVABLE.

Did any of you actually listen to or read Romney's statements? This was not some "call to arms" for personal responsibility or an attempt to reform the "welfare state" - this was an undefenseable, divisive attack on almost half of Americans.

"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 ...

"My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." - Mitt Romney

Yes, Romney specifically links the "47%" who don't pay federal income tax to those who will vote for President Obama.

Yes, Romney specifically states that those "47%" who don't pay federal income tax are dependent on the government, and that they do not take personal responsibility for their lives.

Yes, Romney also states that he can do nothing about it, and that it is not his job to worry about those "47%" - basically saying that if he is elected he will not represent their interests and they are on their own.

Anyone who agrees with this hateful, divisive statement should be embarrased to call themselves an American.

Obama loves the middle class...HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA tell that to all the ex middle classers who now live in poverty collecting foodstamps

Dude from Nowhere (previous thread) --

My question is:

If this was taken on May 17th, how come they waited until September 17th to release it?

Did they really need 4 months to release it?

Or did they want to release it when Obama starts looking bad, and they can't recover from it or blame it on Bush?

Like what is happening in Egypt and Libya?

I smell something phony about that video...

Funniest thing I ever heard. Keep blaming the messenger, as if the delay in releasing it -- or even the motives for the delay -- somehow makes the content suspicious.

This is not just some trumped up, he-said/she-said allegation. It's a video, for heaven's sake. Romney is ON the video. He certainly isn't denying that he said it.

And what does Egypt and Libya have to do with it? You mean, like Al Qaeda put Carter up to it or something? Sheesh.

This kind of argument goes directly to the level of thought being employed by Romney supporters here. It's the same sort of thing that happened with the Herman Cain revelations.

You can't defend the indefensible, so you attack the messenger.

It looks like my post at First Thoughts about conservatives and stupidity was spot-on.

But if conservatives were looking for an October Surprise, then ... SURPRISE!!!!

For James Earl Carter the IV it has to be very difficult to be seeing his grandfather, a man he grew up to love and respect, constantly referred to as "the worst president ever." The Republican party, in putting forth this denigrating label seems to have forgotten a few significantly worse presidents: Ulysses S. Grant, who had what may be the most corrupt administration; Herbert Hoover, whose administration presided over the economy which led to the 13 year long Great Depression; George W. Bush, whose administration and policies led to the great recession which we are still trying to recover from; Ronald Reagan whose trickle down theory of voodoo economics has led to the greatest decline in middle class income in the history of the country.

Good luck Mr. Carter in finding whatever employment you seek.

O'bama will still lose in a landslide. He is that bad!

Kornfed,

He may lose by a landslide in a few red states, which you may a resident of explaining your point of view, but he'll win the popular vote by a decent margin and take the electoral vote in a landslide against Romney.

Romney still has 49 more days to make more gaffs and have more facts come out against him. There is nothing new that hasn't already come out against Obama, but the real dirt on Romney is only starting to come out and will pick up considerably over the next few weeks.

You mean sort of like how last week the issue wasn't the attack on our embassies but rather Romney's comments regarding them?

Holy "False Equivalence", Batman!

The embassy attacks last week were a two-pronged issue. Yes, the President, being the President, has his own issues to deal with regarding what happened in Libya. However, Mr. Romney created his own issues with his cowboy foreign policy stance and by issuing statements before dead bodies were even cold.

This week...this video...Mr. Romney's got this one all to himself.

spider-737231

... Romny isn't saying what he thinks about the 47%

My job is is not to worry about those people. (Mittens)

So YES he IS saying what he thinks about 47% of this country

It looks like my post at First Thoughts about conservatives and stupidity was spot-on.

such a sanctimonious jerk arent you. You left of castros really think you are ubersmart.

You can't defend the indefensible, so you attack the messenger.

explain why you defend Obama or should i say attack the messenger? His record is dismal.

Thanks for playing.

Salvia...Do you know how many rich seniors paid into SS, Medicare or Medicaid for decades? Are you suggesting they get off pay zero and then should their Wall Street stocks end up in toilet, we pay for their needs as needy seniors? The reality is that all rich people underpay taxes...the cut off is $106,000 for SS. I'm not certain what it is for Medicare and Medicaid.

If you pay for you, you get what you pay for or that's extortion. House Republicans are right now looking at ways to cut into not just bone but marrow too but it's ALL directed at the middle class...Is a tax subsidy handed to Big Oil to the tune of $12 trillion an entitlement program? Big Oil thinks so and Big Oil reported 3 1st quarter records profits not seen in decades in the last 3 years. Don't talk about entitlement people pay...starting bitching about entitlements corporations and the 1% don't pay for but get in the trillions. That $12 billion handed to Big Oil by Issa, Cantor, Ryan, Boehner and McConnell could have been put in SS as an offset for what has been taken from it.

SS is amassed by people like me who pay into it for 32 years...Are you suggesting I just pay it and forget it? Or, are you suggesting we trust Wall Street Madoffers with it?

Ha! Ha! Ha!Ha! I just can't help it! I read alls these blogs supporting Obama and doing there best to put down Romney and I have to laugh! Because, no matter how bad you try to paint Romney your still stuck with Obama! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

You keep trying to make Mitt Smell bad while you are hanging onto a bucket of sh-t!

So what Republicans are REALLY saying is that they WANT TO RAISE TAXES....? (on the 47% who either have almost no income, or protected income?)

no matter how bad you try to paint Romney your still stuck with Obama!

Not a matter of 'painting' Romney, THESE ARE FACTS. He bemoans that 47% pay no taxes, while ignoring that a solid 50% of them pay no taxes due to laws put in place by Republicans to LOWER TAXES. When you LOWER TAXES, some folks AREN'T GOING TO PAY.

