Romneys do not take "vacations".

[SoCalDem]

The word "vacation" implies that it's a respite from WORK

noun: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure

Example: "We get two weeks of vacation every summer"

They do not WORK..

Their money comes from decades of bilking other people.

Their "vacations" are just plain ole travel.. first class/private plane , but still just travel.

They roam from mansion to mansion, and of course the occasional Olympics to watch Anne's pet horsie dance,,(who knew that MS treatments included watching expensive horses dance?)

They make money..they do not work
they travel..they do not vacation

Someone who busts their ass working at a job they loathe, kissing asses day in and out, and who manage to scrape together a few bucks to roadtrip it to a Budget 8 somewhere for a few days.. they vacation

[quaker bill]

1. With that sort of wealth

you get to be where ever you want to be and do whatever you like everyday. What is there to take a vacation from? Perhaps the "vacation" in their case is taking time off to "work".

Ann Romney has been quoted as saying that she "never thinks she of herself rich". When you are that wealthy, money is never a question one is required to consider before doing anything. She doesn't have to think about money and how much of it she has any more than I need to think about air to breathe, it is just always there in sufficient quantity.

[SoutherDem]

12. I heard Ann explain how hard it was early in there marriage

to make ends meet they had to sell take money from their inherited wealth (I don't remember her exact words, it may have been stocks, bonds, but it was not what regular people do). They are so clueless even if they are trying to sound like a regular American they come of as arrogant pricks.

As to the MS. I truly feel sorry for her. My sister has MS so I see the effect that disease take on the human body. But my sister doesn't get to watch or even ride a dancing horse as a form of therapy, my sister's therapy is working 40-60 a week in a cracker factory. I am always going to be cautious saying critical things about Ann's MS but I am sorry I really am hard pressed to believe dancing horses is a from of treatment and if it is then Mitt should be writing it off as a medical expense not a business expense. To me this is low, he is using his wife's MS for his political benefit.

[DCKit]

17. They "struiggled", selling stocks to keep afloat.

What's with all you haters?

I'm going out looking for a rich Mormon boy tomorrow. I suggest everyone do the same.

[xxqqqzme]

47. She also said

they had to pay someone to look after the first born while they were in classes. Must have been rough!

[sad sally]

21. Here's the quotes:

Andrew Sabl quotes a 1994 interview with Ann Romney in the Boston Globe wherein she explains the material deprivation she and Mitt undertook in their student days, when both were so poor and jobless they had to support themselves by selling shares of stock that Mitt had been given by his dad:

"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.

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.

Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/04/16/romney_sold_stock_to_pay_for_college.html

[The Doctor.]

24. So they only had a couple hundred-thousand to live on in those years....

Poor babies.

[SoutherDem]

43. Have you noticed every time Mitt and Ann start telling a story of how they are "normal"

they don't know when to stop talking.

[amuse bouche]

46. I'm sorry

I just can't stand her. What a clueless mittwitt

[DallasNE]

32. It Has No Value As A Medical Expense

Because medical expenses are deductible only after they exceed a percentage of you income (7%?). I'm not sure how a hobby qualifies as a business expense either unless he is a horse breeder. Not sure why the IRS does not look into this.

[calimary]

42. Yes, sorry she's ill, but she'll NEVER have to worry that her medical care will bankrupt her family.

They will never lose their home because of it. She'll get the finest care and the most luxurious ease into her final ailing years that money can buy. And yeah, I'm sure her droid husband will continue to use her as a sympathy ploy. She's WAY too smug for me!

[liberalmike27]

18. Yea

I was going to say, their whole life is a vacation. They take "work" breaks.

[CoffeeCat]

22. If Ann Romney doesn't think of

...herself as rich, as others have quoted her as saying, then that is a big red flag. This woman is so frickin out of touch with reality that she has lost the ability to comprehend the real world. I mean, come on--only a person who has grown accustomed to extreme wealth--while NEVER being around the 99 percent would even dare to say that.

