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Updated 2:22 p.m. - CHESTERFIELD, VA -- Vice President Joe Biden continued on Tuesday to hammer away at Mitt Romney's secretly-taped riff about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes, ridiculing the GOP presidential nominee as failing to represent all Americans.
"When he said it’s not my job to worry about ‘these people,’ well, whose job is it?" Biden asked of a crowd of about 500 at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are our brother’s keeper, we are one nation under God, we are all in this together, and if the 47 percent doesn’t make it, the country doesn’t make it."
Biden, who delivered his first salvo about the taped Romney fundraiser comments this weekend in New Hampshire, offered an extended critique of Romney's own level of tax contributions and said that those in the "47 percent" still pay "a lot of taxes" like Social Security, state and local, and property payments.
"Look, instead of attacking folks who work for a living and pay their way, Romney should be respecting their hard work," he said. "That’s the job of a president: to lift people up, not to tear them down."
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
He also noted that Romney has been widely criticized for failing to release more detailed information from his past tax returns and for paying a lower tax rate than many middle class Americans. (However, Romney's most recent release of some 2011 data showed that the former private equity exec limited deductions from his extensive charitable donations and thus paid a higher-than-required effective rate of about 14 percent.)
"He, Romney? Attacking someone on taxes? I mean, woah!" said the famously rhetorically excitable Delaware pol. "That’s like me attacking someone for being passionate in politics!"
The trip to Virginia was Biden's first since the campaign swing when Biden sparked a firestorm after remarking to a largely black audience in Danville that the banking policies supported by Republicans would "put y'all back in chains."
The vice president did not use similar themes today, focusing instead on the Romney-Ryan ticket's reluctance to raise taxes as a way of addressing the federal deficit.
"These guys think compromise is somehow a dirty word," Biden said. "They are insisting and Romney is insisting on putting back in policies that produced the problem in the first place. “
Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams responded: "President Obama and Vice President Biden’s reckless policies have increased our national debt by $5.4 trillion and resulted in dangerously high unemployment, increased poverty, and plummeting incomes. This election presents a clear choice between Barack Obama’s vision of a government-centered society and Mitt Romney’s vision of an opportunity society. Governor Romney will spur economic growth and create more wealth, while President Obama believes in redistributing wealth. The Romney plan for a stronger middle class will create 12 million jobs and encourage upward mobility instead of more government dependency."
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I tried to warn y'all of what the tea party thinks...yes i said the whole shebang of tea party in the house and senate...
R/R will need to 'repay' Koch Bros and Adelson for all their financial support. It's gonna cost us! Romoney will become the mouthpiece and conduit for the Koch Bros to own the US.
that was there plan
hey i cant believeits not butter..yes its butter..you undecided man who thinks butter is not butter
ICan't -
Interesting how you don't figure that the favors granted to Willard won't be called back in - NEVER happens that way dude.
The tea party has been a Cancer..to the USA...we are finally being healed from it slowly
You are insane buddy. I can't believe we live in a society where morons like you have the b*lls to call people who preach about fiscal responsibility and more person control of ones own life a cancer. Let me guess, you are voting for obama cause you stand to get a fatter government check right? I love how stoic you liberals are with other peoples money going into your own pocket. Your parents certainly were failures raising you.
sorry mark dumb dumb...I'm a 47 per-center.one who works.for a living...not live of Government hand outs like Romney and then B-tch about it at the same time..The d mean dumb right
Romney living on government handouts? You voting for obama cause the government isn't giving you more right? I mean I don't see how you can get any government assistance if you have internet and a computer. When you break it down, the tax payer is paying for those luxuries for you pal.
hey doo doo brain..do liberals fight in wars...and die..for our Nation of freedom...are all liberals poor like me??
ICan'tBelieve....the problem is that these obama supporters think that they have a never ending cash machine in those who work for a living. Little do they know that in not too distant a future, we will get sick of supporting them and just join them. Liberals breed mediocrity so that noone will feel bad about their inadequacies
people ..if the tea party president don't win this go around..don't think..they have gave up...money can be saved up for just that cause in the future....yes..they will fill the piggy bank to make it happen in the future ..dangerous days are ahead for us and our children...corporations are people now...the law was just changed..not to long ago...yes corporations ...will get that power..again like in the 1930's
The Bible says..in Revelations..they will think to change times and laws....who wants to change times and laws???The tea Party..
elvis, don't you ever get tired of sounding like an idiot?
joe is one of those undecided voters..who don't know who is running until election day??
