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Mitt Romney Says 'Dignity Of Work' Only Available To Women In The Paid Workforce - ForbesI haven't caught that one.They pretend to support women staying home and taking care of the children, but if women with children want dignity then they better get to work.
Chris Hayes has turned up the video of a speech made by Mitt Romney in New Hampshire this past January where he spoke of his efforts, while serving as governor of Massachusetts, to force all mothers receiving government aid to get out of the house and into the workforceor lose their benefits.
It wasnt about the money. Romney calculates that getting these mothers to leave their kids and enter the workforce would actually cost the state more through the increased costs of providing day care for the children of these working mothers.
No, Romney had a higher goal in mind he wanted these stay-at-home mothers to know the dignity of work.
I know. Was it not Governor Romney who spent this past week exhorting the great dignity and hard work done by moms who elect to stay home and raise their kids? How does that square with his speech which touts his long-held view that certain stay-at-home mothers can only learn the dignity of work by getting out of the house and leaving the daytime care of their children to others?
Speaking to the New Hampshire audience, this is what the Governor had to say:
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 thats heartless. And I said, No, no, Im willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. Itll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.
I thought that if anything had been established through the eruption caused by CNN pundit Hillary Rosens poorly chosen words earlier this week, it was that there is, indeed, immense dignity in the work of stay-at-home moms. So said the President, the First Lady and the one-time First Lady of MassachusettsAnn Romney.
And, for what it is worth, so say I.
The Governors suggestion that there is dignity in the work done by women who stay home to raise their kids (this weeks meme) but, apparently, only when they have sufficient financial resources to do so, completely proves the point Ms. Rosen sought to makeeven if her comments were inartfully uttered.