Rummy wants a middle class tax break?  Next he’ll file for unemployment benefits – and if given the chance would vote against them.

Fuck you!

These people live in a fantasy world.  How much smoke do you suppose is blown up Romney’s ass every day?  Probably about half of what’s being blown up Perry’s.

Since Mitt and I are both “middle class,” I’m sure he’d have no problem if we pooled our net worth and split it 50/50.

Mitt Romney.

Will some one please give this ass hole an Enema?

The reason half the population doesn’t pay income taxes is because they don’t earn enough!!!  

The real money is going to assholes like Romney, who think they’re overburdened with taxes.  This dickhead doesn’t have a job so we know he’s making all his money on capital gains, which is taxed at 15%.  Poor son of a bitch really needs a break.

“Capitol Gains”?…the only thing i have is capitol losses…

I guess Mitt considers himslef middle class because he is not the Forbes 400.

He’s right, Romney’s unemployed so he has a lot in common with people in the Middle Class, struggling to look for a job while living off their savings.

I tried to listen, I really did, but I can’t manage to listen past a Saint Reagan reference.
Did Mitt Romney say something?
Didn’t think so.

Fun campaign factoid: Romney’s middle name is actually “Shameless.”

Romney is spouting GOP crap.  The middle class is in desperate shape because of the GOP and tea party, not because of Mr. Obama.  Romney is patently NOT middle class, given his wealth.  If he really wants to help, he should work in Congress to close tax loop holes, cuts for millionaire – such as himself – and making corporations pay their fair share.  Until then, he is just another GOP shill.

So he’s pissed that 50% of Americans don’t pay taxes, then goes on to say that he wants to help 80-90% of Americans who are in the middle class. Um, I’m sorry, but that math does not match up. Do any of his supporters actually listen to what he says? Or are they just all like “Oh, he has a trustworthy face, I’m voting for him!”

1. The thumbnail for the video is priceless with the woman in the back seemingly going “Are you fucking kidding me?!”
2. Romney and the GOP think that Wal-Mart is a “small business”
3. The 2012 Presidential race is going to be fun since he’ll most likely be the nominee (according to recent polls)

Funny he repeated the verbage of the classic liberal politician pandering to the ‘middle class’ and now everyone on this site is outraged by the identical rhetoric they normally love.. . . .because he’s ‘rich.’
John Kerry’s net worth is over 10x’s Romney’s and not one liberal criticized that when he ran.
Kerry had one of his 20 million dollar mansions shipped here from France on barges, yet no criticism from rawstory readers.
Kerry has one mansion worth 42 million, and 11 others around the world, yet no criticism.

Classic hipocracy.

Just another example of Fascist mentality.  Fascists ALWAYS want SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.  He feels overburdened because he wants something for nothing.  They want profits, they want capital gains, but they don’t want to give back to the world in return for their riches.  There is NO such reality as something for nothing, except in the fascist mindset.  They want to deregulate and privatize EVERYTHING because they want something for nothing.  They NEVER want to pay a living wage because they want something for nothing.  They offshore jobs to places where people will work for next to nothing because they’re THAT desperate.  Fascists KNOW this and so they will always be sure to bribe those in power overseas that they know are easily corruptible because that those in power want to live an opulent lifestyle similar to the ones they believe American and European wealthy people live.  Fascists have no compunctions about hiring thugs and mercenaries to murder, torture, disappear, and politically imprison and oppress anyone who attempts to organize in these third world shit-pots for a chance at a better life for themselves and their families.  Then they corrupt our own political system to “legally” ensure that it all stays on the up and up in our eyes.  They even corrupt the American population into believing that they also should get something for nothing.  Nobody wants to pay the $10 that a hammer is actually worth, they want a $0.99 hammer.  The hammer’s going to last you the rest of your life, are you serious?  Nobody wants to pay that nice kid up the street who’s saving for college to mow their lawn, because a Guatemalan or Mexican they found at Home Depot will do it for $20 and a 6-pack.  We live in one of the most tax-friendly countries on the planet (if you take an active interest in it), yet Americans cry about paying taxes.  I don’t want to pay taxes, but I don’t want my tires ruined by a pot-hole either.  Yet, these Fascists have deliberately skewed the system so that the Feds get more than the State, and that’s WRONG.  YES, we do kind of over pay.  Not to mention, that we shouldn’t even have to file because they already took it before you got your hands on it.  But I still want to pay my fair share.  Fascists have no problem getting subsidized for their companies to make weapons and cater to the Pentagon system, but they have a big problem with the government “getting in the way.”  They’re getting a free ride with no risk on taxpayer money, and they think the government is getting in the way?  Oh yeah, that’s right… The want something for nothing.  This goes across the board from the very top to the very bottom.  WE ARE GUILTY TOO…

