Huh? Part 2
By D.J. McGuire | Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | Economics, Policy, PoliticsOK, several Republican candidates are angry at Mitt Romney (and Democrats are gleeful) because he took over companies drowing in debt, bleeding cash, and heavily bloated in personnel; he then rescued them in a number of cases by letting employees go and shutting down unproductive business functions (among other things).
Meanwhile, whoever is elected President in November will take over an enterprise that is drowning in $15 trillion of debt, bleeding over $1 trillion a year, involved in several unproductive functions, and heavily bloated in personnel . . .
. . . and Romney’s private sector experience is a bad thing?
More to the point, shouldn’t supporters of limited government jump at the chance of electing a President who talks about the joy of firing people? Isn’t this exactly what we need?
Just sayin’
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Ron Paul agrees.
Well… I’m not enthused about Romney (wow, I feel so, like, four years ago!!!), but you make an excellent point. Feel free to remind me of this post when I’m in the doldrums in October, OK?
**grinz**
Gotta say… that is a VERY compelling argument…
Agree. Poor choice of issues to attack Mitt on. Appeal to emotion–which is exactly what this is–is best left to the liberals.
If only he weren’t such a finger to the wind political panderer, flip flopper.
Gotta say, this reminder of the business acumen he displayed at Bain (and the 2002 Winter Olympics) makes me like him more.
The deal is, I really don’t see him as a flip-flopper. He’s someone who has looked at facts and, over time, made progressively more intelligent decisions.
If only all of us could be that way.
With all due respects JR that cannot be overlooked.. I still like RP best and Obama worst..
Great points. My support for Romney is slowly rising. The flip-flopper charge would be better substantiated if it were based on more than his views on abortion, an issue with which many struggle. I bet folks wouldn’t complain about flip-flopping if he would abandon his defense of Romneycare.
its not that he was in business – its just that if he is running ON his business acumen and trying to draw a contrast between his private sector dealings and the failings of a Washington he says he wants to correct, it doesn’t help his cause that he himself received bailouts: http://youtu.be/tA1B_KzXXh8
on top of that, look at this comparison between Romney’s business acumen as compared to Ron Paul’s firm grasp of the economies involved with the business cycle:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1YViy_eFaEtYjM2MzRkMzMtZjVhNC00NTA4LWJlMmUtMTQ3YTI1ZTdhMTdj
when you compare the two… Romney needs to go back to school and Paul is the obvious teacher – who do we want? the teacher? or the student? ALL of Paul’s predictions have been correct – you can’t argue with that track record. Paul… most definitely 2012
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