Ann Romney: "Mitt and I have compassion for people who are struggling..."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

MSNBC just showed the clip.

I'd be interested to learn of Ann and Mitt's "struggles." I'm not saying that their lives have been completely absent of ups and downs, but I'd be willing to bet that in the area of money, life's been pretty much struggle-free.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. A love hate relationship

He loves to fire them, she hates feeling bad about it.

[closeupready]

11. lol, post of the day.

[joeybee12]

2. Born into money, made more money by making people struggle...

Bain essentially put thousands out of work.

[snooper2]

3. you have no idea how hard it is to procreate

using this

[Enrique]

4. Ann recalls her own rough times

back when they had to store all their cars at ground level.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Yeah ...

But "compassion" without action to alleviate the struggle is useless.

[SomethingFishy]

6. "Which is why we support the Paul Ryan Budget..

We are going to help those struggling millionaires get more tax breaks so they can be "job creators".

Piss Off Ann.

[butterfly77]

7. Mitt and Ann...

want to make sure there are many more struggling. Her husband has already told us his plans they can't relate to me or my family struggles no way no how..

[MADem]

8. It must have been a helluva struggle manhandling that Irish setter into the crate on the car roof!

[arthritisR_US]

9. Of course they have compassion as long as

the struggling don't expect them to pay their fair share. Lord knows, the only thing that should touch their 100 million is their elevator!

[Fresh_Start]

10. show them the money

you know, like paying taxes instead of hiding assets in off shore bank accounts.
Its easy to say I have compassion when you don't actually live your 'compassion'

[toddwv]

12. And their struggle continues.

They have to struggle to find compassion for the people that Mitt Romney helped put out of work.

A early analysis by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal (who got sneak previews of the 550 pages of tax documents for the Romney family's various trusts and foundations) show that Romney and his wife, Ann, took in zero income from wages, but instead made virtually all their money from dividends, interest, or profits on their various investments.

So know the right-wing is going to push Ann Romney as "every woman" and they'll probably be fairly successful at it.

[blm]

13. Ann continued..."But not for those who are struggling because they work for $9.00 hr at our stores

and have no chance of joining the healthcare programs because we make sure they work just under 37 hrs a week. Those working families can, in the lovely words of that fine man, Dick Cheney....Go fuck yourselves."

"Thankyou, and may God continue to bless us as he damns the rest of you lazy, poor fucks."

[Initech]

14. Funny considering he's the causing most of it.

[blm]

15. yup - take that all you women working 37hrs a week for $9/hr with no healthcare so Ann Romney

can enjoy the huge profits that are being made off keeping your salaries low.

[JHB]

16. But not enough to NOT dismantle the companies they worked for and send the jobs overseas...

...nor to invest in businesses with an eye toward NOT maximizing profit, and ensuring the employees get a bigger cut of what the company makes.

The most efficient "trickling down" is to limit "siphoning up".