When FACTS become a problem for your (or at least for the GoTP) wail, bemoan and abhor facts, the greedy 47% (who are mostly republicans anyway) will listen and ignore the reality, because they like being brainwashed, there is no other explanation. Right jscusmc69?

A lot of people look for work but employers want more qualifications than what is needed for the job.

They no longer want to take the risk of training people because once they are trained, they leave. They don't want to pay competitive wages. That is the conundrum most un-employed face nowadays. It is not that they don't want to work.

And to Romney's video. I could only say WOW. This is coming from the man who wants to be president ? One qualification that many people forget, based on the posting of pro-Romney voters, is Emphathy towards others. The question asked him is an open question subject to interpretation and all he can talk about is getting rejected by the 47% who is less fortunate than him. About getting elected as Presdient is this man's obsession. Not that he cares for America, rich or poor.

He could have talked about making opportunites reachable for everyone like... lower college tuition, making preventive medical care visits affordable, programs that educate people to eat healthy and encourage fast food places to be partners in eliminating the bad toxins in their food that contribute to high blood, high cholesterol. Establishing a small minimum mandatory contribution to your IRA taken out of your paycheck tax free with your option to contribute more.

But what did he do, insult those 47% he does not even know. The father / mother who is currently unemployed still looking for work but can use a little help from government until they can stand on their own. The single mother who is underpaid because of gender bias, trying to support her child while attempting to finish high school or even college on her own.

Mr. Romney, NO EMPHATHY for the less fortunate Americans because not all where born with a silver spoon in their mouth, if you are not affluent, you are not significant in his Presidency. This video is confirming what my gut is telling me all along.

ewent: Did I ever say rich seniors should get nothing out of S.S. ?

Why is our President swiping at Mitt Romney in Ohio over China?

#1 Romney's manufacturing falsehoods

Romney is out with a new ad about manufacturing and trade with China. It lies about the President's record -- and it doesn't tell the truth about Romney's, either. It's the sort of fact-free ad that we've come to expect from the Romney campaign, and we have to push back on every single one. The recorded video takes on the ad's distortions, and to talk about the President's real record on manufacturing and China. Take a look, and share it with others:

http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/entry/mitt-romney-and-china

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Spider --

Why don't you actually listen to the tape. Romny isn't saying what he thinks about the 47%, he's simply stating the facts about them.....they don't pay income tax, many suck from the federal welfare teat, and they will all vote for the man who owns the federal teat. No controversy here, just the facts.

Fact? Really? In whose alternative universe?

Xabre has already given you the link to the map showing which states have the most members of the 47 percent. Those states generally vote Republican.

But if that's not enough for you, I encourage you to watch this video, which I posted over at First Thoughts. It explains why the poorest state -- Mississippi -- is the most conservative, and why the same people whom Mitt Romney insulted on that video -- at least until yesterday -- are most likely to vote for HIM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdfU7CetRKU

And so it seems that conservatives also "suck from the teat," and are PROUD of it.

Well. It's no coincidence that Rick Santorum recently said that conservatives have given up on "smart" people.

It's because they've got people who think at your level in a lock-down.

The IRS rules says that income earned while serving in a combat zone in non-taxable:

If you are an enlisted member, warrant officer, or commissioned warrant officer, you can exclude the following amounts from your income. (Other officer personnel are discussed under Amount of Exclusion , later.)

• Active duty pay earned in any month you served in a combat zone.

(for those who like sources, it's under Combat Zone Exclusion at http://www.irs.gov/publications/p3/ar02.html#en_US_2011_publink1000176201 )

So Romney considers combat soldiers as irresponsible takers.

Go get'em Romney!

MITT ROMNEY SPOKE the words; who leaked Mitt's words is unimportant. That said, it's sweet justice to know it was a Carter.

On the question of "no income tax for the military", at times in the past, Viet Nam, for instance, pay received while in a "war zone" was not taxed if you were an enlisted person or, if you were an officer, a large part was not taxed. That apparently has lapsed as I could find nothing about it in the IRS booklet. Some states, however, do not tax military pay at all.

Never mind, apparently I missed the entry on the website.

Bev in Chicago-You hit the problems with the "new Republican Party" perfectly. They are listening to lies and contorted news constantly and their goal of having anyone, even their dreaded Satan be President rather than a smart, strong and compassionate leader such as Barack Obama. Anyone with any real management experience and who has had to in the private sector be responsible for saving a company or organization from ruin knows that even in a small organization you do not make everything right in the first few months or even a year. Now , we are talking a country, our USA which was handed to Obama after about thirty years of poor management from both Repubs and Dems, then given to a incompetent administration of Bush/Chaney who had selfish intentions even before 911. That administration drove the spike deep into the heart of the Nations already weakening scenario. Yes, they started with a large Budget Surplus which looked like perhaps we were finally going to start an recover in the new Century, but as stated above, the incoming Administration destroyed the surplus very quickly, and proceeded to leave the Nation in the worst financial and mind boggling depression of most of our Nations' citizens, knowing that they were leaving the nation in this mess at least 2 years before the new President would be sworn in. In continuance of what I stated above, even a small company or organization takes time to heal the problems causing it to not operate efficently. Obama has done more than any "manager/business mogul could have possibly expected to accomplish. There is no person that could have done any better and accomplished so much for our Nation that he has. Most of the negative responses to Obama in this blog are honestly, the same I am hearing from the Romney campaign, some dumbness, some lies, and no authenticity or belief. The other side of course and we hate to say it, is that President Obama is "so different" according to the die hard group of proclaiming "no Obama, give us the Devil", rather destroy our country than have a Man save our country who in the past century and before always had to "remember his place". This is the truth for fortunately only about 10% of Americans. Obama will bring us back because he honestly cares about every American regardless of their society or financial status. He only wants fairness for all Americans. 4 more 4 "44" Obama/Biden and Democratic Senate and House for 2016.

jscusmc69 - Two posts of utter silliness. One of the quickest to IGNORE EVER.

