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  • At Bain, Mitt Romney closed over a thousand plants, stores, and offices. He cut employee wages, benefits, and pensions. He laid off American workers and outsourced their jobs to other countries. He and his partners made hundreds of millions of $s while taking companies to bankruptcy.

    Mitt Romney is the bane of America.

  • Romney is the only one who can beat Obama. I like Ron Paul. But he is not going to win.

  • Romney is absolutely correct, the poor have Medicaid, food stamps, free school lunches for their kids, access to welfare, government housing, work programs, Head Start for their kids, etc. What do the middle class have? an uphill battle as we face rising food prices, rising gas prices, rising healthcare premiums, rising college education costs, lower salaries, unemployment, job outsourcing, etc. Meanwhile the middle class continues to carry this country financially.

  • @sdpianomom Im middle class and you can never trust romney he is the biggest flip flopper in the world..

  • @sdpianomom If you think the poor have a more comfortable life than the middle class, you're nuts

  • ass fucking mormon

  • im glad we have a dedicated successful businessman concerned about middle america

  • Newt Gingrich 2012! For a renewed-t tomorrow!

  • @NewtGingrich982012 ron paul maybe obama

  • Fuck CNN, and Romney. No one from mass need apply for this job. And fuck obama!

  • This man is a complete idiot!

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  • I dont like Obama, he failed, and in life, you did the same.....congrats...enjoy your success

  • This thread is not about obama, itsabout media trying to pick apart romneys comment. Romney wont do any more or less than obama has done for the poor. Is that wrong? And, you assume I'm racist because I dont care about our government giving more money to poor people? When was the last time YOU donated money? You would be making an assumption that poor = black, ultimately making you the racist.....poor is not a race...atleast I dont think it is....

  • Banking crooks are financing Romney's campaign and he's just putting on an act.

  • Im not concerned about the poor either.....I am concerned about hard working high earners getting tired of all the bs and calling it quits.....then where will you get your tax dolllars? Oh thats right....the middle class and the poor

  • I give to charity, give up 50% of my paycheck to taxes.....but im ok with that. I refuse to give my father money because it would just be a waste. I am not ok with giving 80% of my paychecks to the poor.......I am a hard working american, but you would view me as something different just because of my w-2........I am not part of the problem, I am part of the solution....but if the government keeps taking more and more from me, I might just not want to go to work any more....then what?

  • The point I was trying to make was simply you have to focus on the masses. We have been focusing on the "poor" for so long and look at where they are. Should we have a massive overhaul and spend even more on the "poor"? I am in my mid 30's and make 400k+ a year through hard work.....my father is a 58 year old poor american on food stamps...was in and out of prison and has no ambition....its embarassing, and no matter how much this government helps him, that moneywill just dissapear

  • safety net?? please explain that romney LOL, STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT

  • It sounds like Mitt Romney want the poor to continue be poor. "My focus is for the Middle class living in social security" it seems that poor people don't need social security, but they are living with social security.

    WHATTTA JOOOOKE, joker!

  • Is this a joke?? WTF...

  • Ron Paul

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  • silly politics

  • America is the new Greece.

  • This guy is getting my vote...... Thanks electoral college! ........FUCK!

  • Romeny and Santorum both are complete psychos.

  • Obama all the way. Love that man

  • @Pena1003 OBAMA SUCKS

  • @Mycommentsgethumbsup YOU FUCKING SUCK OBAMA IS A GREAT PRESIDENT ASSHOLE

  • @Pena1003 your are a brainwashed MORON 

  • @Mycommentsgethumbsup Your a racist fuck that probably wants this asshole to run our country. What has Obama done wrong? Hes attitude is great hes a nice guy look at the other canidates. besides Ron Paul every one else are all fucking douchebags that only care about white people

  • @Pena1003 ahahah, your the "RACIST" one because you only like obama because hes BLACK. Fucking retard. Obama has failed and you only like him because your a nigger

  • @Mycommentsgethumbsup Im the racist? No no no first of all im white. And the only racist i see here is YOU saying "nigger" Everyone has their own opinion this guy and the others are a bunch of assholes but apparently thats what rednecks like. Obama for a change is something different

  • @Pena1003 we have had 3 years of "change", and Obamas 'change' SUCKS.

  • @Mycommentsgethumbsup its better than what these Candidates are saying at least

  • We don't need to worry about the situation of people who rely on charity to survive? Makes perfect sense. Let's vote for him. >.<

  • If you dont realize what Romney is saying, they you are part of what is slowing down our economy and progress. You cant fix a problem unless you think about it realistically, not politically.  There will always be poor people when you have a system that almost encourages it.

