{"id":10976,"date":"2012-05-17T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10976"},"modified":"2012-05-17T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:04:53","slug":"the-life-of-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/17\/the-life-of-julia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Life of Julia<\/strong><\/a> is the Obama campaign’s\u00a0 hypothetical example that looks at how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime – and how Mitt Romney would change her story.<\/p>\n

According to a McClatchy<\/em> opinion piece ‘Life of Julia’ is a life without ambition<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 After reading this commentary, I rushed to the Obama site to see the item that this story parodies.<\/p>\n

I commented on the McClatchy piece:<\/p>\n

Where do you get “life without ambition”?\u00a0 She starts a web design company, hires people, provides a decent wage for them.\u00a0 They pay taxes, stay employed, and fund their own benefits and everyone else’s.<\/p>\n

The web design company provides a service to their customers which helps their businesses succeed.\u00a0 This is how a capitalist economy grows.<\/p>\n

I don’t see how our economy remains competitive in the world, if Julia gets no education, starts no business, and makes a life out of an ambition to serve hamburgers at McDonald’s for the rest of her life.\u00a0 How is she going to retire on that income?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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