Posted on 08/30/2012 7:52:49 AM PDT by NetLiberty
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Not drunk enough to read the crap that Taibbi writes.
+1
Thank you for your left wing posting. Now rejoin your friends at the Democratic Underground.
Ahh, Rolling Stone - truly a bastion of in-depth, investigative journalism without a smidge of propagandist world view. Who wouldn’t get their analyses here?
Where is that ‘Post Tripe Here’ category again?
Matt Taibbi would not know the truth if it punched him in the nose.
A story in the Rolling Stone bashing a Republican? Wow, that’s so surprising.
Did I miss when FR migrated to a Democrat site?
Ever since the day it was announced that Romney would not be supported and that attacks on Mormons were fair game, this site has not been the same.
You could bring Karl Marx back from the grave, have him criticize Bain, and someone would find it “enlightening.”
The King of asset strippers.....wait for it.....Obozo!
“Ever since the day it was announced that Romney would not be supported and that attacks on Mormons were fair game, this site has not been the same.”
Similar to the man without a country, a political site without a party?
“A separate report on household incomes from June 2009, when the recession was declared officially over, finds an overall decline of 4.8 percent from then until June 2012. That’s almost twice the drop from 2007 to 2009, when the recession was at its worst.”
Why don’t you post this at DU where it belongs?
Anyone who's actually been in business knows about guys like Romney. They're the priviledged financial guys who take over a company, push a bunch of people out of their jobs to cover the debt they load the company up with, and then install some clueless MBAs who don't understand the business they're in. The company collapses but the hedge fund operators like Romney always seem to make out just fine.
And before anyone else accuses me of being a democrat troll, check my profile--here since 1998 and participated in the original FR March for Justice for the Clinton impeachment. I take a backseat to no one on my conservative cred, but I think it's important to know who is being put up in front of us to vote for in November.
I didn’t realize one thing: Marx’s criticism would be more credible than Taibbi’s.
Disagree 100% with everything you said here, and I have been in business for a number of years.
Bain Capital, and companies like them, are one of the best things going for the economy. They take over highly distressed companies, most of which would die quick deaths without intervention, and work to turn them around.
Not all of them make it, but the Bain track record is remarkably good. Thousands of Americans today can attribute their current jobs directly to a Bain-directed turnaround.
While there are some companies and people (Al Dunlap) out there who do the things you describe, Bain Capital under Mitt Romney was absolutely not one of them.
Interest on debt is always deductable at the corporate level. Just as are all other expenses (with the exception of some salaries exceeding 1 million).
Deductions are not loopholes they are as much a part of the tax code as the rate itself.
Which isn't to say our tax code isn't a mess. It is.
I have thought of this for a while, but have not posted it before.
In his time at Bain Capital, Mitt Romney was the economic equivalent of a trauma surgeon. Trauma surgeons take bodies in dire straights and attempt to repair them and restore them to whole. Mitt Romney did essentially the same thing with companies. Many times they can be saved, but sometimes, in spite of heroic efforts, they can’t. The bodies (companies) may fail even though the organs (employees) are intact and fully functioning.
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