On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:46:47 AM UTC-5, Uncarollo2 wrote:

Same goes for the "47%" statement made by presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he would not be leaving out almost half the nation once elected. Everyone pounced on the 47% as if it was
some kind of declaration that he would discard the needs of the poorest of the
nation. In fact, a large proportion of those 47% that pay no federal taxes are
over 65 and tend to vote Republican. He was of course referring primarily to a
strategy of capturing the vote of the remaining 53% in a presidential contest,
rather than what he would do as president.

Romney was simply alluding to the possibility that the US might be in danger of becoming a nation of men, rather than the nation of laws that the Founding Fathers created.