He's right. I was 3 the last time I talked to my father, no idea where he is. Being an only child I grew up in a small house, each floor belonged to a different family. My mother and myself lived on the middle floor and I remember never having anything to eat but peanut butter. I worked my way through college and am starting law school in the fall. I wasn;t given a thing by anyone. When I hear excuses I want to rage because the truth is when I was studying and working you were not so I feel zero empathy.

Why does everyone want to say we are better off than China and Africa. Do we really want to sink to their level? Compare us to other wealthy nations and say we are better off. Most the people who say this have never even been outside the US. I have and we are getting ripped off!

I was middle class but since the recovery did not come in time I am now poor. My husband and I made less than $16,000 the last three years in a row with no government assistance. Go ahead kick us while we are already down on the ground. Allot of us have nothing left to loose. Go ahead and try and tighten the screws even tighter. Sooner latter the lid will blow off.

Allot of us "poor" people aren't living it up. My gun is the last of my valuables I haven't sold to keep the lights on and food on the table and I am not the only one out here in that position. Who knows I may sell it and hitch a ride to Canada and sneak across the border or then again maybe not. Desperate people with out options dont always make good decisions.

No threat intended just saying for those who still think they can squeeze us harder I suggest you think twice about it..

Originally posted by Desolate Cancer
What do the very poor contribute to society anyway? Nothing, they are a worthless group,

Not only are they are a deliberately created economic group upon whom a lot of middle class jobs are predicated, the liquidity of their spending power, both personal income and the incomes of those whose work involves servicing the Section 8 housing, medicaid etc., helps keep the fiscal wheels well oiled.

What I don't understand is that he wants to run for President, but fails to realize that a lot of veterans who fought the foreign wars that he is so in favor of fall under this category i.e Homeless people.

I agree that the quote is taken completely out of context. If you read the entire story, what he said makes sense. He just should have worded it differently. The poor (the real poor) are still being taken care of the way they always have.

Originally posted by Liquesence

"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it."

A safety net spun by financial and social black widows.

Positions of such high power are not able to serve the sheep who are truly in need. The longer we rely on this charade, the worse the repercussions for our foolishness. We must help ourselves and others. It is the only way we will ever have a semblance of godliness in this world of decay and fleeting light.

Every knee bows to life. Who can escape it's power? Who lives forever except Life and the Children of Life?

He is not concerned, because it will give him and his buddies a large pool
of desperate workers who will help flood the US markets with more Chinese goods...

Originally posted by fltcui

Like I said I'm not a Romney supporter but I believe his focus on the middle class is right.
The Middle class pays the majority of income taxes and without the middle class, there will be no tax dollars to give the poor people and then they'll be in trouble

But Romney is NOT a supporter of the middle class. He is a supporter on the investor
class, who are the same people controlling Washington and the army of lobbyists
there.

Look at Romney's business practices and you will see it is the EMBODIMENT of
what NAFTA and GAT have done to the country. Romney, made money by
ELIMINATING the middle out of the companies his firm took over. They intentionally
gutted the mid range pay scales, so that he could extract money from the companies,
which also put those companies in the RED. Romney profited off of a model of fiscal
irresponsibility because he could skim all of the fat he created and not be responsible
for the end results, via corporate law and the IRS code.

Romney is the consummate US economic hit man, it was his job to do exactly what
America is suffering from, out source downsize, incur debt, extract that debt in the
form of a salary.