A goodly part of that 47% are not in the group by choice. Romney can peel them off if he can explain how he's going to make it possible for them to rise up out of government dependency. It's a huge mistake simply to write them off.
Agreed...I know some folks with EBT cards, and they feel humiliated that they would have to take such a handout. They would prefer to earn their keep...do not lump them in with the moochers...
“A goodly part of that 47% are not in the group by choice. Romney can peel them off if he can explain how he’s going to make it possible for them to rise up out of government dependency. It’s a huge mistake simply to write them off.”
Go back a couple of centuries, to olde England. Back then, there was the dichotomy of “the deserving poor” as distinguished from “the undeserving poor”.
To take that paradigm and update it to modern times and the entitlement society, we should be pointing out the differences between “the deserving entitlees” vs. those that are “UNdeserving”.
And Romney should stop talking about “creating 12 million jobs” and start talking about re-creating an American exceptionalist environment by which jobs will spring up like seeds in the field. We do that by removing regulation and restraining the bureaucracies that create them, by opening up every possible avenue of energy development, by increasing power generation and not forcing plant closures.
Perhaps he should follow up by saying, “yes, government can give you a check, but it will never give you a job with a future....”