Posted on 09/02/2012 10:29:39 AM PDT by tired&retired
How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill.
The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.
The critics couldn't be more wrong. Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation.
The incredible untold story of the 2012 election so far is that Romney's run has been a shimmering pearl of perfect political hypocrisy, which he's somehow managed to keep hidden, even with thousands of cameras following his every move. And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who'd be honored to tell Oliver Twist there's no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
What are you doing with leftie friends who read this rag?
You’re known by the company you keep, you know.
Morally acceptable?
What has Bain done that’s morally unacceptable? Or are you one of these idiot “Christian Socialists” like Huckabee and his ilk who secretly hate capitalism?
They’re a great company. Period.
Who’s side are you on?
SOMEBODY needs to go on a diet.......
Bwaah, I am an institutional investor who bought out Bain and lost money. I need Rolling Stone to speak up for me. I thought Bain was guara teeing my investment for life.
I am not on the side of devil-take-the-hindmost might-makes-right. Defending the morally indefensible ALWAYS leads to disaster.
Bain ripped Ampad to shreds and dumped the workers out of the street to find new jobs or die, while sucking up all their pension money. That’s just a fact. It’s what corporate raiders do. Not looking at WHY Ampad was vulnerable in the first place, however, is the giant cricket in this story. Outsourcing and giving all sorts of tax breaks to importers while jacking up an ocean of regulations and taxes within the US is what REALLY killed Ampad - Bain was just the scavenger tailing the end of the pack to attack the crippled.
Without the Rat & RINO wholesale sabotage of American business, companies like Bain would be far fewer, have to work far more ethically, or roam elsewhere in the world to stay alive.
P.S. - I forgot to end my Post #27 by advising you to - therefore - ask your friends why Ampad was vulnerable to Bain in the first place.
This is the bastard that said he was glad Andrew Brietbart had died.....telll your liberal friends to take it bend over and.........!!!!!
dumped the workers out of the street to find new jobs or die, while sucking up all their pension money...
....I’ll call BS on that! Fed regs fully protect all VESTED pension benefits, and NO money reverts to owners unless there is a surplus after the purchase of all earned pension benefits. Can’t happen any other way and hasn’t in my 30 years in the business.
ymmv
A bump for later, as I can’t get through all this tripe in one meal!
The successes far outweigh any failures.
Uh...don't think so!
Another lie put out is about putting money in overseas accounts to avoid taxes. A U.S. Citizen or resident must pay U.S. income tax on foreign earnings as well, unless he already paid equal or greater tax overseas.
Most people don’t know that Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors of WalMart for several years and exported more jobs than any other company in the USA. That’s why Charlie Trie and all the other illegal campaign contributors came in from China and then returned prior to being prosecuted.
That’s why WalMart flew Bill around to the primaries in their aircraft!
There is the biggest culprit.
Thanks for the link. I did three searches and it did not come up before I posted this.
I noticed in the other link that they were lambasting the poster for posting this article. I think that debunking the liberal propaganda is very important and welcome the input of the excellent minds here at FR, especially on days when I am feeling out of sorts and need to get my mind back on the track of thinking clearly.
I learn a lot here at FR and welcome the stimulating thoughts..... and even the sarcastic humor!
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