  • @Crotchturkey unfortunately if you bring up any type of logic like that your insta socialist and your losing your job

  • @Crotchturkey And we will always have a broken government until it stops being a feeding trough for the rich!

    Nothing underscores that more than Welfare. The largest recipients of Welfare are the top 1%! When the GOP pushed through the TARP Welfare Program, BILLIONS were just GIVEN to the deadbeats on Wall Street who never work and just TAKE US taxpayer money!

    Until we STOP giving Welfare to the rich - the very people shipping US jobs overseas!! - America will continue to stagnate!

  • Romney and Obama are horrible.

    RON PAUL 2012

  • I love him i want him to be president so he can fuck up the country 

  • RON PAUL REVOLUTION

  • fuk mitt

    

  • Americans are poor. 99% poor 1% Rich.

  • and people haven't been hurt only when obama was elected and puppeted- it was right before he was elected.

  • No, the lower class 'poor people's safety net is not safe at all. They cannot afford health care, and their welfare system is very limited, and nutrition value is lowered. The system doesn't help them out as a whole. Wake up people, we are one species-

  • You know, rich people complaining about homeless is akin to having a hundred acres of cannabis plants and getting angry when your friend smokes some resin from your pipe.

  • @bbbbbzzzzzz let me guess Obama supporter?

  • @Joshya No. I don't support this bullshit system. Screw a presidential puppet. We're all slaves to the bankers.

  • troglodyte.

  • what a bastard

  • Well put. I am teacher and I teach a variety of students: gifted, the vast majority of kids in the middle of the Bell Curve, and the very challenged (special ed students). Now imagine if I was interviewing for a teaching position, and I said, I am not concerned about the gifted kids and I am not concerned about the very challenged (special ed) students because they have accomodations and modifications? I wouldn't get hired. See the analogy? Based on what Romney said, he is not presidential.

  • It’s because both the very rich and the very poor have benefited mightily at the expense of the middle class during the Obama administration. What he said is that as president his job would be to represent the vast majority 90-95% unlike (Obama) who focused most of his efforts on programs that benefited 5-10% of the population while leaving everyone else holding a empty bag.

  • The rich have benefited because of Obama? You cannot blame the president because Congress are the ones who keep the current tax rate in place which benefits the rich. As for benefiting the very poor. The so called "safety net" is not desirable for poor people because they stay poor and have no major chance of mobility. The safety net treats the symptoms of poverty. I know people who were very poor, but used education to pull themselves out of poverty.

  • As a teacher accomodations can assist students who are special ed and low achievers, but it never helps them boost their reading and math level. The reason for this is because it creates a condition of learned helplessness. Like, they are going to do this for me so I don't have to do it. As teachers we use remediation, different strategies, and different learning paths to assist those students who are sped students and underachievers. A hand up-not a handout.

  • Mitt Money is too wealthy too understand the average people

  • So let me get this if you were middle-income and now very-poor because you lost your job he no longer cares about you.

  • Because I care about... *pause* Fuck what country am I in... Mexico... Oh right... AMERICANS!

  • Well well well Romney suscribes to the same STUPID voo doo echimomist Regan did. the TRICKEL DOWN theory. what a BAFOON

  • Actually its nothing like saying that. If you like being poor and getting crappy handouts- vote for Obama. If you want America to Prosper, vote ROMNEY.

  • @Heartsinmelody Right. Because under Romney the poor are going to get richer.. oh wait. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Okay.

  • @xxGodx Actually, under Obama the Poor are getting poorer, the middle income households are getting poorer, and the rich are getting richer.

    Under Obama the next Generation is going to suffer when America eventually hits the biggest debt crisis in its history. OBAMA - stop givig "What up homes" hand outs. Obama money is borrowed money.

  • justice being stupid and exploitative and the cause of crime itself makes getting rid of the emotional bullshit it feeds off of smarter than it

  • If it weren't for the rich. I would be poor. Seriously. I am thankful that people risk it all to start a business. If we keep up this rich are evil crap, we will ALL be in poverty. I ' m not rich but I think it is exciting as hell to live in a country where it is possible. Come on people, don't let the media pit us against eachother. America is the best country on earth.

  • @soprano3182 umm... how does fox news steal my money. its safely in a bank account. Tell us please.