But the Fascist Mitt Romney (and he KNOWS he is one people, whether you want to believe it or not.. get the fuckin’ swastikas out of your head, those are Nazis, who work FOR Fascists who are themselves the army of the oligarchy class), is anything BUT middle class.

But hey… I guess all you have to do is say you’re a Christian, mention the founding fathers here and there, and throw in a bit of anti-liberal rhetoric, and you’ve got the fat old folks’ vote.  

Not to be a dick, and I know I’m kinda blanketing some shit here, but you get my point.

Mitt has a hard time connecting to reality.  Did his sons — The Fightin’ Romneys — make an appearance?  There is still time for them to enlist and get some real fighting experience in Afghanistan.  

Mitt, the half of Americans not paying federal income taxes are not doing so mainly because they’re too poor; and/or own a home; and/or have a family.   Moreover, they all pay FICA, which takes a vastly bigger chunk of their paycheck than it takes from yours, Mitt.   They are ALL also paying state and local taxes, on top of all the tax-like sums paid to private interests for “services” like cellphone mystery charges, ATM fees, and predatory loans.

No matter how much you spin it, the deadbeats in America are NOT the lower 50% who “don’t pay taxes”.  The deadbeats in America are NOT the middle class, either. 

The deadbeats in America, Mitt, are You.

Mitt has a point (besides on the top of his head). Nothing says middle class like having a father who was the Governor of Michigan, ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1968, was the president of American Motors, was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and whose salary at American Motors was equivalent to $2 million a year in 2011 dollars. Like many Republicans in Congress today he barely was able to get by. Mitt, by his own admission, is unemployed and rapidly burning through his nest egg of $250 million dollars. Yet he holds tenaciously on with unflinching grasp to the bottom rung of the somiddle class and may yet prevail. We’re all rooting for you, Mitt! On a more technical level, what constitutes the upper class in his mind?

These folksy touches he applies to his campaign will alienate him more completely with the Republican base who perceive him as a liberal who will do anything (anything? (anything!!!)) to get nominated than his Mormonism which many think of as the 19th century’s attempt to invent Scientology.

I think you meant hypocrisy?
It’s an understandable mistake given the frequency of opportunity for you to use the word.

I would say the difference you turd is that Kerry didn’t call himself middle class….typical repugnican

Exactly where did you hear Kerry describe himself as middle class?

Half the population doesn’t make enough to pay income tax, but the concern is for 5% of the population (that have 90% of the wealth) having to pay 3 or 4% more.  It seems to be a disproportional amount of people concerned for the very small portion of people with most of the wealth, which doesn’t make sense.

sorry, but your numbers on John Kerry are very inaccurate……….would you mind submitting your sources?………or easier just to go along with what you hear from right fringe sources that don’t bother to check their own facts? besides, you show me where John Kerry offered up that he was “like the rest of us” financially or acted like he was in the unemployment line.

Romney and the rest of the greed party are full of sh*t.

Based on the 2010 census there are ~75M aged 0-17.  There are ~190M aged 18-64.  There are ~ 40M over 65.  Prior to the so called great recession there were ~ 140M employed annually.  Many people over 65 and unemployed under 65 are withdrawing from traditional IRAs and paying taxes on those withdrawls.

It’s there policies that have created massive unemployment and created any taxpayer imbalance that might appear to exist in the population at large.

Stand by for an ironic twist to Reagan’s “if it moves tax it”.  In order to get up to 50 50 taxpayers with the current demographics  the greed party would have to adopt “if it breaths tax it”.

Sorry, but i watched it and read it, but the headline that Raw highlighted is inaccurate.  I don’t see where he called himself the middle class…”those of us” does not mean “me”.

typical, a “conservative” says something entirely ignorant (not uncommon at all these days) and get called out on it………….then their sheep gather up to change the subject and history in defense of their “leader”. this change of subject usually entails MASSIVE amounts of misinformation, or outright “lies of frustration” that they have to continuously defend these ignorant, inaccurate remarks/comments made by the people that they wish to vote for. getting way too amusing to not play with them from time to time.

