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Rmoney: Not my job to worry about those people
Mother Jones’s David Corn recently got hold of a leaked recording in which Romney, speaking behind closed doors at a fund-raiser, heaped a good dose of scorn on Obama’s supporters.
We’ll set aside the question of whether this is what Mitt Romney really believes deep down. Maybe this is what he thinks. Or maybe he just thought it was a good line to buck up nervous donors. What we can say is that the last part is wrong. There is no fair accounting in which 47 percent of Americans take no “personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Take this simple breakdown from the Tax Policy Center:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/romney-my-job-is-not-to-worry-about-those-people/
We’ll set aside the question of whether this is what Mitt Romney really believes deep down. Maybe this is what he thinks. Or maybe he just thought it was a good line to buck up nervous donors. What we can say is that the last part is wrong. There is no fair accounting in which 47 percent of Americans take no “personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Take this simple breakdown from the Tax Policy Center:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/romney-my-job-is-not-to-worry-about-those-people/
