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**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 09-18-2012 04:05 AM

You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released today by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney's campaign for president.

On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans "believe that they are victims." He laments: "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

So what's the upshot? "My job is not to worry about those people," he says. He also notes, describing President Obama's base, "These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."

This is an utter disaster for Romney.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-17...ction.html

yeah3

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 116314 09-18-2012 04:06 AM

He never had any chance against Obama before this f*ck up.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121708 09-18-2012 04:07 AM

http://youtu.be/OJgWMI0hch8

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 09-18-2012 04:09 AM

Let me get this straight...

He think that the middle class are a bunch of losers that should pay more taxes...

But the very wealthy a special and should pay less, or no taxes at all.

BTW, where exactly are his 2010 tax returns?

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 121708 09-18-2012 04:09 AM

**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 09-18-2012 04:09 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

http://youtu.be/OJgWMI0hch8

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 44401 09-18-2012 04:12 AM

im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 09-18-2012 04:15 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 114093 09-18-2012 04:18 AM

You assume people on the govt dole will all vote Obama due to this statement. This kind of thing needs to be said often and publicly. That, and the continual loss of freedoms through things like executive orders and NDAA, along with the gun walker scandal.

**Demon Lung** · (This post was last modified: 09-18-2012 04:30 AM by Demon Lung.)

LoP Guest Wrote:

im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

How Bad Is Welfare Fraud in the USA?

What do you see when you see someone on welfare? A lazy welfare Mom living the good life, claiming more than she is entitled to? After all, we all know that welfare fraud is rampant, right? In my previous post we’ve been having good discussions trying to identify what’s wrong with the USA, and the issue of welfare fraud came up. I was curious to find out how much of a problem it is.

[snip]

The most accurate figure I’ve found for the US is from a 2002 report by The US Department of Labor which says that 1.9% of the total Unemployment Insurance payments for 2001 were attributable to fraud or abuse within the UI program.

[snip]

So, until someone can show me better numbers I’m going to put this out there:

Less than 2% of all people on welfare in the USA commit fraud.

“The myth of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen who defrauds the system lingers even though there’s no proof of it”, said Erin O’Brien, a poverty expert at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

In fact, welfare fraud among Philadelphia’s 95,456 recipients is “minute,” according to Peter Berson, assistant chief of the government fraud unit in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

The 200 to 400 cases of welfare fraud in the city each year – down 50% since 2002 because of better enforcement and fewer recipients – are not nonworking women having babies to game the government, but working women receiving welfare and working at other jobs without reporting the income, Berson said.

In conclusion, the rate of welfare fraud is so low as to almost not be worth mentioning. The next time you hear an allegation of welfare fraud, ask to see the hard facts. Anecdotes are just that, and urban myths develop quickly. In hard times, Americans blame the poor.

The facts tell me that 98 out of 100 people on welfare are not defrauding the system. Ninety-eight out of one hundred welfare recipients you meet are honest people who are struggling. Isn’t it time we dropped the stigma?

http://spritzophrenia.wordpress.com/2011...n-the-usa/

**Demon Lung**

Here are the REAL "welfare queens" that are destroying the system...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNHwZVgLB8

**Pope Barbie Imaculata**

LoP Guest Wrote:

im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

The reality you asshole is that of crippled US veterans trying to survive off the $200 they get in food stamps a month. That hardly buys enough 99 cent frozen meals to simply not starve to death.

**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 09-18-2012 04:33 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole

:yaeh3:

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 87570 09-18-2012 04:40 AM

Gatekeeper Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
im sick of working 45 hours a week to help provide nice clothes, good fatty foods, luxurious homes and smart phones to people who dont even wanna attempt to try and work for anything other than my wife's number when they walk past her in public.

How Bad Is Welfare Fraud in the USA?

What do you see when you see someone on welfare? A lazy welfare Mom living the good life, claiming more than she is entitled to? After all, we all know that welfare fraud is rampant, right? In my previous post we’ve been having good discussions trying to identify what’s wrong with the USA, and the issue of welfare fraud came up. I was curious to find out how much of a problem it is.

[snip]

The most accurate figure I’ve found for the US is from a 2002 report by The US Department of Labor which says that 1.9% of the total Unemployment Insurance payments for 2001 were attributable to fraud or abuse within the UI program.

[snip]

So, until someone can show me better numbers I’m going to put this out there:

Less than 2% of all people on welfare in the USA commit fraud.

“The myth of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen who defrauds the system lingers even though there’s no proof of it”, said Erin O’Brien, a poverty expert at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

In fact, welfare fraud among Philadelphia’s 95,456 recipients is “minute,” according to Peter Berson, assistant chief of the government fraud unit in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

The 200 to 400 cases of welfare fraud in the city each year – down 50% since 2002 because of better enforcement and fewer recipients – are not nonworking women having babies to game the government, but working women receiving welfare and working at other jobs without reporting the income, Berson said.

In conclusion, the rate of welfare fraud is so low as to almost not be worth mentioning. The next time you hear an allegation of welfare fraud, ask to see the hard facts. Anecdotes are just that, and urban myths develop quickly. In hard times, Americans blame the poor.

The facts tell me that 98 out of 100 people on welfare are not defrauding the system. Ninety-eight out of one hundred welfare recipients you meet are honest people who are struggling. Isn’t it time we dropped the stigma?

http://spritzophrenia.wordpress.com/2011...n-the-usa/

Thanks for your posts! Romney can say people don't take personal responsibility for their lives but he has never walked in these folks shoes. That was a heartless thing for him to say IMO.

**NormalIsSubjective** · **NormalIsSubjective** User ID: 121717 09-18-2012 05:14 AM **Posts: 4,823**

Gatekeeper Wrote:

Here are the REAL "welfare queens" that are destroying the system...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNHwZVgLB8

Thank you.