“Yes, the more I listen to Michelle Obama... I mean, this is an insane caricature of America. It is true that there are, and I run into a lot of them among my neighbors in New Hampshire, that you’ll meet people, you’ll meet women, for example, who are doing three jobs.... And when you actually ask them why it is that they’re doing this, it’s often for social reasons, but it’s also because of the fact that government is taking such a big slice of the pie, that in fact, if you were to trim down government, and the vast majority or largely superfluous services that it attempts to provide badly, and allow people to keep more of their money, they wouldn’t be having to do these two or three extra jobs. That’s the reason. It’s the metastasizing government and bureaucracy and regulation that imposes costs on the efficient part of the U.S. economy.”
Bingo! We have a winner!!!
Mark lives here in Lyme, NH, which is one of the most liberal towns in the state. Just north of Hanover (Dartmouth). Trust me, some of his neighbors are real pips. But then, some of them are the few remaining native salt-of-the-earth types as well.
I live on the eastern edge (opposite side) of the same county.