FACT CHECK: Romney on his dad growing up poor

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Mittens' notion of "poor" is probably a bit different from yours and mine.

To me, being poor means you don't have enough money to consistently cover your basic living expenses. You can't pay all your bills on time (or at all); you might have to skip meals sometimes if you can't afford the ingredients for Sean Hannity's rice and beans and cheap meat recipe; your car breaks down and you can't fix it; you might have lost your house to foreclosure if you had one, or you're living in a run-down apartment with bugs and leaky plumbing, or maybe you don't even have a permanent place to live.

I suspect Mittens can't even imagine that kind of life. To him, "poor" probably means you have only one home (or, if you have a vacation home it's just a little cabin at the lake); your domestic help is a neighbor kid who mows your lawn for $20; you go on vacation to Yellowstone Park instead of Paris; you don't have a couple of Cadillacs or a car elevator to move them with; your boat is just an aluminum fishing boat with an outboard motor; when you go out to dinner you go to Applebee's instead of Elaine's; and your kids have to get scholarships and student loans to go to the state university.

Oh, the horror.

Actually, I'd bet he can't imagine even that level of "poverty."