Fact:
Romney said yesterday “he likes to fire people”
Fact:
Today Romney likened what he did at Bane to the Obama auto bailouts.
Fact:
Bane Capital the company Romney co-founded bought a steel mill, bankrupted it and fired all the employees after looting their pension plans, then stuck the US Taxpayers with the a bill ($44 Million) for it.
Those are the facts.
I’m not voting for Romney, but if he gets elected, I hope he still enjoys firing people. I hope he fires a lot of federal employees.
Actually, I think he said that he likes being able to fire people - a big difference. I hate firing people, but I like being able to.
—Fact:
Romney said yesterday “he likes to fire people”—
To be fair to Romney, he was talking about firing businesses, of which his business is a customer, that are not competitive.
What I fault him for is his unbelievably poor choice of words in a “gotcha” media environment. That shows incredibly bad judgement.
—Fact:
Today Romney likened what he did at Bane to the Obama auto bailouts.—
That one concerns me about which voters he’s going after and which ones he’s throwing under the bus.
Note to republican party: Do not presume to have my vote. I am a conservative and will sit out the presidential election if Romney is the nominee.
Mr. Romney and his colleagues raised $37 million for their first fund in 1984. Today, Bain Capital manages roughly $66 billion. Its investors include college endowments and public pension funds that have increased their investments in private equity to get larger returns than stocks and bonds provide. The people who benefit from those returns thus include average workers.
Bain’s turnaround hits include Sports Authority and tech-research outfit Gartner Inc., which was once a small division of an advertising firm and is now a public company worth more than $3 billion. Another success was Steel Dynamics, which used Bain money to build a new steel factory and now employs 6,000 people.
Fact:
Today Romney likened what he did at Bane to the Obama auto bailouts.
Fact:
Bane Capital the company Romney co-founded bought a steel mill, bankrupted it and fired all the employees after looting their pension plans, then stuck the US Taxpayers with the a bill ($44 Million) for it.
Those are the facts.”
Sorry, but one out of three correct statements is not a passing grade in my book.