Posted on 01/12/2012 2:54:18 AM PST by John Valentine
http://www.kingofbain.com/
Folks can make up their own minds whether to watch it or not.
Then folks can decide what kind of capitalist we have in Mitt Romney, or they can decide that this is a piece of propaganda.
Posted as is.
I lost a tremendous amount of respect for Rush after he defended this as capitalisam at it's finest. "Gotta lay off people to save the company". Oh really?
“Gotta lay off people to save the company”.
Isn’t that precisely what we want Romney to do to the bloated federal bureaucracy?
These are the kinds of games the democrats play - the liberal democrats and the media and the Occupy nuts. It is surprising that it is being touted here on a supposedly conservative website.
Anyway, it’s backfiring big time.
The biggest aqsset of most failing companies is their “pension fund.” Those funds are then guaranteed by you and i...the taxpayers.
Sometimes Mitts pillaging ended up that the taxpayers had to fork over millions of dollars.
How is that ok?
And then he places the money offshore so he won’t have to pay taxes. Isn’t he brilliant? So the taxpayers are dinged again.
How do you defend that?
The video is very powerful. It will have a huge impact on Mitt - especially in the general.
You have obviously failed to see what this is really about. it also appears that you have not bothered to watch the video production. If you had you would have found that the layoffs were incidental; sort of collateral damage to the main purpose. Which was to take control of companies, saddle them with debt (essentially off loading the cost of the acquisition), strip their assets, then walk away leaving the banks, other non-insider investors, and the out-of-work ex employees holing the bag while Bain waltzes off with millions.
This cannot be defended, and isn’t in any sense an essential part of capitalism. It’s rather like a form of crime that the law hasn’t managed to keep up with.
In fact, I imagine that Bain employs an army of lawyers to make sure that the banks they have stiffed aren’t able to come after Bain for fraud and misrepresentation.
Unfortunately, sometimes you do have to break up companies or fire half the workforce or whatever to save companies.
If you don’t make those kind of hard decisions, you lose the company and all of the workforce of that company.
That is reality and reality sometimes has to bite.
Which occupy are you working from. Is it cold there? What part of acorn did you work for. After the name change what is the new name? What law do you support to limit return on investment. And what government depart will handle fairness in number of employees.
I don’t think that description fits the reality of what Romney was up to. If that’s all there was to it, there wouldn’t be any controversy. It ain’t that simple at all.
“you have not bothered to watch the video production”
You got me there. I don’t feel like wasting my time watching a political hit piece fashioned after Michael Moore’s form of “journalism”.
That is a devastating video on Romney, the perfect attack ad for Barry. No wonder Obama wants to run against Romney.
I knoe.
It’s also typical of these companies to take healthy companies and do the same thing.
Many companies are more valuable for their parts than their whole.
I think this line of attack on Romney is a losing proposition. Better turn it over to the anti Mormons for their dog pile strategy which is already in place.
You are trying to defend capitalism, and I applaud that.
But in the process you are also defending something else entirely, something which comes tantalizingly close to misrepresentation, fraud and other crimes. I am sure that Romney and Co. tried to stay on the legal side of the line, but when you play that close, you will inevitably foul, and I’d bet a month’s pay that there was substantial illegality in several of these deals.
I think Romney is damned lucky not to be sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff.
Is this REALLY the guy we want to run as our candidate for President? Do we really want to lose all fifty states, our majority in the House and give Harry Reid a filibuster-proof Senate?
That’s exactly where we are headed. We would be far better off with ANY of the other candidates, even Ron Paul would fare better in the general election that would this absolute disaster of a candidate.
I attack Romney now, so the Democrats will be denied this issue in the general election.
You think this is a matter of principle. It isn’t.
Although Romney’s behavior has been despicable, it may not have been illegal. That’s an open question. But it does disqualify him from the Presidency. He simply can’t win. And if we allow him the nomination, here’s what we get in return.
Four more years of Obama.
Democrats re-take control of the House of Representatives
Democrats get a filibuster proof Senate
Obama gets to stack the Supreme COurt with socialists destroying any chance for Constitutional restoration for a generation
That’s why we are opposed to Romney, and his apologists. You and people like you are going to cost this nation and generations to come dearly indeed.
I heard an interview with the man who created the video (who, by the way, used to work with Romney). He said he had a hard time picking the four stories to use... there were so many.
You just know more are coming.
“I attack Romney now, so the Democrats will be denied this issue in the general election.”
I’m sorry but I don’t see the logic in that.
Willful ignorance is never a pretty thing to see.
It is also devastating to one's credibility, and it opens one up to the charge of not knowing what one is talking about.
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