OMG, Romney profited from his job.... Sheesh, whats next, Ronald Reagan was a thESBIAN and a HOMO sapien... Maybe they'll report that next.
Posted on 12/28/2011 7:37:30 AM PST by markomalley
The potent line of attack that helped cost Mitt Romney a U.S. Senate seat 18 years ago is being resurrected as the former Massachusetts governor competes to become the Republican nominee for president, and the same man who embodied that attack told ABC News he is prepared to play that role all over again.
Labor organizer Randy Johnson was among the hundreds of blue-collar workers who lost their jobs at an American Pad and Paper (Ampad) factory in Marion, Indiana after Romney's private equity firm acquired the company in 1992.
"It was really one of the worst things I think I've had to deal with, because people … were at my desk crying, 'What do I do? I don't have a good college education… I just wanted to get to retirement,'" Johnson recalled in an interview with ABC News. "Families were devastated. In some cases, the husband and the wife both worked there. They lost all their income. It doesn't get much worse than that."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Ross is a complete anus but he never would be doing this unless Obummer was sure Mittens was in. Here it comes baby!
Our plant is non-union, highly efficient and pays a competitive wage and benefit packing, albeit not union scale.
Once in awhile, these guys will complain to me about how good they used to have it when they worked in a unionized plant.
Inevitably, I ask them what happened. Inevitably they reply with various reasons such as the plant being shuttered and moved to Mexico, the union going on strike and the plant deciding to shutter or severely downsize.
I then ask them where they would rather work, here or there. They reply they have a job here; they no longer have one there. "Exactly", I reply, and walk away.
Yes, there is a lot of bad *footage* on Romney. The Dems are holding back a lot of stuff. We will see it come out. Mitt Romney does not energize his base.
The sad truth is that they’re right. Fiorina was a horrible exec at HP. Engineers whom I knew at HP and HP labs were literally dancing in the aisles between cubicles when she got the axe.
If you’ve never seen engineers dance, lemme tell you a) it isn’t pretty, b) engineers know it isn’t pretty, so c) when engineers become so joyful that they don’t care who sees them dance their butts off in cube-land, you know that they’re outlandishly happy.
Engineers were dancing like a bunch of Shakers at a revival meeting when Fiorina got the axe.
Fiorina ruined one of the best companies created post-WWII in the US. She deserved the axe - sooner, harder and with less parachute money. Let me state now and for the future record: Fiorina is a moron. Anyone inside the GOP proposing her for a position as dog catcher is an even bigger moron than she is.
Romney and Bain Capital have a history of not just sacking people, they have a history of installing stupid management into companies - people who had NO CLUE what they were managing. Example: People installed at steel companies who never, ever knew anything about steel other than it is “some kind of metal.”
I’ve seen startups and turn-around situations ruined due to private equity or VC outfits installing their idiot buddies into companies. Sadly, it seems to be a commonplace practice among clowns like Romney and his buddies. They don’t care, as long as they make a ROI on their levered equity or debt positions in a company.
Related story?
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/dec/20/romneys-firm-profited-sc-gaffney-jobs-disappeared-ar-2903376/
GAFFNEY, S.C. —
A venture capital firm run by Mitt Romney created nearly 150 jobs in Gaffney, S.C., in the late 1980s only to eliminate them four years later and earn millions of dollars in profits.
The Associated Press reviewed Bain Capital’s little-known investments at The Holson Burnes Group. Bain doubled its $10 million investment into the clock and photo supply company. But workers in South Carolina and New Hampshire lost their jobs as the company consolidated and expanded its operations overseas.
By sheer coincidence, the economic fallout from Bain’s decisions struck hardest in South Carolina and New Hampshire. They are among the first states with early primary elections that could affect Romney’s run for the White House.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Bain Capital ultimately created tens of thousands of jobs.
There will always be Christian conservatives like me that will consider it completely disobedient to vote for a Mormon. We are warned with dire consequences not to even greet them or wish them well.
It does not matter whose side they are on, I cannot follow a Mormon, or have anything to do with them. If he becomes the Republican nominee, all true Bible believing Christians are honor bound to leave the party, regardless of their denomination! I do not say this lightly. This is serious heaven or hell stuff.
I just don’t understand the Church’s absence here.
