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pacalo

(24,854 posts)

2. Never would I have imagined that a presidential candidate would say something as uncaring as that

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 12:28 PM

Feb 2012

while he's struggling just to get his party's nomination. He doesn't get the fact that the number of poor people is the vast majority in this country (including working class), & thanks to outsourcing & economic policies that favor the rich, that number is growing; what gives him the smugness to say so openly that he doesn't have concern for the poor? Why is he not concerned about the number of poor people who will be voting in November?