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Bernie Sanders Destroys Mitt Romney for Arrogantly Lecturing the 47 Percent
Sen. Bernie Sanders took down Mitt Romney for arrogantly daring to lecture the 47 percent about things that he knows absolutely nothing about.
Here is the video:
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Ed Schultz asked Sanders if Romney’s characterization was accurate. Sen. Sanders answered,
Well no, it’s not accurate, and here it is coming from a guy born to a millionaire family, who went to elite schools, who believes that the middle class starts at two hundred thousand dollars, who doesn’t reveal his tax returns because he took so many loopholes, and what really galls me is that we got millions of people in this country who come from families like my own. Working class families, people who have worked hard their entire lives, who work fifty sixty hours a week. Now they’re on Medicare, now they’re on Social Security, and they’re being lectured by this millionaire guy that they have got to take personal responsibility and care for their lives, being lectured by him.
And to me Ed, this speaks to an extraordinary arrogance by Romney and his if I may use the term ruling class friends who apparently think that the working people of this country who are struggling to support their families today, some of whom will be on Medicare and Social Security are somehow inferior human beings who need guidance, who aren’t smart enough to take personal responsibility for their lives and care for their lives. What does this tell us about his attitude towards the vast majority of the people? We’re not smart enough? We don’t have enough dignity to want to work? People in this country work harder than the people in any other industrialized country on earth. They don’t need to be lectured by millionaires and billionaires about the work ethic they fill.
Sen. Sanders said that Romney is representing a philosophy that people are too dumb and have to be taught to work, and that if you are rich and powerful you have a right to rule, you get it all. If you are in the middle, working class, or low income we’re going to teach you a lesson.
Bernie Sanders delivered an absolute take down of the philosophy behind Romney’s statements that people are middle class or poor because they are lazy and undeserving. Romney’s philosophy is straight out of the Gilded Age. Romney believes that the government should be owned by, and work for the wealthy. The difference between Romney and other recent Republicans who shared his beliefs is that he is prepared to use the federal government as a weapon against the middle class and the poor.
Sen. Sanders was correct; it is the height of arrogance for Romney to sit atop his mountain of overseas wealth and look down upon people who have to work for a living and lecture them about how they need to be more responsible for their lives. The single parent who has to work two jobs, or the family of four that has to work three or four jobs just to get by has to take more responsibility just to survive than Romney ever has had to.
Mitt Romney has never had a moment of financial insecurity in his entire life, yet he feels qualified to judge the values and work ethic of people who work hard every day of their lives. Mitt Romney is out to punish financial hardship, and Bernie Sanders called him out on it.
Bernie Sanders isn’t just Vermont’s senator. He is also speaking for the majority of Americans who work hard everyday, have firsthand knowledge of financial hardship, and are counting on Social Security and Medicare to be there for them.
Mitt Romney wants to be president of the 1%, while Bernie Sanders has got the backs of the forty seven. Romney may have the cash, but Sanders has the numbers. And it is starting to look like the numbers just may beat the dollars on Election Day.
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47 Responses to Bernie Sanders Destroys Mitt Romney for Arrogantly Lecturing the 47 Percent
Andrew Carvin
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Mitt Romney wants the poor, and struggling to pay money they don’t have to continue giving tax breaks to the rich who don’t need them. What the Republicans want is the complete destruction/subjugation of the non-rich to give everything to the rich (wealth, power, rights, etc). Unemployment will do nothing but increase wherever Republicans have power. I made a video about unemployment, and how we can fix it. It’s at my YouTube channel Zarrakan, and here’s the name:
2012 6 5 ZOC Job Pyramid
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Watch it, share it, and join the fight against those who want to kill all of us with destructive social policies.
Scott
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
He doesn’t want to be president, he wants to be KING!
H King
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
I worried when Ted Kennedy fell ill and died that we would lose a champion for the middle class and the poor. I needn’t have worried. We now have Bernie! Go get ‘em!
Jamie W.
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:47 pm
Yeah, because Ted Kennedy came from a poor working class background – oh, wait.
Romney inherited a pile of money from his dad, who built up a fortune from basically nothing. Mitt gave it all away. Then he built up another fortune from basically nothing. Show me a Kennedy who can say that (other than daddy Joe the bootlegger).
The difference between Mitt and other people: he was successful. To get successful, he worked his butt off. Yes, he DID build that.
jeff ridabock
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:11 pm
he gave it all away. LOL!
