Merged Romney made money off aborted fetuses.

[Clayton Moore]

Them's fightin' words, pilgrim!

Just for our amusement, I dare you to even attempt to back up your slur above. Go ahead. Do your best.

Romney in 2012? Romney is the poster child for what's wrong with America. A spreadsheet toting, outsourcing, company bankrupting, pension stealing grifter.

 

[dc1971]

Mitt Romney’s Abortion Business Made Him $50M


by Karen Fish




http://www.nowpublic.com/health/mitt-romney-s-abortion-business-made-him-50m

I thought he didn't need to run a business? I thought he was Illuminati?

I'm confused, Clayton! Truthers like you have a tendency to do that!

 

[dc1971]

Romney in 2012? Romney is the poster child for what's wrong with America. A spreadsheet toting, outsourcing, company bankrupting, pension stealing grifter.

I thought he didn't need to steal. I thought he already had all the money in the world?

Doesn't your truther hero, Alex Jones, explain this?

 

[Tricky]

Wasn't that Christine O'Donnell, or did I miss this about Bachman?

Yeah, it was. I get them confused sometimes. She was the one on Bill Maher's show too, because Bill apologized to her for bring that witchcraft thing up.

 

[Cleon]

Romney in 2012? Romney is the poster child for what's wrong with America. A spreadsheet toting, outsourcing, company bankrupting, pension stealing grifter.

Ooh. And you have to choose between him and the black guy. That's gotta suck.

 

[applecorped]

For America, yes.

 

[Tricky]

For America, yes.

At least for the poor, racist part.

 

[Clayton Moore]

Matt Taibbi Lambastes Romney's Time At Bain—Here Are The Highlights!

http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-taibbi-mitt-romney-bain-rolling-stone-2012-8

Mitt Romney’s Bain was using the same trick as two-bit mobsters — the "bust out."

"Fans of mob movies will recognize what's known as the 'bust-out,' in which a gangster takes over a restaurant or sporting goods store and then monetizes his investment by running up giant debts on the company's credit line. (Think Paulie buying all those cases of Cutty Sark inGoodfellas.) When the note comes due, the mobster simply torches the restaurant and collects the insurance money. Reduced to their most basic level, the leveraged buyouts engineered by Romney followed exactly the same business model. "It's the bust-out," one Wall Street trader says with a laugh. 'That's all it is.'"

Mitt Romney’s Bain sidled Dunkin’ Donuts with crushing debt.

"In 2010, a year after the last round of Hertz layoffs, Carlyle teamed up with Bain to take $500 million out of another takeover target: the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins. Dunkin' had to take out a $1.25 billion loan to pay a dividend to its new private equity owners. So think of this the next time you go to Dunkin' Donuts for a cup of coffee: A small cup of joe costs about $1.69 in most outlets, which means that for years to come, Dunkin' Donuts will have to sell about 2,011,834 small coffees every month – about $3.4 million – just to meet the interest payments on the loan it took out to pay Bain and Carlyle their little one-time dividend. "

Mitt Romney ran a super wasteful Olympics.

"Not that Romney hasn't done just fine at milking the government when it suits his purposes, the most obvious instance being the incredible $1.5 billion in aid he siphoned out of the U.S. Treasury as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake – a sum greater than all federal spending for the previous seven U.S. Olympic games combined. Romney, the supposed fiscal conservative, blew through an average of $625,000 in taxpayer money per athlete – an astounding increase of 5,582 percent over the $11,000 average at the 1984 games in Los Angeles."

 

[The Don]

Mitt Romney ran a super wasteful Olympics.

"Not that Romney hasn't done just fine at milking the government when it suits his purposes, the most obvious instance being the incredible $1.5 billion in aid he siphoned out of the U.S. Treasury as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake – a sum greater than all federal spending for the previous seven U.S. Olympic games combined. Romney, the supposed fiscal conservative, blew through an average of $625,000 in taxpayer money per athlete – an astounding increase of 5,582 percent over the $11,000 average at the 1984 games in Los Angeles."

Far be it from me to defend Mitt Romney but the article fails to recognise a number of key points:

• 18 years had passed between the two Olympics with attendant inflation in those years
• The per-athlete cost of running a summer games may not be directly comparable to the per athlete cost of running a winter games (where there are a fraction of the number of athletes. How did it compare to Lake Placid ?
• The Salt Lake City games were the first ones post 9-11. Salt Lake City probably had much higher per-athlete security costs (certainly the total bill for security at the London games was huge)