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liberal N proud

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Sat May 12, 2012, 07:19 AM May 2012

Romney's hard up niece gets a sprinkler system [View all]

But she now had to live on a much lower income. National Guard salaries aren't as high as they were in his law firm. Now she's in this home and the outside of her is a whole dirt yard. No grass or anything yet, just stones and dirt. And under the neighborhood association where they have this home, you got a year from the time you buy your home till the landscaping’s supposed to be in. Well, she's a little bit concerned cause that time period is coming up. She doesn't have the money to do the landscaping, to pay for it. She's got a little girl that is getting various tutoring classes and speaking therapy. She wonders what's going to happen. She's concerned. One morning, she comes outside and there are her neighbors all picking up the rocks out of her yard, raking the dirt. They put in a sprinkler system. They laid down sod. They even build a swing set for her daughter. This is the America that I love. [Here's where he got teary and paused for a second.]



http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/05/11/mitt-romney-displays-human-emotions


How many people who are living on ow income need a sprinkler system and sod? One more way Romney is out of touch with America.

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wow. talk about out of touch. Pity the poor families of lawyers. cali May 2012 #1
Wow what a coincidence the week Mitt is being pounded with bad news StitchesforSnitches May 2012 #2
how much help does a woman living in a new house who is married cali May 2012 #4
I have a rich Uncle StitchesforSnitches May 2012 #7
yum. cali May 2012 #8
better than sex StitchesforSnitches May 2012 #10
Yardwork is not such a bad thing. /nt yardwork May 2012 #9
If I supply food and beer will you come and do it? N/t StitchesforSnitches May 2012 #11
LOL! Everybody assumes I want beer. Must be the name. yardwork May 2012 #12
You can have wine or Margarita’s if you prefer. StitchesforSnitches May 2012 #13
This doesn't sound like a real story even.... If she's living in a working class glowing May 2012 #3
It was my first thought when I saw the clip on the stupid box. liberal N proud May 2012 #5
the way he tells everything sounds fake. cali May 2012 #6
And if this was really a crisis point (hence his welling up) - why didn't the rich uncle salin May 2012 #14
because the wife of a lawyer in a nice new house cali May 2012 #17
This may be the dumbest story ever told. Alenne May 2012 #15
If only she would have had some wealthy family sufrommich May 2012 #16
Yeah, because no-one anywhere else in the world, mr blur May 2012 #18
Any where else in the world the government wouldn't be in so many wars csziggy May 2012 #19
People coming together to put in a sprinkler system -- yes, that's what America is all about. Brickbat May 2012 #20
Why didn't she borrow $20K from her parents? Itchinjim May 2012 #21
That's what common people are supposed to do liberal N proud May 2012 #22
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