Mitt Romney and the Poor People's Safety Net Myth  February 02,
2012 | The Daily Beast |  Link to article  Let's give Mitt
Romney a break. Sure, he was foolish enough to utter the phrase,
"I'm not concerned about the very poor." But the Romney camp's
claim that the snippet was taken out of context are correct.
Except to use Romney's full quote-to give him the benefit of the
doubt-makes the likely GOP nominee sound even more indifferent
and more clueless about the plight of those scraping by at the
very bottom of the economic pyramid.  First, the numbers. Flush
from victory in Florida, Romney told CNN's Soledad O'Brien on
Wednesday morning that he was concerned neither with the very
poor nor the very rich. Instead, he is focused on "middle-income
Americans...the 90 to 95 percent of Americans who right now are
struggling."  Well, hate to break it to you, Mitt, but there's a
whole lot more poor people in America to be "not concerned
about" than that-a lot more. Data released by the U.S. Census
Bureau back in Se