Mitt Romney: "Of course my numbers add up. I was in business"

[TheDev]

lol is this how Romney plans on winning this debate?

 

[GoPackGo]

He DESTROYS businesses after he rapes and pillages them.

 

[techs]

His numbers add up. Just like Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.

 

[MovingTarget]

Whats good for Romney's business isn't good for American business. Whats good for American business isn't necessarily good for America. America is a COUNTRY not a BUSINESS. Their reason to exist is completely different.

 

[ivwshane]

Yes, I loved his non answer too.

 

[xBiffx]

Still, many would prefer someone who knows business intimately vs. someone who doesn't when it comes to the economics of the US.

 

[ivwshane]

Still, many would prefer someone who knows business intimately vs. someone who doesn't when it comes to the economics of the US.

I guess we will find out now won't we?

 

[dawheat]

Duh - pirate capitalism is what we need to take on China and beat them at their own game. When I get costs on labor in the US to match costs in China - mission accomplished.

 

[xBiffx]

I guess we will find out now won't we?

You are delusional if you think this question is going to be answered in November.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I love how he says he's all about small business. Romney's idea of small business is one that only has a single corporate jet.

 

[monovillage]

Quick Dev, make up as many stupid threads as you can.

 

[her209]

Just like when he said he wasn't part of Bain Capital anymore only to find out he still was.

 

[Jhhnn]

Quick Dev, make up as many stupid threads as you can.

So even you recognize the lameness of that particular Romney duh-version, which is why you'd rather nobody bring it up. Understood.

I'm sure Mitt said the same thing to the investors he fleeced in KB toys, Jumbo stores, Stage stores, FAOSchwartz & a few others...

"Of course my numbers add up! Trust me!"

 

[DominionSeraph]

Still, many would prefer someone who knows business intimately vs. someone who doesn't when it comes to the economics of the US.

Gingrich on Romney:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83963462-newt-gingrich-on-romney-s-role-at-bain-primaries.html

 

[Subyman]

I'd be willing it give a successful business man a chance when we are hemorrhaging 1Trillion every year.

 

[LegendKiller]

Still, many would prefer someone who knows business intimately vs. someone who doesn't when it comes to the economics of the US.

Yes, because Hoover and GHWB and GWB were 3 of our greatest presidents ever and about the only 3 who had "business" experience. LOL, you righties are so fucked up with your thinking.

I worked on Wall Street, I deal with them every day still. I don't want a single one of them anywhere near the executive. It's already gone too far with how much influence bankers have on the government and it needs to be rolled back.

 

[LegendKiller]

I'd be willing it give a successful business man a chance when we are hemorrhaging 1Trillion every year.

Because Romney is so great at loading up struggling companies with massive amounts of debt when he can write off the interest and then put it into bankruptcy later only to still collect his 2/20 with carried interest regardless of the failure with no clawbacks.

So, how, exactly, do you translate that bit of bullshittery into a global stage? Does the US Government open up a Cayman Island account?

You're forgetting the reason why we are hemorrhaging $1tr a year, the same fucking policies Mittens wants to push further. What are they going to do when the Reagan/GHWB/GWB policies pushed further by Mittens results in even more debt? Watch the economy collapse and then blame it on the Democrat president again?

"Well duh, we didn't fuck it up, the guy who came after us fucked it up, but we promise, if we quintuple down on Reaganomics, it'll work. NO cap gains taxes at all, top marginal tax bracket BELOW the middle class tax bracket (job creators need more money)...etc. WE PROMISE, it'll work this time, it's all the Dem president's fault!"

Why don't you people listen. REAGANOMICS IS A FUCKING JOKE.

 

[Subyman]

Because Romney is so great at loading up struggling companies with massive amounts of debt when he can write off the interest and then put it into bankruptcy later only to still collect his 2/20 with carried interest regardless of the failure with no clawbacks.

So, how, exactly, do you translate that bit of bullshittery into a global stage? Does the US Government open up a Cayman Island account?

You're forgetting the reason why we are hemorrhaging $1tr a year, the same fucking policies Mittens wants to push further.

Looks like it worked fine for Mass.

 

[LegendKiller]

Looks like it worked fine for Mass.

So fine he's leading the state. You'd think they'd vote for him in a heartbeat if he made them so successful.

 

[Subyman]

So fine he's leading the state. You'd think they'd vote for him in a heartbeat if he made them so successful.

They've been voting all D for pres since the 80's. Obama's state is bankrupt, go figure.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Still, many would prefer someone who knows business intimately vs. someone who doesn't when it comes to the economics of the US.

OMG your still apologizing for Romney....now thats funny!!!

 

[xBiffx]

OMG your still apologizing for Romney....now thats funny!!!

I am? Where?

 

[JEDIYoda]

You are delusional if you think this question is going to be answered in November.

One thing is for certain...Romney will have to go back to work for Bain in November...

 

[Jhhnn]

One thing is for certain...Romney will have to go back to work for Bain in November...

Not with the deal he got on exiting- he's set for life on $250M+ in assets & $20M/yr income, all tucked away in a "blind" trust.

Well, unless he ends up having to pay 19% in Federal taxes rather than 14%- that'd be like the invasion of Poland or the Holocaust, or something really, really terrible, like weeping crocodile tears on the balance sheets... The horror!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I don't see what's so bad about letting a businessman run a country.

A country operates on revenue (taxes) and expenditures like a business. I see no reason to let a lawyer run a country more than a businessman, but that's just me.

And who cares if Bain Capital shut companies down. The Kansas steel company is the best example. That company was dying, and the US steel industry is in general. If you want to remain competitive, then the US needs to move on. That might have been "high tech" 100 years ago, but high tech now means a lot more.