Clearly he doesn't care about sounding like an idiot. Welcome to the obama utopia. I'm just glad I"ll be fine in the future, unfortunately, the obama supporters who are being sucked into the lifestyle of government paying for their every "need" ( cell phones aren't actual needs, hence the quotes) are going to get a huge shock when the money runs out.
hey dumb guy..I answer you above
again,elvis, don't you ever get tired of sounding like an idiot?
undecided joe...hahahahaha..no joe your dog is a dog not a cat
Elvis...Nice Trolling to get people all wound up...I have never seen someone spew such incoherant jibberish is a while...Good for you...can you sell me the drugs you are on...maybe you might spare me some of your shrooms or Obama Choom, !!!!
yeah but dont tell her. I told You..Palin is my dealer
I think its those wild mushrooms in her back yard..that grow sometimes
Mitt‘s Mouth!!!!!! "There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% 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. ...
Sorry Mitt but I have to agree. You really pissed me off with the 47% deal!!!!! The 47% are the people that you encounter daily as you travel through your life. They are the daycare teacher, the grocery store clerk, the waitress and cook at your favorite breakfast spot. They are the “support staff” at your local bank, doctors office, lube shop, gas station, etc. As you go through your life for the next week, why not take a moment and see how many people you encounter that are the working poor, that make less than $15.00 an hour. What if they all just quit working for a week????? Really what if they were gone????? I did payroll for 25 years and the most I ever made was $15.69 and the most I paid was 1200 employees. I am that 47%; what would happen if we all went home????? Just a thought to provoke you to think about that 47% that Romney is so willing to right off and dis.
The new scarlet R; Romney to the Republican party.
Obama, said.."everyone needs to pay their fair share..." so they can pay some too!!!
Kim - go to Williston ND.
"And I have visited the 57 states, with one to go spreading my muslim faith, I mean Christian faith, to all who will listen, and I knew the prophet Muhammad, because we prophets hang out together, at bath houses and gay bars, and poorly made films cause death and destruction, so we must be tolerant to the beautiful, peace loving people that worship the Islamic Faith, or Muslim Faith, I mean Christian Faith, and Egypt is our ally, I mean they were but that has changed now, because they are not our enemy, or our friend, and to say I do not meet with world leaders is a lie, heck, I just met with David Letterman, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Joy Behar, and Whoopi Goldberg and Michelle was my witness, and BTW, I am part of the 99% because I am purchasing a $35,000,000 beachfront mansion in Hawaii that all are invited to see on the internet and take a virtual tour, and all I ever wanted to do is the hopey and changey thing where we could all work together and transform the greatest nation on earth into something much different, and I mst admit to you one thing I forgot is I did register as a foreign student but that was because I was a poor child and had to eat dogs and grasshoppers when I was growing up, but, I have learned from my cocaine use that I can brew my own beer in the WH because Jimmy Carter's brother Billy did the same. My name is BARACK HUSSEIN aka Barry Soetoro Obama, and am I making good logical sense. hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Are you a republican log cabin secrete rich homo..who votes republican why yes you are
dot forget to go to Church on Sunday your week of sin will be forgotten...but you have a whole new week of sin ahead
My God must you wear your ignorance like a cheap cologne? I can smell your bigotry across miles and miles of wire and data chips.
thats the way to tell him rick.you tell him
Romney forgot some of those 47 percent rs do vote Republican at times....hahahahhh
Mark and Joe, I don't care what you think of me or my story. Just so you will know I did not vote for Obama last time and was not going to this time until republicans drove off the cliff. I don't care who you vote for. The great thing about computers is that people get to say to each other electronically things they don't have the sand to say in person.
I tried to warn them..moderate republicans will vote Democrat this go around
So what you are saying is that you are clueless.
Ron rest assured I'd tell you everything I said to you to your face and wouldn't think twice about it. You should care who others vote for, this is your children and mines future at stake here. Why can't you liberals understand how screwed up everything you touch becomes?
CBO Director Demolishes GOP's Stimulus Myth
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For months, Mitt Romney and his Republican allies have been falsely claiming that President Obama "made the economy worse." This week, Romney preposterously declared Obama "knowingly slowed down our recovery." And today in Missouri, the Republican nominee doubled-down, charging that the President "slowed the recovery and harmed our economy," a result Romney insisted constituted "a moral failure of tragic proportions."
