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Mitt Romney has no qualifications whatsoever to hold the position of commander in chief and leader of the free world. His chronic presidential campaigns have shown Mitt to be a weak character, a man with no convictions, and someone seemingly afraid of opening up to the very people that would be giving him the job of President. Mitt treats voters as he treated the employees at the companies he killed off at Bain: folks to be loosely courted with distant politeness, then to be wiped off the face of the earth in order to make a profit. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
Obama cannot stand on his merits because he has none. Obama is a scab on society, a true devider!
Mitt rules in buisness and will bring this economy back.
9:00 there u go again spouting your typical nonsense, and distorting the truth. in addition to his bain years, romney was a governor, which together with his other vast experiences, give him infinitely more experience in virtually every relevant skillset than your community organizer who did nothing but vote present in the senate after he had perfected the art of collecting signatures on a clipboard.
further, there are businesses that should go out of business just as there are people who should be fired. all businesses that close and all positions that are vacated by a person not doing a good job create an opportunity for a good business doing more business and growing, thus hiring more people, and a capabale person getting a job vacated by the incompetent. watch for a real life example of the latter in november.
I'd rather have a candidate in office who had the gual to take risks in the private sector, although not always succeeding, than one who has never held a real job in his entire life. Obama and his administration are in way over their heads when it comes to the private sector and the economy. Lets put an end to it.
How about opening up on Obama's radical organizer years.
Romney left Bain in 1999.
GST Steel files for bankruptcy in 2001.
I'm not going to assume that Romney has immaculate hands in this; but come on... this is driven so far from the truth.
The Obama disaster continues.....divide, blame, vilify, distort. When that doesn't work, just roll out Axelrod and lie, lie, lie. The cosmic joke continues............
Assuming it's all true, how exactly is it relevant that Romney/Bain Capital acquired some companies and laid people off? Why would we expect Romney, while working in private business, to do anything other than to pursue profit for his company? The message implicit in the ad is that being a good businessman disqualifies one to be president. If anything, this is more revealing about Democrats and their biases against capital and private business, than it is of what Romney is likely to do as president. Romney's experience at Bain will give him considerable insight into the forces which make American manufacturers uncompetitive and give him a better chance, as president, to select the correct policies to fix these issues.
GST Steel in Kansas City, Missouri, achieved striking improvements in productivity through a self-funded gain-sharing program featuring direct line-of-sight, measurable data, and low administrative support. Gain-sharing payouts averaging 12.4 percent of gross pay in 1993 were surpassed by first quarter 1994 results. Within the first three months of 1994, two components of the company broke 13 production records. In another GST component, management hit its stretch payout of 24 percent while the union reached its stretch payout of 20 percent. On a more intangible level, the program has produced gains in workforce creativity, cost consciousness, commitment, and empowerment. At the same time, the role of management has been revamped to emphasise monitoring, tracking, coaching, and ongoing communication of results.
GSTs success is rooted in a disciplined six-step process of planning, environmental assessment, plan design, plan testing, plan communication, and plan monitoring. Organizations can achieve similar results if they provide all employees with equal opportunities for success, give equal weight to financial and operational measures, link business strategy with results, and tie the compensation plan to performance measures. This article outlines the function and scope of gain management and chronicles the transformation of GST as it gave birth to its own gain-management program.
Abstract of: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/npr.4040130405/abstract
...Does Obama even have any business experience to be pointing fingers like that? How pathetic.
Romney can easily turn this ad into a positive. Some businesses need to go belly-up for a variety or reasons but always the central one is insolvency. Romney recognizes that in both business and government; Obama recognizes it in neither. Actually right now its a foolish ad. Two years ago it would have been shrewd and effective but since Greece and other idiocy, its going to make Obama look like an out of touch fool.
what Patrick replied I didnt even know that a single mom able to earn $5544 in 4 weeks on the computer. did you look at this web sit..PeopleJob1O.notlong.com
Transparent & Bankrupt
Obama Rules!
It's so "clever" of Obama's camp to pick one investment and draw conclusions on it. Does his team even understand that failures are part of any business activity?
How about analyzing entire track record of Bain and then telling us that from every 10 deals X were success and Y failed?
The establishment American media elected Obama because they hated Bush, they worship Obama's narrative, and they hungered for redemption of their closeted bigotry in the low expectations of black achievement. They never examined his socialist provenance, his executive inexperience or his anti-capitalist ideologies. Obama's defeat will set back the trust in achievements of the black middle class -- Obama's lasting insult to moderate black Americans.
Draft dodger Mitt Romney should drop out of the race. Ron Paul would beat Obama in a landslide win.
It would be nice to know the true state of GST Steel before Bain got involved. Undoubtedly, the company was in trouble. These old steelworkers are reminiscing of 40s, 50s and 60s when US manufacturing was booming.