Michael
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
Jamie W. what is your point? Ted Kennedy came from a wealthy background like Mitt and worked for the middle class and he was a hypocrite for it? Are you saying it is better that Mitt is a selfish billionaire who sticks it to the middle class, because he worked hard for his money (even if he started out on third base, like Teddy)? Why is OK for someone to be a douchebag to those who are less successful to them? Does their success give them a right to kick those who are less successful in the throat? What is wrong with you? What is your point?
A Walkaway
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:46 pm
You have GOT to be kidding!
Made it? Bain Capital?
If that’s your idea of making a living, you need to be put in prison.
D Specht
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 12:16 am
Jamiw, my husband worked many years, 60 and 70 hour weeks, and we were fine money wise, then the copmpany he worked for wasn’t getting the amount of work they had had, and hours got cut and benefits got cut, and lay offs over the Winter for teh first time in 10 years. Still no benefits 5 yars later, still layoffs over the Winter, and still hard to find another job that will pay him enough to make ends meet. With lesser hours worked during the year, Unemployment isn’t enough to cover the monthly expenses during those months. We have no credit cards, and do not buy more than we need. So, because the company lost revenue, my hard working husband doesn’t deserve to get some help to get us through the rough times? So easy to sit back to cast stones, until you are the person in that situation. Hope you get yours someday!
Jaette
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 12:16 am
Jamie, you are incorrect re. The Kennedys and also regarding Mitt.
Do you know of another family in the US that has served the people as fully as the Kennedy family? NO! How many families have had all of there sons killed or die in office serving their Country. Ted Kennedy worked for the last twenty to Thirty years crafting the health care bill ( most of it is before us today) If I were dying of cancer the last thing I’d have thought of would have been working diligently on the healthcare bill for an ungrateful American like yourself.
Pedal your foolishness about Mitt and how GREAT he is somewhere else. I heard how ‘wonderful’ he thinks the average working stiff is. As far as I’m concerned you, and he can both blow it out your end.
Cha
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 3:14 am
Sorry Jamie, your whole post is ignorant. Get deprogrammed from fox and limbaugh and then come back and we’ll discuss Mitt Romney, “Sneering Plutocrat”.
He was caught on tape. Poor mitt. All his lying about President Obama and pandering the brainwashed isn’t helping him when turns out..he’s his own worst enemy.
Thanks Bernie~ And, Jason!
Dis Gusted
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 9:43 am
wrong – George Romney got $9K from the government to move back to the US – adjusting for inflation, that’s over a million dollars.
>Liam O'Donnell
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 10:00 am
Ted Kennedy came from wealth yes. ted Kennedy was a champion of the middle class yes. Does this make him a hypocrite? How does your mind even connect the dots that way? Ted Kennedy was one of many who, while they do come from wealth, they dont have a repugnant entitlement comples, whereby they think they are better than the rest. Romney is a plutocrat. He seems to think that the ideal is to have a wealthy aristocracy ruling the peasants. It is repugnant, and anyone not in his small circle of friends really should not vote his way, it isnt in their interests. Partisan affiliation should not prevent people from thinking “hey does this guy really represent ME?” Voting for romney is a vote for handing more money over from the hard working middle class, to romney and his buddies to have more throw away income. And frankly they arent the ones suffering. Trickle down or supply side economics doesnt work. The people that benefit from the tax breaks are not people who are known for investing in their own people. They are people who send jobs to mexico, india and china in order to avoid those pesky workers rights laws, and fair pay laws like minimum wages. Is that what the world needs? More jobs in india and a Third world USA?
Nefer
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 11:37 am
No, he didn’t build his fortune. We the citizens did. When he gutted companies, including raiding their pension plans, before throwing the employees out of work, the taxpayers ending up footing the bill for those pension plans.
He has always made sure other people paid the bills while he got the money. Nothing at all is ethical or admirable about his behavior or attitudes.
Barry Roope
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Mitt Gave what away? All his money, and then earned it all over again, is that the fantasy you are trying to sell or that someone has convinced you of. Besides that having nothing to do with the article, it’s not true. If you want to portray Romney as some hero, go for it, but if you enjoy reality, like most people, it’s very easy to see Romney for the crook that he is.
Kimbutgar
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Jaime how much is the Rmoney paying you to come and spew your misrepresentations? The only charity Rmoney cares about is himself. Your comment is laughable at best. You really should go back to your right wing sites and troll there.
Roxamme
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Jamie you are either drinking your own bath water or you are simply a bloviated ignoramous. To further comment on your stupidity would be futile as you seem to understand nothing and have no clue or common sense to even comprehend what this destructive team of Romney and Ryan represent. Get some smarts and do some intelligent research before you spew such nonsense.
