News from Morgan Industries: The 47%

Free marketeer par excellence Nwabudike Morgan, leader of the Morganites, never tires of highlighting the links between personal virtue, wealth, and resource consumption. For instance, he asserts in his seminal work, The Ethics of Greed, that

"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."

His acolyte, Mitt Romney, eerily channeled the thoughts of Morgan at a press conference recently, and the comments were recently made public, leading his opponents to screech hysterically about class warfare.

Among Romney's Morganite comments was this insightful aperçu:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for [my opponent] no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for [my opponent] no matter what...

“Our message of low taxes doesn’t connect...so my job is is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the five to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful....”

Morgan would be proud, although he would also lose the election.