Typical Democrats, personal attacks because they don't have anything to run on except a dismal record and 24 million out of work.
Strong ad. This is what leveraged buyout companies do. When the public learns this, Romney's going to have even more problems with his campaign.
Let's keep the focus on the Democrats' leveraged buyout of the United States of America. These spendthrift louts have squandered the national treasury to keep bloated and inefficient union-owned plants in operation, borrowed against future generations of working Americans to pay for failed social programs, while allowing American power and prestige to wither.
Next to this, Bain Capital's leveraged buyouts are a measly little activity that probably left the economy leaner and more efficient than before, resulting in greater overall prosperity and employment opportunity.
Listening to some older union steel worker whine about the good old days really is just more proof of Democratic failed policies.
Anonymous - if Mitt isn't qualified to be CiC, what qualifications did/does Obama carry to hold that same office?
Mauer - PE gets involved in failing or failed companies. You might not like it, but it's not like the steel company was soaring when Bain bought it...PE are restructuring specialists...ever heard of the mannerism "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" ? well, PE offers no value to successful companies (other than to help fund expansion)...mostly they come in to failed or failing businesses, where competition or the market have extended past what the mgmt team is capable of and exacts a turnaround or salvages equipment...either way, it performs a vital function in the asset markets to move the market in to supply-demand equilibrium...
you can ignore it if you'd like, but those are economics facts and realities...
Some of you GOP'ers need to be careful of what you are asking for, you just might get it. The GOP establishment does not care about you because you happen to be Anglo-Saxon. The only color they care about is green, their dark green. Most the everyday GOP'ers sprouting unintelligent regurgitation of FOX News sound bites don't have dark green money, their money is lite green. For reference: Dark green money: $5 million liquid cash right now, Lite green money: Anything under $1 million liquid cash right now. You guys really need to take a hard look at this party. How ironic would it be for the race issue, that which made America strong, you remember all that free labor from slavery, to the issue that was America's undoing; and not because this guys happen to be of African descent, but because some ignorant Anglo- Saxons could not see past his color. I hope that the history books will write another story about us; a story that speaks of a people that overcame their prejudices at a time they really needed to, a story of an America that owned up to her truer self, that we are in fact one nation under God, indivisible.
Some of the vile spewing from American's mouths sound more like sound bites from some middle eastern terrorist group bent of the destruction of our country. Very strange fruit to be falling from the tree of liberty indeed.
We really need God to bless America and ALL its people who call and believe themselves to be AMERICANS.
Romney doesn't even have the common sense to stay out of the firing line. After the complete story is told of all of Bain's hostile takeovers, Romney will have to run for the hills, and all his business partners at Bain. What a great way to bring national attention to the raiders of corporate America. After November the Republicans are going to be running for their lives.
The best way to get the budget under control is to do away with all these evil socialists entitlements the government is supporting today.
The Ryan plan will do just that. It will eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These are the biggest problems facing our growing deficit today!
Now that Mitt Romney is fully supportive of the Ryan plan, along with his plan to cut benefit programs including food stamps, school lunches, crop subsidies, Supplemental Security Income for very poor seniors and disabled people, unemployment insurance, veterans' pensions and refundable tax credits to the working poor, while giving more tax breaks to the "job creators," this can only help our country.
Good capitalists know that the best way to maximize profit is to quickly dispose of dated, non productive and unneeded assets.
If you agree, please support the GOP in the next election and take our country back — back to the 1930s.
finally they are telling the truth about the sociopath Robme.
It's about time to for the Democratic Party to go after the Republican jugular. None of their candidates should be elected to office. The country has seen what these psychos can do. Enough is enough.
How about a video opening fire on how the good old US of A has done under Obama?
We're on our way from greatness to mediocrity in a very short amount of time.
Obama should worry more fixing the economy today and less about what Romney may have done with one company in 1993 out of hundreds he dealt with. This is old news anyway.
Yes, let's do away with all the entitlements. We can start by eliminating prefential hiring in government jobs for veterans. The tax payer paid for their three squares and a warm place to sleep , and job trained many of them. There is nothing more the tax payers owes them, despite the whining for moe privileges. Then let's stop the FEMA entitlements for people who insist on building in disaster areas. Get your own damn home owners insurance, like the rest of the country has to. Next, let's stop the entitlements for social security disablity of under-40 year olds in red states. Get a job, get off my payroll taxes.
The Obamatons on this thread sound very, very desperate.
Now the GOP knows how it felt for John Kerry when the swift boat veterans ran. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
And how many jobs has the whiner-in-chief created?
Barry wants to discuss records on job creation?
Romney Camp Opens Fire on Obama's...........
Nothing really there.
This is as pathetic, relevant, and desperate as the allegation that Romney cut someone's hair in high school.
What's next for the disintegrating Barry campaign? Did Mitt Romney once use the toilet and leave the seat up?