This is the Bush economy and the teaparty economy.  I fault Obama for not standing up to them until now.  The administration didn’t provided enough stimulus, but now when he’s trying to do more, the repubs are still fighting tooth and nail for millionaires.  It makes you sick, doesn’t it?

Mitt Witt……is a pathetic bastard, no wonder he’s a front runner in the gop clown parade.

So, “us” doesn’t infer membership of the speaker in the group?  It’s a first person plural pronoun.  First person.

He’s Right! The NEW American Middle Class (starts at $1,000,000).

An emergency enema, STAT!!!!…..with a hand grenade..just to clear his mind

Everytime these jokers open their mouths, nonsense just rolls out. Mitt just wants to protect his investments and capital gains that the rest of us in the middle class just dream about. 

Joel – when I say “us” I mean you and me.  When I say “them” or “they” I mean someone other than you and me.  Sorry, but Mittwit referred to himself as a member of the middle-class.

He is, according to current GOP dogma.

a. The rich = billionaires.

b. The middle class = millionaires.

c. Everybody else = unworthy peasants who are owned by a. and b.

Oh yes it does.  Mitt wants the GOP middle class voter to think he is one of them.  Mitt is a  phony always was, is and always will be.

Not “us”, “Those OF us”  Come on…

“THOSE OF US”

Sorry, but that doesnt fly, Kerry’s political beliefs are in line with the needs of the middle class, Kerry was/is more sensitive to those needs, Mitt, is only sensitive to the needs of the Corporate elite and the wealthy.  Dont be fooled by Mitts act.

Kerry got his money the old fashioned way. He married it. He also never whined about paying his fair share of taxes.

Sitting on the Heinz ketchup fortune that he married into, Kerry wouldn’t dare describe himself as middle class.

Look at how Kerry votes compared to the radical right in the Senate, Kerry has always stood for the middle class.  Mitt and his GOPer buddies never will.

By the time Conservatives gets through with the United States the Executive Branch should be renamed, Dept of Slum Maintenance.

Hi I’m Rick Perry and I’ll make the best head of the Dept Of Slum Maintenance you have ever seen and I have Texas to prove it.

50% pay no taxes. That is because Republican policies have caused them to be unemployed and under employed. Rich fucks like Romney want more of the tax burden to fall on people who cannot buy bread for their families.

If he’s middle class then I’m an endentured servant living under the streets in a sewer. What about your fucking mansion (vacation home) in La Jolla you fucking piece of shit? I couldn’t afford to even pay the property taxes on that. Oh yeah and he’s going to bulldoze that down and start over because 3K sq. feet isn’t enough room to house his expanded family. Yeah, I was thinking of doing the same thing to my vacation home or at least buy a bigger tent. Sheeesh! He’s in whole different world than 98% of us.

Arm, leg, or neck?

So Mitt the little shit wants to help the middle-class whose been hurt the most by the Obama administration’s policies?  Well I’m part of the middle-class that was hurt by the Bush administration’s policies; where’s my help? 

When Mitt the little shit is considered middle-class that’s when America truly becomes a 3rd world, or failed state.  Thanks to the GOP and the Tea Party we’re on our way…

  Good thing he inherited his money because he’s too dumb to be a walmart greeter.

”
Romney says he’s part of the middle class”

I see Mittens has been dipping into his stash of LSD again …

So? I’m a “libtard” and I didn’t vote for Kerry. Sometimes you look at a candidate and just gotta puke. And yes the Republicans made a big deal over his pickles and shit but at least he didn’t call himself middle class that I can remember.

I like how the republicans always place their faults on others the Stormin’ Mormon talks about people voting to give themselves money from the treasury is exactly what the rich have been doing for 40 years and yes they are destroying America. The GOP talking point that 50% of us do not pay taxes is a bald faced lie, it’s more like 38% that do not pay federal taxes but they have to pay other taxes.  If you consider Social Security a tax then the number drops even lower, and considering they keep stealing money out of SS to pay for other things (like Bush2 using it so his deficits didn’t look so bad) well it is a tax and the rich only have to pay SS tax on the first 100k of income.