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  • And besides the justice system is responsible for all crimes and social distresses because justice supports the very crimes it condemns by supporting monetary slavery inequality and discriminative stigma for the sake of its own monetary exploitation

  • no offense to mitt romney he seems like a nice dude but conservative congress is worthy of absolute fkn dissolution they are a fucking setback to humanity and the greater good

  • Morals have always been excuses for discrimination oppressive laws and violence,,,Now unless someone died or lost limbs or bodily functions in the process no one should go to jail for any victim of any matter. Affordable fines and money compensation to targets of crime suffice where people havent died or lost limbs after all justice does support monetary slavery and all the crimes associated with it so it its only fair.if i was a president id free all prisoners sentenced for moralistic bullshit

  • @oxjhan9

    "id free all prisoners sentenced for moralistic bullshit"

    I wonder... Is murder considered wrong because it's against most people's MORALS? Oh, wow! Look at that! That IS the reason why murder's considered wrong! Wow! I guess you should free ALL the prisoners. Be they murderers, slavers, pedophiles or rapists.

  • @mejustmeamy i specifically said death was an exception but even jail here is useless to the person suffering the loss, the target of loss is much better off getting monetary compensation for life from a killer with a tracking collar and a job, than punishing him with moronic bloodthirsty vindication or jail, the point here is useful logic and making the killer useful to the sufferer, jail or death is useless and repairs nothing money helps you live, its the true sense of payback

  • @oxjhan9

    My point was that society and laws are based on "moralistic bullshit".

    Morals are what make us punish murder. Because if it weren't morally wrong, then there would be no need to imprison murderers.

    And although rape and forced labor don't always result in lost limbs or bodily functions, they leave emotional scars that will probably stay with the victims for decades.

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  • @oxjhan9

    Can you please explain to me why you think murder is wrong?

    Because right now you look like an idiot who's trying to sound like a badass who doesn't feel pain and who doesn't want to conform to society because he's such a badass and no one tells a badass what to do because a badass is always right!

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  • @oxjhan9

    Again, I ask you, how on earth do you find murder wrong?

    Please, just tell me why someone like you would find murder wrong. I just want to see if your logic makes any sense at all.

  • @mejustmeamy its not about finding it wrong because wrong or not one when someone is dead it makes no difference what you think about it its about it its making the criminal useful to the one targeted by loss in the most beneficial way to the target of loss

  • @oxjhan9

    How exactly is putting a murderer in jail going to benefit the victim?

    And has it ever occurred to you that maybe seeing the rapist/slaver go to jail would benefit the victim more than getting some money? Because, you know, that's why people speak up even though people would pay good money to keep them quiet : because they don't want money, they just want the person to pay for their crime (not with money).

  • @mejustmeamy jail is illogical and useless and your being an apologist for an illogical treason justice system responsible for the very crimes it condemns

  • @oxjhan9

    Finally! You're being coherent!

    I still disagree with you, but at least your arguments make sense now.

    So, you want to abolish sending anyone to jail, including murderers. Okay, now you're making sense... Kind of.

    But what you suggested before : only putting people who cut off people's limbs, kill people or make people lose some of their bodily functions in jail because we shouldn't base laws on morals was just a load of bullshit.

  • @oxjhan9

    Also, jail is not always illogical and useless.

    Serial killers will continue to kill until they can't kill anymore.

    Lock 'em up in a cell = perfect solution for serial killers.

    Fining people is not always more intelligent than putting them in jail.

    Where's the logic in fining a thief who wasn't just stealing for the thrill of it? If that person was stealing because they needed money; taking away their money isn't going to fix that.

  • @mejustmeamy the only thing that keeps escaping you is that justice enforces the crimes it condemns dude its not logical to punish someone vindictively or illogically when youre the one pushing him to do the crime directly or indirectly by sustaining the unseen causes of the crime such as monetary slavery inequality and discriminative stigma

  • @oxjhan9

    The only thing that keeps escaping you is that changing a whole judiciary system for the better takes time. So does changing a whole political system.

    You can't just change it all at once, and you certainly can't arbitrarily decide which criminals to punish based on what you, as an individual, consider to be wrong.

  • @oxjhan9

    Also, since it's not about right or wrong, then why bother to help the "target of loss"? Because sure, helping the "target of loss" is considered "right" by people with "morals" and "emotions", and letting the criminal go would be "wrong" because they might go hurt someone else's body or "emotions", but since we shouldn't base our laws on "morality", we shouldn't punish any criminals.

  • @mejustmeamy then why bother to help the "target of loss"?

    logical and useful payback not emotional bullshit

  • @oxjhan9

    But why should society be the one to execute this "logical and useful payback"? I mean, without morals, we wouldn't think that murder is wrong. Why then, would a society whose laws are NOT based on morals punish someone who committed this moral crime?

  • @oxjhan9

    Finally, what if the criminal has no money? What then? Would you just free them?

