“The thing about not having much money is you have to take much more responsibility for your life. You can’t pay people to watch your kids or clean your house or fix your meals. You can’t necessarily afford a car or a washing machine or a home in a good school district. That’s what money buys you: goods and services that make your life easier. That’s what money has bought Romney, too. He’s a guy who sold his dad’s stock to pay for college, who built an elevator to ensure easier access to his multiple cars and who was able to support his wife’s decision to be a stay-at-home mom. That’s great! That’s the dream. The problem is that he doesn’t seem to realize how difficult it is to focus on college when you’re also working full time, how much planning it takes to reliably commute to work without a car, or the agonizing choices faced by families in which both parents work and a child falls ill. The working poor haven’t abdicated responsibility for their lives. They’re drowning in it.” — Ezra Klein (via azspot)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Mitt and Ann Romney wouldn’t last two weeks living ordinary people’s lives. Not when Ann describes the toughest time they’ve had is when they had to sell some stock to allow her to be a stay-at-home mom (serving tuna!!) while Mitt attended Harvard.
What they don’t know, apparently, is that that sounds like a pretty sweet deal to most of us.
Do you really this Mr & Mrs Obama would fare any better living ordinary people’s lives? I actually think both the Romney’s & Obamas would thrive as ordinary people. Your entire diatribe is based on the assumption that inherited wealth or debt is all what makes people succeed or fail which is naive considering the number of people who have succeeded from nothing in this country.
And for the record, what is an “ordinary” person in your world? Someone below the poverty line that spends 25% of their income in alcohol & tobacco but cannot afford school supplies for their children? Generalities are never iron clad but this is such a ridiculous & childish premise that it sounds like something from a middle schooler.
I suggest you read my comment again, this time without all your knee jerk assumptions and generalities being added into what I actually said.
Obama wasn’t born with a golden foot in his mouth. Yes he has lived like the rest of us. What you talkin bout Scotty?
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