Someone has to hold the mirrors.

I thought it was “Hoo hoo!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHoJif9KfiA

To that, Mitts will say; “If they can’t buy bread, then let them eat cake!”

So true, but on 38% of us pay no Federal taxes. I wonder
what that number was before the rich decided to crash the economy?

Romney middle class? Jesus, every time the guy opens his mouth he says something more stupid than the last.

Born into a household of a millionaire he has also told us that he’s unemployed too.

Have you seen him interacting with the black kids trying to be all hip hop?  

Just when you think he’s the only semi-sane Republican running … there he goes again.  

Did Mr. Kerry win?  please point out someone who has won the presidential nomination in modern times that is not rich?

Kerry seemingly understands math… and that you can’t have 50% not paying and 90% who need help, kind of implies that the vast majority of those “not paying” need help too, ya? That’s beyond Romney or his followers to understand.

And Kerry is content to close loopholes and raise taxes on himself while Romney pretends he doesn’t have any wealth so he can pretend it’s evil to raise taxes.

I’ll take an honest, decent rich guy over a deceitful, scumbag rich guy any day.

 Or rather what is he smoking!

I have a two lie limit. Two lies and my mind disengages from the conversation.

The filthy rich always insist they’re not rich.

“It’s not those at the low end and it’s certainly not for those at the
very high end. It’s for the great middle class, the 80 to 90 percent of
us in this country.”

Rarely it happens (and I am no fan of Mr. Mittens), but Edwards is a bit off on the point that Romney was making.  I think he actually was referring to himself as on of the people in this country, not part of the 80 to 90 percent.

However, it is more interesting that he said that the poor aren’t suffering under the current economic state.  I guess he thinks that they are just doing dandy.  He also wants to call the the current economic state the “Obama Economy”, like everything was wonderful until two and a half years ago.  In other words he either feels that the American public either has Attention Deficit Disorder or they are just plain stupid.

Edwards does make another point when he states, “a supporter in Tampa thanked him for creating jobs by quadrupling the size of his $12 million California beachfront mansion.”  I guess Romney must be one of those “job creators” that Boner keeps on spouting off about.

After I read this story, I had one vision, the vision of George H.W. Bush being amazed when he first saw a laser bar code reader at a grocery store.  Romney is so out of touch with reality it is scary.

  Let me guess…………..you’re a CONservative?

  LOL.  Yup.

In Marie’s day, “cake” was used to describe bread crumbs. Being a pauper is no party.

like it matters.

That was my feeling when I read it, too. In all fairness, the “us” in that statement probably refers to the country, not the middle-class part of the country. At the very least, it’s ambiguous. The really deplorable part of the whole statement is his denial that the poor are suffering and his obliviousness to the way the middle class is shrinking. The poor are suffering because they’re poor! And a lot of people who used to be part of the middle class no longer are because they don’t have jobs! So, yeah, it IS “those at the low end,” because they don’t want to be there!

Did that woman directly behind Romney pass out from what he was saying or did he fart in her face – like he did to the rest of middle-class Americans?

A scientific poll at the PalmBeach Polo Club as determined most of the patrons feel a half billion
dollars of net worth…is middle class. 50 men and 41 women participated in this poll.
Results are kept in a safe at:
the home of:
Rush Limbaugh
1495 N. Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
[home]
340 Royal Palm Way
West Palm Beach, Fl 33411
[office]

Did you get this from … savetherich.com ?

What the fuck does he mean by the “Obama economy”? I always thought that the repubes pretty much owned the great downfall of the economy. At the very least Obama was stuck with a “less than robust” balance sheet. Mittens is one crazy bastard.

get what?

If Romney is middle class, I’m Elvis!

Don’t believe your lying eyes just keep listening to Mitt Romney say crap over and over again and you will begin to forget he was the biggest job destroyer to ever run for president who made his millions by buying up companies, breaking them into pieces, selling those pieces off and firing all the workers. Once, he even offered to rehire all the employees back at half their current salaries BUT not the pregnant ones or the “old” ones! What a guy, just what this country needs!