  • For example intelligently preventing theft in taxis is not sentencing thieves more, its putting a protective glass up in the taxi. Punishment and repression does not prevent or deter futur crime! if it did, jails would be empty.history proves it. wich is why conservatives are fkn hypocrites

  • Justice supports monetary slavery so therefore it supports all the crimes and societal distresses directly and indirectly associated with it, wich makes justice an exploitative business of exploitation and profit. Sentencing people more, dosent prevent nor help nor protect anyone or thing and repairs nothing, it foolishly and uselessly punishes rather than intelligently prevent

  • Those who support pleasure denial for themselves and others in politics are the same masochistic individuals that usually support useless punishment in society and are responsible for justice being a money racket machine and useless to societal betterment

  • People in justice know deep down that if you cant use people for your own benifit or pleasure theyre useless no matter how you look at it, whats unnaceptable biased and cruel, is that justice allows itself to use and control you and exploit your troubles and doings for their monatary benifit but it forbids you to use others for yours

  • Now wether one denies it or not does not change the fact that if you cant use someone for your own pleasure fancies and personal emotional sexual or financial benifit they are useless, wether it be favors from friends, sexual favors from your girlfriend, or money from your boss, psychological support from your parents, ect ect, People tend to make others useful to them, and thats ok, thats life because the usage is mutual and fair and relational.

  • In the 50s it was illegal to even walk beside a black person not matter how insane and discriminative that was it was some racists delusional oppressive law. Look at racist people for example, the psychology of racism is hatred and violence against persons of different races, people that adhere to myths of purity wether racial or other, are often also violent for many other bitter ideological delusions that resemble religious extremism.

  • Conservative Justice is biased and illogical to begin with.When you force people into needing something to be happy in life and survive, or ban what they love and makes them appreciate and enjoy life, you create disgust for life, suicide, and violent crime. conservatives are fucktards

  • conservatives are dumbasses

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  • @rexbreed It doesnt strike you as curious that he doesnt know if their are holes in the safety net? he doesnt know what the holes are? he doesnt know how to fix the holes?

    isnt this out of touch with the american people at the moment

  • he says he doesnt care about the poor that makes him a complete nigger don't vote for top romen vote for ron paul.

  • Mitt is great!!! He knows how to fix holes in programs that's for sure. He'll eliminate the tax loop holes that the rich of the rich jump through for unfair tax deductions (just like he did in MA) He'll fix any problems in the safety net and he'll give better tax cuts for middle income families. His tax cuts only apply to those making under $200,000. So people don't have to worry if they're complaining about the big businesses. However, to take care of jobs by corporations he'll lower to 25%

  • SUCH A NICE CHRISTIAN BOY THAT MITT ROMNEY, THE LORD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES RIGHT MITTENS.

  • Romney will defeat Obama. At lease Romney will create Jobs and fix Obama mess. Also Romney will make sure we attack Iran in which Obama is to chicken to do. And Romney is not afraid of Russia and China. Under Romney we can have WW3 or a world wide Nuclear. Plus have a strong economy and a Surplus.

  • @MegaELECTRICEYE As the former head of Bain Capital, a multi-billionaire bank, Romney bankrupted hundreds of businesses across the nation. Also, Romney's top campaign contributors are all of the largest banks in the nation. Among them include: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group, Citigroup Inc, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Barclays, and HIG Capital. 91% of Romney's campaign donations come from large donors. Info comes from Opensecrets(dot)com

  • @TheAnimatedude You should Look what the Liberal Democrap unions have done to this country. The liberal Socialist agenda is destroying this country. Liberals hate America and God. Obama is the worse president he has trashed this country. And he has not created any jobs,

  • @TheAnimatedude You should stop arguing with MegaELECTRICEYE. When the best someone can come up with is "liberal socialist agenda" and "liberals hate America and God" it doesn't matter how many facts you have. Nor can you use logic or reason.

  • @MegaELECTRICEYE are u fucking kidding me?

  • What the fuck does this dickhead know about being poor?

  • @SpFobMcSodLuver27 he grew up in the most gutwrenching hardened life you can imagine

  • God America sucks so much. Benjamin Franklin would be sick to his stomach if he saw how you lazy retards let your country go to shit. Bush for 2 terms? Jesus Christ.. Just listen to him.. Romney is almost as bad and he was winning primaries.. America, wake the fuck up before you create an apocalypse.

  • Im Canadian, But please america dont vote for this fool. All of Obamas "Change" That he promised would succeed if the rest of these fools didnt cock block his every move

  • he studders alot

  • This guy is the biggest douchebag in the whole world.

  • if youre concerned about them, STOP LIQUIDATING THEIR BUSINESSES!

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  • I don't want to see Romney to win for the President! No way! RON PAUL is my choice to vote for the President!

