America has alway allowed big business to influence government, it's just that now the gloves are off. Just remember that money can't win elections unless you do what it tells you to do. At this time, many people are promoting progressive candidates at the local level. It's going to take time, but this can still be turned around. We should each be studying the candidates and the issues. http://hammy64000.com
Mitt Romney ran a company whose special skill was teaching other companies how to increase profits by shipping jobs overseas.
Now, because he wants to be president, he says that he will stop companies from doing that by raising the tariffs on items made by Chinese workers, the ones who got the jobs his company created for them back when he was running Bain Capital.
The irony is, of course, that tariffs are actually just taxes. Romney will raise taxes on goods which are being produced in China. Goods which would not even exist had not guys like him taught American companies to outsource American jobs to other low-paying countries in the first place.
So even more ironically, mitt romney plans on lowering taxes for those multi-national corporations he helped offshore jobs for, while raising tariffs (taxes) on goods from China so it's more expensive for the American consumer -- a punch to the gut of the middle class!
Dan1715: "This country will not be right until we get rid of people like..........
...............................................................mitt romney and his vulture capitalists that met him in Park City, UT.
Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas
Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
A Washington Post examination of securities filings shows the extent of Bain's investment in firms that specialized in helping other companies move or expand operations overseas. While Bain was not the largest player in the outsourcing field, the private equity firm was involved early on, at a time when the departure of jobs from the United States was beginning to accelerate and new companies were emerging as handmaidens to this outflow of employment.
Bain played several roles in helping these outsourcing companies, such as investing venture capital so they could grow and providing management and strategic business advice as they navigated this rapidly developing field.
What did mitt romney and the romney campaign say about this?
"Romney campaign officials repeatedly declined requests to comment on Bain's record of investing in outsourcing firms during the Romney era."
They actually said absolutely NOTHING, because it was TRUE!
Dan1715: "You keep forgetting some simple facts. Obamacare is going to grow the government."
While all you want to do is keep posting off-topic ranting about Obama "growing the government," when I just proved you wrong, you're conveniently forgetting that the SCOTUS decision on PPACA is due this week, so your latest rant is a moot point until then!
Besides danny, the PPACA grows the private-sector of the for-profit health care industry much more, by adding 32 million Americans, than the small part of government that will be added for oversight!
Getting back to the real topic you seem to want to bypass, why can't you address these BIG DONORS of romney, and why romney simply cannot answer ANY SPECIFICS on any of his right-wing proposals that will obviously benefit the wealthy and corporate America???
And danny, stop with your republican talking points and hypotheticals, and stick with the FACTS like these from drudge:
Government Shrinking Under Obama May 7, 2012
For the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. In the first quarter of this year, the real gross domestic product for the government -- including state and local governments as well as federal -- was 2 percent lower than it was three years earlier, when Barack Obama took office in early 2009.
No danny, it's the hypocritical ditthoheads that keep praising bush's need to expand government beyond belief, and fail to see how government has shrunk under President Obama! The FACTS are not your friend, and all you have is very sick political rhetoric with your off-topic posts that I feel I must address.
Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs January 6, 2012
Over all -- including a decline of 12,000 public sector jobs in the Labor Department report for December -- government employment is down 2.6 percent over the last three years, compared to a decline of 2.2 percent in the early Reagan years. That is a record.
Since the federal government started tracking the statistic in 1955, there have been only six years when government employment declined. They have come in threes: 1981, 1982 and 1983, the first three years of the Reagan administration, and 2009, 2010, 2011, the first three years of the Obama administration.
There is no reason to think Mr. Obama is as happy about the reduction in government workers as some Republicans. But like it or not, the Obama administration has turned out to be anything but a big-government one.
For the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. In the first quarter of this year, the real gross domestic product for the government -- including state and local governments as well as federal -- was 2 percent lower than it was three years earlier, when Barack Obama took office in early 2009.
The private sector grew faster in the first three years of the Obama administration than it did in three of the previous five administrations -- the exception being Bill Clinton's administrations, when private sector growth was more rapid. In both of George W. Bush's terms as well as in the first three years of the George H. W. Bush administration, though, the private sector grew more slowly.
I know, I know, those damn facts are getting in the way of the republican talking points again. While I'm personally against these facts because I believe the defunding of government at the state and local level is keeping the economy down by taking spending power from millions of consumers who happen to work for the government, its hard to make a case that Obama is a big spender when compared to his predecessors. Private sector jobs are back to the same level they were when Obama was elected but public sector jobs are down. Does the right want to do anything about it, or do they faithfully believe that private police, fire, and schools will pick up the slack for these unemployed?
Dan1715: "You keep forgetting some simple facts. Obamacare is going to grow the government."
While all you want to do is keep posting off-topic ranting about Obama "growing the government," when I just proved you wrong, you're conveniently forgetting that the SCOTUS decision on PPACA is due this week, so your latest rant is a moot point until then!
Besides danny, the PPACA grows the private-sector of the for-profit health care industry much more, by adding 32 million Americans, than the small part of government that will be added for oversight!
oneStarman: "HIDDEN MONEY from SECRET DONORS behind the Guarded Gates of Exclusive Clubs where the public and reporters are Kept Out. Man of the People"
Yep, this is just a typical weekend for the oligarchic plutocracy, planning their further enslavement of the American people, by buying all politicians and justices, and having their lobbyists like ALEC write all our legislation that benefits them at our expense!
