My tax money paid for the playing field that he made his money off. My great-grandparent's, grandparent's and parent's tax payments paid for the ability for his labor-friendly father to rise through the government employee/consultant ranks from the mid-1920's on to be able to step across into the corporate world and become both head of a major auto company and Governor of Michigan, giving him, Mr. Mittens, if not direct wealth to "start his own business", but network for him to easily step into from "third base".
Mr. Mittens didn't emerge from nothing, from grandparents using the GI bill to leverage themselves into respectable middle class. Mr. Mittens emerged from an environment that had already gave him a significant hand-out by which to "create" success from. If he hadn't used his father's friends and influence to get higher level of education and jobs (private prep schools to get him into Harvard, "stock" so that he didn't have to take out student loans to live, ability to be the CFO of Marriott by the time he was in his late 30's - developing illegal tax-write-off schemes, allowed to create a subsidiary of a major investment house), chances are, he would have been a branch or maybe a division manager of BofA or a minor functionary in an investment firm that would be "struggling" to be making "middle class" wages of $250K a year - or some jack state house politician that used his religion to glad-hand his way into the state legislature.
And I know that if he had his way, I'd be one of the 47% - just like the people Bain justified laying off or terminating when they took over a company. All we are is numbers on a ledger-book, because we aren't members of his exclusive clubs, or have enough wealth to make it worth his while to notice us.
Haele
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