Do not forget about Starbucks, Koch industries, Bechtel Construction, The Tribune Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Starbucks all are S-Corporations if they have less than 100 owners they are considered a small business.  The small business tax cuts republicans talk about effect only 3% of small businesses but that 3% make 50% of small business profits.

http://local3ibew.org/?q=node/6218

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/22/959014/-Boehner:-Starbucks-is-a-small-business,-proves-health-reform-is-a-job-killer

re: #1
 I thought she’d nodded off and imagined feather-in-hand ushers with top hats and white gloves at the Obama/Romney debate, tickling the noses of snoozers.

Even with Romney’s line of bs he’ll be a formidable candidate against Obama. I’m guessing the GOP establishment will pick him over Perry.

OK, Mitt, there is NO “Middle Class” any more. It’s the RICH and the NON-RICH. YOU are the RICH.

” Comfortable” is the term I hear used.

“I think it’s a real problem when you have half of Americans — almost half of Americans that are not paying income tax,”  - Right wing talking point.
Damn those sneaky people who have contrived to not make enough money to pay taxes.  They are killing America!

Always quoting Ronnie The Saint…who raised taxes four times while President.

No taxes on those making $250,000 or less?

Does anybody believe that would be remotely feasible?

Who would fund the government?

Romney is about as middle-class as he is honest.  

I am as serious as a massive heart attack.

If he’s middle class, then the rest of us are beggars!  Guess that’s how he wants it!

Dumb shit doesn’t even know what middle class is!

Wow, if he’s middle class, I’m a third world refugee.  How utterly ridiculous.

I don’t care what George “Doofus” Bush says. 

I say the Super Rich, and those who struggle to put food on their family, cannot coexist peacefully. That is not a marriage made in Heaven irrespective of what our childrens is learning in our schools.

Bullshit headline, as usual.  How was he supposed to phrase it?  The 80 to 90 percent of you people?  How about “The 80 to 90 percent of the peons out there that I’m trying to get to vote for me”?

Maybe he should buy his wife a $42,000 bracelent like Michelle O was wearing so he could get some street cred with the downtrodden.

what i get from the video is that the organizers couldn’t even find enough people (from their hand picked participants) to fill all the chairs.

Eleven times in eight years.

Those that are too poor to have to pay taxes were once famously characterized as being “lucky ducks” by William Kristol, Editor of the National Review, in one of his more insensitive moments.

What is really true is that he believes the BS coming out of his mouth. He really does, and he also believes you’ll believe him too.

This type of insanity is contagious, you get it from Fox. Patient zero was a guy named Gobbels many years ago and he infected an entire country with it. That infection spread and hundreds of millions died.

If you work for a living and vote republican, you’re already infected. The first symptom is acting like a damn fool.

Someone needs to engineer a deadly disease that only attacks these lying sacks of siht conservatives.

ha ha. thanks for playing.

Perhaps Bozo Romney doesn’t realize that the people his is targeting for not paying income tax too poor to pay income tax.  Now if he would challenge corporations, who he believes are also people, when they don’t pay any income tax he would have some creditability.

What a putz…………his magic underwear must not have been working when he made this statement.

The phrase “those of us” certainly includes him.

And now, the term “Don’t get too comfortable” comes to mind.

;-)

…or is it Upton Sinclair…

irrespective of what our childrens is learning in our schools.
No offense but I’m not sure you are the one who should be commenting on what our “childrens is” learning in our schools. 

Oh the “god” of Irony. Is it me or do you to find it ironic…and funny that an asshole named Willard is leading a pack of rat-fucker’s?

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Doesn’t this fool know that it is public knowledge that one of his houses is valued at 12 million? That’s middle class. My a$$.

Romney is Middle-Class just like Halliburton is a Small Business!  (Which it is, BTW)

No evangelical will vote for Romney the Mormon.

The real middle class that vote Republican are the real mystery to me. They’re voting for the very people who will destroy them and I can’t for the life of me understand that. It’s as though they are begging to have what they have left reduced even more. 
If Romney thinks he’s the middle class how does he view the real middle class? I bet he sees them as the ‘poor’ and the poor as ‘illegal aliens’. 
This entire situation we’re in and blaming Obama baffles me. Who do Republican supporters think got into the dept we’re in? When Bush took office we had a surplus. But this fact is lost on all Republicans. They just hate on Democrats with no real reason for that hate. I just hope the Democrats will at some point before it too late (if not already) wake up and pound home the real problem with the US. It’s the demise of the middle class by Republicans who have over the years re-distributed wealth from the middle class to the rich. The poor have just been thrown a bone with very little hope attached and no future. 
The lack of jobs and the rising cost of food is the main reason any countries citizens revolt and we’re not far from this. No one has been jailed or even charged with the financial debacle and I doubt there ever will be.
I hope for the best, but look at the mess we’re in and the lack of any leadership from Republicans who are out to stop Obama at all costs. They’re have said and continue to say they will take the country down rather than to anything that helps Obama even if that help, helps America too. 

