Paid Medicare and Social Security Taxes Since Age 15

Started work as a busboy 39 years ago and paid Social Security and Medicare taxes for every paycheck made since.  

Now on disability for second time in my life after 25 years of work sandwiched in between stints, Paul Ryan calls me a moocher.

Hey, Paul, instead of my taxes going into a lockbox to secure future Social Security benefits, your party spent the money on tax breaks for rich, 2 expensive foreign wars--the 1 in Afghanistan now the longest ever involvement of the United States--and spent ungodly sums on a bloated defense budget and tax breaks for wealthy corporations like Exxon.

Y'all robbed me and now call me a moocher.

Well, go do something anatomically impossible to yourself, asshat!

[Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sincerely believe that people who pay into social insurance for their entire lives and expect to receive the benefit of that compact when eligible are "takers." I wonder if he includes all the zillionaires out there who receive Social Security benefits as "takers," since there is no distinction between those who pay in as rich people and those who pay in as middle class or poor people, after all. Are they takers?]
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/karoli/paul-ryan-wants-moochers-know-hes-got-your-

Romneyhood at Work

Steelworkers Expose the Real Mitt Romney at DNC

Romneyhood: Take from the poor to give to the rich.

[CHARLOTTE — Employees at three companies that went bankrupt after being taken over by Bain Capital spoke at the Democratic convention on Wednesday, accusing Romney’s firm of exploiting workers for profit.

President Obama has spent months attacking Romney’s business career, which the Republican nominee has put at the top of his political resume, using stories from the companies whose laid-off workers were represented onstage.

The most dramatic tale came from Randy Johnson, a former worker at Bain-owned Ampad in the 1990s, who described how the private equity group took over the company, fired its workers, then invited them to reapply for jobs with lower benefits.

“What affected me most was having guys the age I am now come to my desk, and cry; guys who had nothing to fall back on,” Johnson said.

Ampad eventually went bankrupt. But Bain made about $100 million off the deal through management fees and the sale of its stock.]
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/laid-off-workers-at-bain-owned-companies-slam-romney.php?ref=fpb

"Making money without a moral compass"

[CHARLOTTE — Employees at three companies that went bankrupt after being taken over by Bain Capital spoke at the Democratic convention on Wednesday, accusing Romney’s firm of exploiting workers for profit....

The most dramatic tale came from Randy Johnson, a former worker at Bain-owned Ampad in the 1990s, who described how the private equity group took over the company, fired its workers, then invited them to reapply for jobs with lower benefits.

“What affected me most was having guys the age I am now come to my desk, and cry; guys who had nothing to fall back on,” Johnson said.

Ampad eventually went bankrupt. But Bain made about $100 million off the deal through management fees and the sale of its stock.

“I don’t think Mitt Romney is a bad man,” Johnson, a longtime Romney critic across multiple campaigns, told the audience. “I don’t fault him for the fact that some companies win and some companies lose. That’s a fact of life. What I fault him for is making money without a moral compass. I fault him for putting profits before people like me.”

“But that’s just Romney economics,” he said.] emphasis added
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/laid-off-workers-at-bain-owned-companies-slam-romney.php?ref=fpnewsfeed