Retired Marine shares how it feels to be "dismissed 47%"

This retired Marine supports Barack Obama
October 04, 2012
Seacoast online
Sept. 28
To the Editor

I am a retired Marine veteran and I have voted all my life from the time I was age-appropriate. I am one of the dismissed 47 percent of the American people that Mitt Romney refers to as dependent on the government to take care of me.

I have earned my Social Security benefits, and I have contributed my income taxes all my life. I have raised eight grown adult children who now do the same thing, respect their right to vote, give to the needy and share what they have come to know as the American values.
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