The real middle class that vote Republican are the real mystery to me. They’re voting for the very people who will destroy them and I can’t for the life of me understand that. It’s as though they are begging to have what they have left reduced even more. 
If Romney thinks he’s the middle class how does he view the real middle class? I bet he sees them as the ‘poor’ and the poor as ‘illegal aliens’. 
This entire situation we’re in and blaming Obama baffles me. Who do Republican supporters think got into the dept we’re in? When Bush took office we had a surplus. But this fact is lost on all Republicans. They just hate on Democrats with no real reason for that hate. I just hope the Democrats will at some point before it too late (if not already) wake up and pound home the real problem with the US. It’s the demise of the middle class by Republicans who have over the years re-distributed wealth from the middle class to the rich. The poor have just been thrown a bone with very little hope attached and no future. 
The lack of jobs and the rising cost of food is the main reason any countries citizens revolt and we’re not far from this. No one has been jailed or even charged with the financial debacle and I doubt there ever will be.
I hope for the best, but look at the mess we’re in and the lack of any leadership from Republicans who are out to stop Obama at all costs. They’re have said and continue to say they will take the country down rather than to anything that helps Obama even if that help, helps America too. 

“the vision of George H.W. Bush being amazed when he first saw a laser bar code reader at a grocery store”

I saw an interview with GHWBush and he was asked why he lost to Clinton in ’92, and without hesitation he said it was not knowing what a bar-code scanner was!

In that video clip of Bush being shown the bar code scanner, not only is he amazed at the tech – which he had obviously never seen before – he then says, “they should put these in all the stores’ – which they already had!  So he showed the world that he has never, ever set foot inside a grocery store, only his servants do his shopping.

His son, GWBush, was another elitist from Connecticut who had never bought or cooked his own food before.  His Texas ‘ranch’ was hastily put together for him to pretend as if her were a normal person, and not the obscenely wealthy and obnoxious rich-kid from the Connecticut suburbs that he actually was.

wow, 45 hand picked people agree…!

200 grand is poor?…this fucker IS rich!…

You really think so? :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M17RvxsZHc

That makes me sad. I thought us and fish could coexist peacefully on Raw Story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Jcrk6jGfo

Please reconsider.

The average U.S. income is $33,400 a year. Mitt Romney’s net worth is $250 million!!! I’m calling heaping piles of bullshit here!!!!!…………. If Mitt thinks that middle class Americans are millionaires, he is even way more out of touch with reality then I thought. WHAT A DOUCHE!!! 

Romney has set new standards for me. If $265 million is middle class that means I have no friends or even acquaintances in the middle class. In fact I know of thousands of whole cites that have no middle class. We are so much worse off than I thought. We must raise taxes even higher than I thought so that we can upgrade this country to middle class. Being middle class Romney must be with us because he suffers so much.

I’m willing to accept that characterization.

If he’s willing to define the poverty level as having under a million dollars.

Ah Romney, middle class, unemployed, and the only people he can call friends are good ol’ boys, like IBM, Exon-Mobile, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, GE, and many other “people”.

I wonder if the people he laid off during his “acquisition” phase identify with Mittens being unemployed?

Romney also claim he was unemployed…

Only 50% pay taxes?  I’ve heard that several times, but never heard the proof or figures to support it. And even if I give you that…that income tax filers are just 50% of the population, how do they get around payroll taxes taken out of their check?  And don’t try and tell me that the Earned Income Credit hands out several grand to people that haven’t paid in…it’s a credit.  It’s an argument I hear trotted out again and again lately, that those below the poverty line need to kick in some more money in order for the top 3% to start creating jobs for them.  As the House and current corporate culture has shown, give them an inch and they will take a mile… then ask for their inch back.

Romney is only a millionaire. So he is middle class.
The Billionaires are upper class, and the rest are lower class.
Makes perfect sense.

