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Posted on 04/12/2012 11:42:56 AM PDT by pickrell
My father delivered a bread route in the 1950's. In that day, the trucks had no heaters, so the drivers kept a small fire going in a metal pot, set on the floorboard. It was risky, but they survived. Starting at 3:00 in the morning, in was rather chilly in Ohio on winter days
My mother stayed at home and raised nine kids. We were a catholic family, and no shame attached to being a primary care-giver to a large family.
Imagine my shame today, to know that dear old mom was in the same class of ne'er do well as Anne Romney.
But we had that luxury, because my dad worked 10 hours a day.
The 1 percent, for sure....
Your Mom was a piker.
My mom raised 14 while my Dad mined coal.
Its pretty rich to see the Democrats attack one of their own that way.
My grandmother had 17, 12 of which lived to adulthood.
All were or are hard-working, positively-contributing members of the civil society.
Unlike the jerkette who attacked Ann Romney.
Romney is not my pick, but that attack was sick.
While I’m not unsympathetic, nobody’s forced to have 9 or 14 children. It’s self-inflicted trauma. I have 3 kids under 7. Some days are tough, but in the end I chose this lifestyle.
My dad, both grandfathers, 7 uncles, and skads of cousins were coal miners, too.
It is pretty amazing that a man supported 9 kids by driving a bread truck.
Shows just how bad inflation has gotten over the years.
It is pretty amazing that a man supported 9 kids by driving a bread truck.
Shows just how bad inflation has gotten over the years.
>> I have 3 kids under 7.
My stay-at-home mom only had me and my brother — but she’s still a hero, because we were MUCH bigger P’s in the A than your garden-variety child...
Mostly HIM, you understand — I was an angel by comparison. ;-)
I am wondering what my brother and his wife are thinking about Hilary Rosen’s comment. They are dyed-in-the-wool liberals—we never discuss politics—who raised 6 children, all independent adults. My sister-in-law was a stay-at-home mom but going by Hilary’s standards, she never worked a day in her life until the youngest was in school and she got a “real” job. Hilary needs to get a real life—and a real job, for that matter.
I’m glad they didn’t stop with twelve.
I am number 13.
I’m betting, from what you’ve said, that the reason they are liberals is that they equate wealth redistribution through the government with the concept of “charity”.
Liberals are pretty easy to understand once you get that their main, and sometimes only, driving ideological motivation is to justify the idea of “I’m a good person”.
What it really shows is how soft and spoiled we are today. My folks had 7 kids. My mom stayed at home to raise us and my dad made next to nothing pushing a broom for years while he tried to learn his trade. They rented a house until they could later buy one and didn't have a TV until my grandparents bought a new one and we inherited their old one about 1966. They had one used car that my dad's second full time job it was to keep on the road. we didn't have a telephone and didn't have AC, a spare bathroom and never wore our 'school clothes' to play in.
Too many folks today think that they're entitled to a $200,000 home, every new electronic gadget as soon as they come online and a wardrobe that could clothe a small town. Their kids dress to the nines have tv's cell phones, computers, XBoxes and every other luxury imaginable and if they don't have broad band and cable TV they feel they're being abused.
We want it all and we want it now! seems to be our national motto nowadays.
The liberal motto: “We want it all, at your expense!”
The conservative motto: “We just want to keep what we earn!”
I'll bet his mom had a million ways to use bread in the meal {as the main and sometimes only, course}.
That is the beauty of what she said it effects anyone across the board who made the sacrifice to stay home.WE know we work hard and cut corners. We are not the privileged we are the ones who do without the new car and designer clothes to make our house homes.
Still and always admirable advice.
Only 9... the Duggars has 19...:)
Bingo!
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