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Romney: "I did not have economic relations with that company."

Submitted by P.Au.L on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 09:57

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There's something weird about Bain Capital. It seems that the company was going along doing what ordinary private-equity firms do—buying and selling companies, making lots of money—until about 1999 or so, when things took a sinister turn. At that point, terrible things began to happen. The firms they backed went into bankruptcy, costing thousands of people their jobs, while Bain still walked away with millions in management fees. They invested in companies that profited from outsourcing and offshoring. Who knows, they may have been producing magical hair-thickening elixirs made from the tears of orphans. Every time one of these new revelations comes out, it seems to concern the period after 1999. But fortunately for Mitt Romney, he has an explanation: When all these bad things happened, I was no longer part of the firm. I left in 1999, when I took the job leading the Salt Lake City Olympics.

Yet today, the Boston Globe comes out with an investigation that seems to reveal that Romney was still in charge after he left for Salt Lake:

Continue: http://prospect.org/article/i-did-not-have-economic-relation...

Okay Guys ... This is HUGE !!!

Submitted by TommyPaine on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 11:41. Permalink

I am telling you, THIS IS THE WAY TO GET RON PAUL ELECTED PRESIDENT !!!

I am shocked that I didn't know some of this about Romney until now. And I pay attention moreso than most. So, you can bet the Average Joe out there has NO CLUE.

Let's put some ingredients together and see if we can whip up a Ron Paul VICTORY:

(1) MOST GOP delegates go to the national convention for the EXPERIENCE, not because THEY are party hacks.

(2) Most GOP delegates are not themselves party hacks, but they WILL follow the direction of the true party hacks to tell them what to do at the convention, since the average GOP delegate really doesn't know what to do.

(3) The majority of GOP delegates going to the convention are CURRENTLY thinking they will vote for Romney to be the GOP candiate ... because ??? ... he is "the presumptive nominee," as they have been told by the media that THEY listen to and watch.

(4) The average GOP candidate also is not thrilled with Romney, but they think (i.e. hope and pray) that he can BEAT OBAMA -- which is the ONLY thing they really care about (besides the party atmosphere in Tampa).

(5) But ... what happens if those Santorum-leaning folks find out that Romney WAS IN CHARGE of a company that disposed of aborted fetuses???

(6) And ... what happens if the Romney-Gingrich-Santorum-other voters find out that they have been LIED to and MANIPULTED by the very radio talk show hosts that they like and trust?

(7) What whould happen if GOP convention goers were to find out that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and other radio show talk hosts were ALL syndicated by the SAME company, Premier Radio Networks ... and that Premier is owned by Clear Channel ... and that Clear Channel is primarily owned by Bain Capital ... and that Mitt Romney owns 100% of Bain Capital, so that it was really Mitt Romney who ultimately funded all those radio talk show hosts to promote ... Mitt Romney???

(8) What would happen if the average GOP convention delegate, once having learned of this sort of thing, were asked, "Can you state ONE thing that Mitt Romney stands for, politically, other than his claim that he would repeal Obamacare, which itself was modeled on Romneycare ... can you name ONE position he actually has?

(9) And then ... what would happen if you simply said, "You know, I think what we really need here is a good debate about the GOP party platform AND we should hear from Mitt Romney AND someone else who actually holds convervative values, namely Ron Paul?

(10) And when Average Joe says that Ron Paul is unelectable or crazy, then say, "Well, if you're like most people, you've probably heard things like that said about Ron Paul from people in the media ... such as Sean Hannity and Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh ... but they are PAID BY MITT ROMNEY ... so what would you EXPECT them to say?"

(11) And what if we said, "Let's go ahead and make a motion to change the rules here at the national convention so that we can nominate BOTH Mitt Romney AND Ron Paul, so that they can BOTH give a good speech, and THEN go ahead and vote for the party nominee that is MOST ELECTABLE?"

(12) And what would happen (geesh ... I'm starting to sould like Judge Nap ... What if ... lol) if it came to the attention of the average GOP delegate that Ron Paul is actully MORE ELECTABLE because he polls better among INDEPENDANTS and THE MILITARY???

(13) What if you asked the average GOP convention goer, "If YOU owned 100% of a company, and you hired someone else to manage it, and that manager decided to invest in a business that disposes of aborted fetuses, would you look the other way, would you tell the manager not to do it, would you fire that manager ... WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"

(14) What if you asked the average GOP convention goer, "If YOU were running for political office, and you opponent OWNED radio stations that were promoting him and bashing you, would you realize that they were bashing you because he is their boss and NOT because you really have bad ideas?"

In other words ...

If the Ron Paul delegates could get a short, well-done video that can be shown on portable tablets or their phone (could be uploaded to a website) that shows all these things about Romney that will make him LOSE to Obama, and that Ron Paul is really the ONLY chance of beating Obama, and that the media has NOT told the truth about all of this because Romney's company ultimately pays their salaries, then ...

... there just might be ENOUGH (not all, but ENOUGH) GOP delegates who would support a motion to change the rules (if necessary) and put BOTH Mitt Romney AND Ron Paul into nomination, let the two give speeches, let others give speeches, show how Ron Paul has a 40-year track record of supporting the GOP platform and Mitt Romney has a track record of the OPPOSITE of the GOP platform ...

... and this JUST MIGHT BE WHAT COULD WIN IT FOR RON PAUL!!!

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Submitted by menmybassguitar on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 11:32. Permalink

Clinton repealed Glass-Steagall in 99, That's when the banking sector was completely deregulated and the fraud exploded. Untill this is corrected, it's only going to get worse.

I just read in the past week

Submitted by PAFFVINTAGE on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 11:10. Permalink

I just read in the past week that in 1998, we started going into a financial downturn like 2008 but banks in Great Britain bailed out American banks. I may have read that in the Telegraph but can't remember. Maybe Bain got caught up in all that too and started doing nefarious things?

In 1998 there was the LTCM decacle

Submitted by Ian56 on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 11:24. Permalink

which Greenspan bailed out.which then led to the Nasdaq bubble, which then led to the ...

LTCM was a concoction of maths "geniuses" with zero common sense or knowledge of history - like the peeps producing risk algorithms for MBS's in the backrooms of banks in 2001 to 2007.

There was also the Asian currency crisis.

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