tweakabelle -> RE: Willards campaign passes out false info (10/31/2012 11:05:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: subspaceseven Really??? Ask the people in Kansas, where the steel plant was shut down, ask the people in Freeport whose jobs are going over seas, Bain has shut down many a business after running up debt.. Romney and Bain made over $100 million, a 2000% return, from a company that was driven into bankruptcy while workers, shareholders, and communities were devastated. In 1992, Romney’s Bain Capital bought American Pad and Paper (Ampad) for $5 million. Bain began increasing the company’s debt dramatically in order to pay fees to Bain and finance rapid acquisitions. In three years, Bain had brought the company’s debt from $11 million to $444 million. At the same time, Bain was slashing wages and retirement benefits for workers. we look at how his private equity firm, Bain Capital, drove a Kansas City steel plant into bankruptcy, leading to some 750 layoffs and a federal bailout. Bain still walked away with millions of dollars in profits A simple google search will show you the companies Bain purchased, ran up the debt, forced into bankruptcy and made millions while the workers lost everything, pensions, healthcare, everything It's called wealth redistribution, Romney-style. Its basic principles are easy to grasp. Buy an asset-rich under-performing company, then run it into the ground, fire the workers and short change them (and everyone else) on their entitlements (eg. strip pension funds), take any external (especially Govt) funding you can get your mitts on (pun intended), realise the assets, divvy up the spoils and bury them deep in some obscure pension fund of your own where no one can their greedy socialistic mitts on it. But wealth redistribution is bad I hear you say. It's un-American, it's socialist! Yup. All that - but so sooooooo lucrative as well if you can get away with it. Mittens calls it "making money the old fashioned way" - cute description I'm sure you'll agree.
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