@Florida Bob. You've got the whiff of somebody on entitelement himself. VA pension, on social security, money from someone's pension system? The absurd thing is the people screaming loudest about 'entitlements' are the people living off of entitlements , aka taxpayer funded sources.
1 buy controlling shares of company with lots of cash (employee pension investments) with money they don't have (aka. debt)
2 layoff any many workers as possible without considering long term viability of the company
3 pay original investors back with large one time dividend
4 unload debt onto the company (ironic isn't it? Bain Cap's debt is forced upon the acquired company)
5 make money on interest as long as you can
6 before company ultimately dies due to HUGE debt burden
If Romney gets elected, he will institute LBO style finance onto America's balance sheet. Take money out of all public trusts, then install HUGE DEBT on to future generations. Do you actually want all the money you put into social security, medicare, all raided by this draft and tax dodger?
And for all you dreamers whining about 'fixing' the economy, i've got a tried and true old American expression for you: the horse is out of the barn. There are no more jobs in the USA because there are no more businesses in the USA. Stop dreaming, start smelling the topsail, maybe it'll support a garden to feed ya..
You are an ungrateful SOB. As far as paying for their three squares a day and warm place to sleep -- for many those three squares were MREs and that warm plea to sleep was a jungle or desert. Or maybe it was a not so warm snow covered woods. OR maybe that bunk was a rack on a storm tossed destroyer in the North Atlantic. Giving veterans preference for Federal jobs is not just recognizing their past service but also that they have EXPERIENCE already.
I am not a veteran - but many in my age group are. Including five brothers. There's also my niece and two nephews.
anyonewith assets under $30,000,000 shouldn't be voting republican for you aren't rich enough to qualify as a true capitalist....maybe middle class worker who saved couple million to retire off of, but not a pure capitalist who has liquid investments to take great risks and leverage.
Romney was born on third base.
This is a very powerful ad. And it's just the beginning.
Etch-a-Sketch likes to give haircuts to the lesser among us.
We're like Seamus the dog or his attack victim from high school.
Dude is weird, very weird.
" Do you actually want all the money you put into social security, medicare, all raided'..."
Yeah, um, it's already gone. And check out the $1.5 trillion deficits that Barry is running up.
Whooping Cough epidemic in the North West while Republicans call for elimination of preventive care to pay for student loans.
I agree with helping students cut student loan costs, but there must be better places to find the money!
And to all those fools, mostly Repugnicons, who hope for GOD to save America, I'd like to tell ya that millions of people since Adam and Eve and the 'day of creation' have asked GOD to do things for them. Don't you fools think that God is tired of helping fools daily since the day HE created the world in 7 days? Maybe this adage will help you see things straight. God helps those who help themselves. And do your fellow Americans a favor, keep your religion between your God and yourself, the rest of us don't want your advice from self-admitted losers.
donkey logic: all stick, no carrot
Meanwhile Obama spends 100 million in the White-house OFF BUDGET and DONKEYS DON"T CARE!
That should tell you something.
And then there's the story of Bust Capital, you know the leadership that brought 12% unemployment, millions out of work for years, wasteful spending on solar, bailouts to save union jobs, $5, no $6 trillion dollars of debt, and a 1.9% GDP. Bust Capital.
Wow @ inter - tell us what you really think.
ANother point about veterans being trained by the govt already is a good one. They will have the discipline to get the job done and if they are going from say military air traffic control to civilian that the training curve is that much less and we know what they can do.
Hiring veterans just makes good business sense - even if that business is government.
That whooping cough epidemic is being caused by earth crunches and people who have bought the cr@p about autism being caused by vaccinations are the problem. Not lack of care.
This ad preys on public ignorance (including many reporters' and posters' ignorance) about private equity and will push even more job-creators away from supporting Obama, just as running similar ads did to the Gingrich and Santorum campaigns. Watch how fast donations to the Obama campaign dry up from business and finance.
No one likes to be villainized, especially by the President and his minions.
If Obama gets another term, we will all need to look at the Greek situation to see what our future will hold. Massive entitlements with no productivity. We have the benefit of seeing the future with the Grreek tragedy unfolding. Obama and his miniuns will take us there. Romney may not be the answer to everything, but Obama will lead us to ruin,
The Federal agency,U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp bailed out the firm $44 million unfunded pension after it put 750 people out of work. Workers at least had some protection thanks to the government.
Willard wants to run on his business record. That record deserves scrutiny, I think. Just as his record as MA governor is mixed, his business record has some real problems. Fair game
@ 1051,
Liberal anonymous,
You have got to be kidding. Just think of how many "free" vaccinations all of Obama's 6.5 billion of waste on green energy pork and payoffs would have bought.
At $1.50 a piece for infants and about a dollar more a dose for adults.... you do the math. See DTaP.
