Robert Reich: The Real Romney Revealed... "Indignant"
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
THE REAL MITT REVEALED
This video is significant in two ways.
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Romney also distorts reality by
purposely mixing entitlements with a sense of entitlement, and lumps in all recipients of Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment benefits into his 47 percent. Even though these programs are considered entitlement spending, their recipients are not undeserving; they dont consider themselves entitled to handouts. Theyve paid into these insurance plans through their payroll taxes.
But the the most important revelation here isnt Romneys witting distortions. Its his indignant condemnation of almost half the American electorate. A president is supposed to represent all of America, not just the 51 percent who elect him, and have a modicum of sympathy for the less fortunate among us.
Yet here is the real Mitt Romney a fabulously wealthy financier, presumably speaking to other wealthy people
(note the waiters scurrying about), with a passion we havent before seen in him saying it isnt his job to worry about Americans who he describes as irresponsible, who fail to take care of themselves, and whose neediness is presumably their own fault.
Some of us thought Romney was without core or principle, an empty suit that would say anything to be elected. But here, evidently, is the real Mitt a man
whose core principle is clearly on display, and articulated with deep conviction: social Darwinism survival of the richest, the hell with those who need a helping hand.
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