You might be right, however these were his own words:
“My job is is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
That means he doesn’t see the point in canvassing for their vote, and if he’s not interested in their vote why would they expect him to do anything for them once in power?
OK, if we take “those people” to mean Obamabots, spongers, freeloaders, drug-addled parasites and the like then fair enough.
But as other people have pointed out, the 47% of people who don’t pay tax include, amongst other things:
1. Disabled people whose career options are limited and will work long hours for little money in dead end jobs to support themselves and their families
2. The retired population who may be full time carers, full time grandparents, church volunteers, charity workers
3. Mothers who regard being a mom as a full time occupation (know any war widows, or moms with severely disabled children? I do)
4. Some enormously wealthy “tax exiles” living near down the road in London (yep, I’m in England) who run multimillion dollar businesses based on the East Coast of the USA and whose wages are paid in the form of bonds, shares and other fiddles, through proxies and places like the Caymans, to ensure the government doesn’t get a grubby little cent
And the list of people who “pay no taxes” who aren’t Obama fans (much less “the undeserving poor”!) gets very long indeed.
It’s a very diverse 47%.
When can we, as a nation, get away from the idea that the purpose of the Presidency in particular, and the government in general, is to DO THINGS FOR ME?
It's a damn cancer on this nation, and it's eating us.