Funny thing is....most parents still actually pay for their peds to vaccinate their children, and don't rely on free health departments to do so. Obama's stolen taxpayer dollars for his green friends would have actually vaccinated the Western Hemisphere and then some.
What an absolute joke. Obama is even more of an idiot than I previously thought possible. Can you say Solyndra and $500m in not so private equity. How many jobs were lost in that debacle?
Obama's MIRACLE called Stimulus kept the unemployment level below 8 percent, was so very shovel ready, and no pork, as promised by Obama and Pelosi.
10:47 this is powerful ad only to the lunatics who are already in obozo's camp. to thinking people, this ad just furthers the resolve to get this clown out of office before he sabotages what's left of the greatest country on earth.
And what were BO's qualifications to be President "anonymous"? Community organizer, rebel rouser, student.. seriously? Give me Mitt Romney's track record and experience any day over the current bumbler. BO has nothing to run on. The blame Bush routine has more than worn thin. BO exhibits no (ZERO) leadership qualities. He will blame anyone, spin, attack and distort for purely self-serving reasons. His record will stand and he should be voted out of office with a resounding margin. The problem is that he continues to create millions of new entitled class that rely on the Government. This will be our undoing and for those socialist who think you can keep taking from the productive and have the Government "create fairness" you will see a Greece-like situation in the US very soon. Think about it before you decide to vote for four more years of this lunacy!
So Bain buys a distressed company in an industry defined by bankruptcies and the company hangs around another 8 years before joining the long list of failures in that industry? Hardly the "vulture capitalism" that the left portrays.
It least MItt has a track record. We all see the value of the seeds Obama planted in Chicago.
@11:14 Amen and Romney figured out a way to make over $8 million in profit even with the Union demands.
CTaft wrote :
"How about opening up on Obama's radical organizer years."
Yeah, I can't wait to see what Breitbart.com releases in the fall.
That's 1993. Does Obama have anything more recent than that?
Last month the Obama administration handed out 65,000 H-1B visas to internationals from China and India to come here and take jobs from Americans. The purpose behind the H-1B visas is to bring them here, train them here, then more the jobs overseas. Isn't there a word for someone who condemns another while they are doing the same thing?
The Party of God, you know the Christian Right who elected George Bush, the people who believe in the "Right To Life" have become the party of hate, a cancer that is consuming them. Let them die was the cry at a recent Republican debate.
Could it be that God had it right when he wrote the 10 commandments and we were later told that there were really only two?
Love God
Love your Neighbor as yourself.
With six people applying for every available job, our major problem is not people to lazy to work, it is the failed policies and governance that allowed us to get us into this mess. We give tax breaks to export jobs. Indeed many immigrants have died attempting to get to the United States from countries like Mexico to escape the turmoil and survive.
Actually our major problem is to much white collar overhead in the service sector consuming, being supported by to few workers actually producing something, which raises the issue – what is a job really worth? My guess is that most of us posting here are overhead, consuming more then they produce. (If you are not producing something that can be exchanged for the foreign manufactured goods and energy you consume, You are Overhead).
Consider this; if you were in a life boat with 50 other people, in the middle of the ocean, with limited food, water and medical supplies and no immediate prospects for rescue; how would you expect the available resources (food, water, medical supplies)to be distributed?
Suppose the biggest guy on board or perhaps a little guy with a gun attempted to horde it all; what do you think the outcome would be?
By the same token we would expect everyone to contribute, as best they could to the general welfare.
We might not expect the pregnant women and children to row, but we might ask then to clean fish.
Now zoom out a million miles and what do you see?
Another lifeboat – the planet Earth, circling the sun, with limited resources; in a small solar system somewhere in the Milky Way.
My guess is that is the way God actually sees us and will eventually judge us. The end will come when he gives up on his experiment with the human race.
If you know business, then you know that not every investment pans out. Apparently, Obama did not realize that when he invested in Solyndra.
The guy that manages the QT down the street has more managerial experience than Obama had in 2008.
gas prices, the employed, religion, states rights, health care, the middle class, students, oil drilling.... Gettin just a WEEEEEEEE bit DESPERATE are we Barry?
Clearly, liberal anonymous does not understand that the problem and issue with pertussis is that immunity eventually wears off in teeagers and adults.
The vaccine is effective but not 100 percent effective. Chances are, if pertussis is circulating in your community, that a fully vaccinated person can still catch the very contagious disease.
Vaccination is linked to a decrease in severity of the case. However, if you are exposed, even if vaccinated, there is prudence in treating you with antibiotics just in case.
Guess what???....pertussis has been on the rise in several other sections of the country over the last several years. So, liberal anonymous, why didn't Obama just fix it in his first couple of years with the Dem majority giving him everything he wanted??? Why were we having outbreaks then too? What an outrage that there is an outbreak of pertussis in the North West while Obama is in charge !!!!! LOLOLOLOL
Wow, the moans and ouchs of wing nuts and "flipfloppistas" in this blog demonstrates that the Obama campaign has touched a raw nerve.
