by Kentw007

I've never written a letter to an elected official before, but I couldn't let a man running for President get away with personally insulting my family so I sent him the following letter. The sad thing is that he would have actually had an outside chance at getting my vote if he had ever bothered to actually give any kind of details as to what his economic plan is aside from "I'm going to get America back to work."

Dear Mr. Romney,

Allow me tell you a story about two members of “the 47%”.

In 2002, immediately upon returning from our honeymoon, my wife started working as the receptionist at a commercial real estate company. In the span of 5 short years she had worked her way up to being a key member of the marketing team, overseeing the work of several designers and coordinating with dozens of outside agencies.

In 2008, my wife lost her job. She lost her job because her company’s multimillionaire president, rather than attending to the rapidly escalating challenges the company was facing at the height of the real estate crash, decided to spend his time yachting around in the Mediterranean. In the meantime his company, which employed over 150 hard-working Americans, crashed and burned. I should also note that this company was bequeathed to him by his wealthy father, not built with his own two hands. He didn’t “build this”.

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