I make less than $30,000 a yearand I DO pay taxes. What am I doing wrong?

I won't vote for Romney, but not because I have a low income or (just) because I am worried about going to a voucher system when I need Medicare. My wealthier sisters, who are over 55, also won't vote for Romney, and neither will my doctor (he told me he supports Obama) or the millionaire CEO of the company where I work (ditto.)

Romney doesn't even understand he has failed to convince educated, informed and upper income Americans, not just people who may be dependent of assistance. What a dope.

Caesar Augustus --

such a sanctimonious jerk arent you. You left of castros really think you are ubersmart.

Sanctimonious jerk I'll take full credit for, but why don't you, oh, mighty Caesar, tell me why you think Rick Santorum says that conservatives have abandoned "smart" people.

And why most of the 47 percent seem to live in red states.

And why the poorest state in the country consistently votes overwhelmingly conservative, which Mitt Romney has just demonstrated to be against their best interests.

And by the way, I'll be waiting for answers, not just more insults.

Give it a try, you might like it.

Don't know what all the hype is about. What he said is absolutely true. If you don't pay taxes in the first place how is telling you if you vote for me you'll pay less taxes work. He actually may win a few independent votes for being honest!

And haven't the liberal news pundits ask why isn't Romney using the fact his grandfather migrated from Mexico to pick up the Latino votes. Well he gave a truthful answer, the family isn't Latino. And yes, it would help if they were, that's the honest truth. But Romney is not going to lie about his heritage to obtain Latino's votes.

The honest truth & I know some don't want to hear it, is that the country is divided politically, always has been, always will be. And yes the majority of the poor vote Democrat, always have, always will. Each candidate has always went after the Independent voter which consist mainly of the middle to upper middle class. They are not wasting their time on people who demographically will not vote for them. You think Obama is wasting his time on Evangelical Christians? Yeah right! Noooooooooooo.

Just another liberal media diversion to get off the subject of our Government totally missing the ball on the Libya Terrorist attack & embassy protests around the world. They are still trying to cover up our Government's screw up by placing the blame some stupid movie that know one watched until this happen. Not to mention Afganistan's police killing our Soldiers almost daily now. Maybe they could use a lesson from Romney and start speaking the truth!

ZathroseThe Obot libs are all upset someone actually voiced the truth. 47% of the voters in this country ARE greedy, envious, nipplesucking ingrates that pay zero income tax

Im sure your grandparents would be proud of you.

But, the additional revenue derived from those evil "rich" folks you constantly rail about amounts to only $700 billion, or a paltry $70 billion a year. That's not quite enough to make much of a dent in our debt situation, and the full truth

You kind of lose all credibility when you inject a gem like "evil rich folk" in the middle of a conversation. Democrats don't go around calling rich folk evil - this is a myth created by those who are unable to frame the discussion in anything other than terms of class warfare.

The dependency on government is creating indentured servants to the party of spread the wealth around.

Got news for you. Everyone is dependent on the government. The only thing is that some of us are smart enough to realize this.

Governments are people too, my friend. The government is YOU. You can vote.

That is the best this MORON Carter can do, an edited video to stir the campaign , shifting the spot light from the disgrace of Obama , whit the help of the news bias. It is hard to decide who is worst Carter or Obama. What is the next for this leftest to distract the attention from the real problems and sending the issues that maters to the last page, unemployment numbers are coming.

Romney doesn't even understand he has failed to convince educated, informed and upper income Americans, not just people who may be dependent of assistance. What a dope.

Romney is so despised that he isn't even able to convince the people who should be his base. That is why we have the continuous race-baiting, etc. He's throwing out these red meat items in order to get the most ignorant part of his base in line. That's all he can really hope for.

The election is about Obama - people who like him and understand the depth of the hole he's trying to dig us out of, and people who despise him because they don't like the change in America he is emblematic of.

Romney the man, the candidate is an afterthought.

This country as of today has a record number of people on Food Stamps, & Disability. Combine that with the welfare work requirement being lifted by Obama, the continued extensions of unemployment benefits, the health care act, and the additional government jobs created by Obama and you can only come to one conclusion..... The more people who are getting money from the government the better chance you have of getting elected and taxing everyone else more and promising to give even more. This isn't anything new andhas been a strategy for power for years.

When did it become acceptable to elect a President who is only concerned about 53% of the population?

When the one that is president now only cares about 0.0000003% of the population...himself, uses 47% of the population as useful idiots and tools, and villifies the 53% of the population that actual make this country work.

I'll stick with the man who cares about ALL of the people in this county!

Your Messiah sure has you fooled. Get your head out of his butt. It's cutting off the oxygen and your ability to think.

The grandson is merely determined to get Obama reelected to ensure that ALL will agree that his granddad, Jimmy Carter, was NOT the worst president to ever serve this great country.

He's hoping that four more years of Obama will prove that HE has replaced Carter, by far, as the worst president ever.

But this WILL NOT HAPPEN as Gov Romney will replace Obama as president but he will still be known to many as one of the worst.

The government is YOU. You can vote

partially true, but a government big enough to give you what you want, is big enough to take it away. I will vote and for now that is the weapon.

Everyone is dependent on the government

with certain aspects yes. I believe indentured servitude is the key word with gov dependancy. At what point does the government need to stop growing?

tell me why you think Rick Santorum says that conservatives have abandoned "smart" people.

ask him, it was his comment (and I dont agree with it feel better?). I called you on the carpet for yours. now if you want to get me for what i said then do it, stop killing the messenger as you so eloquently put it.

You kind of lose all credibility when you inject a gem like "evil rich folk" in the middle of a conversation. Democrats don't go around calling rich folk evil - this is a myth

Really, because in my city when the Occupy Wall Street crowd was out it was no myth, they were actively calling all rich people and businesses with a profit evil. Many of their signs actually used the word evil.

