As for the 'dignity' issue, that has long been an issue for those on welfare. The lack of perceived 'dignity' for having to rely upon the government dime. Mitt was not stating that all women who stay at home lack 'dignity'. I know for many liberals there is nothing wrong with living off of welfare, but for many of those on it they would like nothing more than to be provided the opportunity to make their own way. Many on welfare are single parents (mainly single moms) who cannot afford to work because they lack the ability to pay for daycare. It is not because they are lazy, but more because they cannot do both. I think (and could be wrong) that is what Mitt was referring to. That by paying for the daycare, he would provide the ability for those single parents on welfare the opportunity to work and potentially break the cycle.
I know this is not something liberals want to hear though. They prefer to keep a good chunk of the population under government control.
Bull. He said they need to go to gain the "dignity of work". If being a stay at home mom was work, they'd already have the dignity of work. The fact is that very few men consider being a stay at home mom real work. This is what's so funny. I know this. You probably know it, but maybe not, I'm not sure. I have heard more slams against women who stay at home, from their damned husbands, then I have ever heard from any woman, liberal or otherwise. You can make all the claims you want, but he doesn't believe for one second that being a stay at home mom is work.
What he does believe is that wealthy white women are entitled to stay home. That it's one measure of a man whether he can keep her home or not. That poor women do not deserve to be home. That even middle class women do not deserve it.
This is another perfect example of class in this country. It's exactly the same as wealthy people like Donald Trump being considered very smart when they make "strategic" bankruptcies. But the poor are told that they are swine for filing for bankruptcy - deadbeats, losers, morally decrepit.
It's one set of rules for wealthy, and another set for the rest of us.
This is all about class. It's not about the tired mommy wars (oh shoot me now, who gives a shit? if there is anything less interesting to a single woman who has chosen not to have children then listening to that mind-numbingly boring, self-congratulatory back and forth, I don't know of it.). It's not about whether a couple of times in her pampered life Ann actually got shit on her hands from a diaper (I doubt it, but accidents do happen and maids get sick). It's about one set of rules for Mitt Romney, and another set of rules for everyone else.
And that's what they right wants to make certain no one realizes, and it's why the jumped on that idiot Rosen's comments with orgasmic glee. Because it gives them yet another opportunity to fool some poor, stupid, ignorant, hillbilly idiot, knee-deep in piss soaked diapers and hamburger helper that she is just like Ann!
It's laughable.
