Anyone who's been paying attention to the political noise (and I can understand why most are not) are aware of the Hilary Rosen ("Ann Romney never worked a day in her life") controversy, and the Romney/Republican response--horror of horrors, the Democrats are pillorying "stay-at-home moms." Indeed, as a political gaffe Ann Romney called it a great birthday present. So, now it turns out that only four months ago, in New Hampshire, Romney (Mitt in this case) said the following:
"While I was [Massachusetts] governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. And I wanted to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, well that’s heartless. And I said no, no, I’m willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It will cost the state more, providing that day care. But I want the individuals to have the dignity of work."Now, let's get this straight. Ann Romney doesn't need the dignity of work (a paying job that is), but poor women do, even those with a child as young as 2 years of age. I suppose some (read Republicans) might argue this is not hypocrisy but simply the case that poor women are inferior and should be treated as inferior. According to Ann Romney and one of her sons, she didn't have household help when she was a stay-at-home mom, just some woman that came in a few hours a day to help with the housework--and that's not household help? And, so very sorry, but they can't seem to remember the woman's name. If the Democrats don't play this one out, and out, and out, they are bigger fools even than I had imagined.
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