Ever see the signs that say "eat the rich"?

I have a Democrat cousin who works extremely hard at not paying taxes. He jumps on every entitlement that he can find. Romney's comments are not directed at every democrat, just the 47% that don't pay taxes. I think that we should put a little piece of our country aside. Those of you like my cousin that are able, but work hard not to pay taxes can go there and those who believe that you get what you work for go to the other side. I can tell you right now that it will be like East and West Germany.

You can't spend your way out of debt and you don't ask others to pay for things that you are not willing to pay for yourself. At some point the well will run dry!

What is funny is that this story proves the media is liberal. Only those in the media and self described liberals think this is a story, everyone else either agrees with his statement or at least acknowledges that what he said is not that far from the truth.

Caesar Augustus --

ask him, it was his comment (and I dont agree with it feel better?).

No, not much.

I called you on the carpet for yours.

And I don't mind telling you that my backside is blistering from the carpet burns.

now if you want to get me for what i said then do it, stop killing the messenger as you so eloquently put it.

Frankly, I don't. I've already tried that, and there doesn't seem to be much point to it. You'll just turn it into a referendum on me, and if you're the voting public, I'll lose every time.

This just proves that if the Devil himself were running on the democratic ticket, the democrats would vote for him. Spudbucket

So because we're Democrats, we would vote for the devil? Where do you come up with this poison?

Carter's just happy because he knows that 4 more years of this and he won't go down as the worst President in history anymore!!!

Does anyone have a spare Obama statue I can put in my car to replace my Jesus statue?

You'll just turn it into a referendum on me,

sure, but its like the pot meeting the kettle wouldnt you say?

politics isnt clean

Hey Bev. (Post #1.51) You accuse Fox of being partisan and use the Huffington post to site your example...Too Funny.

Not a one of Bush's 2 tax cuts put an appreciable dollar in my paycheck

Well then Ewent, did you Earn your income? I received over $1K thanks to those tax cuts, and yes, I earned the money that those taxes were taken from. Short of it is if you earned income by working, you should have received money because of those tax cuts.

I'll stick with the man who cares about ALL of the people in this county!

Feisty, I am not in a union, so POTUS doesn't give a $#it about me. Maybe that is the problem, the $787 Billion stimulus only helped democratic political contributors, green companies that took the money and declared bankruptcy & unions who supported the president.

MSNBC and all of the lefties here support Obama while the economy is in shambles, the middle east is afire and companies like GE outsource jobs and avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Yet you guys seem to overlook these facts.

A Flat tax is needed to offset the progressive code. Everybody has a responsibility to help our country, not live off of it.

Great hit Piece MSNBC!! This story really has legs.These guys are so in the tank for Obama its just laughable how they are going to do anything they can and pull out all the stops in the next 50 days to get him elected. There is a lack of true journalism in America but what is worse are these "journalists" running around trying to say they have an unbiased opinion. It makes me sick these slimeballs.

sure, but its like the pot meeting the kettle wouldnt you say?'

If you say so, Caesar.

politics isnt clean

Maybe not, but I sure hope the carpet was.

I don't need a tape to know what RobMeHood is all about, I said from day one the RobMe's are Losers !!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody has a responsibility to help our country, not live off of it.

NOW THAT SOUNDS AMERICAN! thanks toxic chemist

jscumc69,

Thats a long list of firsts. But I can think of one of Bush's that trumps all that.

Bush

First President to allow a handful of foreigners to use box cutters to kill thousands of our citizens and worse yet change our entire culture, limit our "freedoms" and create another giant bureaucratic agency the DHS and a smaller agency with brownshirts the TSA and oh yeah a never ending war that profits Defense Contracting Carpetbaggers.

Everybody has a responsibility to help our country, not live off of it.

That is good advice for Willard Milton Romney. He will have plenty of time to reflect on that statement after he is defeated in November.

Ophotfoot, if Clinton would have taken out Bin Laden having three opportunities to do it 9/11 wouldn't have happened

Carter just wants to keep Obama in the house to make his grandfathers presidency look better... as he said himself "it's personal".

Another 4 years of Obama and being "Carter's grandson" won't sound nearly as bad as being related to Obama.

Romney pretty much just told all those retired seniors who vote republican, don't pay any taxes, and receive government health care while crying socialized medicine its not his job to care about them

Funny how liberals have been calling Romney a liar almost non-stop for months. Now liberals are upset because Romney told the truth. 47% of American households don't pay any federal income tax, and what is worse is that Democrats and Obama have convinced them they should get more and others should pay for it. The entire Democratic Party is in I want mode, from birth control pills to free cell phones to free loan forgiveness. Obama and the Democrats have almost half the nation dependent on government handouts, and they want to keep it that way simply for the votes. There is never any talk from Obama about increasing the size of the tax base, just increasing taxes on those he feels have too much. You have more then I do so gimme is the new Democratic Party mantra.

@travelinfotog

Re ad this: As it turns out, it is red states that are overwhelmingly the Welfare Queen States...

Take a look at the difference between federal spending on any given state and the federal taxes received from that state...

So let me see if I get this right, you think that Spending on Federal infrastructure, ag and fuel subsidies, trust payments to Indian tribes and military expenditures amongst other things are "welfare"??? And I thought the conservatives had some @!$%#ed up ideas about what constitutes "welfare". Turns out liberals are just as clueless and just as willing to parrot a bunch of drivel.

Amy B. Portland, MEI make less than $30,000 a yearand I DO pay taxes. What am I doing wrong?

They are talking about Federal Income Tax. Everyone pays some type of tax, but not Federal Income Tax. If you are paying Federal Income Tax on $30,000 you are single, you don't own a home or its paid for, don't pay your own medical costs, have no deductions whatsoever, you didn't contribute to an IRA and you don't have children, not a single parent and don't have any dependant you can claim. Or you're married and your spouse works thus the income is combined income. You are a 1040EZ filer. And if you are single you're not classified as poor, you are middle class. You still received a $9500 credit which was taken off your income in addition to having a nice hefty Tax refund check from the IRS this year.

