Try running over your foot with a forklift.Originally Posted by nuno75
Try running over your foot with a forklift.
So far no good.
I wouldn't be able to generalise to all stay at home mothers. Perhaps you have lost sight of the specific one that is the subject of the thread:
So Romney brings her into the campaign by repeatedly saying she's his expert on women and the economy, and Rosen points out she's a stay at home millionaire mum and therefore doesn't really have any experience relevant to 99% of yankee mums.
That's actually pretty reasonable.
Really, what part of that do y'all disagree with?“His wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” Rosen said on Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” show. “She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we — why we worry about their future.
This appears to be a Talking Points attempt to deflect from the bad PR from the War on Women talking point. Y'all should stop falling for this stuff.
Perhaps you should pay closer attention. I didnt enter this thread until I dod so to respond to jcr's idiotic statement about moms in general. All of my discussions since have been in that vein of discussion.
Actually you entered it to respond to vodo's comment about Romney's wife. You've also been responding to what I have typed, one would presume, regardless of whether you had earlier typed something to jcr. Try reading a) the subject of the thread and b) the post you are responding to.
You win.
Wrong thread.
Then your wife is nothing like the typical stay at home mom. And yet, even with all her activities, it is still vastly different than working a professional job.
JFC, you made me look that up!...
I actually did, too, after my son was born. My then-wife made over twice as much as me, and I was certainly a better cook and housekeeper than she was, she had no domestic skills at all, still doesn't, not to mention I have minor house repair skills. But she was able to arrange practically free daycare using some tax benefit, and I wound up getting a better job, the one I've been promoted from since. But I would have loved to stay with our boy, even do early home schooling with him.
Her current husband is also a stay at home dad who has a part-time home business at immigration law. Win-win for her, I guess.
So back in January Mitt Romney said: Poor women who stay at home to raise their children should be given federal assistance for child care so that they can enter the job market and "have the dignity of work."
Which means being a single stay-at-home parent is only reserved for the well-to-do.
Or, that single parenting isnt considered "dignified" work.
Wondering about the price of day care vs. minimum wage.
Become a Mormon. then have an extra wife to take care of kids. problem solved.
I question the authenticity of that quote. It seems to only appear on left-leaning sites, and never claims the entire statement to be a direct quote, but rather only parts of it, as you did.
The video of him saying it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...bZJT_blog.html
Seems pretty reasonable to me though, he's saying claiming welfare is less dignified than working. Which I think is true. It doesn't really say anything about 'homemakers' who are not claiming welfare.
Nowhere in that video does he say what dudmuck says that he states. Like I said, "dignity of work" is the only actual quote. Dudmuck's implication is that women who CHOOSE to stay at home for the purpose of raising their children should be made to go to work, whereas Romney said is that people on government assistance should have work requirements, whether they have children or not.
The overall idea is supposed to be that Romney is a hypocrite but I'm pretty sure his wife isn't on assistance and has never been on assistance, which is the crux of his entire point.
His quote wasn't particularly inaccurate, he did specify poor people, i.e. those on welfare. The inaccurate part as I said was claiming there's some implied criticism of homemakers who are supported by their husbands, which itself is an inaccurate criticism of what Rosen said. Y'all are as bad as each other.
I agree with Rosen and I just don't think Romney was talking about people who are comparable to his own wife.
And I will probably vote for Obama over Romney. I dislike Romney.
Which one you want to have a beer with is probably the deciding factor, not much to choose from on policy.
Romney doesn't drink. Idiot.
Yeah, I'm sure he'd never flip flop on his beer policy to win a vote.
So that's what the election comes down to, huh? Room temperature tap water or Hennessy?
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