Flip-Flopney once again contradicts himself. Last week he & his wife feigned outrage over Hillary Rosen’s remark about Ann Romney never having worked in the work world. The couple was outraged and immediately glorified Ann’s stay-at-home Mom status. Moms who stay at home are working Moms, and they are to be idolized for their efforts to raise their children. Today – now – Monopoly Mitt changes his tune to say that Moms who need any kind of financial assistance should get to work instead of staying home to raise their children. I also marvel at how he has terminated hundreds of working Moms throughout his tenure at Bain Capital, and then he blames them for not having a job!!! See something out of whack here? I surely do. What is it Flip-Flopney? You can’t have this all ways. What is your real position? Or are you just a merry-go-round where your views change depending who is standing around the perimeter?

What he says is true. I pay 17% taxes while he pays 15% less his deductions. Always thought the people paying the most had the most say? What he says applies only to the rest of us, not him, so he can say anything.

Mrs. Romney did stay home and that is a lot of work ,but don’y you imagines s , so it can be done .he had a lot of servants?I worked and raised 5 children who are all professionals

As you can see from reading some of the comments the point of the Rommey world view has left the building. Any possibility of a rational discussion of so-called welfare has been replaced by distrust and fear of those unfortunate enough to have to depend the social safety net. The stereotype that the average welfare recipient is a black mother with several children is alive and well, however false on face value and a little racist in nature. The program allegedly gives poor mothers a financial incentive to avoid work and have babies. I can’t help but wonder what kind of easy street folks believe exists in such meager surroundings provided by those assistance checks and the Food Stamp Programs? Have they tried to maintain a household under such restraints?

Blacks make up about 12% of the population and receive in round numbers 37% of AFDC payments. Somebody else is getting the majorityof the ‘welfare’ payments. Most are non-African Americans with children. The feminization of poverty is no accident in this country. America has the greatest level of child poverty anywhere in the industrial world. Instead of trying to address the real problem we as country continue to avoid and hide from the issue. It is in a word…Shameful. One factor that could relieve the number of mothers and children on welfare would be greater financial support from the fathers. The figures are fuzzy, but it appears that among the poor about 3/4 of the women who were awarded child support received payments of any kind, and only half received full payment.

Where are the personal responsibility folks when it comes to shamming and forcing deadbeat dads to pay for their own children? Poor women are carrying the burden alone. There is no incentive to bear more children. AFDC families are not much larger than average American families. Nearly all studies have confirmed that welfare programs provides almost no extra incentive to have more children. The greatest problem with the ‘incentive’ theory is that welfare payments are too small to provide any meaningful incentive. They are barely enough to provide food and shelter.

Perhaps someday we can expand the discussion to include the bloated corporate welfare that takes place in America. Tax havens, clever accounting tricks designed to avoid taxes, and questionable corporate subsidies are a far greater threat to our nations health and security than working or non-working moms.

The amount of those intentionally taking advantage of the system in this way is much smaller, and too a much smaller extent then people think. This is grandiose scapegoating, get the topic off of taxes and give an excuse nevermind if you close every single entitlement program the budget will still not be balanced. Sure is it wrong, I agree with you, to the extent advocated. But how big is this issue, is it controversy worthy? Or is it just another way to turn the topic away from Romney’s budget solutions will bankrupt the country at a far more alarming pace. At which time the rich would have already been informed to convert their money

this jerk knows nothing of the real world life of ANYONE , let alone what a normal mother deals with on an hourly basis let him pontifacate on what he does know, RAPEING the american workers by buying , destroying, then selling off american companys, ending the livelyhoods of thousands..this is exactly the kind of trash we DO NOT NEED in the whitehouse, or ANYWHERE IN GOVERNMENT. he will lie, kill or do anything for power.