Ann Romney: ‘I Don’t Even Consider Myself Wealthy’

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20. I've tried to wrap my brain around this

The statement is so shockingly clueless and out of touch with reality, that I'm guessing Ann Romney meant something besides thinking that her family's quarter billion dollar fortune doesn't qualify her as wealthy. The best I can come up with is that she is trying to say that when it comes to class consciousness, she doesn't identify herself as "wealthy," which is yet another luxury the wealthy can afford that the rest of us can't. When contemplating what we can do versus what we'd like to do, money is always a consideration for us hoi polloi.

But if Ann wants a new Cadillac because her blue dress that matches one of her present Cadillacs is getting a little frayed, she just orders up a new one from the dealer. Or she decides she wants to pamper herself with a couple of weeks of R&R in France, she just hops a jet and voilà! Bonjour, Paris! The rest of us have to wait until we've accrued enough vacation time, rearranged our finances, and then we get to spend a good portion of our time wondering if we've spent our money wisely.