Mitt Romney doesnt care about the poor

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Has Romney ever had to use the "safety net"?

I can see how this has been taken out of context and exploited even though I am not a Republican. Romney meant there is nothing for the middle class, just like there isn't much for people who are only a little bit impaired, people like me. What exist are safety nets for the ones considered the most extreme while everyone else is left to fend for themselves.
I agree with Romney on this. Give people who aren't at the absolute end of the scale some support, too.

I been in the "safety net" of the poor when I was getting 425 a month in disability while going to college ( I cant work and go to school at the same time), my rent was 325 and that was subtisized housing, my utilities took up the remaining 100 dollars and I recieved 120 in food stamps per month. Usually I would be out of food by the middle of the month and my boyfriend or my mom had to drive 2 hours to buy me groceries. If there was something come up like books or art supplies (I was an art, psych major...I wanna be an art therapist) then I would would have to borrow money. Thankfully I had a full scholarship due to high grades, but if I did not have family or a boyfriend willing to travel , then I would have starved. One time I had a leak and ask the appt manager to fix it before I went on vacation, I later discovered that he fixed the day before I came back. However I got stuck with a 150 dollar water bill, and the appt manager moved out and was replaced with another person who denied any responcibility in paying this. I was unable to pay that amount, so they charged me with a penality and before long, my bill was 264 dollars, half of my monthly income. I had to take out a loan to pay for my water bill. I had no room for error in my budget.
I could not run the heater or A/C when in Georgia, it can get up in the 100's in the summer time. They have heating assistance, but I never used it cuz it never gets cold enough for heating assistance. But they dont have A/c assistance, but I needed it because I have a seizure disorder which extreeme heat can trigger seizures, mine are life threatening.
I didn't drive or owned a car. I rode my bike 20 miles round trip to school, perfected the art of balancing a months worth of groceries on the handle bars of a bicycle. My biggest public meltdown was when I was riding back from the store and the clerk did not double bag them and a few bags broke....I was totally overwhelmed as to how I was going to my months worth of food home. I then nutted up and strarting throwing my groceries all along the side of the road in a screaming fit. Luckily a friend happened to see me and pulled over, got my bike and bagless groceries in the car and he drove me home. Of course teasing me half the way...saying I saw some chic on a bike throwing a fit on the side of the road and I knew that had to be you.
If I was not for trying to go to college, I would have worked...it would have been easier, but I cant handle the stress of working and college. It takes me alot longer to study than most people because of learning disabilities and cognitive problems with information retrieval.

If I did not have people in my life that love me, I would have easily fell through the holes in the safety net.

When my mom first dropped me off at college, she bought me food and then bought me 8 jars of peanut butter. I told her Why are you buying me peanut butter, I hate that stuff. She just said, trust me...it will come in handy.
There were a number of times I called mom saying, "Mom, I been eating peanut butter for 4 days, and so is the dog."
I rescued a dog that was beaten and had a badly broken leg. Mom took it to the vet and I had hide it for 4 months while I saved up the money for a 100 dollar pet deposit.
She also told me, I will not deprive you of the oppertunity to be poor. I came from an upper middle class family, and this experience has taught me compassion for those who are poor.

And Mitt thinks people on public assistance have it easy and dont suffer. Without people that loved me...I would have suffered alot.

Jojo

Meh, I've long since learned that the major difference between politicians these days is their rhetoric, so I don't particularly care what they say. Obama might talk a better game than Romney, but I don't know that the two of them would govern all that differently. Obama, after all, said he cared about things like civil liberties, government transparency and drug law reform, while in practice he's been worse than his predecessor on all those things. So again, I'm not reading a whole lot into anything any of these guys say.

Of course not. that is the concern of Jesus.
Not that of the republicans who claim to follow him.

those who say there isn't a dollar's worth of difference between the two parties willingly ignore the glaring fact that repubs NEVER would've been caught dead even thinking out loud about expanding affordable health care access to the working poor, or for eliminating the ridiculous military gay ban, or for taxing the big wheels at the same rate as the rest of us. the dems are gutless but, at least on the devil-or-angel scale, they tip the balance a bit closer to the side of the angels than the dark side party does. the dems were the only ones who pushed hard for these things so i must continue to vote for them. all this said, i would feel better about romney if he didn't cravenly try to hide his signature achievement, expanded health care access for mass. residents.

I just gotta slice and dice this a bit, there's a few things that need annotating here.