Mitt Romney Lies About Job Creation Record at Bain During ABC Debate
Romney came right out of the gate at this Saturday night's ABC Republican primary debate lying about his job creation record at Bain Capital.
Here's part of the exchange via the LA Times -- Romney takes heat over Bain record:
Asked to respond to an anti-Romney ad campaign that will be waged by a super PAC backing his candidacy, former House speaker Newt Gingrich shied away from directly endorsing the ads – which scrutinize Romney's record at Bain Capital – but delivered a pointed jab at the Bain business model.
“I'm not nearly enamored of a Wall Steet model where you can flip companies, you can go in and have leveraged buyouts, you can basically take out all the money, leaving behind workers,” Gingrich said.
Pressed to explain a comment he made last month that Romney earned his fortune by “bankrupting companies and laying off workers,” Gingrich punted, referring instead to a New York Times story that detailed the history of one company that was taken over by Bain.
“Well, I”m not surprised to have the New York Times try to put free enterprise under trial,” Romney said. “I'm not surprised to have the Obama adminsitration do that either. It's a little surprising from my colleagues on this stage.”
Romney again repeated his claim that Bain created 100,000 jobs under his leadership. His math has been questioned in recent news reports – like this one from the Washington Post, which says the 100,000 figure “obviously does not include job losses from other companies with which Bain Capital was involved — and are based on current employment figures, not the period when Romney worked at Bain.”Romney defended the figure: “I'm a good enough numbers guy to make sure I've got both sides of that.”
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein was following the debate on Twitter and noted that Romney's claim about the net-net on job losses is just not true and pointed to this article as well as the one linked from the LA Times above:
Why is Romney doing such a lousy job defending his record at Bain Capital?
That will change soon when 'king of bain' hits the airwaves.
Newt's Pac bought the documentary 'When Mitt Romney Came to Town'.
I have seen trailers and it looks like the interviews are the people he bankrupted.
Plus an explanation of his 'Gordon Gekko' era.
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
Maybe the RNC had a talk with them boys about the 11th commandment.
Newt fooled me when he didn't go off on romney and paul for all the negative ads they ran on him in Iowa. I was watching the lions/saints too, so I could have missed any fireworks.
links to the anti-romney bain documentary
http://www.kingofbain.com/
copy of the trailer for the documentary, may be taken down from youtube. 3 videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HHe56rUto
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
Probably because Newtron took a few on the chin right off when Ron Paul hit him with a few zingers about being a chicken hawk.
And in other breaking news, death and taxes are still inevitable.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
addressing the fact that the Sawyer and Stephanopolous were basically ignoring Ron Paul, who actually finished in the top tier of votes in Iowa and happens to be one of the only candidates (other than Romney) who has a national campaign organization up and running.
Here's a recent and very blatant attempt to ignore him by the MSM. Apparently they think we're just not paying attention?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS9PkWls6j8
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
....defending his record?
Because he's a liar, that's why.
This man lies everytime he tells people his name, soo why wouldn't he lie about something like this? Willard is just like a used car salesman he will say anything to close the deal.
...ever seen a person less comfortable with who and what he is than Romney. He's got a real identity crisis. On the other hand, he is remarkably comfortable when he's lying. The size of the lie doesn't seem to matter to Romney, either. He's right at home with whoppers and white lies, and he doesn't hesitate to go all in and deliver a genuine Big Lie, one so big, so outrageous that people may believe it because they can't believe anyone would say something so outrageous if it weren't true.
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