I won't vote for Romney, but not because I have a low income or (just) because I am worried about going to a voucher system when I need Medicare.

If you are single, at $30,000 you don't have "low" income. The plan is going to give you options, either you stay on the present Medicare fund or you chose another healthcare program that is in an Exchange. You do realize that Obamacare is going to be an Exchange also. So I am sure you are for Obamacare, so what's the problem with Romney's Medicare plan giving people a choice on who they want to oversee their healthcare. You do realize Medicare only covers 80%, so you have to find a private insurer to cover that 20%. So you still have to go private unless you plan to pay the 20% from your own pocket. The Romney Plan is still paid for by the government, thus creating competition which lowers costs. Just like what the Congress members have today, an Exchange that gives them a choice in their healthcare. If you are going to be informed at least know what a recommended program is all about instead of listening to talking points. FYI there are some Doctors who are no longer taking on new Medicare patients because government reimbursements has declined. Its not cost effective for them to see you. So it really doesn't do much good if you can't find a doctor to take you.

My wealthier sisters, who are over 55, also won't vote for Romney, and neither will my doctor (he told me he supports Obama) or the millionaire CEO of the company where I work (ditto.)

Fortunately we live in the greatest country in the world where we have a choice. Also where you and your sisters can even vote and afford the freedoms you do have. Unlike most of the women in the Middle East. What??? You think rich people don't vote Democrat... As if that should be a real surprise to anyone that some CEO or millionaire is voting Democrat. Dang last I looked Actors were millionaires and mostly Democrats.

Although I seriously doubt the CEO of your company has discussed such personal matters relating to his political views with you. Most executives of a Corp don't discuss such matter not even with their Executive secretary. They really have far better things to do and/or worry about. Certainly don't get that personal with their subordinates. Now if he's a "owner" of a small business (who are not CEO's) with a handful of employees, yes, they might, but even then its quite doubtful. But nice try though.

Romney doesn't even understand he has failed to convince educated, informed and upper income Americans, not just people who may be dependent of assistance. What a dope.

And Obama has done this so well? Considering this is another very tight race how can you be that uninformed to think Romney is the only one in this race who hasn't convinced the majority of the people. Obama hasn't done a real bang up job convincing people to give him another chance, to fix the economy he has yet been able to fix. I don't know why anyone would vote for an incumbent, democrat or republican that hasn't gotten the job done. That goes for our sitting Congress members, they all should go. But majority of the people cannot think past a Political Party. That's the way their parents voted, their grandparents and now they will vote regardless if the person is incompetent.

But hey, to each their own...

East/West Germany which evolved into a fascist totalitarian state..Your screaming about the unemployment rate, with void to the reality that it’s only available for citizens that actually worked. They weren't laid off by the US government; their incomes didn't dwindle from anything the poor man did. Companies/corporations laid them off. Cut hours, benefits, etc.. Talking about entitlement programs while only naming the struggling, sickening. Truth being those on unemployment is largely the middle class that are left shopping for minimum wage jobs, usually dominated by the poor and young. Americans at Americans throats need to blame someone, something, realistic or not.

b4america while you try educating others on Germany, you forget the essential element that led up to a fascist state able to murder millions, complete division. Communism would not be brought about by high-minded benefactors of humanity. Hitler, the fascist totalitarian, despised capitalist, socialist, communist, liberals. He was anti-Marxism and wanted the socialist word removed from the party name and changed to social revolution. Communism isn't placing all those in need on welfare, its allowing them to starve in the streets, tossed scraps of food like North Korea. Its keeping the poor uneducated and unable to think or provide for themselves, like the elite of Athens in 400 B.C.E. Thinkers like yourself are the ones that divide the people with your ill-informed ideas of communism and socialism. Marx didn't go into detail as to what would produce a pure socialist state, he gave ideas, and others ran with his ideas twisting his theories beyond pure recognition. So I ask you, supposedly after Obama, as you put it, turn our government into a purely socialist state, whom will take over to complete the communist state? Who will starve the poor, let the sick die with the inability to afford medical, etc? When will corporations with all these entitlements, write offs, hiring incentives, overseas investments and jobs, bailouts, loop holes, percentage of employment paid by the taxpayer? When will they take all that wonderful tax payers money, and invest it in our country? Or will they continue their business practices when our government, gives them more to open up full-time, salary producing jobs that can actually sustain a family? Because we educated democrats know exactly where a majority of the deficit came from and we taxpayers are still waiting for the Thank you that helped save their ass, but left us working 3 times as hard to stay afloat. Entitlement is apparent an every income bracket, but it seems easier for others to hate on the lower 15%, but I'm sure you'll be happy when Romney continues to line them up at the firing line, the true pure essence of fascism! Read about Hitler and you won’t find one communist group he supported, read about Stalin, that utilized the elite to produce a communist state.

I could care less what the Dem's say Romney said, it doesn't change a thing the fact remains Carter was a horrible president, and Obama is a hundred fold worse then Carter, the media is good at twisting things up, they like to rearrange the news to fit there goal, 4 more years of Obama and you can kiss America good by, it will be a miracle if anyone can repair the damage he has done so far the divisions he created in the public will not fade away, he has successfully set the American people at each others throats, his game is to divide and conquer, and the people the liberals anyways are piling up behind him like a lemming migration getting ready for a swim, they are all wearing blindfolds. note; post #1.95 has a very good list of Obamas accomplishments, it is missing one accomplishment because Obama is still working on a couple of elements that are necessary for his success and that is President Obama will be the first president to bring down the United States of America, and render it over to the United Nations as a third world dung heap, transferring all the wealth and technology to the UN for world wide redistribution of wealth, in a new socialist world order. in short, he intends to sell us out.

