My Republican friends are turning cartwheels

[SheilaT]

4. Almost every single one of us has

a mom who is living mainly on Social Security, or we have a niece or a grandson or know that the child of a good friend is serving overseas in a combat zone. Many of us live on the same street as someone getting by on disability. And most of us interact every single day with the working poor: the server behind the counter of a low-cost restaurant, the greeter or cashier at a big-box store, the janitor who cleans our office. Okay, we probably don't interact that last person, but he or she is important to our work environment.

Even if we ourselves pay income tax, as well as payroll taxes, we all pay sales taxes and property taxes. Yes, even if you rent you pay at least part of your landlord's property tax. You just don't get the credit for it. And so on.

Also, hardly anyone has focused on Mitt complaining that the 47% think they are entitled to health care. Clearly, then, he believes that you only deserve health care if you can afford it.

I'm lucky. I have what I call the Republican Health Care Plan. I'm very healthy. (Actually, I have health care through my job, but I'm still the most amazingly healthy person I know.) And it enrages me that some people think others don't deserve basic health care.