Unless he’s including people who provided services to those in the financial industry, like hair stylists or coffee servers or convenience store clerks, I very much question Romney’s claim to have created 100,000 jobs.
Financial industries don’t really employee that many people, in comparison to most other industries and computerization has allowed these same industries to not have to employ as many people as they used to do.
I think he’s taking credit for jobs filled by any company where Bain Capital had at some point interceded — but does he subtract jobs lost — and how much did he profit?
Is he afraid to say?
Obama is going to tell us.
Conservatives don’t object to capitalism and profit (despite what Rush and the rest want us to believe). Why are conservative leaders trying to give Mitt a pass while destroying conservative candidates?
The only thing he could mean is the companies they invested in/bought created 100,000 jobs. Weren’t there over 100 companies? How much of a percentage increase above the previous employment? He very well cold be telling the truth, but it could be a meaningless statistic.
“One of Bain’s earliest and most notable venture investments was in Staples, Inc., the office supply retailer. The funding enabled Staples to expand from one store in 1986 to over 2000 stores in 2011.”
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bain_Capital