Oh, "Managing Member of Bain in 2002 Mitt Romney," you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO screwed.

[JDPriestly]

26. +10000

Yes. This is why I became fed up with all the political sex scandals. Who cares? Consensual sex is immoral but not illegal for a reason. It's much too common. Our prisons are full enough.

And from the S&L scandal until Romney, financial corruption in government has been pretty much ignored -- just a part of doing the nation's business -- and old-boys game -- harmless. Who cares about a few taxpayer's dollars here and there. It's just rich guys paying off rich guys.

But now we have seen where all the corruption leads -- joblessness and endless debt. It's time to clean up government.

Obama ran on the promise of transparency. He hasn't lived up to his promise but has done a lot better than most of his predecessors since FDR anyway.

We can't expect perfection in this area, but we don't have to elect people (and politicians don't have to appoint people) who cut corners and will do anything to please their rich friends (especially when campaign donations or big business deals oil the machinery).

Romney's inconsistencies, lies, vague assurances support our impression that he had serious conflicts of interest while serving at the Olympics and possibly when running for and maybe even when serving as governor of Massachusetts. Someone now will have to review all the contracts in Mass. while Romney was governor, all the appointments and see whether he or Bain were involved in any of them.

I'm just so glad that we are focusing on one of the real causes of our country's problems -- finally.

Outsourcing is a symptom of disloyalty to the US and of putting one's own economic interests over those of the country. Outsourcing and importing that are out of proportion to job creation within and exporting from the US are what are harming our country.

So is giving visas to foreign workers rather than training Americans to do the work that is needed.

And all this goes right back to our insane trade policies.