Since Mitt Romney's campaign wants to argue over whether the right word to use is "outsourcing" or "offshoring," let's put it this way: Here's a map of countries to which Bain Capital moved jobs under Mitt Romney's leadership.
The map includes the 150 jobs that photo album and picture frame maker
Holson Burnes created in South Carolina, then moved to New Hampshire, then cut there while moving production to Asia. It includes
Dade Behring, which Bain loaded up with debt and forced into bankruptcy, laying off 850 Florida workers and moving production to Europe. It includes
Modus Media and Stream International, companies specializing in outsourcing services that were featured in Friday's
Washington Post article on Bain's investments in offshore outsourcing. GT Bicycles and SMTC Corp., both of which relied on overseas manufacturing, are also featured on the map and in the
Post.
Mitt Romney didn't create the corporate rush to cut jobs in America and create them in low-wage countries. But he invested in it, he participated in it, he made millions off of it. And a Mitt Romney presidency would expand this map radically, creating incentives for companies to invest overseas rather than in the United States.