Elizabeth Warren needs to have a lttle talk with Mit. i think she can fix his misconception on who the middle class is and the value that they represent to the economy. Mit has forgotten who buys all the cars, homes and groceries he profits from. We are also the ones who have a retirement account that gets destroyed when he shorts the stocks and manipulates the market through his hedge fund buddies. Mit is a pure wall street parasite.

Actually, he’s in a whole different world than 99.9% of us.  His wealth puts him in that 0.1% of the super elite rich.  I believe he’s worth an estimated 190-250 million?   If this slimy P.O.S. puts his wealth (taking the average of 220 million) in a CD at 1% interest he still earns over 2 million dollars this year which would be 1.85 million left after the capital gains tax (remember, he’s “unemployed” so doesn’t have to pay the regular tax rate as the working “middle class” do.)  Anyone who stood there today who earns under 100k per year and heard him spew that filth who would still vote Republican are the real cause of this disaster we’re spinning into here.

OH stuff it Romney, you have no clue what you are talking about! You and all the other stinking lying Republicans, you know exactly what you are doing! where do you get off calling yoursefl “Middle class” you are no more Middle Class, than I’m Paris Hilton, Get over yourself. Anybody who reads up about you know what you did, outsourced millions of American jobs! You are as greedy as the next greedy Republican!

Wow! a middle class multimillionaire. This is exactly why this man should not receive one vote. Apart from being delusional, he under estimates the intelligence of the American people. Romney believes that he can fool all the people all the time. And this man wants our votes? 

Has anyone asked Mitt how many houses he DOES have?

This is the porblem with Republicans they love to lie to the American people.

Mitt is full of Shitt.
~

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!  These right wing tools actually believe the garbage that is coming out of their mouths.

The stupid, it hurts.

Yeah, he’s part of the middle class, he’s the rectum of the middle class.

Yeah, he’s just like the middle-class teachers and cops who, after ten years, make around $40K a year.  What an asshole and corporate whore putz.

Romney proves the first law of being a Republican. —All Republicans are delusional.

Okay, so he’s certifiably insane.

We just need to say this over and over: “Mitt Romney thinks being worth $250 million dollars is ‘middle class.’ Out of touch and he should stay OUT OF A JOB!”

Sphincter. And Perry’s what crawls up in it, and Santorum’s what’s left after Newtie, Cainie, Frau Bachmann and her closeted hubby, Paul, and the rest of the gang force their way out.

who’s chicken is he trying to choke ?
he was just in a house buying contest with ole senile big guns McCain

If mittens is middle class I’m the queen of England.
This guy is a disgrace with his idiotic talkingpoints.

Romney,here’s a middle finger.

Yah but unfortunately 1/2 of the American people actually believe them. Now that’s sad

Doesn’t everybody own at least four mansions? Maybe nobody told Mitt Romney that. This is important information, people! Mitt needs to know this stuff!

wow…could anyone else actually hear the sound of reality disconnecting from Mitt’s brain? Kind of like unplugging a live mic….(POP-CRACKLE-CLICK!!!)

Male Model Meant to say “I’ve got a great ass…ask Grover!”

I agree, he is middle class – a middle class moron.
Who else could dispose of a fortune comparable to his and declare himself “middle class.”
He may even be a lower class moron.

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we all live in 12 mil houses

if his solution is that anyone making 200K or less shouldn’t pay any taxes, then why be so upset about 48% of people paying no federal taxes (because they are too poor) aren’t they making less then 200K??

Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he was a “middle class”  corporation person.

Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he was a “medieval” person,  with plenty of land to share with the serfs and seeking more wives.

I may not be having any comments this weekend,I’m seriously thinking to spend a few days in my other shack, just to get away from it all.

A more applicable description of the man would be “No Class.”

Typical tone-deaf Republican.  And still working and middle class people will vote for them.

This imbecile attracts idiots, like flies to shit! How on Earth did the USA get in this pickle, a pickle where we don’t get to pick candidates – they are thrust on us!

Fuck this lying sack of shit.

This man will say anything to get elected….he simply has no character at all….dumb-ass Romney as usual……

He would kill himself if he were truly middle class.

Hey Mitt, I’ll sell you my house for $12 million, and then you can create even more jobs fixing it up so it’s worth $12 million. Do we have a deal?

