Originally Posted By TomSawyer I thought my wife and I were living comfortably in the middle class, but according to Mitt Romney in his interview with George Stephanopolous, the middle class are those households making $200,000 to $250,000 per year. I should probably sign up for food stamps since I'm so poor. (According to the Census Bureau at <a href="http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032012/hhinc/toc.htm" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/hhes/www.../toc.htm</a>, households with an income of more than $186,000 a year are in the top 5% of earners.) So commiserate with me, my fellow poor people.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Some years ago, during one of the NFL strikes, John Elway was being interviewed by a sports journalist from one of the local Denver newspapers. To make a long story short, the journalist asked Elway how much Big John thought his journalist salary was. Elway overestimated it by a factor of above 3X. I have personally experienced incidents like this one, where "rich people" guess that I make 300K or more. They live in their own world.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan This is reminiscent of when George HW Bush was shown at a grocery store and being amazed at the scanner. This guy is a walking gaffe machine.
Originally Posted By andyll Wow... all these years I thought I was upper middle class and now I find out I'm in poverty just like 'those' people. I'll bet it was just a typo. I bet what Romney meant to say was that if you don't make at least 200,000 you are A Lower Class person.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I guess if you're going to go down in flames, might as well go down in flames. I haven't see a performance this bad since Jay Cutler in last nights game.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck By Romney's logic, anyone making less than 200K per year is a loser, who just did not try hard enough.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I just want to know if he truly would consider someone making less than $200K a year, poor? That would be nuts! It would be a neat experiment to have him live on MY salary and see what he thought...
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Maybe he means in Beverly Hills, because the rest of the country isn't making that on average. He's totally out of touch with reality.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer When he was talking about his income in recent years he said that he hadn't made very much money in speaking fees. Not very much money in his reckoning was $362,000.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'll make you a 10 thousand dollar bet that that actually doesn't seem like a lot of money to him.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Honesty, Mitt is about as in touch with the average person as Thurston Howell III. At least Thurston was marooned on an island, so he has a better excuse.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I like that folks are trying to say Obama said the same thing but the headlines are geared at Romney. Key words; Obama - up to Romney - between As in up to $250k verses between $200k - $250k Aye yi yi!
Originally Posted By 182 So no one looked up the quote ?????? Really your just going to take Toms word that is what Romney said ????
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/full-transcript-george-stephanopoulos-and-mitt-romney/" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...-romney/</a> GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Is $100,000 middle income? MITT ROMNEY: No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less. So number one, don’t reduce– or excuse me, don’t raise taxes on middle-income people, lower them. Number two, don’t reduce the share of taxes paid by the wealthiest. The top 5% will still pay the same share of taxes they pay today. That’s principle one, principle two. Principle three is create incentives for growth, make it easier for businesses to start and to add jobs. And finally, simplify the code, make it easier for people to pay their taxes than the way they have to now.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "My name is Mitt Romney, and I'm so out of touch I approve this message."
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<So no one looked up the quote ??????<< Not hard to do, Donny. It's all over the place. Was Romney born with his foot in his mouth? I can't wait to hear his next whopper.
