Chris today aired video from January of Mitt Romney saying that stay-at-home parents on welfare “need to go back to work” so that they can “have the dignity of work.” The video contradicts comments made by Romney on Friday in a speech to the NRA. Responding to the controversy over CNN’s Hilary Rosen’s remarks about Ann Romney and stay-at-home moms, Romney said, “I happen to believe all moms are working.”
Sal Gentile is a segment producer for "Up w/ Chris Hayes."
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
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What you're seeing is like a man at the zoo screeching monkey noises at the monkeys. He doesn't really know or care what it means. He's only doing it to get the monkeys riled up
dear people -
can you please post the link to the full show much earlier in the day, and make it easier to find on the website? it's kind of a pain, every single weekend.
thank you!
I agree. It is so much more difficult to watch the show with this format than it was when you could watch each hour. When you first went to this format you said the show was all there, we just had to click on the first segment and all the other segments would run consecutively. However you neglected to tell us how to tell which one is the first one. I don't think I have seen the show in order since. And sometimes you cut off the end of a segment before it is complete. Can you try to make it easier for us, please?
Loved this part of the show. Finally, someone talking about the reality of low income working moms...very disappointed with how this was handled on Morning Joe with Peggy Noonan....very patronizing on her part....the poor don't get to make choices.
I worked while raising my kids, and it didn't feel dignified, it felt like neglecting my kids so that I could have more nice things to brag about.
If working was really about having more nice things, I can kind of see why you'd have felt that way. But if instead of more bragging rights, you were earning just enough to cover the bills, you'd likely have felt differently.
I've know many people - kids, and grown folks looking back - who took pride in parents who kept them off the streets, out of shelters, from living with resentful relatives or friends, by working under less than ideal conditions. Doesn't mean there weren't regrets, but kids learn lots of things from watching parents who work hard to hold it together. Dignity is one of them.
I worked while raising my kids, and it wasn't about having more nice things, it was about putting food on the table and paying the electric bill. It was very difficult and I always felt like I was not able to be there for them and I always felt bad because I couldn't provide them with the things the other kids had. We never lived in shelters or a car, and we never used welfare, but I always felt that my kids were disadvantaged and I spent a lot of that time in my life deeply depressed because I didn't feel as though I could do all that needed to be done for them. I must admit that in spite of how hard it was for me, though, they turned out really well.
Thank you, Chris. Finally someone is displaying some understanding of where Hillary Rosen was coming from. The responses from the WH and Obama campaign to Rosen's comment on Mitt Romney's limited information source for "women's issues" were as gutless and cowardly as were their craven responses to the fake (doctored) Shirley Sherod videotape. Thanks again, Chris.
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