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RandySF

(58,513 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 03:14 PM Dec 2011

The Romneys show how you can be born rich and still say you "worked for it".

The answer: Skin color. As long as you are white in this country, you can tell everyone how hard working you are, no matter how many advantages you were born with. On the flip side, if you are black, Asian or Latino, everything you worked for can always be explained away with "affirmative action". Matt said as much today by asking Obama to release his grades and dear old dad when he talked about the president's "entitlement society".

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