Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
How the GOP presidential candidate and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs – and stuck others with the bill
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829
Much as I detest Obama, Romney is way worse than the evil bastard we have in office now. Read this article (yes it is long, but then, dammit, he is currently 50% likely to be our next President, so take the time!) and think about what it would mean to have this man at the top of our political hierarchy. Here is just one notable quote:
Thanks to the tax deduction, in other words, the government actually incentivizes the kind of leverage-based takeovers that Romney built his fortune on. Romney the businessman built his career on two things that Romney the candidate decries: massive debt and dumb federal giveaways. “I don’t know what Romney would be doing but for debt and its tax-advantaged position in the tax code,” says a prominent Wall Street lawyer, “but he wouldn’t be fabulously wealthy.”
Vote Obama: at least he gives you lube when he fucks you!
I’m going to pass on the guy with the lube. That kind of guy can screw you in your sleep and you never know it until you die from the complications.
Further, choosing a known evil over a presumptive evil is rather…well…presumptive.
Frankly, choosing Obama suggests that you have given up, totally, on ever becoming anything at all, however badly the odds are stacked against you, and accepting that your only hope is someone that will provide you the safety net, at the expense of the general populace, that you have decided you are going to need.
Shoot fire, our society is already on a par with the former soviets in terms of freedom and constitutional rights. All we need is some additional enforced socialism to be everything we hated in our days as a people seeking individual freedoms.
Deciding that oneself is a certain failure is clearly anti-selective in terms of survival. Prolly a good thing that the current environment delays the effects of natural selection. It really only works well when things are tough. When it isn’t working, one can bet that things are going to get tougher.
Check back in a couple generations from now.
I guess it boils down to the evil you know vs the evil you don’t. If I felt that there was any reason to think that Romney would be no worse than Obama, I would probably be willing to risk taking him on in the top slot. However, everything I have read about him has me convinced that he would be worse than what we have, that is, unless you are already in the top 0.1%. While I still harbor fantasies of achieving that status, I don’t care to do so at the expense of the rest of the nation.
In any case, my state is going with Obama whether I want him or not, so it is largely moot for me.