Romney is always cited as good for the economy because he's an experienced businessman who knows how to run a business. Yes, like investing inherited money in someone else’s entrepreneurship.
He's just not a man who ever to go make his own breaks, or even to face his own workforce. Silver spoon entrepreneurs do not impress me as do truly self-made men, like Paul LePage.
You keep speaking down on Mitt Romney because of his ‘inherited money.’ Even if that premise were correct, it might be said that he did not squander but rather exponentially expanded on his inheritance. However, his father, George Romney, died well after Mitt made the investments that created his fortune, and after he was elected Gov of MA. His mother died a few years later. Whatever fortune he might have inherited from his parents would have come late in the day.
What I DO think he inherited was an incredible business sense and a political philosophy that puts him in the ‘centrist’ mode not popular among active conservatives. His father, who did come up the hardscrabble way, was able to send him to university (which George himself never completed), but also made him take low level jobs in the Detoit auto industry; Both also did a Mormon mission which is not anyone’s idea of a picnic. The father was a leader in the LDS and as such contributed @ 20% of his income to that church, so the remainder for probate distribution, to be distributed one assumes among four siblings, would have been a limited fortune.