How silly. He has worked. So he would presumably know about the dignity of work. I guess you are of the opinion that the only people who are allowed to make decisions about welfare and poverty are the impoverished.
He has worked white collar jobs and entirely by choice. He has never had to work, he has never had to worry about bills, he has probably never even bought a used car, he has possibly never even ridden in one. I believe in the dignity of work, by the way, very much. I was with him on day care. I'm down with that whole quote in spirit. I just don't like one of the richest men in the world telling unemployed people, on welfare or otherwise, to get some "dignity" by working. In fact, if he hadn't brought the idea of dignity into it, I wouldn't have flinched. But a person that never had to work doesn't get to talk about the dignity of anything to a person that has and that has struggled to make ends meet, let alone "the dignity of work." I expect veterans or active duty military cringe similarly when they are told what it is to serve one's country in the military by someone who hasn't.
I disagree. If anything, he knows about the dignity of work more than anyone because he had a choice. Since he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he could have easily been a lazy ass and lived off of his inheritance. Instead, he chose to bust his butt, go to school(law degrees are hard), and make more money. If you are going to hate on the man, hate on him for his policies and actions. Hate on him for pandering to everyone in sight. Don't hate on him because you think he can't relate to working class people because he was born rich, because you really don't know. I do know he went to Mormon mission in France, and if it were like other Mormon missions, he didn't have it easy.
Hey don't talk to the Honky Liberal Savior of the World that way. BJ somehow survived the high mortality rates of The High School of Performing Arts, and he knows all too well the struggles of the common man. He has heard about it in Bob Dylan songs - on vinyl.
So what? He's worked white collar jobs by choice so he doesn't understand the dignity associated with work? It seems to me he gets it more than most. He had the opportunity to live his life on someone else's money and chose not to. He has worked his entire life. He went to college. He's been on mission trips. It seems the "dignity of work" is real for him. He wanted the dignity of work for himself and he feels that way for others as well. I don't like Mitt Romney and will not vote for him, but him being rich isn't the reason.
Once again, my problem with him in this instance is not that he is rich. Every major party nominee is rich (not as rich as the last 10 or so combined as Romney is, but still). My problem is with his tin ear, which displays a fairly profound insensitivity to the plight of working people, the working poor and the unemployed poor. To wit: "The dignity of work." - Mitt Romney "I'm unemployed too!" - Mitt Romney "Corporations are people, my friends" - Mitt Romney "I like being able to fire people!" - Mitt Romney And that rich man dud joke about his dad closing a plant in MI (in an attempt to pander to WI audience, introduced as "a humorous story" and followed by laughing through the part about how his dad wasn't too popular in MI after closing those plants! Hahaha!), not to mention the 10K bet. Or the car elevator. Or the private lobbyists he has hired to help him with building permits for expansion to one of his audacious mansions. There are two polling questions of major importance in every election: - Are things heading in the right/wrong direction? (Obama continues to lose this one but is inching up as the economy slowly improves.) - Who better understands the issues/problems of people like you? (Take a guess who is winning here.) GHWB probably lost the election by acting like a UPC scan gun was a new fangled invention and having no idea about the cost of milk, because he had barely ever been grocery shopping for himself. This bothered people that were checking price tags at the grocery store to see what they could afford on a limited budget. They were put off by the idea of electing a guy that had someone else do his shopping and had for many, many years. I'm not anti-rich, though I am against Romney's policy of reducing their taxes even more, in pursuit of this demonstrable lie/fantasy about trickle down economics. What I am against is having an ultra-rich man, one that has no idea what it is to be hungry or cold or to want for anything, lecturing the poor on how better to conduct their lives. p.s. To rockbox, it is precisely because he had a choice that the turn of phrase offends -- for others the choice is work or get your food from a soup line and your bed from a homeless shelter; for him it was, hmm, I'm bored, guess I'll work. And you say he has better claim to speaking of the dignity of working? Please don't act like he ever used his hands when he worked or worked a job that he didn't have fun working. When it comes to Mitt Romney the words "dignity" and "work" don't belong in the same sentence. Unless the sentence is "Can you believe Mitt ****ing Romney is talking about 'the dignity of work?'"
Why don't you crawl out of your hole and provide some personal details of your life so that I can cherry-pick them and slander you similarly. I was a middle-class kid and for a brief while I was the kid of upper-class parents. And I am a white male. I had a leg up, no doubt. Not like Romney, because I have had to work as an adult. But I wasn't choosing between food or having the lights turned off, as so many in our country are today, though I did let it get close to that; my choices when I was slacker poor were between having my food and lights or beer and cigarettes. And often did I live in a dark home and eat nothing but Ramen so that I could have those cigarettes on my minimum wage job. And in my 20s and 30s I often didn't have a car or I had $500 used cars. But that too was a choice, because I could have taken harder work, physical work, unloading trucks or whatever, and I didn't. And I don't pretend I am like those that really are struggling in our country nor that I know what that is like. But you won't catch me talking about "the dignity of work" either, not in the lecturing way Romney did. So WTF exactly does my personal history have to do with it, ye who takes personal swipes at others and hides behind his keyboard in anonymity?
DON'T DO IT HIGHTOP! That's just what Obama wants. You put any personal info out there and he'll find ya and he'll drone ya. Real talk. Keep off the gird, stay as anonymous as possible, we need you here to fight the good fight.
Says the pussie who claims he will go burn down the houses owned by the "rich". How many homes have you burned down, pussie?
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