Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm not concerned about the very poor, and neither are most Americans.  They give money to charities, in the hope that it helps the few who have encountered tragedy in their lives.  The rest?  Largely responsible for their own situation.

Americans are for lifting up the deserving and helping those who face difficulties.  People who suck at life?  They can drown.

You just switched in my view from the category "average poster I disagree with on issues" to "disgusting individual".

[Antonio the Sixth]

I think, however, that the true dupes are those who struggle to succeed, yet all they realize from their attempts serves as the basis for "progressive taxation", "civil society", "social justice", and other drek, for which they willingly vote themselves and race toward a constructive poverty.  I won't begrudge them that, but no salute, as I'm their collateral damage.

Thing is, they owe society precisely for their success, big time.

"I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."

- Margaret Thatcher

This quote is the perfect quintessence of human stupidity.