Romney calls 47% of the coutry freeloaders

Just when Romney couldn't fuck things up more than he has.... here's this:

 

Wow... wow.  He really thinks everyone who votes for the pres is a freeloader.  He isn't backing down from these statements either.  The most screwed up thing is that he's using a Fox News talking point, like he believes in it.  That surprises me.  He's talking to rich donors here, not the slack jawed tea bagging audience you see in videos meant to be public.  This means he's not just spinning bullshit when he's talking, at times he believes what he says.

But let's scratch a little deeping about what he said.  USA Today writes:

"According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, about 46% of Americans paid no income tax in 2011. However, nearly two-thirds of households that don't pay income tax pay payroll taxes. Of the people who don't pay income or payroll taxes, more than half are elderly. The center says more than one-third of those who don't pay income or payroll taxes have incomes of less than $20,000."

So either the elderly, who are on Social Security, which they paid for, or the very poor, don't pay income taxes.  This according to Romney is not taking responsibility.  These people, much to Fox News' chagrin, pay a payroll tax, which is basically the same thing.  When I was working (and in a week or so when I get the final word on my new job), I got paid hourly, which I'm sure Romney has never done in his life.  My taxes were automatically pulled out for Medicare, Social Security, and other state and federal taxes.... this is called a Payroll Tax.  It's basically the same thing as an Income Tax, except Income Taxes are paid after the fact.  Mitt pays a proportionally lower tax rate than me, so how can I be freeloading off of this system? 

The other half of the 'Romney is a douche in this video' equation, is that he is alluding to giving middle class and poor people higher taxes.  This goes off of the whole Fox News narrative that the rich are burdened by their taxes.  Number by number, their taxes are higher than mine, but proportionately, they are much lower.  Besides, at the end of the day, if their taxes were the same as mine, they would still be rich as hell.  Still not wanting for anything in the world, while I hold my breathe for a $16 per hour job to pay my school loans and maybe start a family next year.  If you care that much about rich people and you are not rich, then you have really messed up priorities.  Don't give me the whole, rich people have the spending power, crap.  Corporations are sitting on $2 Trillion worth of cash and not hiring that many people with it. Trickle down economics didn't work, deal with it.  If you are rich, then you are working for your self interests, but are a greedy waste of skin.

Hopefully this puts a nail in Romney's coffin.  The Santorum 'Smart people won't vote for us,' thing was funny, but he's not running for jack shit, this could change the election.  Also, the Santorum thing isn't taken out of context, he was talking about the media, etc, but that doesn't negate what he said and that he meant what that sounds like and evidentally... he's right.

In the end, it's funny that Romney really is as gullable as his base.  It might be an ego stroking mechanism, but when he raises my taxes to make the rich richer, turns Medicare into a voucher program, destroys Social Security, and starts a couple more wars (Bush foreign policy advisors are Romney's), I won't care about his motives, just that we needed to vote for Obama more than ever.