Santorum: Struggling Families Are Greedy

In his new book, Sen. Rick Santorum (R) essentially states that families who have two parents working are not struggling to make ends meet, they are instead just greedy.

Here is the excerpt:

"In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them really don't need to, or at least may not need to work as much as they do... And for some parents, the purported need to provide things for their children simply provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home."

What's interesting is that while Santorum is essentially saying everyone is really wealthy and no one really needs to have a two-income family, he previously claimed that he was having trouble making due in his own one income family, even though that one income was $162,100 a year. He actually told the New York Times that "we live paycheck to paycheck, absolutely."

Now remember, Santorum has been in Washington hobnobbing with corporate lobbyists for a long time, and he now lives in the posh Northern Virginia suburbs - so his perspective is a bit skewed. He is totally out of touch with the economic realities facing millions of Americans, to the point where he has publicly said he supported "making people struggle" who were on welfare. Disgusting.

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