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Romney sticking to his guns

Romney’s 47% comment, in a nutshell, is that too many Americans are dependent on the government in order to sustain their style of living. They are dependent on government handouts for food and education, and now because of Barack Obama, sweeping health care.

To be fair, Romney was speaking of a fact when he made the 47% remark at a private fundraiser and his good meaning was that too big a government is not a good thing. After all, big government can become an interest group of its own and before you know, everyone will have a large contingent of civil servants who serve nobody but their own interests. In our country, too large a civil servant system will result in a lot of such people serving the people who serve the people, i.e. civil servants serving civil servants.

Anyways, Romney spoke of a fact, but pointing fingers at people, people who are poorer off than he, is not the way to go about garnering votes. People, middle class people (or working class people as a matter of fact) are offended by his 47% remark and I can understand why.

After all, Romney is rich and only pays 14% in taxes. The working class people, who are much poorer off than the Governor of Massachusetts pay a much higher tax rate. To my way of thinking, Romney is more dependent on the government than average Americans. Romney depends on the government to continue with policies that ensures greater riches for rich Americans and lower taxes, and he’s using his and contributor’s money to ensure that such a system of government remains unchanged. In other words, the likes of Romney are much more dependent on the federal government because the stakes are much higher.