It never was about "creating jobs." Just about making himself wealthy. For Romney, his Greed is Good and if other people get destroyed in the process of enriching himself, it's all ok. Like a Lord of the Manor, he likes being able to fire people. It's about power and wealth and the people be damned.
It is extremely important to assist Mitt Romney in defining himself as the candidate of the 1%, as Mr. 1% and as the Job Cremator early on. When people see Romney, they need to think of all the jobs he destroyed to enrich himself. He personifies the screwing of the middle class over the last 30 years.
Romney is helping now by claiming that critics of his vulture capitalism are motivated by the "bitter politics of envy". Yes, his arrrogance shines through. You don't like that he destroyed your job? Envy. Jealous. YOYO (You're On Your Own) economy with a vengeance. This corporate creep makes George W. Bush look compassionate.
And creep he is. The man with no soul inside, no heart, just a calculator for profits for himself.
Gingrich now is going after Romney big-time, running on "conservative populism." Good, because he helps spread the meme.
Mitt Romney is depicted as a financier “more ruthless than Wall Street” and a son of privilege responsible for firing thousands of workers in a film bankrolled by Newt Gingrich supporters set to be released today in South Carolina.
“Make a profit,” a laughing Romney is shown saying in the 28-minute film, obtained by Bloomberg News. “That’s what it’s all about, right?”
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“Under Romney, Bain was making billions,” a narrator says. “At the same time, contributing to the greatest American job-loss since World War II.”
Bloomberg
Thank God Republicans are dumb. A populist-talking Gingrich, even with his baggage, would be a real threat to President Obama. But wagons are circling among the 1%ers who run the Republican Party and their media lackeys are pushing against the critique and for Romney (even Limbaugh defending Romney). The conservative commentariat is freaking out that Gingrich spilled the beans about vulture capitalism.
Gingrich could expose the split among the Republicans between white, high school educated, non-union working class voters who are economically populist but culturally conservative, and the real owners of the party, the country club conservatives. It is no accident that Todd Palin (as a surrogate for Sarah) endorsed Gingrich.
Romney is the opposite of what people once called Reagan Democrats.
So I hope Gingrich spreads the meme and the battle goes on for a while, but that Romney wins while completely embracing the 1% and vulture capitalism.
“It’s absolutely brutal in its depiction of the activities of Bain Capital under Governor Romney,” said Stephen K. Bannon, a conservative filmmaker and radio host who said he had no connection to the Romney film.
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“It wouldn’t be an issue except for the fact that Governor Romney’s made it the central part of this thesis for why he should be elected,” Bannon said.
Bloomberg
DNC Head and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Shultz:
“Mitt Romney, I think, is more of a job cremator than a job creator,” Schultz said. She added: “He was a corporate buyout specialist at Bain Capital. He dismantled companies. He cut jobs. He forced companies into bankruptcy and he outsourced jobs and sent jobs overseas. That’s not a record to write home about, that’s not a record to be proud of, and it’s something voters need to know.”
Balloon Juice
I worked in a steel mill in Kansas City for over 32 years. Then Mitt Romney and Bain Capital came in a took the place over and eventually shut it down. We lost our jobs; they made millions. Businesses, they were all gone. Jobs we'll never see again.
Mitt Romney wants to call himself a “job creator”? Mitt Romney doesn’t care about jobs; he cares about money.
Here's what and who we are fighting for:
This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make or break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement.
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Now, in the midst of this debate, there are some who seem to be suffering from a kind of collective amnesia. After all that’s happened, after the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, they want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess. In fact, they want to go back to the same policies that have stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for too many years. Their philosophy is simple: we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.
Well, I’m here to say they are wrong. I’m here to reaffirm my deep conviction that we are greater together than we are on our own. I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, and when everyone plays by the same rules. Those aren’t Democratic or Republican values; 1% values or 99% values. They’re American values, and we have to reclaim them
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President Obama at Ossawatamie: "We Are Greater Together Than We Are On Our Own"
The Choice could not be clearer.
The Candidate of the 1% vrs. the Candidate of the 99%.
You're On Your Own vrs. We're All In It Together.
The Vulture Capitalist vrs. The President Who Brought Us Out Of A Depression.
Which side are you on?
Fired Up and Ready To Go!
Update I: Romney doubles down on "envy":
Meanwhile, on “TODAY” this morning, NBC’s Matt Lauer asked Romney an intriguing question: Are questions about Wall Street greed and excess about envy or about fairness? Romney’s answer: “I think it’s about envy. It’s about class warfare.”
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QUESTIONER: When you said that we already have a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy, I’m curious about the word envy. Did you suggest that anyone who questions the policies and practices of Wall Street and financial institutions, anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this country, is envious? Is it about jealousy, or fairness?
ROMNEY: You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on 99 percent versus one percent, and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent, you have opened up a wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God. The American people, I believe in the final analysis, will reject it.
QUESTIONER: Are there no fair questions about the distribution of wealth without it being seen as envy, though?
ROMNEY: I think it’s fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like. But the president has made it part of his campaign rally. Everywhere he goes we hear him talking about millionaires and billionaires and executives and Wall Street. It’s a very envy-oriented, attack-oriented approach and I think it will fail.
Romney was twice given a chance to nod in the direction of saying that concerns about these problems have at least some legitimacy to them, that they are about something more than mere envy or class warfare, and that they are deserving of a public debate. And this is the answer he gave.
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