Horsey: Mitt Romney: Friend of the rich and selfish

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The wealthy have it tough enough; don't they deserve a president who won't make them feel bad?


By David Horsey

9:17 a.m. EDT, July 12, 2012

Mitt Romney has a great deal of empathy for people like himself -- rich guys -- and he would serve them well as president. Of course, the wealthy have seldom not been served well by our commander-in-chief. Father and son Bush came from among the affluent, too, while Bill Clinton aspired to join their ranks and has defended Romney-style venture capitalism. Even Barack Obama bailed out Wall Street in 2009.

Yet, of late, rich folks have been getting picked on by protesters and threatened with higher taxes by Democrats. A big majority of Americans think that, given the big bills that have been racked up by congressmen and presidents over the last 12 years, the wealthy need to chip in more to dig everyone out of the hole.

So, maybe they deserve a little sympathy and understanding. It's not easy rolling in green.

Imagine living in a house so big you need to hire a staff to keep it up. Downton Abbey may look attractive, but would you truly want all those minions hovering around, day and night? And what if half of them didn't even speak English? Multiply that by a summer house in Florida and a ski lodge in Aspen, plus the yacht, and that's a lot of people intruding on your privacy.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-horsey-romney-text-20120712,0,1614388.story

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1. That would explain why Rmoney was at all comfortable speaking to the NAACP convention yesterday...

he simply imagined himself at home, in bed, reading the Sunday paper with his servants trooping in and out.