So go ahead you Lemmings follow Obama foreword over the cliff into the ocean and keep going, we can clean up the mess after you are all gone. and we will because we won't be going swimming with the rest of you.

Remember what I said when Obama is giving your entitlement check awayto the ME and Africa, and your food stamps get another cut and there is no energy for you to heat or cook with. and what little you can earn will all go to the insurance co, for health care you will never receive. blame the rich when its your own greed and laziness that will destroy you.

Terry-Ca.............

don't forget a lot of that 47% consistes of disabled Veterans who were in Viet Nam while Mitt was doing his tour in France, and they were in Desert Storm and Desert Storm II, and Afghanistan, Panama, and many other places where Mitt chose not to go, guess there was no need for missionary work in war zones. How about the disabled, the children, the people unable to work because they have cancer, guess we should just throw all of them under the bus too ! How about those people who keep their millions in offshore accounts so they don't pay any taxes, or corporations ( corporations are people too, right Mitt ? ) who outsource and keep all their profits overseas so they dont pay any federal taxes, how about them Mitt, are they abusing their entitlements ?

Do you ever wonder what these right wing Romney apologists will do with themselves after President Obama's landslide victory in November?

The future must look pretty bleak for them. BWHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.

Obama/Biden 2012

The GOP and the Romney campaign are completely falling apart. What a bunch of idiots.

Come on Feisty...the back story on this is just cool as hell....Jimmy "Do Nothing" Carter the II's name sake is a 35 year old unemployed do nothing entitlement boohoo. His father was one of the obscure Carters that no one ever really knew or paid attention to and he had a son that well... no one even knew.

So his claim to fame will be that he reported that Mitt Romney admitted openly that he is not going to win the Obama base who represent the 47% of people who do not pay taxes and who wish to have a life supported by the Federal Government. That really is no a secret. Then Carter the IV exposes that Mitt is going after the independent voters because they will be the final decision makers.

Romney never suggested that he wouldn't represent their interest to be employed and to have the autonomy to chart their own lives and destiny. He in fact wishes to support those basic needs of human dignity by creating job and opening up opportunity to Americans at all levels of the economic spectrum.

He is a very different candidate than Obama who has made it know to his party members and to the Illegal immigrants that half of the American population are there enemies and by that fact are his own enemies. Obama flaunts his disdain for the American Immigration policy by allowing his family members, welfare Auntie and old Drunk Uncle to live in this country illegally. To that end those like his Welfare Auntie living here illegally have access to greater welfare than many of our low income citizens. Perhaps we don't expand welfare in this country...perhaps we make that welfare available to citizens before we make it available to non-citizens. For the most part America is very generous with humanitarian aid to a vast array of countries...maybe if the non-citizen immigrants wish to be supported by American aid they can go back to their home countries and apply for that aid. I digress.

All this 35 year old unemployed American did was shoot some film, that he is probably not bright enough to truly digest. Bless this guys heart...he probably received the same encouragement from his grandfather the first time he made boom boom in the toilet.

The white house rocks every wednesday night at your expense how many invitations have you turned down?

How much does it cost to fly airforce one to a golf course?

does the first lady really need 22 servents just for her?

who feeds all those people in the back yard playing basket ball?

can anyone out there name one time when socialism has worked for a period of 100 years out of the last 1000 years.

I don't care what Romney says, I don't particularly like Romney but he has to be better then the man that has been taking a free ride on us and milking the taxpayers for the past 4 years, not to mention has nearly destroyed the country ( as time will reveal ) and he (Obama) keeps his life a secret from us I wonder why. fill in the blanks Obama. Obama doesn't know his birthday, or how many states there are, why is he in the white house? like I said Romney is not much good but Obama is much worse.

Great job James!!!!!!

This morning Romney also stated he likes "Snooki," on Ripa and Strahan...

Strahan: OK, the most serious question of all? Honey Boo Boo or Snooki?

Ripa: Do you know who either of these are?

M. Romney: I'm kind of a Snooki fan. Look how tiny she's gotten. She's lost weight. She's energetic. Just her spark-plug personality is kind of fun.

You could see the disgust on Ann Romney's face....lol I loved it!!

OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!

I found Romney's comments blunt, to the point and accurate. Predictably, the lefties swarm to this thread to mock the truth.

@Pat Boston Ma.#1.12: Your observations regarding "Jimmy Carter" are indeed correct, and stand with indestructible foundation. President Carter is a man who epitomizes the hunt for, and the practice of, "HONESTY" in all things. In contrast, the "magnificent delusion, and deception", or the "golden calf" of republicanism becomes despairing evident to those who yet honor the unburdened value of honesty.

Mike and others....Anyone with any ability to discern, knows that Romney was not referring to veterans, disabled, eldery and SS and Medicare beneficiaries. Must be a product of our public school system since you can't seem to comprehend.

ewent Not a one of Bush's 2 tax cuts put an appreciable dollar in my paycheck and neither did the 2009 tax cut the GOP demanded or they promised to refuse the extension of unemployment which by the way we also PAY for.

I find all of your statements ongoing ramblings that make no sense whatsoever. But that said. Evidently you didn't work during the years that the Bush Tax cuts took place. If you worked in 2000 you received a rebate check as did all taxpayers that filed a tax return for 2000. You received another Rebate Check in 2008 if you worked in 2007. If you didn't receive a rebate check you didn't work or file a return in 2000 or 2007.

Every Tax bracket changed and EVERYONE benefited from those tax bracket changes. Then if you were married, the marriage penalty went away, so you received a great deduction off your income when you filed your tax return. If you had children, you received an extra $500 deduction. If you were single, the deduction when you filed your tax return went up and your withholding went down. Look at tax returns for 2000 then 2001, 2002 & 2003, Standard deduction went up each year. Look at any Publication E for 2000, 2001, 2002,& 2003 your withholding went down. All these forms are on the web. If you continue to repeat this lie, then clearly you don't do research and don't care to learn the truth. A true clone of your political party.

