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I'm on the road to perdition.  First, defending Clint Eastwood's insane conversation with a chair, and now Mitt Romney!  He should know that some recipients do not THINK they are entitled to government food and housing and care:  they KNOW they are.  I don't know where he got his statistics: I expect they're skewed.  E.G., low or no-income people are not the only ones who do not pay taxes. If  "The System"  makes benefits available, how many don't take advantage of them?  Millionaires accept Social SECURITY, even though it was intended to help its recipients be able to survive.  Having little or no income is a way to not pay taxes, but so are offshore investment accounts.  Cayman Islands anyone?  The statistics Romney cites may be true, and he is entitled to his opinion, but isn't he the one who derided Biden's foot-in-mouth gaffes. It seems Romney is so invested in his own world of wealth and power and the adulation they command, that he doesn't realize how offensive it is to lump all  lower income people into one underclass, composed of  "have-not" leeches latching on to the "haves", trying to suck away that which should rightfully belong to those who have wealth.  When Romney gave that talk, he was discounting half the population of the country.  What about those prepositions, "of", "by' , and "for" the people.