Does Ann not realize that "stock" for most people is chicken broth?

[Retrograde]

29. It's all a matter of perspective

We're currently living off investments, just like the Romneys! (although our yearly averages don't even put us in their "middle class" bracket, it's enough to be comfortable). But we both attribute that to a lot of good luck along the way. We both put ourselves through college with a combination of scholarships, loans and jobs: we had about $100 between us when we graduated. But we were lucky enough to get jobs that paid well enough that we could put aside money for savings and investments - not something everybody can do.

Somehow I never felt as deprived or struggling or living on the edge as Ann Romney seems to have: maybe it was because I had the psychological safety net of (what seemed to me) a good job with a decent boss (it started at minimum wage, but the boss gave his student employees a $0.05 an hour raise every term. The paychecks would occasionally bounce but he always made good.)