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kpete

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Mon Oct 15, 2012, 09:48 AM Oct 2012

Ronald Reagan’s budget director: Romney Is NO Job Creator-He Is A GAMBLER In A Rigged Market [View all]

Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
Oct 15, 2012 1:00 AM EDT
Is Romney really a job creator? Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, takes a scalpel to the claims.

Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that have been perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed. So Bain’s billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise.

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......... Mitt Romney was not a businessman; he was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses. He did not build enterprises the old-fashioned way—out of inspiration, perspiration, and a long slog in the free market fostering a new product, service, or process of production. Instead, he spent his 15 years raising debt in prodigious amounts on Wall Street so that Bain could purchase the pots and pans and castoffs of corporate America, leverage them to the hilt, gussy them up as reborn “roll-ups,” and then deliver them back to Wall Street for resale—the faster the better.

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The Bain Capital investments here reviewed accounted for $1.4 billion or 60 percent of the fund’s profits over 15 years, by my calculations. Four of them ended in bankruptcy; one was an inside job and fast flip; one was essentially a massive M&A brokerage fee; and the seventh and largest gain—the Italian Job—amounted to a veritable freak of financial nature.

In short, this is a record about a dangerous form of leveraged gambling that has been enabled by the failed central banking and taxing policies of the state. That it should be offered as evidence that Mitt Romney is a deeply experienced capitalist entrepreneur and job creator is surely a testament to the financial deformations of our times.

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REALLY XLNT TAKE DOWN!!!
LOTS MORE INFO:
PLEASE SHARE THIS -probably most thorough description of the VULTURE that Romney Truly is:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html

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today reagan could`t be elected to a dog catcher if he had to run on this record madrchsod Oct 2012 #1
Ronnie's the one who got this crap going into high gear Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #13
Reagan would think these people invoking his name are completely nuts LTR Oct 2012 #15
(he)..."bought, sold, flipped and stripped businesses." nenagh Oct 2012 #2
thats why it is such a great article kpete Oct 2012 #3
7 commercials and Obama debate retorts tblue Oct 2012 #4
Here's another one, even though it's 3 weeks old. I did a search... mojowork_n Oct 2012 #28
re:Ronald Reagan’s budget director: Romney's NO Job Creator-He Is A GAMBLER In A Market Rigged To Ri allan01 Oct 2012 #5
K & R AzDar Oct 2012 #6
K & R spartan61 Oct 2012 #7
Spam deleted by CaliforniaPeggy (MIR Team) dougshreff Oct 2012 #8
K&R HopeHoops Oct 2012 #9
K&R for Mitt the Gambling Mormon Blue Owl Oct 2012 #10
Thanks! Taking this to Face Book for my Rep friends Lucinda Oct 2012 #11
Romney is the problem, not the solution. (nt) JaneQPublic Oct 2012 #12
Looking For The Pigs In Flight, Ma'am: Mr. Stockman Is Right.... The Magistrate Oct 2012 #14
K & R! dchill Oct 2012 #16
Face-booked. elleng Oct 2012 #17
Posted to fb. No wonder many Republicans are refusing to vote for Romney. mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #18
Where is that claim from? WinkyDink Oct 2012 #24
Google is your friend. See what you find. mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #32
I think he was a pirate cojoel Oct 2012 #19
The analogy, or, rather, the fact, is that MR is the Mob. WinkyDink Oct 2012 #25
Funny how Stockman was a hero... Haywood Brothers Oct 2012 #20
This guy needs to be out there... tallahasseedem Oct 2012 #21
Great find kpete! bluesbassman Oct 2012 #22
THIS is Obama's home-run query: "What, where, and how many jobs did Bain Capital create under YOU?" WinkyDink Oct 2012 #23
No. That just gives him an opening to make outrageous claims and lies. mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #33
Thanks for posting this! n/t Martin Eden Oct 2012 #26
He runs a Wall St chop-shop. nt HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #27
K&R Waiting For Everyman Oct 2012 #29
Bain Capital being sued for anti-trust violations and rigged bidding aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #30
I can't believe that Americans LeftInTX Oct 2012 #31
So Under Reported: The Political Baseline's Sharp Move To The Right colsohlibgal Oct 2012 #34
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Thinkingabout Oct 2012 #35
What a great line! David Zephyr Oct 2012 #36
Great article from a known Republican economic expert --- skewering RobMe AikidoSoul Oct 2012 #37
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