A Letter to the Romney's

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Romney-

Over the past months I watched your bid for the presidency and I’d like to say a few things. Things that I can’t say directly to you, since I’m one of the 47% and I am therefore clearly not part of concern, but here’s what I have to say.

If you have ever met anyone on government help; such as Disability, Medicaid, Medicare or Welfare, then you would realize that we are not here because we want to struggle. We are here because we need the help. I’m going to tell you something about myself. I am on Disability through Social Security due to severe depression. I know, I’m just a whiner, right? Well, if being a whiner is not being able to drag myself out of bed because I see no point in waking up, or feeling like I’m going to collapse under the indescribable weight that I felt like I was dragging around, then I guess that makes me a whiner. I am on Disability because I was born with a chemical imbalance in my brain. I didn’t choose to have this and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. EVER.

And the vast majority of people who are part of this 47% aren’t there because they want to be there. Everyone would like a nice life that is free from the stress of money worries, but not everyone can do that, and through no fault of their own. Can you honestly look a veteran in the face and tell him he’s just a leech because he doesn’t pay taxes? No, but you sure as hell included him, and all other veteran’s in that group when you made your statement.

So I send you a challenge. Leave behind your wealth for six months and live the way we do. Try to live on what our lazy asses live on. Try to figure out how you’re going to feed yourself and kids with what we’re given. Try to figure out how to pay for hospital bills when you don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare and you can’t afford insurance from companies. Try to live with the decision of whether you buy your child new shoes or pay for daycare so you can continue to work so you can put food on the table. And then maybe then, just maybe then, you can earn some of my respect as a human being back. You have never lived this way, so you don’t understand. And instead of saying that, you cast blame on us and say we are just not going to take responsibility for ourselves. It’s hard to take care of everything else, let alone trying to figure out your ignorance.

Mrs. Romney, I’d like to point this out. You were a stay at home mom, not a housewife because I’m pretty damn sure that you didn’t cook, clean, do laundry and take care of your kids at the same time. If I had to guess, you took care of your kids. And while I acknowledge that that is tough, it’s not on the same level as normal housewives. Now that the election is over, call up Bravo and suggest a show called “Real Housewife of the Top 1%” because that’s the level of housewife you’re on.

And now, after losing the election, you continue to show you have no soul by saying that the only reason President Obama won was because he gave us “gifts” shows me further you have no idea the reason you lost was not due to Obama but was due to you and your inability to connect to the American people you claimed you wanted to represent.

In the end, you two are so out of touch, I can’t imagine why you had any supporters, but I guess that’s one of the mysteries of life. You don’t understand what it’s like to have nothing. You never had to make the choices people have in this world when they’re income is limited.  I happen to be able to work part time so I have a little bit of extra money, but I know there are people out there who can’t, who did nothing but be born with severe disabilities and have to get help from the government because of it. Are they lazy too? If you really want the American people, not the wealthiest of us but all of us, to even look at you like a normal human being again, then I make this simple suggestion. Shut your mouth.

Sincerely,

A Concerned Citizen