Mitt Romney took a lot of heat during the presidential campaign about
being rich and insensitive.
There seems to be at least one instance where his humanity came peeking
through.
As a child, Mitt was always totally mesmerized by the circus and in
particular by the clowns, who were more often than not “little people.”
He was devastated to find out that most of them retired from the circus
penniless and lived in poverty since there was no pension plan available in the
circus and most had not paid into social security.
He decided to take matters into his own hands and built an entire
community in South Florida to accommodate the
Little People. Everything in the condo’s was built to scale for a person 3 feet
tall. All the sinks and cupboards were accessible to a little person. He had specially designed
refrigerators and stoves put in, as well as miniature washing machines and
dryers. Every modern convenience that can be found in a conventional house is
in there, except at a scale comfortable to a person 3 feet tall.
The only problem was that the proposed residents did not have enough
income to pay the rent. That is where the brief moment of Mitt’s sensitivity
came to the surface. He generously announced that the residents could live
there the rest of their lives and never have to pay a dime in rent. This was
his way of thanking them for the countless hours of entertainment they had
provided for him as a child.
In a gesture to immortalize his beloved wife, Mitt decided to call the
new complex “Ann Romney’s Stay Free Mini Pads.”
