Mitt Romney: '95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You're Born In This Country'

[cynatnite]

WASHINGTON -- In a less-examined portion of the recently revealed remarks Mitt Romney made during a private fundraiser in May, the presidential candidate told donors that "95 percent of life is set up for you if you're born in this country."

Romney told the donors there are people who say to him, "'Oh, you were born with a silver spoon,' you know, 'You never had to earn anything,' and so forth. And, and frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you could have, which is to get born in America. I'll tell ya, there is -- 95 percent of life is set up for you if you're born in this country."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/mitt-romney-95-percent-video_n_1900608.html?1348165104&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

I can't think of another human is this much out of touch. It's stunnning.

[librechik]

1. "...and your dad is the governor of Michigan. What?"

[gkhouston]

2. What he doesn't seem to get is that the sort of life set up for most of us isn't peaches and cream,

although "set up" is certainly the correct term.

[Lucy Goosey]

3. Even if that were true, it would be because of the social safety net...

...not in spite of the social safety net.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Mitt's dad grew up on welfare, later to grow rich because we the People said he was

entitled to food and shelter, and we gave it to his family freely. This man is the very definition of hypocrisy.

[liberalmuse]

5. We're talking outside of the country club, Mitt.

I get the feeling there's a whole world out there this man hasn't seen - or doesn't want to see.

[TlalocW]

6. Doesn't that fly in the face of...

We Built It?

TlalocW

[Lucy Goosey]

7. Why, yes. Yes it does.

Not that I would expect Romney to acknowledge that or anything, of course.

[JHB]

10. He said that back in May, about 2 months before he was saluted by old Pravda editors...

...raising their vodka bottles in communist non-heaven at his surgical extraction of one sentence and grafting it onto the RWer's fantasy straw man version of the president.

[Johonny]

8. and that's what he trying end for you

he wants 95 % of Americans to be born poor and stay poor so he can live like a king.

[rustydog]

9. He's right you know. IF you are born a Romney, a Gates, a Buffet, Hilton,

95 percent of life is set up for those people and a few million other milliionaires...Some of them chose to improve this country and believe in helping others have at least a shot at achieving wealth, n ot being born into it.

[JRLeft]

11. Mitt Romney.