Source: Mitt Romney video fact check: Is 47 percent of US ‘dependent’ on government? – CSMonitor.com.
That is one of the questions that has been raised after Mother Jones magazine on Tuesday released a video of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser May 17. “There are 47 percent who are with him [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it,” Mr. Romney says in the video
According to the fact checker Mr. Romney is saying I think I am a victim and entitled to food and housing and YOU NAME IT… He includes me and every one else who are over 65 in that group. He wants to get all us freeloaders off the government doles.
I must admit that I do collect Social Security and am on Medicare (I think maybe he is including me twice for that) but I must tell Mr. Romney that I paid 6%+ of my wages and so did my employer for over forty years to get those payments.
Since he has been in the campaign mode for over five years I know Mr. Romney drastically wants to be President. It is a “power” thing to him so he will do whatever he has to do to take up residence in the Oval Office.
But please Mr. Romney take me off your list and put some real number up there. Don’t call all of us who are seniors freeloaders. That attitude won’t get you many votes. But I guess since he was talking to $100,000 donors everyone except the 1%ers are thought to be the “takers” as Mr. Ryan’s hero Ayn Rands says it….
RJ's Corner 
I agree……when I heard the comment, my first thought was of the 18-30 year olds sent to foreign wars & who, along with their families, are now still paying the high price. I also thought of all of the boomers, including me, who worked for over 35 years (some of us for the government, doing our best to help taxpayers) & who didn’t feel that putting money into Social Security at that time made them/us freeloaders later. Granted, there are A LOT of boomers, but folks were glad of that when we were all paying into everything. Now, many of us, while not earning a “paycheck” are volunteering to pay it forward.
I’m also grateful that I’m not in a position where EVERY word I EVER said is scrutinized.
needless to say, I thought this was a good post.
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Welcome Pam and thanks for the thoughtful comments. Being a senior you summed up my thoughts too. I am glad to hear that you are paying forward. Paying forward gives me more satisfaction than I ever achieved in my corporate years. The soup kitchen where I volunteer would never be able to pay someone if I didn’t do it for free.
Yeah, the snippets do come home to roust for these guys don’t they. But in my mind these off the cuff things tell me more about the candidate’s character than any pre-planned autobiography that they or a ghost writer might be hawking.
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On Greenspan’s advice Reagan used the money being collected by social security for the retirement of the baby boomers to hide the deficit caused by his tax cuts on the 1% so it is the republicans who are in reality “Freeloaders”!
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I am a freeloader and proud of it because even though I go to work every day I expect my employer to pay me instead of working for free. Some time back my mother told me after she started drawing social security that she thought it shouldn’t be available and has followed up her opinion by consistently voting for those republicans who have vowed to end social security for her children and grandchildren. Then after she became eligible to draw her deceased seventh husband’s much higher social security benefits she divorced husband number 8 on paper then remarried him after she began receiving number seven’s much higher social security benefits. A couple of years after husband number eight who also became husband number nine died she dated and married a former high school classmate who is now number ten.
Whew confused yet? And to think that I’ve been dealing with this ever since I was nine years old – then there is my dad’s three marriages to consider as well.
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