[cripplecreek]

Rick Santorum just denounced this line of attack on Hannity’s show..

I’m not thrilled with some of today’s business tactics but they are what they are. The last company I worked for was bought by Collins and Aikman who promptly squeezed the value out of my company and dumped the corpse. Today Collins and Aikman are themselves gone after going chapter 11 in 07 (David Stockman’s watch)

[americanophile]

Good for Santorum!

[org.whodat]

True, the little woman worked for a curtain wall company, built some of the trump stuff. It was a closely owned corporation, owners sold to a Chinese fellow, he stripped the company of all its value, put it deep in debt and moved to Australia. Happens all the time. Reports were he walked with twenty million.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Just spent my FR reading tonight interrupted with an hour or so of agonizing over our next order. What we can afford balanced against what we have to buy, which orders we can fill and which we have to put off for the moment.

These are tough times for us. And I suspect tough times for many businesses larger and smaller than us.

Politics is all about perceptions.

If throwing a bunch of money around because you already have it is conservative....

If using your fame or name or influence to buy and sell and profit regardless of adding value is conservative...

Does that whole 1% thing deserve to be attached to the concept of conservatism? How do those business tactics square with a fair price for a fair value? What about those of us whose major concern is repeat customers. Are we the real fools? Is free enterprise dead and we're just the bitter clingers?