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To: wagglebee

Absolutely.

Romney knew full well exactly what he was profiting from. The chances that he didn’t are ZERO.


83 posted on 11/26/2014 10:16:39 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
I also find it amusing that some people will equate owning stock through a mutual fund or 401K plan or even a few hundred shares of stock with owning complete or controlling interest in a company.

Very few Americans own a million dollars worth of stock in a single publicly-traded company and even they don't have the say that a fund manager or venture capitalist investor does. The person who finds a chicken head in their child's chicken nuggets will have a better chance of talking to the CEO of a fast food chain then the shareholder with a million dollars worth of stock.

Romney knew full well exactly what he was profiting from. The chances that he didn’t are ZERO.

There are exactly two possibilities:

1. He knew that Stericycle disposed of aborted babies and it didn't bother him at all.
or
2. He didn't know, which makes him incompetent and negates any claim he can make about understanding business.

People need to realize that when Bain Capital bought Artisan Entertainment Romney refused to play any personal role in the deal and refused to take any money from it and this was because Artisan made R-rated movies. Romney made no similar protest to Stericycle. Now, "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" was a crude movie and offensive to a lot of people, but it wasn't helping to facilitate the murder of babies. (It is interesting that Romney has been a board member of Marriott on and off for decades and never objected to them offering X-rated movies on pay-per-view in their hotel rooms.)

I have wondered some how good of a businessman Romney really is. Romney's net worth is estimated to be in the $250 million range and he might have spent another $100 million or so on political campaigns; however, most of the of the people who held similar positions at other firms during the period Romney was active are worth well over $1 billion. If Romney is as good as he claims, and isn't hiding the majority of his wealth, he should be a lot richer than he is.

84 posted on 11/26/2014 10:57:55 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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