Mitt and Ann struggled through college just like the rest of us! This is the story the libtards on the left don't want you to read.

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by Andrew Sabl

I was living in Massachusetts when Romney first ran for the Senate, and remembered this interview with Ann Romney in the Boston Globe (by Jack Thomas, October 20, 1994; the abstract is here; the full text costs $4.95). Of her student days with Mitt at BYU, Ann said:

“They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income.

“It was tiny. And I didn’t have money to carpet the floor. But you can get remnants, samples, so I glued them together, all different colors. It looked awful, but it was carpeting.

“We were happy, studying hard. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

“The stock came from Mitt’s father. When he took over American Motors, the stock was worth nothing. But he invested Mitt’s birthday money year to year — it wasn’t much, a few thousand, but he put it into American Motors because he believed in himself. Five years later, stock that had been $6 a share was $96 and Mitt cashed it so we could live and pay for education.

“Mitt and I walked to class together, shared housekeeping, had a lot of pasta and tuna fish and learned hard lessons.

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“We had our first child in that tiny apartment. We couldn’t afford a desk, so we used a door propped on sawhorses in our bedroom. It was a big door, so we could study on it together. And we bought a portable crib, took the legs off and put it on the desk while we studied. I had a baby sitter during class time, but otherwise, I’d hold my son on my lap while I studied.

“The funny thing is that I never expected help. My father had become wealthy through hard work, as did Mitt’s father, but I never expected our parents to take care of us. They’d visit, laugh and say, `We can’t believe you guys are living like this.’ They’d take us out to dinner, have a good time, then leave.

“We stayed till Mitt graduated in 1971, and when he was accepted at Harvard Law, we came east. He was also accepted at Harvard Business School as part of a joint program that admits 25 a year, so he was getting degrees from Harvard Law and Business schools at the same time.

“Remember, we’d been paying $62 a month rent, but here, rents were $400, and for a dump. This is when we took the now-famous loan that Mitt talks about from his father and bought a $42,000 home in Belmont, and you know? The mortgage payment was less than rent. Mitt saw that the Boston market was behind Chicago, LA and New York. We stayed there seven years and sold it for $90,000, so we not only stayed for free, we made money. As I said, Mitt’s very bright.

“Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

“Right after Mitt graduated in 1975, we had our third boy and it was about the time Mitt’s first paycheck came along. So, we were married a long time before we had any income, about five years as struggling students. …

“Now, every once in a while, we say if things get rough, we can go back to a $62-a-month apartment and be happy. All we need is each other and a little corner and we’ll be fine.”

http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/income-distribution/mitt-romney-and-ann-the-students-struggling-so-much-that-they-had-to-sell-stock/

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

I think people on the left would love to read this article. I like how you cherry picked what to post in your quote. I think the point of the whole article is that the Romney's did not struggle during their college years.

[Dan J 277]

If you read the entire article, you will see that they had assets taking into account inflation of $375,000 dollars. They may have chosen to be very frugal with their spending, but that is not just "scraping by". Most people in that situation does not have the choice to be frugal, they have to be frugal.

Not only that, alot of costs now days have outstripped inflation. $62 per month rent would be $350 today. A quick check of rents in Provo, UT today show that they start around $600 per month. Collage tuition has increased faster than the rate of inflation, in many cases 2 to 3 times as much.

Romney should just stop trying to pretend he is someone he is not.

[Leatherneck 693]

So Romney is wealthy - he ought to be damn proud if it. There was a time in this country when being wealthy did not elicit scorn and envy.

It's still ok to be wealthy, just not wealthy and conservative.

[Dan J 277]

So Romney is wealthy - he ought to be damn proud if it. There was a time in this country when being wealthy did not elicit scorn and envy.

It's still ok to be wealthy, just not wealthy and conservative.

One of the most important factors in getting elected as President is how likable you are. Having a lot of wealth can complicate that, especially if you can't relate to the people will be voting for you. Which is something Romney is having trouble with.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

So Romney is wealthy - he ought to be damn proud if it. There was a time in this country when being wealthy did not elicit scorn and envy.

It's still ok to be wealthy, just not wealthy and conservative.

I don't know, I think there is a lot of admiration in this country for people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc who became very, very wealthy from actually producing stuff that didn't exist before through their ingenuity, especially if they came from modest beginnings. I think people have less respect for people who just inherited their money from daddy.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's certainly not easy to do without the chateaubriand.