Hit them with the truth.
Liberal anonymous @1126
Playing the hate card....so trite. While your party's president takes huge donations from men who hate on women, gives our tax dollars to men who oppress women ( Muslim brotherhood) and simply ignores threats of bloodshed to a whole race, by a group of his radical supporters. Talking about hate.
Now on to the part where God judges people, you are not God, and you are painting with a mighty broad brush when you lump people into one group and label them, especially when your facts are off a bit......care for some facts about who gives what.......including blood?
So if Mitt "off shore your job" Romney ever became president, would he encourage all Americans to hide money in an off shore bank account?
Obama/Solyndra -> Buying a cow for the village that turns out to be dry
Romney/GST -> Stealing milk from the village's only cow and then killing it and eating the meat
The Obama campaign.....is hypocritical.
Slight difference,
Obama/Solydra and her sisters - Telling the village ( taxpayers) he is buying them a cow with their money, then having the butcher cut it up and give it to his wealthy friends and supporters.
Mika Brzezinski (of MSNBC) said it best on today's "Morning Joe" show. If I heard her correctly she said the Obama video blasting Mitt Romney's involvement with Bain Capital shows us that "Romney has a problem: He knows how to make money."
Oh, my God! I wish I had that problem. Well, that does it, maybe I should consider voting for Obama because he KNOWS how to spend money—OUR MONEY.
A thief shows up with a gun and robs a liquor store of several thousand, gets caught and goes to maximum security prison for 20 years.
Mitt Romney and his LBO partners show up with their lawyers, shuffle some papers, use a company's own assets to take control, extract $100s of millions for themselves (some simply by stealing from the employee pension plans), get out, the now-debt-burdened company goes bankrupt shortly thereafter, and the company's now-former employee's families and communities are devastated. And who's stuck fixing the mess? Taxpayers, cause Bain is already out-of-there. Instead of being arrested, corporate vultures like Romney are lauded by the WSJ and the rest of the financial press.
Personally, I prefer liquor store thieves. They only take a couple grand. [Sure liquor store thieves occasionally shoot someone, but I suspect the body count is actually worse with a Bain takeover with all the suicides (and drug/alcohol addictions) after a long-term employer shuts down.]
Yeah, and bank robbers know how to make money too.
President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is "one of the world's largest private equity fund businesses," according to its website. OBAMA = FLAMING HYPOCRITE
* Obama's Government Spending Binge
* Annual Federal Deficits that cannot be paid for even if the rich are taxed 100%
* National Debt that sends more and more US Taxpayer interest payments to foreign countries
* Obama's Flat-Tire Economic Policies
Obama's past 3 years have been an economic disaster and are not sustainable.
Fire Obama. Hire somebody else.
I have pertussis because Obama gave my vaccination money to the Muslim brotherhood (1.5 billion) and his rich friends and supporters as a payback in green energy scams ( 6.5 billion ) billions to ACORN, 15 billion on Pell grants, 1 billion for the failed EPA superfund, 5 billion in a weatherization program corrupted with fraud, etc, infinity.
Cough, cough, cough.
Cough, cough, cough.
I can't stop coughing because Obama gave too much stimulus money to pork instead of pertussis.
Cough, spew, cough, spew.
So Obama knows how to make money also?
(I meant that Romney knew how to make money, but not how to create jobs)
How absurd. First folks, healthy companies don't get eaten by venture captial, companies who are experiencing problems do. Not all companies are fixable due to market and competitive issues - just ask Kodak and companies like NorTel. What is Obama going to say about Staples and Sports Authority both of which thrived under Bain's management? Is Obama going to talk about the electric union which HE cheated in the GM restructure? Or the bondholders many of which were teacher, firefighter and other union pension plans. And by the way...Romney left Bain in 1999, two years BEFORE this bankruptcy. But this example is the only one they have.
The nature of capitalism is that creative destruction is necessary. Those who use capital inefficiently perish to those who do it better. And this system has generated more wealth for more people than any other system of governing on earth. And more technological advancement too. Period. End of story. Yes we need regulation, sensible regulation.
I hope Bain defends itself, and shows all the success stories too.
I thought News Corp was under investigation in Britain?
I coughed so hard, I blew chunks. Obama didn't put me first.
Bain for the vain inanity of getting rich by killing companies and jobs and charging for their burial.
Great points, Marty.
I hope they do one about him laughing about everything he does - from the dog on the roof to his backing the Catholic Supreme Court that organizations are peope - isn't that hilarious!
Saying Romney is the best to save the economy is like saying that a mechanic who knows how to part out broken cars is the best choice to run General Motors...
Mitt "off shore your job" Romney would be our first president to hide money in an off shore account. He is the perfect Republican candidate.
