… it must necessarily follow, that some one portion of the community must pay in taxes more than it receives back in disbursements; while another receives in disbursements more than it pays in taxes… The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through disbursements, and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers.
John Calhoun
He needs to state that a meager income does not equal a lack of personal responsibility, especially in today’s economy.
As Michael Graham said on “Imus” this morning: “We care ABOUT you, but we don’t want to have to care FOR you.”
Imus is a loud-mouthed, irreverent, misinformed doofus, but we try to see Graham’s appearances when he’s on. Today, he kicked ass. Expect the video can be seen via the Imus site.
Yet, Michael, I HEAR much worse from the forked tongue of Der Leader Zero. Mitt at least OWNS the statement and as we discover, its not the complete video anyway.
Its not up to you to pile on with the lame streamers...dumazz...yeah..DO defend what he said. I don’t care if Reagan would have said it or not....Instead of sniping...do like THEY do...tell your lefty readers in Boston what he meant...
Defeatist azzholes, I swear...
Of course not. Romney cant win that argument, He is just the wrong person for this. He tries to repeat buzzlines that he thinks conservatives will like but he doesnt understand them and so he screws it up.
This is what happens when you put up an empty suit Grover...he nuked Perry, Newt and RS just to look stupid now.
Mitt AND this author miss another core point.
Liberals/leftists DON’T REALLY CARE about the poor.
What they REALLY care about how they feel about themselves for “caring about the poor”.
It’s worse than “works-based righteousness”, it’s “advocacy-based righteousness”.
“I’m a good person because of policies I advocate.”
In Julia’s life it does.
It is time some ads compare what Romney has personally done for neighbors and strangers in his satellite compared to what Obama has done for people in his sphere. Put the question then, if you needed personal help, would you rather look up and see Romney or Obama standing there? When Obama’s brother needed financial help for his ailing child, it didn’t occur to him to even ask Barack, instead he asked for and got help from Dinesh Desouza. Closing ad line: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
” - - - not caring about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes - - - “
WRONG! Mitt used the word “worry” and not The Media spin-word “care.”
I don't know why anyone is surprised at Mitt's milquetoast performance in this campaign. He doesn't have the sort of life experiences that would have prepared him to fight the left like he ought to. He grew up in a sheltered, privileged, insulated environment, where he didn't even have to interact with the sort of sub-humans he's up against now.
He doesn't understand the left the way most of the other Republican primary challengers do. Most of them were raised in humble, ordinary circumstances. They know when it's time to roll up your sleeves and kick some scumbag butt.
In Mitt's public life, he's mostly made peace with the left by bending to their will and giving them what they want. Now that they're trying to bury him, he can't find the spine to attack them like he needs to. I'm afraid that's simply how he's built.