Newt Gingrich to Mitt Romney: ‘Founding Fathers Meant the Very Poor’

I can see the Ad already. Haaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

All of these people can’t understand being poor because they were never ever poor in their adult lives.

Still want to vote for Mitt’s Crap??????

True but still not impressed. Romney instituted Romneycare in MA. How can you be against Obamacare when you did the same thing in MA?!!!!!

Vote Newt Gingrich!

Newt’s as bad as MSM using “not concerned about the very poor.” out of context. We don’t need another person who will not be honest or take responsibility.

And who had the lowest donations to charities………

Niether one of these people care about the poor or the middle class when it comes to economics, they will pander to any poor voter with religion, hate, homo-phobia, fear, or lies; but their record shows the reason they want to be in power to destroy the middle class and make the rich, richer. They should be embarrest.

What needs to be understood is that the very poor, and the once who are living paycheck to paycheck have increased in this country to well over 60% (jees, almost 50% of our citizens can’t pay taxes annually, which is why Bachmann was stating that they would have to pay some tax as well!) . I have no idea what Romney was talking about when he though 90, 95% of Americans are middle class.

Unfortunately, these fellows have no understanding of what it means to be poor. They may have good intentions but until they embark on a soul seeking mission to really help people in need, they do not have my vote.

Unfortunately, these men have no idea what it’s like to be poor. They can debate. The real debate is, how do we educate? How do we feed our hungry? How do we house the homeless? How do we keep our children safe? How do we maintain health care, social security, basic human needs? None of these topics have been addressed by either party. Why is it so hard for a candidate to just get down to the nitty gritty and actually speak to the every day person?

“I meant to do that…”

-Pee Wee Herman

“Gingrich said he intends to reach out to all people.”

Oh, yeah. I’m sure he’ll help out all pro-choice people who need it.

Actually our founding fathers NEVeR EVER Intended for the government to bail out the poor. They meant for our government to be limited and just stay out of peoples way as much as possible so they could EARN their own wealth. A concept many of supposed poor don’t understand as they cry poverty and wait for a government check. Our puritan influenced founders felt that man/woman had to accomplish something/several somethings daily in order to be a good person. They would have expected and allowed the lazy to starve to death. A concept lost on todays socieity and apparently media.

Brave Brick wrote: “I actually agree with Romney on this. Help the middle class and you the most for bringing up the poor! When we have a strong and viable middle class America is at it’s strongest!” +++++ I agree with you and with what Romney says. But, as happens so often, it doesn’t match his actual program. While he pays 13.9% taxes on part of his income, legally hiding much of it through Cayman Islands corporations, his program would greatly reduce taxes to the wealthy even more while raising taxes up to 60% on working people.

Since when does Gingrich care about the very poor? He certainly didn’t care when thousands lost their homes to foreclosure. He was too busy getting paid a lot of money by Fannie Mae.

The job of the government isn’t to bail out the poor, however, many people are very poor, losing their homes and worse because they can’t afford hundreds of dollars a month for health insurance. Most civilized countries have affordable health care for their citizens. In America, our health care is super high, so sick people walk around sick, which in turn infects healthy Americans… then when they MUST go to the doctor, they go to emergency rooms to get care which taxpayers pay for. This is insanity. Across the board, we need AFFORDABLE health care for everyone. That keeps the hospitals with lower costs and spreads out that basic right to everyone. That’s what civilized countries do for their citizens, veterans, and taxpayers!

I am still waiting for a candidate to make a campaign promise to END poverty. Mitt states he feels that there are enough programs to help the very poor. Those programs don’t do anything to help them get OUT of poverty. Couldn’t we tax the rich one percent more and put that directly into programs that help them to a new life? Education, job training, child care during all of this? Then the VERY poor would eventually pay that back by being a taxpayer. Is this a dumb idea? Is it better for the 1% if 15 to 20% of Americans are poor?

And by ‘reach out’, Grinch means:
“Take a shower and get a job.”