Well, you see, you’re not really rich anymore until you have a billion dollars. I mean, Ted Turner was just complaining he couldn’t afford an airplane because he only has a billion. So technically speaking, Romney IS middle class. It’s just that anyone with less than a hundred million dollars is either working class or poor. And those folks in the ghetto? Oh, they’re just cannon fodder.

Or no clue.

More like Snap, Crackle, Pop, from Ole Rice Krispie brain.

Who stole my other three houses? Give them back!

Maybe that’s what he means by middle class.

You mean you don’t have a crown to go with your four mansions? What, are you poor or something?

This goes way beyond prevaricating. It indicates a total break with reality worthy of a one way ticket to the nut farm.

My point exactly. Wasn’t Ted Turner just complaining he could hardly afford an airplane with only one measly billion?

No, YOU drop them off in the projects. I want a few more years to enjoy my retirement.

Poor guy, unemployed, middle class, had to sell two of his mansions. I guess he’s gonna have to drop out of the race, then, for lack of funds? Please!

You mean the ones who aren’t considering buying a gun at the next gun show and acquainting the idiot with a little hot lead reality?

Mormons get a lifetime of practice in the fine art of kidding themselves.

Rice Prostituties don’t snap crackle and pop-
they just lie on the bottom of the bowl and bang away.

who else is STILL gonna swallow the bugjuice from these lying corporate owned assholes??
Average people oughta laugh this guy right off the stage or wherever else he dares to open his mouth

Oh my…..too much imagery….but a good statement nonetheless!

On second thought…at some point she would become too soggy to remain effective….now that I can really admire!

Thanks for the imagery’-)

Seems the only time these GOP idiots open their mouth IS to lie…or to stick a dick in it.

Yep, they’re staunchly middle-class and hetero.  Er, well…

Then let’s make him truly believe it to be so.  Silver lining and all that…

I tried asking Grover, but it turned out I had to hold Mitch’s mouth open and yell down his throat ‘cuz Grove was so far up his ass.

If Romney is middle, then I’m low class. Very, very low class. I had been feeling OK before then.

WHAT a DOUCHE!

Middle Americans pay capital gains?

If he’s middle class, that means Some-merica is made up of 90% working poor.

Yes, let’s do it”-)

Sure he is seems like he eats off of real silver ware while the rest of working or should say the ones who have jobs eat of rustey and spotted silver ware. Why cant a republican ever tell the truth always back to bibal times.They are not part of america, they hate and distrust working americans when are they going to learn we know there lieing and never belive anyone of them, unless your stupid or young.They have one God and it,s called money and power, there the ones blocking any laws to coreate jobs, they love when we all suffer.Do you think the koch bros or walmart care about us, wake up from your dream.

You’d have to get into a way-back machine to hear that…Mittwit hasn’t been connected to reality lo these many years.

I have three houses and a hotel on Ventnor Avenue and I only have $1,063 in the bank.

Wait…we are talking board games, right?

McCain:  AKA Grampa Poopypants.

Kind of long for a mantra, and I’m not achieving a zen-like state…but I’ll keep trying…

What’s sadder still is that it’s the half that breeds the most.  Now THAT is tragic…

Mittens is middle class? And there is an audio of this?

Wow, after last night’s debate he looks like he’ll be the front-runner. It will be so easy to smear him on his own words it will awesomely hilarious!

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Ha! Why doesn’t that surprise me.

Mitt Romney is “MIDDLE CLASS?” Since when is a person, who owns 4 or more houses measuring 5,000 sq.ft. a middle class income earner? We must live in 2 different countries, because anyone who earns that much, has that many houses and that much wealth stored that they can tear down a perfectly good 5,000 sq.ft. house to build a house of 10,000 sq.ft. or more because the other one “just doesn’t have enough bedrooms” is middle class. 
This is despicable and deplorable. 

This is true, when compared to his biggest supporters, Romney really is only middle class!

What kind of water are these Republican candidates drinking? How many millions did Romney just donate to his own campaign? and for awhile tried to keep it anonymous? How many middle class people have so many millions to donate to their own campaigns?  Romney is oblivious to the plight of the middle class and his comment is offensive and disgusting.

Wow, I missed that memo!  Since when are multi-millionaires middle class??

Wow, I missed that memo!!  Since when are multi-millionaires considered middle class???