re: #129 twisty

It’s amazing how many people love to posture like they were poor and climbed out all on their own, but then if you poke a little it turns out they weren’t ever what any reasonable person would call poor and had massive family help. Family connections getting jobs, family money paying for car, for college, for wedding, for house. There’s no shame in taking family help that is generously given. But to then turn around and scorn people who didn’t have help— or worse, had to support parents or siblings themselves instead of the other way around— is disgusting.

I think it’s more hilarious when the rich elite try to talk about themselves as if they worked for every dollar they have. Take Mitt Romney for instance. He liked to talk about how “he made that,” but we all know that it was daddy’s money that got him into the best schools and paid his way through college. He and the wife didn’t have to buy their first house, it was pretty much given to them by his in-laws. His daddy’s name got him into the investment business. And it was his daddy’s name that made that same business trust him with a “small” start-up that was nothing more than an extension of the same company he already worked for. And let’s not fool ourselves, his daddy’s name probably helped him seal more than a few of those early deals.