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World of Work 2012

The above title is a fact.  It does not mean that Mrs. Romney hasn’t worked hard to raise a family.  But working hard to raise a family can not be compared to experiencing the work-a-day world up close and personal.  In fact, both Mitt Romney and Mrs. Romney are shockingly inexperienced and tone-deaf to the issues that those who live in the work-a-day world discuss at their kitchen tables.

The Wealthy Perceive the World As Fair & Square - Perception Is Their Reality:

Full confession here:  I was raised in a wealthy family.  Nothing approaching the Romney’s or any of the super-rich that define wealth in the 21st century - but fears about financial security were notably absent. My Grandfather was a CEO, my father was a lawyer and we all lived very, very well.

My mother worked and had a career prior to her marriage, she did so in the freelance world and did not have to take every job that came her way.  After she married, she lived a life not unlike Ann Romney’s. And like Ann Romney, she saw the world of business and work as a decent place where people were reasonable and advancement was based on a meritocracy.  During my teen years, our situation gradually changed but  I didn’t have to face the  work-a-day world until I was almost 20. And I confess that I was totally unprepared for how capricious and unfair it could be.  And my late mother, learned vicariously through me, that her vision of the world of work was flawed.  You have to experience it to “get it”.

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Mitt Romney - empty suit with etch a sketch

Thanks to his cadre of talented campaign advisors, Mitt Romney has allowed us to see the man behind the curtain, revealing himself for what he truly is…an empty suit with an etch-a-sketch.  Substance doesn’t matter and words are easily rewritten to  match the sentiments of the constituency of the moment.   The opinions and needs of the electorate certainly don’t matter. Just package your into an attractive, or at least palatable wrapping and the content becomes irrelevant.  ”I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign…its almost like an etch-a-sketch. You can shake it up and start all over.” Sadly, that pretty much sum it up.

In a perverted way, perhaps we owe the Romney campaign a debt of gratitude for being honest enough to tell us the truth.   The needs and priorities  of “we the people” ceased to be of any concern to Washington insiders years ago.  The Romney campaign is simply honest enough to dispense with any pretense.

At the end of the day, the etch-a-sketch with an empty suit is a pathetic metaphor for what our representative government has become.

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