This definitely demonstrates the WEAKNESS of the Obama campaign and their accomplishments. If this is one of their best attacks, they don't have anything.
Obama is the President , Romney is not and never will be.
He was flushed down the toilet in 2008 by the republicans who are recycling their oncerejectedturd.
How many percentage points is Mitt "off shore your job" Romney going to cost downstream Republicans?
To a liberal, making a company more productive is "killing it." Lord help the economy if they stay in power.
Who has a Wall Street Problem???
Comparing Romney to Obama is making him great indeed!
To a Republican, off shoring some ones job is good for the local economy.
thy name is TEAM OBAMA (and it shows L-O-L)
Bob @ 1209,
Don't you find it much more entertaining that a president would laugh that his stimulus was not really shovel ready like he promised???
It's a great ad.
Leveraged buy out companies, like Bain, bought hundreds of businesses, saddled them with debt, took the profit, and laid off the employees. Then we imported steel from India and China were people are paid $10/day and told that this is 'increased productivity' and not 'global manipulation of poverty and slave labor'. Meanwhile Romney was laughing all the way to the bank for destroying jobs and tangible wealth, and really just using companies as debt vehicles.
Honestly Romney is one of the most disgusting 'capitalists' in history, he is Gordon Gecko.
Great Ad because it is 100% true.
There is a deep philisophical question here. Is it about how we live. Are we ok with a company that makes a profit and employs people and has a "steady State". Or are we about survival of the fittest with growth as a necessary goal. We can think about these things, my question is philisophical.
Before Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was trying to help Mitt Romney win the White House, the senator spoke out against Romney's former company, Bain Capital, for engaging in the type of behavior that is now drawing the ire of the other GOP presidential hopefuls. McCain has endorsed Romney this year, and is defending him against attacks on Bain's "vulture capitalism" from Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. But as BuzzFeed points out, even McCain saw the problems with Bain four years ago when he ran against Romney.
In Florida, McCain shot at Romney: "As head of his investment company he presided over the acquisition of companies that laid off thousands of workers." In a debate, McCain charged, "He managed companies and he bought and he sold and sometimes people lost their jobs." McCain's campaign manager added, "He learned politics and economics from being a venture capitalist, where you go and buy companies, you
strip away the jobs, and you resell them,"
Wall Street has a new best friend...and his name is not Romney.
Last year, Obama took more money from Wall Street than any GOP candidate...and he has done nothing to pin a single top finance exec.with a criminal charge.
Money talks, huh?
Would Mitt "off shore your job" Romney increase incentives to off shore American jobs? If he did, how would Fox News cover it?
Solyndra Solyndr Solyndra. Lets see how Obama's "Investment" record has been?
Before Hillary was trying to help Obama win the White House, she spoke out against most things he ever did.
When Mitt "off shore your job" Romney is defeated, who will the republicans blame?
"...To a Republican, off shoring some ones job is good for the local economy...."
How do you feel about Barry's free trade pacts with S Korea, Panama, and Columbia? Has Barry unilaterally renegotiated NAFTA yet?
There's nothing the Barry apologists can say.
Obama's administration is not a friend of the people.....
If I were a Republican, I would try and distance myself from Mitt "off shore your job" Romney. Why the Republicans would run Gordon Gecko, right after Wall Street crashed the economy, is beyond me.
Newt Gingrich, backed by a supportive super PAC that is beginning a multimillion-dollar advertising assault on Mitt Romney's business record, ferociously attacked Romney's years as chief executive of a Boston investment firm today, saying Romney ruined lives in the pursuit of profits.
"Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money, or is that somehow a little bit of a flawed system?" Gingrich told reporters after a visit to an electric company here. "I do draw a distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods, and leaving behind a factory that should be there," he said.
Gingrich has been leading the charge against Romney's record as chief executive of Bain Capital, an equity investment, venture capital, and leveraged buyout firm that Romney led in the 1990s. Romney has pointed to the company's success, such as Staples, arguing that his overall record there was one of job creation. But Gingrich has been highlighting the company's history of slashing jobs at some firms.
That history is the same one that Democrats have been pressing against Romney in anticipation of a potential general-election matchup between him and President Obama. Gingrich, however, dismissed concerns that his assault was only feeding into the Democrats' line of attack.
"I think it's a legitimate question about exactly what happened, where did the money go, who got the money, and what happened to the people involved?" he said.
The truth about Mitt "off shore your job" Romney hurts doesn't? Just wait until everyone else finds out about this guy. Deep down Republicans know they are going to be crushed if they get behind this guy.
How do you feel about Barry's free trade pacts with S Korea, Panama, and Columbia? Has Barry unilaterally renegotiated NAFTA yet?
Apparently, the truth about Barry hurts!
