Romney’s ‘Poor’ Quote Twisted by Media
I don’t like Mitt Romney. I don’t know why except to say that he reminds me of a used car salesman, he stammers around too much and he lacks passion. I can’t honestly tell you what he believes because I have never heard him speak convincingly on any subject. That and he was the Governor of Massachusetts (home of Ted Kennedy and a nest of wealthy; liberal vipers if I’ve ever seen one). I’m pretty sure if I ever met this man in person we would not be friends. But in defense of Romney I must say that I’m kind of with him on his “Poor” statement.
I don’t worry about the poor because they are handed everything by our society that you can possibly hand someone. Most of America gets their impression of the “poor” from the media and that is a grossly slanted view. The poor in America have free food, free medical care, free or low cost housing, free cell phones, free educations, three free meals a day at school for their children and just about anything else you can hand out to them. The poor in America are not poor. The only truly poor in America are those children in the foster system, often the elderly and the working poor. Foster kids are dependent on the state to provide them with a safe home and little else. Often they don’t even get the safe home, but if they do their foster parents must stretch money intended for food and shelter and there’s little left for frills. Many of the elderly fall in the same category stretching what they receive as far as it can be stretched and more often than not falling victim to unscrupulous people who prey on their vulnerability.
Then we have the working poor. Those who work and struggle everyday to make ends meet, but they don’t get free healthcare, no one subsidizes their housing or feeds them because they make just a little too much money. Not enough mind you,, just too much. These are the people who don’t want help they just don’t want to foot the bill for everyone else. They don’t want you to pay for their insurance, they just resent paying for yours. They don’t want you to pay for their kids education, but they resent the so called “poor” getting aide that’s paid out of their taxes. They don’t want food stamps they just want food prices to stop outpacing their income.
I could go on, but what I really want you to do is go out and take a look around. Drive through the “poor” sections of town. Look at the cars parked in the subsidized housing, look at the electric toy cars on the porches of falling down houses, get in line at the grocery store on the first of the month and watch the people in front of you talking on their 4G phones(which you can’t afford) who pay for their beer and DVD’s separately after getting their milk and cheese free with a WIC card and paying for their groceries with food stamps. Their kids all have braces on their teeth and glasses. Yours can probably afford one or the other. Just look. Open your eyes and you will see things that will make you very angry. There is definitely a class war going on in America, but it’s the poor outpacing those who foot the bill for their “poverty”.
You don’t need to worry about the “Poor” in America. America needs to start worrying about who's going to foot the bill for the poor when us poor schlubs are all tapped out and frankly I’m just about there.
