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pokerfan

(27,677 posts)
Sun May 20, 2012, 02:39 PM May 2012

Jim Cramer On MTP: ‘Romney is a job destroyer, not a job creator

David Gregory asked Cramer if Romney will be able to get a sustained bump from the “job creator” claims. Cramer admitted that people may be receptive to some of what Romney has in his ads, but the simple truth to him is that Romney can’t accurately say he’s created jobs given the public perception of his time at Bain Capital.

Romney’s known as a job destroyer, not a job creator. I just don’t think that this will stick. I think Bain sticks. I think the idea that you bring in Bain, which is what happened in the 80s, they fire a lot of people and that’s how they get prosperity for the rich. That is a more resonant theme, I think, than anything Romney’s come up with.”

Video at link...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jim-cramer-on-meet-the-press-romney-is-known-as-a-job-destroyer-not-a-creator/

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Jim Cramer On MTP: ‘Romney is a job destroyer, not a job creator (Original Post) pokerfan May 2012 OP
Romney, Job Destroyer napkinz May 2012 #1
"Romney can’t accurately say he’s created jobs given the public perception of his time at Bain..." Igel May 2012 #2
Central Casting? We need a guy who looks like he likes to fire people. gulliver May 2012 #3

Igel

(35,197 posts)
2. "Romney can’t accurately say he’s created jobs given the public perception of his time at Bain..."
Sun May 20, 2012, 03:04 PM
May 2012

"Romney can’t accurately say he’s created jobs given the public perception of his time at Bain Capital" is simply incoherent.

It assumes that accuracy depends on public perception.

Try this parallel: If public perception is that global warming is a hoax, the claim that average temperature have risen over the last 40 years is inaccurate.

Perhaps the claim won't be convincing. Perhaps it won't be taken as plausible. But accuracy (or inaccuracy) doesn't ultimately rest on perception.

(As for Bain, I can recall the conversation in the late '90s about steel dumping and the problems the steel industry was in. The failure of a small steel company in the late '90s is more of a given at this point rather than something that needs a lengthy explanation.)

gulliver

(13,142 posts)
3. Central Casting? We need a guy who looks like he likes to fire people.
Sun May 20, 2012, 03:56 PM
May 2012

Right...yeah, like a smarmy, vulture-y, mirror frequenter. Kind of a Mitt Romney with...I mean is Mitt available?

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