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Dan Maloy · Top Commenter
Russell Schaffer -
Are you brave? Do you have courage? Are you willing to admit to us that
perhaps you may not know everything you think you know? Well, if you're
brave, like you claim, read this below. If you're a coward, you'd better
stop reading here.
Here is the question that was asked that generated the Romney "47%"
statement plus the ENTIRE Romney quote, not some cherry-picked, parsing of a
few key words:
Question: “For the past three years, all everybody’s been told is, “Don’
t worry. We’ll take care of you.” How are you going to do it, in two
months before the elections to convince everybody, you’ve got to take care
of yourself?”
Romney reply: “Uh, well there are 47% of the people who will VOTE for the
President no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are
dependent upon the government,
who believe that, that they are victims, who believe the government has a
responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to
healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement
. And the government should give it to them. And they will VOTE for this
President no matter what. And the, the President starts off with 48,49, 4--,
he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax.
47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our MESSAGE of low taxes doesn
’t connect. He’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean
, that’s what they sell every, every 4 years. And, uh, so my job is not to
worry about those few. I’ll never CONVINCE them that they should take
personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is to
CONVINCE the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are
thoughtful, that look at VOTING one way or the other depending upon in some
cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not…...”
FACT #1 - This was at a fundraiser for a Presidential election. To win an
election requires votes. In this quote Romney used the words “vote” (twice
), “message” (once), “convince” (twice) and “voting” (once). What are
the odds that a guy running for President attending a fundraiser to help win
that election might talk about VOTES and what he needs to do during the
campaign to win those VOTES? I know, shocking, right?
LOGICAL DEDUCTION: It’s not that Romney doesn’t “care” about that 47% as
human beings, he was talking about the likelihood of winning their votes.
FACT #2 – Despite not putting the 47% comment from Romney in any way, shape
or form of the true context, liberals insist that Romney is simply a greedy
, uncaring person. So let’s look at the kinds of things Romney has done
with his life, shall we? Hard core liberals won’t believe it so you guys
might as well just respond with hate right now. Independents and those who
are not lemmings will look at this objectively and come to the irrefutable
conclusion: Romney cares about people and has proven it through a life time
of service to his fellow man.
ROMNEY’S ALTRUISM / CHARITY
- Gave away his inheritance in 1998 to start / help fund the “George W.
Romney Institute of Public Management” at BYU (his father, George Romney,
died in 1995).
- Donated his entire Olympics salary and severance package ($1.4M) to
charity.
- While governor of Massachusetts, at HIS request, served the people of MA
at the salary of $1/year (that’s right, ONE DOLLAR).
- Voluntarily served, without pay or re-compensation of funds, as a Mormon
missionary for 30 months in his late teens/early twenties (you may not agree
with what he taught but the fact is he did it on a volunteer basis with the
belief that he was helping to bring people closer to Jesus).
- Volunteer service to community as a church head pastor for 13 years all
with ZERO pay (that's right, none); 5 years as a “bishop” and 8 years as a
“stake president”.
- Would give ALL his Presidential salary ($1.6 Million total) back to the
American taxpayers if elected (yes, he's on record as committing to this).
- Based on a net worth of $200-250M and his constant activity/involvement in
his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the ‘Mormons
’), has given at least $20-25 MILLION to his church. (LDS church members
pay tithing; one-tenth of what a person earns. The LDS church uses tithing
donations to build and maintain churches and temples, print literature about
Jesus Christ, etc. Can anyone dispute this is not “charitable” giving?)
BTW, that is NOT including other charitable contributions to the LDS church
in the form of “fast offerings”. Go look it up.
- He also chose to NOT receive any Social Security payments upon turning 65
because, again, he knows he can take care of himself and therefore should
not rely on our tax dollars to help fund his daily living. (BTW, that’s HIS
money that he’s leaving in government accounts.)
- Shut down most of his company, Bain Capital, and, at Romney’s expense,
moved most of his employees to New York City to help find an employee’s
missing daughter; set up a base of operations in a hotel room, posted
thousands of flyers, talked to hundreds of shop owners, talked to thousands
of people on the street, coordinated efforts with the police, worked with
the media to air their search on TV. And…..when they finally did find her,
a doctor said she was in such poor condition from a drug overdose she may
not have survived another day.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/pressed-for-anecd
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/19/mitt_romne (see pg 2)
- Built a neighborhood playground & later did maintenance / upkeep on it for
5 years
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313631/mitt-nobody-sees-ka
- Loaned money for someone to buy a home
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/politics/in-real-estate-de
- Helped write a will for a terminally ill teenager at the teenaged boy’s
request
http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionI
- Cares about his fellow man: gave $3,000,000 to charity in 2010 and $4,000,
000 to charity in 2011; that’s $7 MILLION in just 2 years. Would you have
done that? Romney did.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/romney_the_
FACT #3 – If you need a check from the government to survive from month to
month, you ARE dependent upon the government. You might be old, you might be
young, you might be smart, you may have been an All-State football player
or homecoming queen in high school, but if you need a check from the
government to survive, you are indeed dependent upon the government. The O-N
-L-Y exception to this is if the check the government gives you is YOUR
Social Security check. THAT money came from you and belongs to YOU.
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