Romney has zero tolerance for the unsuccessful

 
 If your success is entirely your own achievement, then your lack of success is entirely your own fault.


Why does a typical bus driver in the United States earn a monthly income (after taxes) of $1,594, while a typical bus driver in Peru earns $325?
Why does an American airline pilot bring home $4,206 a month, while a Lithuanian doing what we hope is pretty much the same job with the same training has an average salary of only $1,674?
Well, the explanation is obvious, isn't it? These foreigners just aren't as smart as we Americans are, and they don't work as hard. Because if they did - as Mitt Romney was just explaining in Israel - they would be as successful as we are. And that's pretty darned successful. And they aren't.
Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, worries that Americans are losing their appreciation of success, as evidenced by President Obama's desire to reduce the rewards of success by raising taxes on high incomes. Romney sees in this not just a bigger tax bill for successful people but an insult as well. An alternative perspective is that any successful person who feels personally insulted by a request from the president to share a bit of it is, in the immortal words of Liberace, "crying all the way to the bank" (or, to quote someone else, a "master of the fancied slight").
Romney has zero tolerance for the unsuccessful | StarTribune.com