MoveOn has the article These Powerful Stories Of Americans Telling Mitt Romney, ‘We’re Voters, Not Victims,’ Will Move You.
Check out these brave people who’ve responded to Mitt Romney’s comment that 47% of Americans think of themselves as “victims” and will never “take responsibility for their lives.” Then go ahead and vote for your favorite response by clicking on the “like” button beneath each video!
There are already too many video clips for me to replicate them all here. Perhaps the following one best exemplifies what we would lose as a country if we just write off the people who are not paying income tax.
As Elizabeth Warren likes to point out, this country became the great country it is by investing in its people, especially its children. If we stop that investment, then we will lose out on the people who would go on to make great contributions to the country after we made the investment.
As capitalists, Republicans should understand the theory of investment. Are they just pretending that they don’t know what an investment is anymore? Or have they gotten so used to getting ahead by cheating others that they don’t think they need to invest anymore? There might be some other possibilities as to why so many of them are blind to what keeps a great country great.