To my children: what Romney would do

To The 47 Percent: If you want a really bad scare, read this essay by Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz.

To my children: it is no secret what a Romney Administration would do to The 47 Percent. Mitt has already told us.

His Administration would treat us as victims, who are dependent on government, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for us, who believe we are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That those are entitlements and government should give them to us. His Administration would treat us as people who pay no income tax, who can never be convinced that we should take personal responsibility and care for our lives.

And it is not his Administration's job to worry about "those people."

"Those people" are us, The 47 Percent. By 2016, we would be screaming for mercy, the 1 percent would be safe, secure, and sequestered, and the other 52 percent would be looking around, wondering what they got themselves into. If you want to know what it would look like, go back and read newspapers from the winter of 2008-09.

You think this isn't a big election? Couldn't be bigger.