Only a man who has never looked up from the pit of poverty could look down his nose with such scorn.

[kpete]

I Know Why The Caged Bird Shrieks
By CHARLES M. BLOW

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Those people? Those miserable peasants scrounging around the castle entrance? Those lay-abouts with mouths open for a spoonful of rich folks’ bounty? Those fate-forsaken unwashed with dirty hands outstretched for help unearned? Those ingrates who bring in a pittance but reap a premium?

Only a man who has never looked up from the pit of poverty could look down his nose with such scorn.



At the event Romney also said:

By the way, both my dad and Ann’s dad did quite well in their life, but when they came to the end of their lives, and, and passed along inheritances to Ann and to me, we both decided to give it all away. So, I had inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have we earned the old-fashioned way, and that’s by hard work.

Can this man truly be so blind as to believe that being the son of an auto executive and governor played no role in his development and access to opportunity? Can he truly believe that having a family with the means to send him to a prestigious boarding school and then on to some of the best colleges in the country had nothing to do with them and everything to do with him? Can he truly be willfully ignorant enough to not acknowledge the huddled masses at the bottom of the hill just because he started his climb half way up?

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MORE:
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/blow-i-know-why-the-caged-bird-shrieks/?ref=opinion

[DisabledAmerican]

1. it's worse in some cases

The system is set up against so many people. I am possibly out of work because a Manager declared I was to needy. The Manager broke the law, but the person who ends up getting hurt is me. The Justice Department takes time when filing a case and as it is right now I have no income, no job, I have to get a wheel chair that I can not afford. I'm hurt yet that Manager is still working looking down at people like me. The system has no safety net for people injured on the job like me.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Only Goya could depict this properly.

[nichomachus]

3. What are you talking about? Romney started with nothing.

His father left him millions of dollars, but he gave it all to the poor and started over with nothing.

I heard it from a woman in the doctor's waiting room Tuesday. She saw it in a special on Fox News. So, it must be true.

[SheilaT]

4. And the stock he sold while in college?

Did he buy that himself while working at a minimum wage job in high school?

[rustydog]

5. You still inherited something you elitist entitled moron

Let me guess, you gave it to the Mormon Church so that you wouldn't have to pay the "DEATH TAX"

You went to private schools led a felony assult on a man you found offensive and you CUT HIS HAIR as your entitled buddies held him down! You allegedly walked a blind teacher into a door just for the laughs...You are not a man by any measure. You are a weasel.

You were born into wealth and, apparently did not listen to the lessons of your father's and grandparent's hardships. You believe America is YOURS and yours alone.

Well buddy, this 47%er says bring it on!

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Shit Mitt won the sperm lottery, else he would be nothing more than

an unctuous used-car salesperson. (No offense to the decent and honest used-car salespeople out there.)