That’s the sort of thinking that has led us to this point in time. We dismiss the critique of our foes at our peril, because they’re going to make these critiques after we get through the primaries.
The GOP elite and RINO’s have been doing the same sort of thing - oh, those liberals are just jealous of Romney’s success, they’re union hacks, etc.
Got news for you. I’m a hard-core capitalist. I trade more money through the capital markets in a month that most people make in a long damn time. And now that I’ve done my homework on Romney, I’ve gone from being against the guy just because he’s a flip-floppin’ Ivy League gun-grabber to being a real capitalist who hates a crony capitalist who also happens to be a flip-floppin’ Ivy League gun grabber.
Romney’s “brilliance” at business is mostly a result of his connections, just as with so many of these Harvard Business School clowns. I hate these morons with a flaming passion. They’re convinced that they’re the best in the brightest in the room, but in fact they’re the ones who are running the American economy into a ditch. They have the attention span of a goldfish. Their motto is “Why worry? I got mine, you got yours, I’ll be gone and you’ll be gone when this crap blows up.”
The union hacks might be complaining about losing their jobs, and they can make those complaints, but the number of companies that Bain capital took into BK and then cut up and sold off... well, it makes Romney look exactly like Gordon Gekko. The “optics,” as all the elites like to say in DC, are horrible. The comparisons to “Chainsaw Al” Dunlop of the 80’s will be inevitable. There will be plenty of references made to the jobs that Bain sent overseas to reduce their costs. And there will be references made to the incompetent management outcomes of some of their takeover targets.
jerry falwell said he could vote for a mormon.
other older denominations have no problem with such issues.
it seems mostly the “old timey” evangelicals on the finge have this issue. Huckabee used this sucker move to gain a few votes.
Bain also asked for (and got) $200K in utility support for their plant in SC, and the locals floated a $5 mil bond for Holson.
I saw Ed Gillespie (I think it was) on FNC a week or so ago when he said, “I’ve seen the opposition research on Romney and it’s this high”, as he lifted his hand high over his head.
“There will always be Christian conservatives like me that will consider it completely disobedient to vote for a Mormon.”
What a moronic statement! I don’t like Romney but it isn’t because he’s a Mormon. We are voting for a President, not a Pastor or whatever you call the guy who’s telling you how to live your life on Sunday. It’s people like you that screw up any chance this country has to get out of the financial morass we’re in. All the preconditions you place on someone getting your vote is stupid. Oh well, maybe you can see if Jesus will run!
jerry falwell said he could vote for a mormon.
other older denominations have no problem with such issues.
it seems mostly the “old timey” evangelicals on the finge have this issue. Huckabee used this sucker move to gain a few votes.
religion is an excuse which abdicates the argument to the opposion. There are reasons backed by logic to oppose Romney. It has nothing to do with religion.
Those that turn to blind faith to justify politics are just ensuring victory for the enemy.
for the MSM “job killer” is just code for “union killer”
the MSM is desperate to keep unions alive. so all these job killer BS stories are just nonsense about breaking unions.
They are just as much a farce as those who ONLY oppose romney because of his religion.
“Those that turn to blind faith to justify politics are just ensuring victory for the enemy.”
Great post longtermmemmory! I have a personal belief in God. That said, I have an abiding suspicion for all “organized” religions. I see a far too much of this “if he’s not a member of my church, he isn’t “worthy” of my vote stuff. When my youngest daughter was in high school, one of her female classmates was told by her “Presbyterian Pastor,” that she could not hold office in the churche’s youth group if she continued to date someone outside her “faith!” And yet they call them selves “Christians.” Go figure!
Franklin Graham and quite a few others have said they can vote for Romney, haven’t they? Would you favor Orrin G. Hatch in UT?
OMG, Romney profited from his job.... Sheesh, whats next, Ronald Reagan was a thESBIAN and a HOMO sapien... Maybe they'll report that next.
The GOP Elite should have thought about that before they anointed Romney as “The One.”
“jerry falwell said he could vote for a mormon.”
Jerry Falwell should spend more time in the Word and on his knees than in back rooms making deals trying to keep relevant and wealthy.
The great falling away is obviously occurring.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
When the Church is cowered into a corner, and refuses to defend the faith, all is lost for that country. Look at Europe. Look and see what is in store for us.
Christians voting for a Mormon over brothers and sisters. It makes me sick!
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