Rich Man: Poor Women- Ann Romney & Work

                   “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”  John 7:24

                 Romney, by his own use of the words, "work" and "dignity of work" has defined these words as something his own wife did not do.

                 Romney insisted in January,

"I wanted to increase the work requirement," said Romney. "I said, for instance, that even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, 'Well that's heartless.' And I said, 'No, no, I'm willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It'll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work."

                Just not if the individual is his wife.  

                Thus, Romney asserts that women who have children 2 years old MUST, by GOVERNMENT DICTATE, abandon their children to the day care of strangers because they are not “working” IN the home.   [Sounds like the BIG GOVERNMENT Socialism that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are warning about, right?]  Thus, President Romney's decree would "increase the work requirement" because he wants "the individuals to have the dignity of work," rather than lazing and loafing around home with the kids.  In fact, Romney’s family values are so strong that he would rather increase the government deficit by spending more government money to compel women back into the  workforce.

                Just not if that woman is his wife.

                Clearly, he did not want his wife to “have the dignity of work.”   Whatever she was doing at home, by Romney’s definition of “dignity” and “work,” it could not have been that.  And now that a Democrat has merely copied his definition of these words, Mitt Romney, housewife Romney, and virtually the entire Republican spin doctor machine are pretending a moral outrage at their own use of the word “work!”

                By any standard of justice, Romney’s own words have condemned him and highlighted his own Pharisaic attitudes.   It highlights the double standard he would apply to poor women.   Like his casual comment that $360,000 was “not very much money” to him,  It again shows how out-of-touch he is with the average woman, even though he understands privileged women quite well.

                Perhaps Mormon Bishop Romney should restudy St. John.  “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” (John 7:24)  Or Matthew 7:1-2:  “Judge not, that you be not judged.  For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”