On-Topic An Open Letter to Mitt From One of the 47%

[MassRuss]

Via Wipeout Homophobia's FB Page. An interesting & heartfelt article.

http://taboojive.com/i-am-the-47/

 

[Kulindahr]

Not bad at all. I like the parts where she asks how he feels about himself the best.

 

[JayHawk]

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

I would hazard the guess that the majority of the people posting here in the CE&P forum are part of the 47%. What i don't understand is how any of them can support such a feckless weather vane who stands for nothing and has obvious contempt for the very people who support him. I suppose even Pol Pot had his supporters.

 

[Benvolio]

Some of us do pay taxes and we have to pay for all the goodies that so many want for free. Actually it is much more than 47% who pay no federal income tax. The 47% are the FILERS who pay no Federal income taxes, but many millions file no returns, either because they have no income, or because their income does not generate red flags to the IRS, such as W-2 or 1099 fines. Those with illegal incomes or cash incomes.
Romney will not get the vote of the welfare class. And Obama doesn't care about the 47% except to get their vote. Flooding the country with immigrants is in no one's interests.
Obama's plan is for fewer and fewer people to bear the entire burden of the Federal government and all its welfare programs.

 

[Telstra]

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That was a nice Letter.
Should be sent to all news outlet.

 

[Kulindahr]

"Some of us do pay taxes and we have to pay for all the goodies that so many want for free."

I don't get it...
Assuming you're referring to your tax dollars that go into welfare programs so that low-income individuals and families can get "all the goodies that so many want for free," isn't it just the humane thing to do? To help out those who, in our own country, are struggling to survive? Why do you approach that with such resentment?

Yeah, "goodies" like food on the table, electricity to power a home -- for that matter, a home.

The current Republican approach to economics is to view the poor as expendable: let them starve or freeze to death, to reduce the surplus population.

 

[JayHawk]

Lilly Alen says all I need to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan:

 

[Kulindahr]

Lilly Alen says all I need to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan:

I like it.

 

[chance1]

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

I would hazard the guess that the majority of the people posting here in the CE&P forum are part of the 47%. What i don't understand is how any of them can support such a feckless weather vane who stands for nothing and has obvious contempt for the very people who support him. I suppose even Pol Pot had his supporters.

what barack obama stands for sounds great ........ but isn't

his mishandling of the economy and lack of real leadership

has taken us further in the ditch

if the 47% want things to improve they need to look at who's running the country NOW

and what he has failed to do ....... how he has failed to lead ........... how he has lied about his intentions vis a vis his actions

the Pol Pot reference is lame

so many of them

 

[opinterph]

Moderator Notice

This is an On-Topic thread. The original poster has advised that discussion of the open letter linked in the opening post should not be expanded to include remarks about President Obama.

 

[Just_Believe18]

I was part of the 47% for the years I went to college. I only worked part-time as a full-time student. I never paid federal income taxes. However, I did pay one of the highest state sales taxes in the country, along with other state taxes and fees for the vehicle I drove.

I was not part of the "welfare" class. No tax payer was feeding me, nor putting a roof over my head. I was dependent on the government only for providing me the student loans I needed to finish my education. In which I am paying much more back in interest over the next thirty years.

I am proud to have been part of the 47%. I went to college and earned myself multiple degrees. There's no shame in that. Now, I pay more of a percentage of my income in federal income taxes than Mitt Romney does, or the 4,000 millionaires that paid zero.

 

[Kulindahr]

I was part of the 47% for the years I went to college. I only worked part-time as a full-time student. I never paid federal income taxes. However, I did pay one of the highest state sales taxes in the country, along with other state taxes and fees for the vehicle I drove.

I was not part of the "welfare" class. No tax payer was feeding me, nor putting a roof over my head. I was dependent on the government only for providing me the student loans I needed to finish my education. In which I am paying much more back in interest over the next thirty years.

I am proud to have been part of the 47%. I went to college and earned myself multiple degrees. There's no shame in that. Now, I pay more of a percentage of my income in federal income taxes than Mitt Romney does, or the 4,000 millionaires that paid zero.

Mitt doesn't believe he's his brother's keeper, or even his brother's helper. For that matter, I'm not sure he considers anyone his brother except fellow multimillionaires.

 

[rareboy]

^ The problem is that Mitt belongs to a cult that believes that if they help each other, including the famous Mormon Welfare system, they have done everything that is required of them.

It is what i can't reconcile. They have a virtually forced system of taxation (tithing) which is used for governance (the church machine) and for the welfare of the members. Somehow people like Mitt have no problem handing over money to fund a bloated bureaucracy that is busy baptizing dead people or fighting homo marriage, but doesn't see the need out there in the rest of non-mormon America to ensure that the populace he and his cronies have pushed into penury are being adequately housed or have health care.

I find it freakish that while Mitt seems to have no problem with this quasi-state system...including funding the indigent mormons who have fallen on hard times...he has a real problem with it being done at a secular level.