Magdalena
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Jamie you show your ignorance with your comment. you’re obviously uneducated and misinformed or brain washed by the Rethuglicans propaganda. Go ahead and he a Robmeney supporter and watch your rights be sucked down the drain. As a woman I would think you’d have some sense of what issues Robmeney stands for. I guess you want to be dominated by men who believe women should be seen but not heard.
janis
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 6:18 am
I take it you know mitt romney on a very personel level is this correct? I didnt think so Oh i get it your just fucking stupid is this correct? i thought so go shove the garbage you talk down that 1 percent of the american public who want to hear it, What was that ,you dont know any. I didnt think so . so try this on for size, shut your mouth and open up those ears girl cuz no doubt you r part of the 47 percent but you r trying to make people think otherwise, is this correct? thats all i have to say to the mouth w no ears
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Kelly Bales
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
yeah yeah way to go bernie
Sally
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
I have said for months that the Kochs and Adelsons have billions, but they still only have one vote each (I’d watch Romeny though, to make sure he only votes from whatever his HOME state is now..and who’s to say he isn;t voting absentee somewhere else??) Meanwhile, Democrats are making calls and getting out the votes of the people who cannot doante or only donate a small amount, but we are an army. And the madder we get, the more people we recruit.
Jon
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
You can’t vote if you’re running for an office -_-
cwsculptor
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Of course you can vote if you are running for office. Where did you get that mistaken idea?
sam
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Of course you can vote if you are running for office. Candidates always vote for themselves.
cwsculptor
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 12:42 am
Does anyone know where Romney is registered to vote? Or where his legal residence is?
Just curious. He has a lot of houses in a lot of places, so which is the “official” one?
65snake
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 10:59 pm
The more I hear from Bernie Sanders, the more I like him. I wish I lived in Vermont so I could vote for him.
Marcellus
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Several points can be drawn from the latest of never ending string of Romneyism: that he is in complete and total removal from the reality that the vast majority Americans just went through for the last few years with the Wall Street fiasco of the Housing Bubble. He obviously has never, and again NEVER, had to confront a month’s end where he would have to choose to either have electricity or heat in his house, because the money coming in from a 80-hour week is not enough to pay both after Uncle Sam got his mandatory share. Finally, with all his millions, he is not even smart enough to hire someone who will give him FACTS that he can use correctly in his pronouncements. One would expect that with the “millions that [he] is spending out of his own pocket to try to become the next president’ he would buy also some commons sense and not open his mouth every chance he has to deliver us his – in the words of the late George Carlin – “verbal diarrhea”.
shanna Druckemiller
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Romney thinks that his rich backers can buy him the election. We have to show him IT WILL NOT!! Stand firm and stand tall against this Elitist!
BeeEss
Sep. 18th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
I am so jealous of Vermonters. If Bernie was my senator, I would work for him for free.
Michael Anthony
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 1:46 am
I find it very revealing when Romney/Ryan can’t win in Wisconsin, Massachusetts or Michigan. #Obamaiswinning
jonathan griffith
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 4:36 am
All I have to say is people like jaime need to wake up and see that that moron romney isn’t on her side unless she is a multimillionaire or billionaire. I think morons like her can use a rude wake up call to get the crap out of their eyes and ears and see that he will do nothing for the working class but make things harder for regular people. He is a total douche and I hope people see him for who and what he really is.
Rho
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 6:46 am
Bernie Sanders, 2016? By the Gods, I hope so!
Theresa
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 9:26 am
With Elizabeth Warren!
Lisa
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Hey, if he runs, I might even vote for him for President in 2016. Too bad I don’t live in Vermont, either…
Wise words. As someone who is disabled by a chronic disease that is causing organ failure, Romney’s words FRIGHTENED me. It insinuates that I am not responsible enough to take care of my own life just because I’m sick too often for an employer to be able to rely on me. My disease has no consistently successful treatment or cure to this date. What am I SUPPOSED to do? It almost insinuates that those of us who can’t should “die and decrease the surplus populations.”
Irene Selak
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 8:48 am
I think Sen Sander’s hit the nail on the head in fewer words. Everything he said about Romney I have known for some time, you can not take a rich person and have them pretend they know how the average person lives.He says middle class earn 200,000 honestly I don’t know anyone who has earned that kind of living. My husband is now gone died from a disease that probly his job as a welder caused and I live off his small pension and widows benefits from SS that my husband earned for his family, When he died I had a 13 yr old son who I had to finish raising and I am proud to say is now in college,age 21 yrs old. I don’t think we are takers at all, no one pays my bills and taxes except me. I do without a great deal to be able to get by each month but I do it and I owe no one anything and am proud to say it, I am sure life will never be easy but it is my life and how dare Romeny come in and say I am part of the 47% problem. If Romney was the only name on the ticket this year I would vote for no one. I beleieve in Obama and I will again vote for him and not because of being part of this 47%.