I live in a very nice upper middle class suburb. I can assure you that the millionaires who are around here understand that they are wealthy. You'll also find them inside of an APPLEBEES or shopping at Target every once in a while too. I bet Ann Romney wouldn't dare step foot in either of those places, nor are they ever on her radar. She was seen wearing a $1,000 t-shirt during a Fix News interview. I'm sure she didn't think twice about buying it. That's the kind if rich the Romneys are.

She doesn't think of themselves as rich, because she never, ever has to think about money or the cost of anything. Whatever she wants, she gets and she doesn't have to think about how it will impact the family budget.

They are in the top .10 percent-- and that is no exaggeration. I don't begrudge anyone who is rich. However, when you are so oblivious and out of touch with reality--especially during a severe and prolonged recession--your family does not belong in the White House.

If the Romneys had made their hundreds of millions developing life-saving medicines--that's one thing. These yahoos pilfered the corporate world, fired untold Americans to "cut costs" and outsourced to increase profits. They are raiders and pirates.

Ann Romney=Lovey Howell

[DallasNE]

33. What, You Missed The Interview

Where Ann Romney claimed that it is "our turn" to occupy the Whitehouse. To her it is nothing more than an entitlement where you simply wait for "our turn". Now that is hubris on a massive scale.

[calimary]

41. Yep. World's Biggest Entitlement Program: the GOP's presumption that THEY ALONE are entitled to rule

That the White House, for one, is rightfully theirs. Just because. And the Senate AND the House of Reps as well. By some Cosmic Divine Decree.

[rfranklin]

2. My sister in law has MS...where's her pony?

Medication alone is $50,000 per year.

[dionysus]

27. weed has many benefits and beneficial uses for people suffering from a host of diseases

but it's not a magic cure-all for MS or any other disease.

[Riley18]

3. As a teacher with so much unpaid time

off (64 week days without pay), I mostly try to get summer school in order to make it to the end of August. Most teachers I know are in a similar situation. The only travel I can afford is to read about it in a library book. Oh, and Rick Scott now takes 3% of our pay supposedly for a pension which I will believe if I ever see it.

These people have too much of our money, and too much time on their hands in order to plan for our demise.

[NJCher]

11. second that

Another teacher gasping to the Sept. 15 pay day.


Cher

[Riley18]

53. Wish we could do a poll of some kind.

There is this myth that teachers are able to spend so much free time traveling and enjoying life. The majority of teachers I know are struggling to get through two months without pay every year.

[Ship of Fools]

4. Mitt said something to the effect of "mandatory vacation."

Sounds like those European socialist bastards, you know. Some
of 'em "mandate" vacations for their labor force. It's an insult,
I tell ya!

[arthritisR_US]

5. It used to be that no matter ones wealth the

one thing they couldn't buy their way into was the WH. Citizen's United may have changed that, time will tell. I hope like hell the universe is listening and flushes them and their money down the crapper!

[xtraxritical]

51. Tell that to ol Joe Kennedy.

[HelenWheels]

6. Romney's entire life is a vacation. nt.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. For a bit of R & R, Monsieur and Madame Rmoney need only retire

to one of their myriad residences where they find momentary respite, far from the unwashed, maddening crowds, ensconced in their well-upholstered, well-appointed quiet rooms.

There, every desire they might express is catered to by fawning minions of legal and/or illegal, badly paid minority persons of color.

[Ilsa]

8. If he wins (gasp) he'll compete with Dumbya

for amount of time away from WH doing nothing.

[99Forever]

9. And we let this go on.

Anyone pissed off yet?

[frazzled]

10. It's not a vacation ....

because they're staying in their own compound. You see, if you have five fabulous houses, with their own lakes, etc., you don't need to go to Martha's Vineyard or Hawaii and rent something--which would make it a vacation.

[LibertyLover]

52. So true -

back in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (and the British royal family today), royalty and nobility who had several palaces, castles, manors and/or houses would periodically move from one to another so that the one they had just been living in could be cleaned, fumigated and aired out. That's what I picture Mitt and his clan doing - moving from one residence to another through the year so that the one they just left can be freshened, painted, renovated and aired out. The other mental image that Mitt and his clan's peregrinations evoke in me is that of one of Elizabeth I's Royal Progresses. Good Queen Bess would sometimes spend much of the summer and fall visiting her nobles so that she could get the "lay of the land" so to speak. Noble families dreaded news that the queen was coming much like they did the plague - it cost a whole lot of money to house, feed and entertain Liz and her court, because of course it wasn't just the queen, a maid and a guard or two. Oh no, it was the whole freakin' court and their servants, as well as the queen and her household that arrived on your portcullis step looking to stay a week or so. It effectively bankrupt many noble families, who consequently had no money to support, oh, say by way of example, an uprising against Liz' rule.

