Mitt Romney: American Aristocrat

Mother Jones obtained recording of Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser. It's truly revealing. This is what he says to his own people when he thinks no one else is listening. 

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it... These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect.

There are so many things wrong with this, one hardly knows where to start. The 47 percent meme has been popular lately with Republicans. I would wager that at least 25 points of that 47 are families in which the deductions for mortgage and dependents and the child tax credit zeroes out their tax liability. The rest have no income tax liability because they don't make enough. They are the working poor. Don't forget though, that all these people pay over seven and a half cents on every dollar they do earn into social security and medicare. Mitt Romney's social security and medicare liability? Something like 0.00003 cents on every one of his [un]/earned dollars.

Then he goes on to say:

I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their own lives.

How positively condescending and insulting! However, this has always been the go-to justification of the rich for their wealth, everyone else is just too lazy, only they have the proper work ethic.

Mitt is the quintessential aristocrat, along with Lady Ann - at least, our American version of it. For all their professed adherence to our Founding Fathers, it doesn't dawn on them that it was the idea of monarchy, and the aristocratic system that supported it, that the FF's fought against. I've felt for a long time now that our present day Republicans have more in common with the Tories than the Revolutionaries.