This is a recent cover, in case you thought you were missing something.
Posted on 09/02/2012 10:29:39 AM PDT by tired&retired
How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill.
The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected.
The critics couldn't be more wrong. Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation.
The incredible untold story of the 2012 election so far is that Romney's run has been a shimmering pearl of perfect political hypocrisy, which he's somehow managed to keep hidden, even with thousands of cameras following his every move. And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who'd be honored to tell Oliver Twist there's no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Are printed copies of the RS free (as they should be)?
I'm confused. Is Bain Capital 15 trillion in debt?
“We take all kind of pills and have all kind of the thrills and the boys won't leave us alone...”
I can’t believe they are still publishing Rolling Stone. Most of us grew up and moved beyond that BS a long, long time ago.
Being debt-free is obviously racist.
No doubt RS is a partisan, but it’s true that not everything connecting with Bain should be trumpeted as morally acceptable.
RS is good as torn up to use in the event you do not have regular cat litter, to be the cat litter itself.
I know.... I need new friends!
Fannie & Freddie crashed the economy, not Bain.
Sometimes the best way to get a message through, is by using a political cartoon. This one fits.
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Are those old dopes-smokers still publishing this rag? When the over-65 crowd passes on to their reward, let us hope that this Lefty mouthpiece will perish with them
Anxiously waiting for Matt Taibbi’s scathing takedown of Obama’s corrupt takeover of GM... which destroyed the pensions of school teachers. And Taibbi’s devasting article about leftist Paul Krugman’s work for Enron. And his truth-telling piece about George Soros hoarding billions of dollars that he made from insider trading, while the poor suffer. And.... (/Sarc)
“But what most voters don’t know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: by borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back.” (Paid by others who purchased the excellent investments he made that were generating sufficient cash flow to pay the debt without taxpayer dollars.)
What I would tell my friends, if I had any friends inclined to read RS, is that when I got to this line in the 3rd paragraph I realized nothing that followed would be anything other than hyperbolic bullshit, and I found something better to do with my time. Then I would dare them to say exactly the same thing but substitute white for black, and then chastise them for being a racist pig. Lastly, I would ask them how much as a percentage of income they gave to charity, and wonder aloud how that compared to what the penny-pinching white boys gave.
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Indiana Public Retirement Fund
Iowa Employees Retirement System
The Los Angles Fire and Police Pension System
Maryland State Retirement and Pension System
Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada
State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio
Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System
Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island
San Diego County Employees Retirement Association
Teachers Retirement System of Texas
Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System
Endowment and foundations for Columbia, Princeton and Yale. Others include Cornell, Emory, MIT, Notre Dame and U of Pittsburgh. Then there is Purdue, University of California, University of Michigan, University of Virginia and University of Washington.
Other foundations include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ford Foundation, the Heinz Foundation ( see John Kerry) and the Oprah Winfrey Foundation.
California State Teachers Retirement System has pumped $1.25 Billion into Bain.
When asked about Bain Capital I answer that Oprah invests in Bain how can it be evil because Oprah is good? Or is Oprah evil now also? Ends argument.
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