Romney's latest goof up - Page 12

all i'm saying is that its good to know as much about each candidate as possible - from all sides (socialist, libertarian, progressive, conservative), only with this does one have a better idea of who he/she really is.


i still don't understand why some people resent people that have been successful in their fortunes - i celebrate each and every success and hope that one day i too can be the same......

Democrats adopted a budget, Republican leaders in the Senate on Thursday assailed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats for their failures, promising to pass a budget if voters put them in the majority after November.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member on the Budget Committee, said “this nation has never faced a more difficult financial challenge” than it current “deep systemic demographic problems.”

“They need to be addressed yet today marks the 1,240th day since the Democratic Leadership in the Senate adopted a budget,” Sessions said. “For three years in a time of financial crises, the Senate’s Democratic majority has failed to comply with the United States code that requires us to bring up a budget and bring it to the floor of the United States Senate.”

Sessions said the Democrats’ failure was “a colossal failure of leadership” and “a failure of fundamental responsibility.” He declared that such a failure makes Democrats “unable to be able to ask to be returned to leadership.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said failing to pass a budget for three years should be a “national scandal” and vowed Republicans would pass a budget if put in the majority.

“When Republicans regain the majority in the Senate, we will pass a budget, we will reduce the deficit, we will tackle our long-term debt and we will help grow the American economy by getting our boot off the neck of the small businesses and job creators in our country,” Cornyn declared.

Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) said the Obama administration and the Senate majority “have failed to govern during a crucial time for our nation,” and “there is a willingness to kick our problems down the road with the hopes that the next election will suddenly inspire action.”

“Rome burned while Nero fiddled,” Enzi said. “We have had enough fiddling.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also said, “the fact that we have an election coming up is not an excuse for not tackling the tough problems,” because “no matter what the American people decide this November, the problems are there.”

“And our commitment to the American people is, if we’re in the majority, we'll do the basic work of government and our hand will be out to our colleagues on the other side and whoever the President of the United States is," McConnell said. "It is time to tackle the biggest problems in the country, the most predictable crisis in American history.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) later took to the Senate floor and accused the Republican Senators of “hubris.”

Brightbart.com

Bain Capital took failing companies, did the dirty work and made them profitable.

Had they not done this, all those companies would have failed and ALL the employees would have lost their jobs.

Some companies did fail but many more thrived.

Some were layed off and or fired, many more were eventually hired.

First of all, who the heck pays more tax than they have to?  Just like EVERYONE else in the world, Romney pays what the TAX LAWS say he has to...

As far as Bain Capital--"Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high potential, high risk, growth startup companies.  The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it INVESTS in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as biotechnology, IT, software, etc."  Bain risks it's own money by LENDING to start-up businesses or companies in trouble that need money to stay in business.  If the company fails, Bain loses its' investment so it is in their own interest that the company they lend to succeeds.  Some of the companies Bain has helped: Staples, medical equipment maker Calumet Coach, technology research outfit the Garner Group, Totes, Experian, Sealy Corp, Alliance Laundry Systems, Domino's Pizza & Artisan Entertainment.  Yes, they had failures & some companies did not succeed.  But that's the chance you take when you start a business & then borrow money.  Everyone can't survive in business...but they CAN pick themselves up & start again & be better & stronger.   Why don't you get that???????

Mitt Romney has worked his whole life & has succeeded....that's what this country is all about. 

"First of all, who the heck pays more tax than they have to?  Just like EVERYONE else in the world, Romney pays what the TAX LAWS say he has to..."

The wealthy have access to the legislative process that common people don't enjoy.  That access allows them to change the TAX LAWS in their favor.  It really isn't that terribly difficult to understand.

"Why don't you get that???????"

I love it when non-business people think they know something about how business works.  

By Matt Taibbi August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn't stand for anything. He's a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who'll say anything to get elected. The critics couldn't be more wrong. Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He's closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren't the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they're the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he's trying for something big: We've just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we've been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation. The incredible untold story of the 2012 election so far is that Romney's run has been a shimmering pearl of perfect political hypocrisy, which he's somehow managed to keep hidden, even with thousands of cameras following his every move. And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who'd be honored to tell Oliver Twist there's no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race. RELATED LINKS 1/. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz277pZndod

gsdpartisan, my question is not if he paid enough taxes on his reported income; my concern is did he report  his off shore accounts prior to amnesty in 2006? If he has nothing to hide, why won't he just release those tax returns and prove himself as being an honest man? Ironic that the righties wanted to tar and feather Obama because they insisted (and some still do) that he offered a forged birth certificae, but yet they have no concern that their candidate may have committed a felony?  Why is that?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/what-s-fact-and-what-s-opinion-in-the-discussion-about-bain-and-mitt-romney-20120905