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Apparently Romneying defined as accidentally bragging about your place high up in the economic stratosphere runs in the family.
His wife, Ann Romney, inexplicably talked about her wealth this afternoon during an interview on Fox News. We can be poor in spirit, and I dont even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow, she said.
The couple made $20.9 million last year, making more in a day than an average American makes in a year, and are worth about $250 million overall.
From discussing his NASCAR team-owning friends, to saying he likes firing people, to bragging about Anns two Cadillacs, Mitt also has a problem with accidentally and inappropriately touting his enourmous wealth.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/05/438264/ann-romney-wealthy/
TBF
(32,090 posts)what matters is reality. Reality is that the gap between rich and poor is greater than it has been in nearly a century. Educate yourself please. The littlest yellow square way up in the right hand corner - that is you and your family. You have a few peers, and then everyone else is below. Please think about that, how unfair that is, and what you can personally do to change that. Then we can talk.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
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Or, as Hamilton Nolan at Gawker put it, "'Sure, it's an objectively large sum of money,' they say. 'But it is far smaller after I spend it.'"
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roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)NOT
spin
(17,493 posts)It's good to be a member of the 1% in the United States.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)and I watched that clip thinking that she can afford health insurance and health care even without insurance. It won't break her family economically to get it. She sounded just as out of touch as her husband.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)Good to see the stupid covers both sides of the fence chez Romney.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)Clueless is just too kind a word for these wealthy republican disconnected idiots.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)Raven
(13,899 posts)about this woman that I don't like. Long before this latest statement...something I just don't like.
beac
(9,992 posts)you will still be filthy stinking rich even if 95% of your wealth is "gone."
As for "poor in spirit"... THAT I will agree with you on. Neither you nor your robot husband has an ounce of soul.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Definitely poor in spirit.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Mumble
(201 posts)We both don't consider ourselves wealthy. Her hubby still won't get my vote. Try another one, Ann.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The statement is so shockingly clueless and out of touch with reality, that I'm guessing Ann Romney meant something besides thinking that her family's quarter billion dollar fortune doesn't qualify her as wealthy. The best I can come up with is that she is trying to say that when it comes to class consciousness, she doesn't identify herself as "wealthy," which is yet another luxury the wealthy can afford that the rest of us can't. When contemplating what we can do versus what we'd like to do, money is always a consideration for us hoi polloi.
But if Ann wants a new Cadillac because her blue dress that matches one of her present Cadillacs is getting a little frayed, she just orders up a new one from the dealer. Or she decides she wants to pamper herself with a couple of weeks of R&R in France, she just hops a jet and voilà! Bonjour, Paris! The rest of us have to wait until we've accrued enough vacation time, rearranged our finances, and then we get to spend a good portion of our time wondering if we've spent our money wisely.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)To say "I realize how fortunate we are" or something like that, is understandable. But to say you don't consider yourself wealthy when you're stinkin' rich? That is STUPID and only reinforces the perception that they are totally unaware of how real Americans live, and that it's been a looooong, loooong time since she has lived a normal existence (if ever).