Another Romney layoff victim, this one a conservative, speaks out

Washington Post ^ | 1/6/2012 | Greg Sargent

[Qbert]

Reuters published a blockbuster story today on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City that was acquired by Bain Capital, leading to the layoffs of some 750 workers. In this case, the workers lost promised severance pay and health insurance; their pension benefits were slashed. and a federal government insurance agency had to bail out the company’s pension plan — even as Bain raked in millions and millions of dollars in profits.

Now a man who says he worked at the plant for 34 years — a self-described conservative — is speaking out about Romney.

Glen Patrick Wells, who lives in Peculiar, Missouri, agreed to appear in a new MoveOn.org video in order to speak out about what the layoffs did to the surrounding community.

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“I spent 34 years in this steel mill,” Wells says in the video. “They walked out of here with millions. They left us with nothing.”

I reached Wells today, and unlike Box, he tells me he’s a conservative, who has switched back and forth from Republican to independent, and says he voted for George W. Bush for president in 2000 and 2004 and John McCain in 2008. (He has also supported Claire McCaskill for Senate.) Yet despite his leanings, he was willing to conspire with MoveOn to produce this video, which is a pretty good preview of the sort of thing you’ll be seeing in ads in struggling Rust Belt communities against Romney, should he become the GOP nominee.

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“Right now, if Romney gets in, I am so disgusted that I will probably vote for Obama and I detest him,” Wells says. “Anyone who is willing to put a predatory capitalist in office deserves to get Obama.”

[1010RD]

So, to a man of intriguing mystery I bid adieu.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Back at ya

[freedomfiter2]

Too bad Romney, who I would still vote for over Obama BTW, doesn’t have the spine to call Obama a Socialist.

People who like big government have trouble saying the s word.

[hampdenkid]

Actually, this article makes me more prone to vote for Romney. We need a tough-minded businessman in the WH who understands that there is no constitutional right to a job, that companies are in existence to make products that make a profit, not make nice. The first cost-cutting move I’d make if I took over a company would be to get rid of HR — and then put up signs that said: “New Company Poicy: Work, Don’t Whine.”

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"Actually, this article makes me more prone to vote for Romney."

Ah, but what about the geniuses out there who want Obama to pay for their gas and mortgages out of "his stash"? The idiots chanting tax the "millionaires and billionaires"- because that's the only thing they can remember with their limited amount of brain cells? The unthinking, emotional morons who fall for every "gotcha" attack cooked up the MSM in order to distract them from their real economic woes?

Can Romney's message counter this?