Don't hate Romney for being a high-rolling player, hate the game
Lewis DiuguidPeople should ease up on Mitt Romney for his seemingly insensitive comments about not caring about the very poor.
The GOP presidential front runner said this week when speaking with CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien after his win in the Florida primary: “I am not concerned about the very poor because they have a safety net. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich. They’re doing just fine.” He said he was concerned about the eroding middle class. And he should be because it’s always the middle class who revolt — not poor folks.
Romney, who is uber-rich, is doing damage control now. But he shouldn’t be faulted for expressing what many people feel but won’t say.
The country overall has turned away from the very poor as if homeless people and low-income folks were diseased. People running for office fail to speak of the growing amount of poverty in this country.
The social safety net has been under attack since Ronald Reagan first occupied the White House, and the Oval Office’s current occupant isn’t giving voice to people who are suffering from living in poverty either.
Romney like most others is just a player in the game that favors the wealthy in this country. It’s the game that needs to end.
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Chuck Close
3 months, 1 week agoI just checked, Lewis. There are 192 undisputed sovereign nations in the world with another 13 with disputed sovereignty.
There is not a single one of those nations in which wealth is not an advantage. NOT ONE.
The game of life favors the wealthy everywhere….in each and every country. The defining difference in our country is that opportunities abound for those that lack wealth.
The same cannot be said for well over 2/3 of the other sovereign nations on the planet.
Nice try….citing Reagan as the originator of the “attack” on the social safety net. That’s a crock and you most certainly know it to be so.
Perhaps your concerns would be best directed to President Obama who last week, in as dumb a lie as he has yet proferred, proudly trumpeted the decline of poverty since he landed in the oval office.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agoGiven that America has spent over $10 TRILLION in the infamous “war on poverty” what we have to show for it is illegimacy rates sky high and dropout rates sky high maybe, just maybe, this great liberal social experiment isn’t working quite so well….
Of course it does provide liberals with high paying jobs to suck off the govt. teat. And it does provide liberals with the opportunity to tell the poor how much they care for them. And it does provide fodder for the endless columns that bemoan the poor. But does this approach really help the poor?
And then we have the big 0 losing jobs in his 3 year reign yet having the audacity to say poverty has declined. And the water-carriers let him say it.