  • Romney won't win I can see it already

  • RON PAUL 2012!

  • @tetilt Y E S 100% yes

  • i hope Obama stays in...

  • Mitt Romney is out of touch with reality.  Plus him and his Mormon friends probably contributed money to Prop 8!

  • god i hope he doesnt win

  • Often college students deliver pizza to my house

    But recently I looked out the window & was shocked by what I saw. An elderly man (around 70) had driven to my house late at night & was now slowly hobbling along (as though he had a bad knee) toward my front door carrying the pizza in the drizzling rain.

    I don’t know if he has a sick wife, child, or grandchild, or had his pension funds stolen by someone like Mitt

    But whenever I hear Mitt say he doesn’t care about the poor, I'll think of him.

  • what is this guys deal --who is advising him--he sounds like a robot--willard u care about rich folks--hey i would to ---but mitten there are more poor then rich--gezze this dude is a tool--i can't wait till shit hits the fans so da weak can die out-- we got food stamps housing vocher this guy is pure comdey

  • I can't believe people are going to vote for this guy. I think all the homeless people fell through the safety net. And the things he talks about, food stamps etc... I s what his party wants to get rid of. I haven't heard anything this stupid scene the bush years.

  • HEY, ROMNEY. does your MORMON BIBLE contain PSALM 41? try READING the very FIRST verse. and EVERYONE else, PLEASE, read it as well. you will be WONDERFULLY surprised!!!!!!

  • THIS IS THE GUY YOU WANT FOR PRESIDENT. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?. CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE CHOICES FOR PRESIDENT. WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO WAKE UP AND VOTE THE TWO CORPORATE PARTYS OUT. DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. CAN YOU BELIEVE THE NERVE OF THIS GUY,SAYING THAT HES NOT CONCERNED WITH THE POOR,THEY HAVE SAFETY NETS, WHICH HE WANTS TO GET RID OFF.GOD HELP US.

  • Can someone tell me why a lot of Americans like this guy? Every American I know is for Ron Paul. What is so good about this guy? Seems like a bit of a dumbass to me.

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  • A vote for Romney is a vote for big business and bigger government.

  • What safety net?? We're not talking about circus here! What a fucktard...

  • What safety net?! Oh, how I hate him. He doesn't even look human. Looks like a tanned mannequin. And this is the fool on his way to the GOP nomination. Shame on everyone who voted for him or Gingrich in the primaries so far. This ship is almost sunk.

  • @Sion6 You know those votes are fake cause they bought them right? doesn't mean shit when America gets to vote

  • So what this guy is saying is it is ok for poor people to stay poor. How about helping all people you stupid racist sonofabitch! Everyone knows how discriminitory Mormons are. Especially to the people of color. Just ask any black or Hispanic person in Utah or Las Vegas how they treat them on a job, if they even bother to hire them in the first place. No one wants to be on Welfare or unemployment you dumb fuck! We ALL want jobs to be self sufficient. Fuck Romney and fuck Obama too!

  • @danksmokers

    And Romney is a piece of shit.

  • @danksmokers and mitt is obviously a retard redneck

  • This is what liberal outlets do. They isolate lines from Republicans that can be stretched and spun their way to create hate for Republicans. CNN, it has come to the point where I don't even believe anything your network says. It's actually become commonplace for a journalist to question all Republicans and give free passes to all Democrats. Very pathetic.

  • @IWEEW you are in DENIAL. romney's 'faux-pas' was NOT twisted by the news media. WE ALLLLL HEARD HIM SAY, "IM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE POOR." either he REALLY is evil or political inept! because even IF you are not sincere, running for the HIGHEST position in the land, you should come across AS IF YOU ARE CONCERNED FOR ALLLLLL PEOPLE. evil? inept. he is BOTH!

  • Did he fix the safety net in Massachusetts?

  • Bob Marley, "EMANCIPATE YOURSELVES FROM MENTAL SLAVERY! NONE BUT OURSELVES CAN FREE OUR MIND!"

  • grailstar13/danksmokers This way of thinking shows ur ignorance& that u 2r not committed 2any religion which is not good.It means u r susceptible 2anything.Some1 can dangle a piece of meat n ur face & like any dog u will follow it.Negro refers2 blacks.U r more of a NIGGER than Obama.Nigger means UNCOUTH, dumb, ignorant, & lower.U think Obama is muslim bcuz thats what people who dont like him want u 2 think.They know it will play against him n this post 9/11 era & u fall 4 it.Obama is christian.

  • The middle class is struggling, but those that are even worst off get less help. Gotcha!.

    ARe you going to strap the poor to the top of the car when you drive the country off the cliff?