Caught on Tape: Romney Says Half of Americans Are Lazy Free Loaders
Mother Jones has obtained secretly recorded audio of Mitt Romney at a fundraiser earlier this year with other 1 percenters in which he describes half the U.S. electorate as government dependents:
MITT ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.
He also said, “[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
