Editor:
As a retired middle class man, I am perplexed as to how Mitt Romney can possibly have any understanding and concern for the middle class.
How does a man with an annual income from a family inheritance, investments and profits from Bain Capital of over $2,500,000 a year have any idea of what it's like to live on a middle class income of $50,000 a year?
Does Mitt Romney who paid a little over 13 percent of his reported income in federal taxes while my wife and I paid 16 percent of our retirement income in federal income taxes really care about an equitable tax system that would help the middle class?
Does Mitt Romney, with his bank accounts and houses spread out all over the world, really have any idea of what it's like to have to scrape up enough money to pay a monthly home mortgage?
Does Mitt Romney who, while at Bain Capital, was only concerned about the bottom line and assuring that his stockholders got dividends from the companies he took over and once boasted, "I like to fire people", have any empathy or concern for those people who are out of work because they lost their jobs?
Does Mitt Romney, who never had to worry about putting food on the table for his family, or paying tuition for a son or daughter to go to college, or worrying about medical care for a family member who may be seriously ill, really understand the plight of the middle class family that he boasts he wants to help?
In short, what does Mitt Romney really understand about the middle class? I suspect, nothing.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Lake Placid
Friday, May 25, 2012 - www.newssun.com/ltr-052512-d-angelo