Posted on 10/20/2021 3:13:45 PM PDT by Trillian
Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, made a rare and personal political statement on Wednesday as she wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating for paid family leave.
'I'm not an elected official, and I'm not a politician,' Markle opened. 'I'm writing to you at this deeply important time - as a mom - to advocate for paid leave.'
The duchess went on to detail her humble beginnings. 'I grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler,' she said. 'I knew how hard my parents worked to afford this because even at five bucks, eating out was something special, and I felt lucky.'
'I started working (at the local frozen yogurt shop) at the age of 13. I waited tables, babysat, and piecemealed jobs together to cover odds and ends. I worked all my life and saved when and where I could—but even that was a luxury—because usually it was about making ends meet and having enough to pay my rent and put gas in my car.'
'I expect many of your constituents have their own version of that story,' she continued, before bashing the American economic system.
'Many of our economic systems are past their expiration date, and as you well know, too many Americans are forced to shortchange themselves when it comes to what matters to them.'
The royal then recognized that she had not struggled in the same way many new parents who are not offered paid leave do.
'In June, my husband and I welcomed our second child. Like any parents, we were overjoyed. Like many parents, we were overwhelmed. Like fewer parents, we weren't confronted with the harsh reality of either spending those first few critical months with our baby or going back to work.'
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‘I’m not an elected official, and I’m not a politician,’ Markle opened.
....and your not in office here or an illegal donor to the DNC, so shut the hell up.
and yet, she was able to parlay that into a short lived run as a Royal!
well done... well done INDEED!!!
And then she discovered high-end hooking…
Her “$4.99 salad” story pegs the time to 1994.
That’s $9.24 in today’s dollars, which is a nice meal out at a midrange restaurant (say, the pulled pork platter at Texas Roadhouse).
Spoken (lamented, whined) like a spoiled child.
This shrew makes me sick.
I suspect the Daily Mail will have a reporter here working overtime to debunk this….and I look forward to the take-down.
maybe burger king named the impossible whopper after her...
♬ Sad violin music ♬
That was a funny sketch. lol
‘I knew how hard my parents worked to afford this because even at five bucks, eating out was something special, and I felt lucky.’
You mean the parent(your Dad) who you disavow to this day and refused to invite to your wedding because you are so embarrased of him?
‘I started working (at the local frozen yogurt shop) at the age of 13. I waited tables, babysat, and piecemealed jobs together to cover odds and ends. I worked all my life and saved when and where I could—but even that was a luxury—because usually it was about making ends meet and having enough to pay my rent and put gas in my car.’
Eeeee, yeah. You started out at the bottom of the earnings scale like the rest of us and that is the way it is...
Loser...
How on earth did she get time off from the local frozen yogurt shop?
That salad bar was a high point of luxury healthy food.
(...begin rant...)
Most lamenting the problem of “food deserts” use as prime example “lack of fresh fruits and vegetables” (not that those denied are, on the whole, actually inclined to prepare & eat them) without realizing how ridiculously hard & expensive it is to preserve and distribute such fragile & perishable foods, when canned/frozen is equally healthy.
Meghan’s lament attempts to portray her Sizzler salad bar as luxury while exuding “tone deaf” entitled about it.
She’s now living in an economic system that was founded on confiscation of the work of peasants and serfs to enrich a small privileged elite that claimed to be related directly to God. As for the salad bar at Sizzler, I can’t even afford to eat at Sizzler.
Send this crazy woman back to the UK with her cuckoo husband.
There’s nothing wrong with the sizzler salad bar. In fact, it’s pretty good
Indeed! And the tips must have been astronomical. ;-)
“I suspect the Daily Mail will have a reporter here working overtime to debunk this”
Yeppers, The DM has no love for sparkles.
Can I be so immature as to say it?
Good grief, Charlie Brown.
She has no clue as to how privileged that position is in the world.
Most people in the world would love to move up to that level.
She had electricity, running water, warm clean, and safe housing, excellent transportation and a free education through at least high school, and it was a hardship?
Amazing.
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