[2ndDivisionVet]

After everything she’s done, this is what she’s in “hot water” for? That’s a common phrase that I’ve heard throughout my over five decades.

[laplata]

“All this for a damned flag?”

[firebrand]

I bet “gypped” came first, and then “gypsies.” Gonna look it up.

[Peter Libra]

After everything she's done, this is what she's in "hot water" for?

I am most encouraged that, while there is disquiet some persons have over the First Lady, she has her defenders here. The biggest laugh about the term Gypsies is from England. The politically correct brigade,decided the word was insulting. They instituted the word "travellers" to designate parasitical wanderers who camped on public parks. The actual Romany descendants objected to the designation "traveller" applied to them.

The joker was that only 5000 to 7000 real Romany exist in England today. The other 90,000 are persons in caravans and campers who never work. They settle on nice parks and leave filth and debris and move on. They get funds from the government, as do the indigent in the city.

The old traditional Gypsies of George Henry Borrow's biographies, like the name Gypsy. They would prefer Romany though.

[GizzyGirl]

I got my first job the day I turned 16, in a little luncheonette. I was a dishwasher, but soon I was asked to help deliver food, and then I was helping behind the counter and using the cash register. My next job was at what my mom called “the five and dime” — I stocked shelves, swept the isles and when we were busy, or near closing time, I ran the register. That experience got me a full time office job, and I worked a lot of hours beyond original expectations. But I learned and learned and learned. And I grew and grew an grew.

The article is missing the point in talking about the origin of the word... the issue is that she was given an opportunity that required her to work hard.

Hard work pays off for most us, it's what we teach our children, isn't it? Not in the White House I guess, there they view this story of life as being gypped, that working above and beyond is a rip off? Geeze...