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In our country. >> i think thats the critical distinction. ill use the word. he didnt, but this is the meaning of his statement. they are not the malingers he made them out to be. the way i expressed it on the radio today is more than 80% of that percent are elderly or working poor who pay payroll taxes. an additional fact is a number of reason why is by virtue of bush tax cuts one of the tradeoffs was to reduce the taxable earnings -- the taxes paid by those low income earners. you can blame th...

44% are elderly americans who get tax credits, 30% are the working poor or those who get tax credits for their children, a little over 5% are students who get credits for school, and guess who else doesnt pay federal income tax? 3,000 high-income earners who brought in more than $2 million but through deductions paid no federal income tax at all. john, those -- thats a very small handful of the american electorate. the irony is not lost, of course. mitt romney doesnt need to care about these peo...

Constitutional rights and principles and guarantees that are provided to indiana. alisyn: now, i mean, of course, mr. abbott, you know the rap from critics of these laws, they say they disenfranchise poor voters. let me read to you a portion of what the judges said in their decision in which they founded as though they agreed with that criticism. they said well a 200 to 250-mile trip to and from a department of safety office would be a heavy burden for any prospective voter, such a journey would...

Whether to speak, assemble, worship, pray, publish, or even refuse intrusions into our homes many of those founders died to pass on that heritage. they had lived under the boot of big government. and what they said was "we can do better." as a kid growing up in a household, my dad never finished high school. i grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. but i was taught that even though there was nothing i could do about what wa...

Negative case that the romney people are making towards him not just obama himself on his record but the man and he is siphoning off many of the benefits to pay for his health care program. he is letting welfare recipients out of their work requirement and disparaging the work ethic of business people. what kwind had a kind of a person would want to do that to let people sit home and collect checks? what kind of politics would skim health been futures from hard-working seniors to fund the workin...

Its not only not new, its not fair, its not right, and the people who pay the price for their new plan are the middle class and the working poor. folks, the middle class is coming back. they have been ravaged. they have been ravaged. but theyre starting to come back. >> joe biden in his shirt sleeves. well do a romney style cost benefit analysis of having paul ryan on the ticket, next. [ maoua afn.ic onte wi c

They talked about what theyre proposing is new. folks, this is only not new, its not fair. its not fair to the middle class and the working poor. and it will not grow the economy or reduce the deficit. ladies and gentlemen, weve seen this movie before. and we know how it ends. a couple of new polls offer a snapshot of the way americans are reacting to romneys choice of paul ryan as running mate. according to an abc news/"washington post" poll, 38% of americans respond favorably. 33% see his se...

im suzanne malveaux and this hour in "cnn newsroom," we are focusing on paul ryan, mitt romneys choice for vice president. i want to get right to it. paul ryan campaigns today as the number two man on the republican ticket and the man with the plan to remake medicare and medicaid and other programs. critics say it is a plan that will make things worse for the poor and the middle-class. we will also tell you about ryans personal story and his personal experience. we will examine key par...

The way they are. we are encouraging the winners. we dont worry too much about the losers in society. the other side, you have a guy trained as a community organizer who cares deeply about people in trouble, who worries about the working poor, that havent gotten a break in their life. it seems to me youre really getting a choice here, not an echo. >> well, i do think, yes, i hear you on that. i think theres going to be this bright choice, but i think ryan has a couple challenges here and i think...

Were not getting anywhere right now. the direction in our polling shows 31%, people think were in the right direction. how does obama defend the direction were in right now against the guy who says, ive got a new direction for you? >> i think he points to the specifics in the plan. and to go back to what we were saying about this a minute ago, im not prematurely elated about this, i think the obama campaign is elated. i think the arguments are out, when they go out and do polling and focus group...