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

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31. Ann and Mitt "knew" that their neighbors and their neighborhood were below them

We should admire them for tolerating the humiliation of living among ordinary people all that time.

From a post I made before:

I grew up in a four room house. My parents paid $47 dollars a month on Dad's GI bill mortgage. I thought our neighborhood was LOVELY.

We kept our yard neat and clean. When the city forced us to install a sidewalk, Dad taught his 9 year-old girl how to dig it out, mark it off, pack the sand, and then mix, spread and finish cement. And when it snowed, we kept that neat and clean too. When I wanted to grow some flowers in front of the house, Mom took me to the public park, and we picked a few of the "dead-head" flower heads gone to seed and we planted those. I mowed the lawn. We didn't have air conditioning, but Dad made us a swamp cooler out of an old radiator. We had one 14" black and white TV.

We didn't have any rich-daddy gift of stock to sell off, but you know what? We did NOT, as apparently Mitt and Ann did, feel sorry for ourselves. We did not feel like we were "less than." While we always worked for more, we did not feel like our home, our neighborhood and our neighbors were below us.

Thanks to Presidents Clinton and Obama, at mid-life I found I was able to go back to school and move my family forward.

Forward. Yes, I like that word. Let's keep moving that way.

You go ahead and eat that cake Ann. I'm voting for Obama, and I'm PROUD of it, because he understands that poor people are lovely too. He understands that rising tides lift all boats and when you shore up the foundation, the whole house sits a little taller and most certainly stronger.