Obama's new ad: Romney/Bain Capital a 'Vampire'

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  1. danboy9787

    danboy9787 New Member

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    ALL bailouts are bad bailouts.
     
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    Grokmaster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Pretty ironic, considering that the main thing that SUCKS so far in this campaign, is OBAMA's OWN RECORD AS POTUS...
     
  3. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    That's like saying that black people destroyed the American cotton farmers when they started getting paid for picking cotton.
     
  4. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    keymanjim New Member Past Donor

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    Do you work for free?
     
  6. danboy9787

    danboy9787 New Member

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    Actually the economy improved after the end of slavery. Totally the opposite.
     
  7. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Why wouldn't it improve? They had to rebuild the South. Plus there were millions of new consumers and the West was opening up.
     
  8. danboy9787

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    Yes, and people who are free and paid to work tend to work much better than those who are forced at no personal gain.
     
  9. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Steve Jobs created tens of thousands of jobs...........in China!
     
  10. danboy9787

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    actually hundreds of thousands in china and tens of thousands in america. whats wrong with that exactly?
     
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    And the main investor in Bain was a non-American guy from a Sth American country. So Romney screwed over countless 1000's or 10's of 1000's of Americans, on behalf of a non-American! What a patriot!
     
  12. Consmike

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    It is amazing how people can't believe that companies operate on wanting to create a profit.

    what fools.
     
  13. CoolWalker

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    Romney left Bain 3 1/2 years before they hit major trouble. Blaming him for that is like blaming your sister for something your brother did. Obama on the other hand has not even run a lemonade stand and he is failing at running the nation...go home loser!
     
  14. Curmudgeon

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    Here is an even better article on how Bain gutted Georgetown Steel and basically took a good profitable manufacturer which made money, paid well and had an excellent profit sharing plan with it's employees, and liquidated it. Bain made a fortune, but the jobs were lost, the profits which had been spent in South Carolina were lost to the community and state, and Bain and it's investors made a fortune. Vulture capitalism at it's finest.

    http://www.dallasobserver.com/2012-04-19/news/mitt-romney-american-parasite/
     
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    Nonsense. In the case of Georgia Steel, they took profitable company, that routinely invested in it's plant and material, paid good wages, had a good profit sharing system with it's employees and literally drove it into the ground and liquidated it. http://www.politicalforum.com/24776...al-vampire-post1061216105.html#post1061216105
     
  16. Consmike

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    There had to be a reason that Bain got their hands on the company. Companies just don't offer all this great stuff, do well and then just liquidated.
     
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    Nah, they wanted to see it liquidated. No private capital was willing to step forward to allow for a structured bankruptcy, which is what Mittens proposed. So unless the Government intervened, the assets would have been sold off, all of the jobs would have been lost and all of the GM dealerships would have gone down the toilet.
     
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    other companies would have picked up market share. that is what would have happened. Hell, a new upcoming company might have even benefited from this and had a great start.
     
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    I suggest you read the article I linked to.
     
  20. BringDownMugabe

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    No. I'm claiming Obama is not in charge of GM. And he's not.

    There are still thousands of American GM jobs today. If it weren't for the bailout, that wouldn't be the case. Instead, we'd have another foreign product taking GM's spot in the market. Maybe there's an American plant, maybe there's not. Either way, the number jobs wouldn't nearly be the same.

    And I find it hard to believe a conservative like yourself was for the bailouts.
     
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    Why was Georgetown Steel sold?
     
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    Shows how much you know. Dominos has been around since the 1960's and they had over 1,000 stores before they were sold to Bain Capital in 1998. Your ignorance is quite priceless!

    That's right, I hate capitalism. :roll:
    Or maybe it's just I have a hard time labeling a glorified banker (who earns money off the people who actually make the product) a "job creator." Romney's existence in business is exactly the mark where capitalism becomes corporatism. Buying established companies and turning them corporate, while sitting back and earning money off their backs. He's no job creator. He's an empty business suit who is another Wall Street crony.

    So lawyers aren't capable of being POTUS? Your messiah was an actor. Clinton was a lawyer and is considered a good POTUS. Go back and look at Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, etc... In fact, if you look at businessman who occupied offices, their track record is horrible. Look no further than Dubya and his father.
     
  23. jcarlilesiu

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    So only product based industries represent actual economic growth?

    So accountants, lawyers, economists, engineers, bankers....

    None of them actually create jobs?





    It wasn't when you all where defending Pelosi.
     
  24. jcarlilesiu

    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So, I guess your position here is that we should sustain and support businesses operating at a loss.

    I mean, that is really the point of the attack on Romney right?
     
  25. jcarlilesiu

    jcarlilesiu Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Source your figures.

    Industries that Bain Capital supports and helps to continue to employ tens of thousands of people outweigh the few flailing steel industry jobs that were out sourced.
     

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