12:39 p.m. | Updated ANDERSON, S.C. — Mitt Romney's Bain Capital "looted" a company in Gaffney, S.C., and got "rich off failures and sticking it to someone else," Gov. Rick Perry of Texas charged this morning as he began a swing through South Carolina.
Signaling that he will join Newt Gingrich and other Republican presidential rivals in sharply criticizing Mr. Romney's earlier career as a corporate takeover artist, Mr. Perry mocked Mr. Romney's recent statement that there were times he had worried about losing his job, pointing out that Mr. Romney had grown up wealthy and privileged.
"I mean, he actually said this," Mr. Perry told more than 100 diners at a breakfast gathering here.
"Now, I have no doubt Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips — whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company, Bain Capital, of all the jobs that they killed," Mr. Perry said. "I'm sure he was worried that he would run out of pink slips."
He said that people in nearby Gaffney, S.C., in particular, "would find his comments incredible," because it is where Mr. Perry said Bain shut down a plant and fired 150 workers.
"That didn't happen until Mitt Romney's private equity firm, they looted that company with more than $20 million in management fees."
He also charged that Mr. Romney's firm took $65 million in management fees out of a steel company in a deal in which 700 steelworkers in Georgetown, S.C., and Kansas City lost their jobs, their health insurance and "large portions" of their pensions.
"There's nothing wrong with being successful and making money — that's the American dream," Mr. Perry said. "But there is something inherently wrong when getting rich off failures and sticking it to someone else is how you do your business. I happen to think that that is indefensible."
"If you are a victim of Bain capital's downsizing, it's the ultimate insult for Mitt Romney to come to South Carolina and tell you he feels your pain — because he caused it," Mr. Perry said.
Why did Barry bail out GM so it could build plants in China?
Why is Barry sending taxpayer money to an energy company in Brazil?
Why did Barry send "stimulus" money to a company in Finland?
Difficult questions for the Barry Kool-Aid drinkers.
"Obama bails out GM with billions in tax payer dollars only to find that GM invested the money into China manufacturing infrastructure.
GM Uses Auto Bailout Money to Build Cars in China
"GM will expand its dealership network from 2,900 last year to 3,500 by the end of this year. Its amazing, Obama shutters dealerships here in the U.S. , only to open dealerships in China, and invest in Chinese manufacturing.
GM also plans to boost its production capacity in China to 5 million cars a year by 2016. That would be nearly double the 2.55 million cars and trucks GM and its Chinese partners sold in China last year. "
Romney could say, "Sure, I created plenty of jobs. The jobs just weren't in the US. You have to take a global view of these things."
Whether that will help him get elected, I cannot say.
GM to Build New Vehicle at Plant in Mexico- Will invest $500 million at plant in Ramos Arispe
"General Motors will invest $500 million to produce a new vehicle and eight-cylinder engines in a plant in northeastern Mexico, a company spokesman said on August 4.
The decision was announced at a meeting on August 3 between GM management and Mexican officials, the spokesman said, without giving details of the new vehicle.
The investment in the GM plant in Ramos Arispe, Coahuila state, would generate 390 jobs, he added.
General Motors has been present in Mexico since 1935, where it has some 11,000 workers, four factories, an engineering center and a test circuit.
GM's investments in Mexico have been dwarfed by GM's investment in Red China … GM has redirected "GM Bailout cash" into expanding production and facilities in Red China – rather then refurbishing American auto plants – GM Prepares IPO While UAW Jobs Continue Exodus To Red China"
With the release of a new two-minute (!) negative ad from the Obama campaign, it's now official: Mitt Romney's perfect record of being attacked over his Bain Capital days is still intact.
OK, there's an asterisk: Technically, Bain didn't come up in Romney's first campaign, for the 1994 Republican Senate nomination in Massachusetts. But that was barely a race: His opponent, John Lakian, had been shamed out of politics by a resume embellishment scandal a dozen years earlier, barely qualified for the primary ballot, and lost to Romney by 66 points. And Lakian's background was in venture capital too, so Bain was not exactly a logical topic for him to raise.
But outside of that '94 primary, every time Romney has been in a competitive race, an opponent has accused him of making his fortune by gutting companies and running the lives of innocent workers.
The new Obama ad, which is airing in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Colorado, focuses on the story of GST Steel, a company in which Bain purchased a majority stake in 1993, just before Romney's first foray into politics. In 2001, after Romney had left his day-to-day role with Bain and was overseeing the Olympics in Utah, GST's Kansas City plant was shuttered, costing more than 700 workers their jobs even as Bain itself profited. The ad mixes in clips of Romney boasting about his job creation record and empathy for the jobless with testimonials from those whose lives were affected by the plant's closure.
"It was like a vampire," one former GST employee says of Bain. "It came in and sucked the life out of us."