There was no GOP 2009 Tax cut. In 2009 the "Bush" Tax cuts were extended. You would have not received any additional money for that since those tax cuts were done in 2001-2003. Dah!!!! But if they were not extended and allowed to expire, your taxes would have gone up considerably. How much they would have gone up depends on your tax filing status, but they would have gone up.

A few states (currently Alaska, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) require employers within the state to take unemployment tax deductions from employees. It is very small, PA is 0.08% of Gross. Federal & State Unemployment is paid by the Employer and the State Unemployment is an enormous cost to small business owners. So unless you live in those three states as an employee you pay nothing for Unemployment.

Now go look at Tax returns & Publication E. Do yourself a favor and actually learn something.

Dennis, Columbus, Ohio

3,000 people that earned more than a million dollars paid no (zero) Federal income tax

I would not be surprised if hypocrite Romney was one of them.

Besides the elderly, the disabled, the underemployed/unemployed, and students who work, I wonder how do soldiers in combat feel about being called a leech and a deadbeat for not paying federal income tax.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

Aggie-345886

Mike and others....Anyone with any ability to discern, knows that Romney was not referring to veterans, disabled, eldery and SS and Medicare beneficiaries. Must be a product of our public school system since you can't seem to comprehend.

if that was true, Romney would have not used the 47% figure but anyone with common sense and ability to understand facts would know that...unless you are trying to imply that Romney is incompetent - then I will agree with that statement.

Obama 2012/Romney 1040

If all the people who pay no taxes and all the people who receive some form of government assistance (including SS, Medicare, Farm Subsidies, oil subsidies) did not vote for a Republican, the Republican party would get maybe 10% of the total votes.

And wouldn't that be a good thing.

OPHOTFOOT

Bush

First President to allow a handful of foreigners to use box cutters to kill thousands of our citizens and worse yet change our entire culture, limit our "freedoms" and create another giant bureaucratic agency the DHS and a smaller agency with brownshirts the TSA and oh yeah a never ending war that profits Defense Contracting Carpetbaggers.

How can you blame Bush. That is just the reality of the situation. I haven't see Obama change the policy. And if you really want to place blame, why didn't Clinton take Bin Laden when he was offered to him. I guess Bush inherited that mess!!

You know how Dem's are always saying what about Bush? Those of us with any sense know the Dem's are NEVER going to hear the end of Obama's name tossed back in their faces for the rest of eternity. Personally, I agree with what Mitt said.

Red Cloud-

elliot,

Romney is an azzhole and you cannot deny it.

So what if he is? This isn't a popularity contest. This is about getting our country back on track. About getting Americans back to work and about restoring dignity to this country.

Amy -

Your doctor and your boss are lying to you. Your sister probably is too. That's precisely why Romney will win. The liberals can bully everyone all they want on TV and the internet but they can't follow us into the voting booth.

Well, with the news that Obama had information from Libian leaders that an attack was imminent and of course did nothing about it, no fundraising does not count. Obama is still trying to fugure out if Eygpt is an ally. Diversion is the key word here. Obama IS WEAK and has to divert attention away from foreign policy and the economy to get elected. So look for more of the same from the left, stuff they will try to sell as news worthy, instead of something important like Iran getting a bomb or passing his first budget!

This from Allison Lynn - NBC News today. The Tax Policy Center researchers found that about half of the group is basically exempt from federal income taxes because they are low income and also may have a large family.

In a blog released not long after its report, the TPC explained that "a couple with two children earning less than $26,400 will pay no federal income tax this year because their $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700 each reduce their taxable income to zero."

The other half are zeroing out their federal income tax bill with other provisions, such as itemized deductions or the child tax credit. Some are seniors who are living off Social Security.

To be clear, the people in this group are still paying taxes. They are subject to payroll taxes for things like Medicare and Social Security, federal excise taxes on things like gasoline and state and local taxes including sales taxes on items they purchase.

Not everyone who pays no federal income tax is in the lower income brackets. A separate report released last spring by the Internal Revenue Service found more than 35,000 people who made more than $200,000 in 2009 also managed to zero out their tax bills. That report noted that it generally takes a number of different credits and deductions for wealthy people to not pay any federal income taxes.

Wow - these people are REALLY living off the rest of us - NOT!!!!

Obama/Biden 2012

Wait until the second surprise, it will be devastating to President Obama.

Concern Citizen, I hope you're right. I'm looking forward to the media having convulsions on TV.

Carter's grandson must be really upset that his grandfather was such a bad President. He has to do something to make up for it.

CNN just reported that this fundraiser was held in Florida. It's against the law in Florida to secretly tape someone without the second party's consent. CNN also said that criminal charges will probably be brought up against Carter's grandson. What a dummy. Yes, he is just as stupid as his grandfather.

SeekingInsanity - Listening is a skill. He said the people voting for Obama, people like you. Make up the 47% of the country that will vote for Obama. People like you, who think it's the guvment job to everything for you including wiping your ass. There is a huge difference! But not for the blind like yourself!

More grist for the mill, and, so what? Obamabots arebn't going to vote for Romney anyways and here on the vine it's always the same groups braying out their support for their idol, regardless of what he does. Sorry folks, most people have already made up their minds and intelligent people have seen through the media bias. The drones who will vote for Obama will do so even if he is caught strangling babies in the White House.

