Over the course of my life I have been one of Mitt Romney’s 47 percent – someone who received government help for child care and student loans so I could attend high school and college while raising a child when I was in my teens.
As the presidential debates draw closer, the striking differences between the economic policies of President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney become even clearer.
Perhaps nothing brought that into the public consciousness more than Romney’s crack about the 47 percent of the Americans who will vote for Obama because they feel entitled to get government aid or don’t pay federal taxes.