Michael Collins
These are possibly the most cruel and offensive words by a candidate’s surrogate in any election that I can recall.
“There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites,” she said. Americans can distinguish between those who have produced and paid in through no fault of their own and because of Obama’s horrible polices who cannot get a job or are underemployed. That’s what the campaign is about.“ Mary Matalin September 19, 2012
Who are the 47%?
About half of those folks are basically exempt from federal income taxes because they are low-income and also may have large families, according to the Tax Policy Center, a project of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.
The other half are exempted because of other provisions in the tax code, including seniors who live off Social Security or people who were able to zero out their federal income tax liability with itemized deductions such as charitable donations, or tax code features such as the child tax credit. Life Inc on Today
So when to Mitt and Mary and all the rest of the callous, uninformed elitists apologize?
Never! We are nothing to them. They just need enough of us to swallow their fear tactics of divide and conquer and they’ll implement the final beat down on the citizens of this country.