As it turns out, Thursday would have been a good day for Mitt Romney to stop sniffing glue. Because just 24 hours earlier, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Officeblew the Republican slander out of the water.
As the Washington Post reported, the House Budget Committee heard testimony from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf to answer simple question: did the $787 billion Obama stimulus work? Unfortunately for Republican propagandists, Elmendorf clearly refuted Mitt Romney's claim that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was "the largest one-time careless expenditure of government money in American history."
Not content with that response, Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp tried again. "Where did Washington mess up?" Huelskamp demanded. "Because you're saying most economists think it should've worked. It didn't." As the Post's Lori Montgomery detailed, Elmendorf drove home the point:
Elmendorf's agency released its latest assessment of the stimulus just last week. And as the table below shows, at its peak in 2010 the ARRA added up to 3.3 million jobs, cut unemployment by as much as 1.8 percent and boosted GDP by up to 4.1 percent. (It's also worth noting that the CBO once again confirmed that aid to the states and purchases by the federal government delivers the biggest bang for the buck, while upper income tax cuts provide the least.)
Hey I get it. Elvis is actually some 13-year-old girl pretending she is this ignorant. It is sad when children are ostracized by their peer group and forced to play on adult web pages.
Hey I get it. Elvis is actually some 13-year-old girl pretending she is this ignorant. It is sad when children are ostracized by their peer group and forced to play on adult web pages.
yes fox news can do a lot of harm when you watch it too long your right
I am glad to see Biden harp on this. IMO, the most offensive parts of Romney's comments were his labeling 47% of Americans as having a victimhood mentality and his notion that it's not his job to worry about 47% of the country. If he becomes president it'll be his job to worry about all 100% of Americans.
I am the 47%
Mickey/feisty still running around yelling..."i'm tellin." TICK TOCK FEISTY. MICKEY/FEISTY, you can fool the guppies 100% of the time, but you cannot fool the conservatives EVAH! TICK TOCK FEISTY. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha. GET A JOB
hey look at me I want to run the government...but hate the government...hahahaha
Old Joe,
Call Mo Romney out for being the filtly, lying, dirty pig that Mo Romney wishes that he was secent enough to be!
OBAMA-BIDEN 2012!
LTC Rattus, USA, ret.
If i had a brain i would be the scarcrow...not a tea nut
elvis...you are liberal, you'll always be without a brain
hey hire me I want to live off the government...R/R hahhahaha
No republican in office right now is doing anything to help us. They aren't signing anything to help people get job. They want Obama to be a one term president. Even John Boehner, a republican and speaker of the house , hasn't done anything to help create jobs. The only thing that I see them doing is complaining about demarcates. They are running a big part of the government, the house, and no one can say their aren't.
True Facts about Biden we didn't know.....
1. His poop is used a currency in Argentina
2. He once breast fed a flamingo back to health
3. Before he got into politics...he did all of the make on the Planet of the Apes Movies!!
4. He once had sex with a cigarette machine...and got a free pack!!!
5. He has a toenail on the end of his penis!!!
6. The Biden family crest is a barracuda eating Neil Armstrong.
7. If a phonograph needle was to play on Biden's nipple it would Play Biggie Smalls..."I love it when you call me Big Poppa"
8. He wears a live rattlesnake as a condom.
9. He once gave a handjob to a manta ray, the same one that took out the Crocodile Hunter.
10. The character of Johnny Appleseed was based on Biden, except for the Apple Tree planting and Not raping Men!!
Finally...Biden still believes in Santa Claus and wants to put him in Porno Films!!!
looks like you Reading something inside your azz.I see
Actually your mother and I were having a post coital discussion while your Father was fetching us coffee and a danish after using the Sham Wow you got them for Christmas to clean off his 8mm camera...Big Burt has nothing to do with stature...it's all about the Money Shot my friend!!
I can see Mark.Rick.and joe..at R/R rally...i want to run for the president of the USA...the government is the problem ...not the solution ..vote for me....Rick Joe..Mark oh he is good..he dont want no hand out like Obama does huh fellas right.............hahahahaha
Don't worry Romney doesn't care about those 47% living off the government, oh wat that the one ones who are voting for him!!
True colors. His comment on the 47% percent reflects his true feeling about the working class. That's why it was no sweat for Bain to bleed companies dry and send the jobs overseas.