It is not Middle Class Americans Getting Free Stuff From Government It’s Mitt Romney’s Class
Yesterday Mitt Romney visited the NAACP convention being held in my current city, Houston, and decided to stage a reaction from the crowd in order to feed a false narrative to those who want to blame the ills of our nation on those others. He launched an uncivil attack on President Obama in an inappropriate venue. The audience did not take kindly to his forceful disregard for Obamacare and his promise to repeal it. He was summarily booed for 14 seconds. It was the perfect optics he needed to feed a false narrative.
At a fundraiser, primed with the type of reception he was hoping for in Houston, Romney framed the “boos” he received as follows: “Remind them of this, if they want more stuff from the government, tell them to vote for the other guy. More free stuff. But don’t forget nothing is really free.”
Americans know nothing is free. The vast majority of Americans are very hard workers. There is a myth being created about freeloaders. They show a few incidents of those other people freeloading and then project it onto many. The hope is that those hard working Americans would assume the ills that afflict the economy was caused by those “others”, those freeloaders.
The teacher gets up every day and goes to teach our children and adults. They ensure that knowledge moves from generation to generation. The garbage man with the sweat of his/her brow ensures we are not living in accumulating filth. That small restaurant owner feeds us, employs us, and buys products created by other entrepreneurs that create jobs. Engineers take the knowledge given by teachers, professors, and scientists and with that create products of every kind. I could go on and on about real jobs being done by American citizens but I am sure you get the point.
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