Millionaire Mitt: "I know what it's like to fear being fired."

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Is this guy for real?

Santorum and Gingrich are the ones who are bought and paid for by K Street, their masters since 1995. Have they ever held a job outside of government, anyway? Lobbying gigs and writing books do not count, of course.

Of course Romney knows what it means to fear being fired. When you are an executive, you sometimes make mistakes because humans err. Those mistakes sometimes lead to firings. I am sure Romney made his fair share of mistakes and was probably close to being fired from time to time.

Furthermore, Romney held numerous summer jobs as a high school and college student. I am sure there were times when he made a mistake that he thought could potentially get him fired.

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Polnut got it. While Romney's statement may have technically been true it does seem to me a bit preposterous that he would allude to having the same fear that a "common" American would have about losing a job. The real fear not comes from losing the job itself but the prospect of having no income and no way to support your family afterwards, that is something that Romney never has faced.

In all fairness, Mitt had no net worth when he got out of college, and had two kids to keep going. There were probably times when he was working his way up the ladder that he feared getting axed, and ending up with no income and no way to support his family short of going to his parents with his hat in hand.