Romney: College students should borrow from their parents and start a business

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12. I think he really doesn't

I think he honestly doesn't know that there are people in this country who are living so close to the edge that they can't even manage to save, say, $10 or $20 a month for a rainy-day fund, let alone get five-figure loans from their parents. It's so vastly different from anything he's ever experienced that he would just say those people should work harder, or... well, I don't know what he'd say, because I don't think he'd believe it, except maybe as an intellectual exercise--not as a truth about millions of Americans' lives.

I don't necessarily blame him for that failure of imagination--I can't fully imagine what it'd be like to be a ragpicker on the outskirts of Calcutta, no matter how many books I read or documentaries I watch--but he simply shouldn't run for the presidency of a country where increasing numbers of people are living like that unless he's genuinely concerned about making their lives better. And he certainly isn't.