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Meh...If I had that wealth I would take vacations all over the world

to the most difficult places to get to... (Ant)Arctic expeditions, journies throughout Siberia and forgotten areas of Central Asia, Africa Africa Africa, Amazon treks, India all over. The vacations would be very grueling quite often, but unforgettable!

[Paka]

35. You can do that even without gobs of money.

Antarctica I didn't make, but I did manage to do the rest on a meager budget. It took many years all told and a lot of intricate planning and on the cheap it can be grueling, but always unforgettable.

[Lucky Luciano]

38. I duuno. South Africa/Lesotho/ Namibia ran me $12K over 17 days

between airfare NYC/joburg/cape town/Windhoek/joburg/NYC, truck rentals for my solo trip/ londolozi game reserve for four days which was high luxury, but outside of that my accommodations were quite average, but certainly not hostel level.

If I want to do that kind of traveling 6 months a year and have plenty for retirement while raising my newborn son, I better make some coin really fuckin quick - long way to go.

[Paka]

54. It's been about five years since I was in Africa.

The shorter the length of time spent, the more it costs in the overall. The last time I was there I spent 2 months and it was almost $2k. Two years before that I spent 10 months on $5k. Hostels, by the way, particularly in South Africa, are great and make a huge difference budget wise. I have a number of cheap hotel horror stories to tell, but imho it is rare to have a bad hostel experience.

[Javaman]

16. They don't need to take vacations...

their lives are a constant vacation.

[freshwest]

19. +1.000. Well stated. Is that the kind of morality that should make our choices...

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. Or, the very rich like to say they "summer"

Like, "we 'summer' in Maine." Using "summer" as a verb is very annoying.

[dionysus]

28. and "winter" in the tropics of course...

[eridani]

50. It's the fault of our language being a positional language

No word is ever inherently a noun or a verb--that designation depends solely on the word's place in a sentence. "My tire got caught between a couple of roots, so I tacoed the front wheel."

[lunatica]

23. The poor poor Romneys!

They can never take a vacation! Makes me wanna cry.

[marlakay]

25. The pic I saw on skidoo's sure looked

Like vacation, but when you have that kind of bucks you can do what ever you want.

[Initech]

26. How much further proof do we need that Mitt is an out of touch elitist?

He's literally everything that they tried to paint negatively about Kerry in 2004 - yet he's their front runner. It pretty much paints the picture that the rich rule.

[Skittles]

30. CORRECT

Mittens and Ann need to understand we don't hate them because they are rich; we hate them because they are out-of-touch elitist assholes

[Angry Dragon]

29. Willard -- the great American liar and fraud

[Odin2005]

31. If you are in the 1% your whole life is a vacation.

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Has Romney actually worked since his term as governor ended in 2007 or whenever?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. They send their money on vacations - Switzerland, Luxemburg, the Cayman islands

and other destinations unknown. Their money must be tired because it's doing all the work of the household while the Romneys live the lives of the Merovingen "Lazy" Kings.

[ScottLand]

39. Thanks for the definition. Haven't had one in so long, I forgot what the word meant.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. Mitt's money works for him....

That's why he's struck in New Hampshire with his family while his cash is enjoying the summer in The Cayman Islands.

[rosesaylavee]

44. Or as the Dowager Duchess put it from Downton Abbey

"What is a week end?"

[progressivebydesign]

45. Wow. You're right!! Why does Romney even want a JOB?

He has not worked in years. I doubt he's up to it.

[siligut]

48. His job is to be a figure head and fulfill the Mormon prophecy

Karl Rove and his crew will actually be the people working.

[SunSeeker]

49. Exactly. Just like Shrub. nt