They're called "Founders", just like early investors in a company. The business plan? Takeover America, strip it of its assets. pay off the Founders and executives, and leave the company trashed. Bain Capital may have had a few successes but for the most part, they got their money and fees and the takeover target was left bankrupt. Kind of like what Republicans did to America during the Bush years.
Yes, good analogy between the termites at bain capital destroying lives and the republican locusts that swarmed during the bush years, and have reformatted their attack under mitt romney.
Rummy donors are the Koch brothers and big oil wanting more tax breaks so they can pocket more money from the working class. They want to ship more jobs to China too. So vote for the GOP and than you can work for $5.00 per hour 12 hours a day seven days a week with no benefits. If this is what you want vote for them.
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Now, because he wants to be president, he says that he will stop companies from doing that by raising the tariffs on items made by Chinese workers, the ones who got the jobs his company created for them back when he was running Bain Capital.
The irony is, of course, that tariffs are actually just taxes. Romney will raise taxes on goods which are being produced in China. Goods which would not even exist had not guys like him taught American companies to outsource American jobs to other low-paying countries in the first place.
So even more ironically, mitt romney plans on lowering taxes for those multi-national corporations he helped offshore jobs for, while raising tariffs (taxes) on goods from China so it's more expensive for the American consumer -- a punch to the gut of the middle class!
...............................................................mitt romney and his vulture capitalists that met him in Park City, UT.
Romney's Bain Capital invested in companies that moved jobs overseas
Mitt Romney's financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/romneys-bain-capital-invested-in-companies-that-moved-jobs-overseas/2012/06/21/gJQAsD9ptV_story.html
Bain played several roles in helping these outsourcing companies, such as investing venture capital so they could grow and providing management and strategic business advice as they navigated this rapidly developing field.
What did mitt romney and the romney campaign say about this?
"Romney campaign officials repeatedly declined requests to comment on Bain's record of investing in outsourcing firms during the Romney era."
They actually said absolutely NOTHING, because it was TRUE!
While all you want to do is keep posting off-topic ranting about Obama "growing the government," when I just proved you wrong, you're conveniently forgetting that the SCOTUS decision on PPACA is due this week, so your latest rant is a moot point until then!
Besides danny, the PPACA grows the private-sector of the for-profit health care industry much more, by adding 32 million Americans, than the small part of government that will be added for oversight!
Getting back to the real topic you seem to want to bypass, why can't you address these BIG DONORS of romney, and why romney simply cannot answer ANY SPECIFICS on any of his right-wing proposals that will obviously benefit the wealthy and corporate America???
Government Shrinking Under Obama
May 7, 2012
For the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. In the first quarter of this year, the real gross domestic product for the government -- including state and local governments as well as federal -- was 2 percent lower than it was three years earlier, when Barack Obama took office in early 2009.
http://www.drudge.com/news/156533/government-shrinking-under-obama
No danny, it's the hypocritical ditthoheads that keep praising bush's need to expand government beyond belief, and fail to see how government has shrunk under President Obama! The FACTS are not your friend, and all you have is very sick political rhetoric with your off-topic posts that I feel I must address.
Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs
January 6, 2012
Over all -- including a decline of 12,000 public sector jobs in the Labor Department report for December -- government employment is down 2.6 percent over the last three years, compared to a decline of 2.2 percent in the early Reagan years. That is a record.
Since the federal government started tracking the statistic in 1955, there have been only six years when government employment declined. They have come in threes: 1981, 1982 and 1983, the first three years of the Reagan administration, and 2009, 2010, 2011, the first three years of the Obama administration.
There is no reason to think Mr. Obama is as happy about the reduction in government workers as some Republicans. But like it or not, the Obama administration has turned out to be anything but a big-government one.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/under-obama-a-record-decline-in-government-jobs/
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Government Shrinking Under Obama
May 7, 2012
For the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. In the first quarter of this year, the real gross domestic product for the government -- including state and local governments as well as federal -- was 2 percent lower than it was three years earlier, when Barack Obama took office in early 2009.
http://www.drudge.com/news/156533/government-shrinking-under-obama
I know, I know, those damn facts are getting in the way of the republican talking points again. While I'm personally against these facts because I believe the defunding of government at the state and local level is keeping the economy down by taking spending power from millions of consumers who happen to work for the government, its hard to make a case that Obama is a big spender when compared to his predecessors. Private sector jobs are back to the same level they were when Obama was elected but public sector jobs are down. Does the right want to do anything about it, or do they faithfully believe that private police, fire, and schools will pick up the slack for these unemployed?
While all you want to do is keep posting off-topic ranting about Obama "growing the government," when I just proved you wrong, you're conveniently forgetting that the SCOTUS decision on PPACA is due this week, so your latest rant is a moot point until then!
Besides danny, the PPACA grows the private-sector of the for-profit health care industry much more, by adding 32 million Americans, than the small part of government that will be added for oversight!
Yep, this is just a typical weekend for the oligarchic plutocracy, planning their further enslavement of the American people, by buying all politicians and justices, and having their lobbyists like ALEC write all our legislation that benefits them at our expense!