Ann Romney's tale of 'struggling': We 'learned hard lessons' living off our stock portfolio
by Kaili Joy Gray
You're going to need a hanky for this sob story, as told by Ann Romney back in 1994, of just how hard young Mitt and Ann struggled when they were just starting out:
We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.
The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.
Let's interrupt this tale of woe for just a minute to reflect on the value of $96-a-share stock back in 1969, when this great triumph over poverty occurred. Andrew Sabl, who dug up this old Boston Globe interview, did some quick calculations to figure out just how "not easy" it was to live off Mitt's stock portfolio:
Amazing they didn't starve to death, isn't it? How ever did they survive? Please, Ann, tell us more:
We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.
Right after Mitt graduated in 1975, we had our third boy and it was about the time Mitt’s first paycheck came along. So, we were married a long time before we had any income, about five years as struggling students.
So the young Romneys, "living on the edge," refused to get jobs, which some people say parents "need to" do to "have the dignity of work," and also to ensure that they don't raise "indolent and unproductive" children.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083802/-Ann-Romney-s-tale-of-struggling-We-learned-hard-lessons-living-off-our-stock-portfolio-
by Jed Lewison
Mitt Romney, speaking behind closed-doors to high-dollar campaign donors on Sunday in Florida:
"Fox is watched by the true believers," Mr. Romney said. "We need to get the independents and the women."
Poor Mitt. He doesn't understand his problem with the ladies has nothing to do with how he's communicating with them. It's what he's communicating. He just doesn't understand women—that's why he talks about them as if they were foreign creatures who need to be reported on by his wife. He probably thinks that if only he had a friend who owned a network designed for women that he could do well with them. But really what he should be doing is stop trying to pretend that waging war on birth control coverage has anything to do with religious liberty.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083843/-Mitt-Romney-says-he-needs-a-new-plan-on-how-to-get-the-women-
Poor clueless Rmoney.
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Keep talking. You're such a gift.
Tuna! (sob)
No entertaining! (back of hand to forehead)
Cher
The Romneys give clueless a whole new meaning. 
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!”
if I had ever been living off a stock portfolio at any time in my life.
I mean, having to sell it off instead of living off the dividends is pretty rough, but that's what an emergency fund of stock is for.
Seriously, though, congratulations on making it through such a difficult situation--I'm sorry you had to do it. It must have been a very lonely feeling. 
during the college years (huge wail of grief and horror!)
Honestly, what the fuck. I really mean that. I was pissed yesterday reading this nonsense but it makes me even more pissed today. I was scavenging untouched baked potatoes off customer plates from my waitress job to eat dinner, ramen, pb and j... a tuna noodle casserole was completely beyond my budget in those days. Its just really infuriating to see how the 1% really think they're "suffering".
Fox is watched by people who don't care about facts. 
K & R
