An incredibly stupid line of attack that backfired and is probably helping Romney. Perry and Newt were stupid to have done this. It forced conservatives that otherwise don’t have a lot of love for Romney to defend him - which is exactly what Mitt needs in a GOP primary.
It would be different if this were something that only Romney had done and it hadn’t been going on in the corporate world for decades.
I suspect that many of us have been laid off due to things like this over the years. The company I worked for was bought by Collins and Aikman who squeezed the value out of it and dumped the corpse. (C&A went bankrupt themselves in 07 with David Stockman at the helm)
I don’t like it and don’t think its ethical but its legal and if its so terrible that its a legitimate campaign issue, then the candidates should run on the promise of making it illegal and punishing the guilty.