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Mitt Romney's 47 %


Donald Trump says to Mitt Romney, “….do not apologize,” on NBC’s Today Show. 

Mitt Romney dis 47% of the U.S. population

Mitt Romney’s recent remarks are more than just controversial remarks. His remarks hurt the poor, youth, unemployed mothers with no husbands, the economically marginalized, and the struggling so-called 47%. The poor are not freeloaders.  It is this percentage of the population that is hurting the most in the global economic and  racist crisis. It is imperative that the American public understands that the pain that we are feeling as a nation economically is not confined to the U.S. 

It is wonderful that finally the poor have become an issue in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. So much of the focus has been on the middle class and in saving the middle class. Thanks to the Mitt Romney leak the poor have become an issue, and a part of this election’s dialogue.  

As the world’s resources continue to shrink and the economic crisis continues, it is amazing that in 2008 the crisis became a surprise to some of the so-called best thinkers and educated folks of our time.   Has capitalism maxed itself out, and how do we move in a new direction? How do we move the coach potatoes, the materially consumed, the disconnected, and the discontent?  Not only is a New Deal needed, but a New Reality, and a new American, in this moment in American and world history.

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