As Paul Krugman reports<\/a> in the September 21 issue of the New York Times, Mitt Romney seems to have a very different interpretation of who \u201chard-working Americans\u201d are from most other economic observers. \u00a0Krugman argues that Romney and many other Republicans cannot count those people who work with their hands and who sweat th<\/a>rough a day as \u201chard-working Americans.\u201d\u00a0 Instead he sees the hard-workers almost exclusively as those who are so-called job-creators, or those who start and own small businesses.\u00a0 Does that mean that if an individual creates an auto repair shop that the only hard-working American in the enterprise is the man or woman who started the shop?\u00a0 What about those who are under the racks and doing the hard work of fixing the breaks or repairing the transmission?\u00a0 Apparently they don\u2019t count.\u00a0 As Krugman says:<\/p>\n

For the fact is that the modern Republican Party just doesn\u2019t have much respect for people who work for other people, no matter how faithfully and well they do their jobs. All the party\u2019s affection is reserved for \u201cjob creators,\u201d a k a employers and investors. Leading figures in the party find it hard even to pretend to have any regard for ordinary working families \u2014 who, it goes without saying, make up the vast majority of Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s important to point out that, according to the Small Business Administration, any business that employs 500 workers or less qualifies as a small business.\u00a0 Such a small business may just be large enough for Romney\u2019s Bain Capital to take a small interest in it.\u00a0 What most of us consider to be small businesses afd what Krugman\u2019s colleague Thomas Friedman calls micro-businesses; those with 10 or less employees.\u00a0 So even if we take Romney\u2019s narrow view of who is a hard-working American, these entrepreneurs of small businesses may have corporations with up to 500 workers.<\/p>\n

Krugman further reports that Romney\u2019s colleague Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader, reinforced his idea by saying:<\/p>\n

Consider the Twitter message sent out by Eric Cantor, the Republican House majority leader, on Labor Day \u2014 a holiday that specifically celebrates America\u2019s workers. Here\u2019s what it said, in its entirety: \u201cToday, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.\u201d Yes, on a day set aside to honor workers, all Mr. Cantor could bring himself to do was praise their bosses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romney\u2019s ideas are often misguided, and what\u2019s worse, he frequently does not understand them.\u00a0 Chalk it up as just one more reason why he simply does not have the skill to be president of the United States, much less CEO of a real company that makes something.<\/p>\n

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