Mitt Romney speaking in January:

I also like the idea that people who are receving assistance -- welfare assistance -- have a responsibility of working. In my state we made good progress in that regard, following the days of the Welfare Reform Act. But then while I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirment. And I wanted to increase the work requrement. I said, for instance, even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said "Oh, that's heartless." I said no, no, I'm willing to spend more giving daycare to allow those parents to go back to work, it will cost the state more, providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.

This quote, highlighted Sunday on "Up with Chris Hayes" on MSNBC, raises the question: If Romney himself doesn't consider raising children "work," then is all this blustery umbrage about Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's clumsy quote that Ann Romney "has actually never worked a day in her life" completely phony, or just mostly phony?

A low-income single mother raising kids isn't working, but an ultra-wealthy married mother raising kids is working?