why didn't they eat there?

It's a lot bigger and more stable than an ironing board.

clueless?

like the Romneys did when they were poor!

and ann didn't know how to clear the table? maybe she didn't know where the kitchen was?

... that the dining table hadn't yet been delivered from Stickley's, so they had to eat on the ironing board.

It was probably a great adventure, like using candles when the power goes out.

Magic underwear. Remember?

I eat off my lap.

LUXURY!

and seem to represent the "Middle Class" woman in suburbia that wishes she could be Ms Romney...
she doesn't need to appeal to those in 'actual' poverty; they usually can't get to the voting booth anyways

...the problem is that not only do the Romneys really not understand what being poor means but that they have obviously not been blessed with EMPATHY for the many that are truly struggling... and the problem with that is that you can't develop a honest solution if you really don't understand the problem

from the article.....

And they don't have a clue about fear.

These people are such a fucking joke.

(Actually, they were actually Mitt's polo ponies, but he was too poor to afford eyes.)

they would be pretty comfortable in the future. Also, most college students were in the same situation both rich and working class so it's not like they were suffering from real hardship. And why can't she just say they ate tuna casseroles something all of us ate? This pasta and tuna, la di da is BS.

Next Mitt is going to claim he was raised a poor black child in the south (pick a state).

I mean, there were rich college students who liked to walk barefoot in warm weather and survived on a Ramen diet, doesn't make them poor or remotely capable of understanding the plight of the poor (or middle class).

Mitt and Ann, whose net worth is roughly $250 million, possibly near a billion (where are the tax returns), seem to believe they're in a competition to see whose tall tale will finally make Americans realize: Oh my, Mitt's one of us.

Convince voters it means they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and that means they can do it too

So we have to keep reminding that Rmoney is son of of a governor and CEO and did not start from scratch.

poverty they endure - not 40+ years ago, but today.

As for Mitt, he received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon 'minister of religion,' and there hasn't been any reason any of his five sons would need to say belong to a local national guard unit or anything dangerous like that.

Nah, eating off an ironing board, now that's "hard."

Generally when you are starting out, you buy a table and iron on it. You don't usually buy an ironing board and eat off of it.

n/t

Ann was too busy doing laundry and ironing and starching hell out of Mitt's shirts to ever be able to get a real paying job. That much is absolutely true.

money to have it repaired or the money to get anoher one and not having any money for doing either!

My parents had a folding card table.

folding card table = dining table/game table/clothes folding table
plywood foot locker = "coffee table"/blanket-linen storage
boards & used bricks = shelving
wooden folding chairs 4 for $10 (we still have 2 of them 42 years later)
swivel bucket chair (with coffee stain..the office dumpstered it & we rescued it)
mattress & box springs bought at a damaged sale for $50..no headboard
Dresser bought at thrift store for $10
we HAD an ironing board and an iron

$20 washer
$15 dryer (AFTER we slogged to a laundromat for 4 years & finally moved)
$20 stove..oven had 2 temps..sort of offish and thermonuclear
$20 refrigerator that froze so often we hung a hairdryer next to it

free couch from his Mom
free 20" Sylvania B&W tv..antenna was coax cable tied to a chain link fence next door

It was the only "counter space" in our efficiency apartment--but the place had a stove and fridge!

Still use the card table 36 years later, but the two chairs disappeared along the way...

It's a fairly cheap item to replace if you can find one for the model oven.

I'm sure that they could have found a table some place.
The rich down on their luck don't know how to live poor properly.

Oh, yeah - they just sold some (emphasis on SOME) of their stock.

I did check on food stamps many years ago when I was having trouble finding a job. One glance at my application and they said we would not qualify because our cars were too new. No way somebody with a stock portfolio gets, or needs, food stamps.

sandwiches? Ops sorry, grilled cheese would be way too low class for them.

that ironing board story is a big steaming load of crap.

We were so broke when we were first married, there were times the dog looked tasty, and we had a table and chairs that we bought secondhand.

I do NOT believe the Romneys EVER ate off an ironing board.

The lies are getting really pathetic.

He was mine from when I was living at home.

He was a great dog, he died soon after, and he never once traveled by car roof.

"the dining table hadn't yet been delivered from Stickley's" yet...

People, who were raised without economic hardship, can be dumb like that about those sort of things. My own parents, who were poor, when I was little made some mistakes like that too. One of my friends with economically diverse family members said that it showed that my parents weren't really "poor" they were middle class people who were down on their luck.

that Mitt had to sell some of his AMC stock.

Gawd that woman is clueless.

Easy to put out of the way if the apartment is small. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I don't believe her story though. I think one or both of the Rmoney's parents would have stepped in and made sure they had basic furniture. I am not sure exactly what rich people think is basic, but surely a table and chairs is part of the basic package.

During my childhood I learned how to use a hammer, handsaw, electric saw, crank drill, power drill, screwdriver and various other tools. I betcha my parents had less money then the Rmoney's did when they got married. Betcha the first place my parents lived was much smaller than what they had as newlyweds. If I remember, it was smaller than my living room.

nothing fancy or complicated. He built some storage cubicles to my specifications when I was in junior high.

Of course, he grew up ACTUALLY poor. Not grindingly poor, but his jack MORMON parents had lost everything but the ranch in the Depression so they had to make do and do without. It makes a person handy when you don't have money to hire hirelings and have to do it yourself or it doesn't get done.

And I'm Betsy Ross! What an ignoramus if she thinks we really believe that crap.