I am proud to be an American and have the right to vote for my own selection !
Colleen
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 8:51 am
JaimieW where do you get that he worked hard for his money? He inherited it from his father. Get real. Maybe you are one of his 1% millionaire friends. I am a senior citizen who in spite of what he says pays taxes on my social security and struggles every month to make ends meet while having to also pay 20% of what Medicare doesn’t cover for my cancer treatment. Hope you with you smug attitude never get to that point.
ron
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 9:19 am
Shame that Sanders is retiring at end of his term. We need more like him.
Dawn
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 9:29 am
I am loving this..First, this Jamie W. is an immature idiot. BUT my main point – the PRESIDENT doesnt really need to spend much $$ on this campaign…Romney is doing it all for him!
Lynne Gardner
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 10:47 am
Jaime..There are no numbers to describe the level of intelligence you portray. The numbers do not go that low. If you are into the myth that Mitt cares about your success then you are either a silly airhead or….you are very rich.
Sandra
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Scary isn’t it that a man who somehow was denied the ‘human’ gene in his chromosome should think he has the right to lead America. A man who as he admitted to his $50K a place rich donors, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The tragedy is that Romney has never taken the time to interact with or live in the real world of ordinary Americans and see how they get thru life on a daily basis.
He made his fortune loading American companies with debt, closing them down and firing Americans workers and shipping their jobs overseas for even bigger profits of which he received a huge share, then took those millions and stashed in tax havens and over seas accounts to avoid paying his fare share of taxes. Does he not realise he’s and his millionaire/billionaire buddies are part of the 47& who really live off Governemnt largesse compared to the real honest, hardworking Americans who actually pay taxes?
Tim
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 11:29 am
If only we had another 59 Bernie’s in the senate, our country would be unstoppable.
carolyn sumners
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
I did not know, and do not like hearing, that Bernie is retiring at the end of this term. I have admired his backbone and honesty in politics for years!
Jason Easley
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
To my knowledge, Sen. Sanders has not announced a plan to retire after his current term. I’ll get in touch with his office and get an official statement.
Jason Easley
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I just heard back from the office of Sen. Sanders. Michael Briggs told me, “He does not plan to retire. He is on the Nov. 6 ballot in Vermont for a second term in the Senate.”
So rest easy, Bernie isn’t going anywhere.
Scott G
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Jon
You can’t vote if you’re running for an office? What country do you live in. The day after every election the front pages of every newspaper has a picture of the candidates casting their ballot. Did you “learn” that from FOX News?
PKSloan
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
People who have not been a member of the mormon church aren’t seeing this. Romney wants to run the country like the M church. If you look at the wealth among the General Authorities and President of the LDS church it is amazing but kept very secret. The church isn’t required to show their finances to the members and doesn’t. (No Romney tax returns) The church is a billion dollar corporation where 90% of their members volunteer their time and pay back 10% of their outside earned income. The top dogs are treated like royalty. My ex in-laws were serving a mission, both in their late 60′s and were asked to go to St. George and clean the accommodations for the general authorities who would be arriving later. They were scrubbing toilets and felt so privileged to be doing it (the cult mindset) for these amazing men. The billionaire general authorities won’t let church houses hire custodial help, the members clean the church buildings for no pay…but they get “blessings” in the afterlife. Romney wants the government to be run like the church! The so called “humble” members of society serving the “chosen elite”. Delve deeper and you will discover the parallels.
Gary Vaughn
Sep. 19th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
George and Lenore gave Mittens and ANN all those stocks to “get by” on when they first married, they also bought Mitt and Ann’s first house. When Mitt graduated George still “loaned” Mitt money. When Mitt made his own money he gave away the inheritance so he wouldn’t have to pay inheritance and other tax on it. Get the facts Jaime before making an ass of yourself.
forby
Sep. 20th, 2012 at 12:17 am
For starter americans dont work harder than any other industrializes country in the world that just is not true, South Korea does the USA is 13th sorry bernie love ya work but dont tell lies. the koreans work nearly 33% MORE than the USA.
does anybody find it hilarius that mitt Romney is lecturing about taking personal responsibility but wont take personal responsibility for being caught out making these statements. I think the statements about palestine are way more offensive than the ones about the 47% of free loaders, but america is so egocentric they only care about how he feels about americans.