Ann and Mitt, the college years: “STRUGGLING” so much that they had to sell stock.
Mitt Romney and Ann: the students “struggling” so much that they had to sell stock.
by Andrew Sabl
Mitt Romney is going around saying that he made all his money himself, aside from a loan from his dad to buy his first house.
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“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income.
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We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
“The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.
“Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.
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http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/income-distribution/mitt-romney-and-ann-the-students-struggling-so-much-that-they-had-to-sell-stock/
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Out of touch elitist and should just shut her piehole. She's not helping out her lying husband much.
Oh boo hoo. Had to eat pasta and tuna fish. 
I guess I should have just sold the stock that daddy gave me....oh that's right...no stock....no being raised by daddy...paid for school on student loans and jobs. I don't even begin to think I had it hard, I was just like every single person I knew. I do look back fondly on those years....I always paid my rent and made sure I had beer money....I had my priority straight....maybe that's why I didn't finish school 
The poverty and struggle poor Mitt and Ann had to endure.
“We stayed till Mitt graduated in 1971, and when he was accepted at Harvard Law, we came east. He was also accepted at Harvard Business School as part of a joint program that admits 25 a year, so he was getting degrees from Harvard Law and Business schools at the same time.
“Remember, we’d been paying $62 a month rent, but here, rents were $400, and for a dump. This is when we took the now-famous loan that Mitt talks about from his father and bought a $42,000 home in Belmont, and you know? The mortgage payment was less than rent. Mitt saw that the Boston market was behind Chicago, LA and New York. We stayed there seven years and sold it for $90,000, so we not only stayed for free, we made money. As I said, Mitt’s very bright.
It is just like the pain my wife and I endured when she was going to grad school ... except for the part about having stock to sell and the part about the loan from a parent and buying a house and the part about making a $47,000 profit on the house.
People need to stop picking on the sad couple.
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But we are to pity the Romneys who had to cash in on some of their trust fund.
Keep talking Ann, you are the epitome of the out-of-touch, clueless, rich snob.
Link to student loan data:
http://projectonstudentdebt.org/state_by_state-data.php
Thanks for the laugh 
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Yeah, they were struggling alright.
ohhhhh! my heart just bleeds for your struggling college years. I understand. I had to go into the military for 3 years, 13 months of that service in viet nam. I had, along with the GI bill, to WORK 2 jobs, one in Cambridge at Polaroid, and another at a local television station to get through college. They struggled, my butt! I really hate the not so hidden class differences in this country. The nerve of these two trying to relate to hardworking individuals!!!!
You're helping sink your husband's chances (slim though they were) to ever win the Presidency!
I think it's sweet that they lived in an apartment with carpet remnants and a door for a desk, I really do.
Having said that, OMG, Ann. The vast majority of the citizens of the country your husband would like to be in charge of STILL eat pasta and tuna fish and--here's the key--don't feel sorry for themselves for doing it. To them, it's LIFE. And they can't scrape by by SELLING STOCK.
This is a pic of a counter-protest Mitt organized at Stanford, in support of the draft. What he probably doesn't want us to know is he was exempt from the draft because he was a Mormon missionary.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083002/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstrated-favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html
They school was hard? Fuck you. Try working two or three jobs and going to school full time - because that's what most of us have to deal with. They had to sell some stock that his rich father gave him - the horror!!! 
Totally out of touch.