Amusing that the Obamabots still haven't figured out the concept of broke. They want their gimmies and will ignore the fact that there is now a second downgrade on US credit, that the interest on the debt owed to China is what they are using to fund and grow their military. The Obamabots are living in a fool's paradise and when the dollar devalues even more and more and more people are forced onto Obama's welfare voter rolls, they will soon discover that the paper tiger offering paper money was a fraud of Olympian magnitude. Of course, by then they will be fighting over their paltry amount of free government cheese to ward off starvation and stealing anything they can get their hands on.

mygirl1

You hit the nail right on the head. At some point you have to pay the piper. And at that point all, including the poor will be taxed beyond their ability to pay. We need to turn this ship around now, and head in to dry dock for repairs..

James Carter should pull up his big boy pants and get a real job.

Basically he has supposedly obtained a tape for his own personal gains, isn't paid for it, doesn't have a job, spends his days in a chair surfing the web, and yet lives and breathes for another man [Obama]?

What a loser! Get a life man...seriously.

And for all those praising him for doing whatever it takes to get Obama elected...you're just as bad as him.

Lie, cheat, steal...it doesn't matter to you that James Carter is a lazy, unscrupulous person.

YOU are the ones promoting BAD journalism, lack of morality, and are just as bad as him.

YOU are the ones tearing down what my college professors are trying so hard to do - promote a moral standard in the journalism industry and eliminate bias and personal gain.

Morality and Fair Journalism 2012!

So you talk smack about a guys grandfather and he then uses your own words right out of your mouth to hoist you by your own petard. That is pricless and Karma. Kind of like "turn a mouth is fair play" so to speak.

His grandfather's policies ushered in a recession that was almost as bad as this one. The grandson can't get a job and is a diehard democrat, more than likely getting some form of govt. assistance which is why he is a democrap. The only reason that this is getting coverage over all the Obama screwups is because the propaganda machine is working overtime to cover for Obama. Not one little peep about the massive foreign policy screwup that killed an American ambassador, not much coverage on Obama's roll in the Middle East's violence, but loads of stuff attempting to demonize Romney and doing so because Romney is actually speaking the truth, can't have that.

I was a kid when Watergate happened but when the story broke it was devastating. My mother actually cried. My father just said the word 'crook' over and over again. And they were republicans back then. The reason my mother cried was because she never once considered that the two journalists who broke the story were anything but objective and that it was the truth. And obviously because he just threw away his presidency and if he hadn't been so insecure he would have actually been a great president.

Today the media is just a propaganda machine for the left. It's sad and scary. And worse, half the country doesn't care. They prefer to be spoon fed so they don't have to think, learn, listen or discern.

JSCUSSEME.

Is this Clint Eastwood? I noticed you're having an imaginary conversation with President Obama.

MaxxPower

The middle class and your grandchildren can't afford 4 more...

16 TRILLION and counting... tick tick tick

Where was your timer when Bush/Cheney were running it up, saying deficits don't matter?

Why can't you understand?? It is still republican policies causing it now. Obama tried to end the tax cuts for the rich, but REPUBLICANS SAID NO. However, Obama is bringing it down considerably this year thanks to ending the Iraq War.

VOTE REPUBLICANS OUT!

ps: Where are your taxes Romney?

When republicans voice their opinion about a democrat they are idiots but when democrats do the same about republicans they are heroes. Jimmy Carter was an inept boob and so is his unemployed grandson,currently on the government dole.During Jimmy Carters presidency, I remember waiting in line for an hour or better at the gas station, on tuesdays and thursdays ,(those were the two days of the week I was allowed to get gas for my car), and then they rationed the amount you were allowed. Obama will have us back in the same situation if he gets reelected.If you liberals had any brains you would see what is happening to this country, but you can't see past your own stupidity.

He's just trying to get his grandfather reelected.

If the shoe fits...the only people who should be taking offense at his remarks are the ones who have been sucking off the government teat and not putting anything into it.

Carter will go down in history as the 2nd worst POTUS after the current idiot in chief. Carter was a nice man and a hard worker but he got in over his head. Our current POTUS got in over his head after a lifetime of getting by on government handouts because HE DIDN'T BUILD IT ON HIS OWN!

ZATHROSE and all you other NeoCons and conservative-minded robot retards:

Your BACKWWARDS, REDNECK, HATE-FILLED AGENDAS would plunge our country into chaos and never-ending world wars while our corporate overlords wallow in luxury.

47%? Considering the number of people that won't even vote this November, I would call that 47% the MAJORITY of Americans. And, last time I checked, MAJORITY rules, @!$%#wads.

So, if you really think 47% of the voters in this country ARE greedy, envious, nipplesucking ingrates that pay zero income tax and will only vote for someone that promises them more handouts and ever increasing entitlements. GUESS WHAT? THOSE NIPPLE-SUCKING INGRATES ARE GOING TO OWN YOUR ASSES COME THIS NOVEMBER. The truth hurts doesn't it?

According to the latest reports this BOZO Carter has been unemployed over and over for the past 15 yrs !!! What a loser, and lets get the public records of the entitlements he's received up to this date to really show the heart of this rumpswab !!!

Johnny,

Why don't you do that - get the public records before you run your mouth off, assuming whatever you want to be factual.

Carter will go down in history as the 2nd worst POTUS after the current idiot in chief

That is so ridiculous! Republicans refuse to admit Obama's successes no matter what he does.

The worst president in my lifetime (not sure about ever) is definitely GW Bush. He is the one that got us in to this economic mess - as well as many others.

If the shoe fits...the only people who should be taking offense at his remarks are the ones who have been sucking off the government teat and not putting anything into it.

Like the thousands of millionaires that don't pay any taxes?

Now you just know that more than one person snapped a lot of cell pics at those republican nude parties with their outsourced stripper servants. I think, that just in case Robme should somehow steal the election, that if someone has pics of the Robme's being fed grapes by those outsourced stripper servants while frolicking nekkid at their good friend and supporter, Mark Leder's pool orgies, they really need to be brought out now before good friend turns into extortionist later. Where is anonymous when ya actually want them to do their work?