It seems Mitt Romney has suffered another slip of the tongue.
This week he told an audience that he was "not concerned" about the very poor because they had a social safety net to rely on. Apparently he meant to emphasize his commitment to making things better for the middle class.
All the same, his infelicitous choice of words was quite telling...and perhaps even calculated. Romney's utterance reflects the long-held bias of American voters against the impoversished. The Puritan belief that the poor somehow deserve their plight because of their moral unworthiness is alive and well, and Romney is simply walking the well-trod path followed by Republican politicians since Reagan. Brace yourselves for more of the usual right-wing drivel of how we should help the less fortunate by cutting the programs that keep them afloat...
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