It's a dramatic, well-produced ad that paints a damning portrait of the presumptive GOP nominee and the firm he built. The question is whether it will be effective, and the track record for previous Bain assaults on Romney is mixed:
1994 Senate general election: Here is the example the Obama team is hoping to emulate. After his September '94 GOP primary win, a poll gave Romney a narrow edge over Ted Kennedy, whose own popularity had waned in the wake of the William Kennedy Smith trial. By the end of the month, the Kennedy campaign settled on Bain as Romney's prime vulnerability, and made the firm's acquisition of an Indiana company, SCM, a major points of emphasis. Here is one of several SCM ads that Kennedy's campaign ran:
Interestingly, when this assault began, the Boston Globe noted that Romney had been running warm and fuzzy ads about his personal story for a few months and suggested that "voters may see this series as the powerful Kennedy machine beating up on that nice young man." But by early October, Kennedy was comfortably ahead again, and the race wasn't close the rest of the way, with the incumbent prevailing by 17 points. Were the Bain spots responsible for the giant polling shift? It's impossible to say for sure, but they clearly didn't hurt.
2002 gubernatorial general election: Romney spent much of the fall campaign running behind the Democratic nominee, state Treasurer Shannon O'Brien. He seemed to gain traction, though, with an attack ad that played up the losses that the state's pension fund incurred on O'Brien's watch from investments in Enron.
O'Brien countered bringing up by reviving the SCM story, running ads on the incident and calling Romney "the face of corporate greed in America." She also launched an spot called "Sizzle" that featured a laid off worker from GST – the same steel company Obama is now highlighting – who told viewers:
"It's hard to believe that a man like Mitt Romney can have enough power and influence and money behind him to come in, destroy families, put people out of work that's sick, with no health insurance. There's nothing left. We have nothing left."
O'Brien, though, lost to Romney by 7 points. This doesn't mean the Bain attacks backfired. As Boston journalist Dan Kennedy noted today, Romney struggled throughout the '02 general election more than the prior two GOP candidates – Paul Cellucci and Bill Weld – had. And it may have been a last-minute push by Romney to link O'Brien to unpopular Democratic leaders in the state legislature that moved voters. Still, the fact remains that O'Brien played the Bain card aggressively, and it didn't bring her to victory.
2008 Republican primaries: Bain was not a huge issue in this race, but when Mike Huckabee said that Romney reminds people of "the guy who laid you off," he was clearly trying to harness the instinctively negative feelings that even many blue collar Republicans have toward the world of venture capital. That line may have helped Huckabee in Iowa, where he beat Romney by nine points.
Then, in the run-up to Florida's primary, John McCain directly attacked Romney over Bain, arguing that "as head of his investment company he presided over the acquisition of companies that laid off thousands of workers." McCain ended up winning Florida narrowly, a result that cemented him as the clear front-runner and dealt a severe blow to Romney's hopes.
2012 Republican primaries: The attacks on Bain were far more pointed in Romney's second bid for the GOP nomination, with Rick Perry accusing him of practicing "vulture capitalism" and Newt Gingrich branding him a "predatory corporate raider." The Gingrich campaign even created a vicious 29-minute video titled "King of Bain," which was released about a week before the South Carolina primary:
Democrats, of course, were delighted by this development, and an income gap came to define the GOP race, with Romney generally cleaning up with affluent Republicans voters but often losing to Gingrich (and later Rick Santorum) with those in the working- and middle-classes. At the same time, Gingrich took immense heat from leading Republican voices, who blasted him for doing dirty work for Democrats and defended Romney's Bain work.
"With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.
Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland."
So odd that liberal anonymous, who has despised and hated on Gingrich and Perry, now suddenly treats their words by putting them on a pedestal, as if they came from Obama's own lips.
"The U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement took effect...Labor Opposition- In the U.S., the deal was opposed by groups including the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions and a frequent ally of Obama's Democratic party. Senators Robert Casey of Pennsylvania and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, both Democrats from manufacturing states facing re-election this year, opposed the accord. They said prior trade measures never worked as well as advertised for U.S. workers."
President Obama vs. Candidate Obama on Trade With Latin America
Another Example of Obama Taking Credit for Others' Policies
WASHINGTON – Today President Obama again took credit for others' policies, trumpeting free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, while neglecting to acknowledge how he campaigned against the very same free trade agreements that he promoted today.
Obama bragged today in a White House fact sheet that NAFTA created $18 trillion in goods and services, but failed to acknowledge that he said in 2008 that "it is absolutely true that NAFTA was a mistake."
Also, the White House boasted that passage of the Colombia and Panama free trade agreements "underscore the President's commitment to creating new opportunities for U.S. exporters." Omitted was the fact that candidate Obama said, "I will oppose the Colombia free trade agreement if George Bush is insistent on sending it to Congress."
"We are glad that President Obama has come around to see the foolishness of opposing free trade as he did as senator and presidential candidate," said Jonathan Collegio, communications director for American Crossroads, "but just as the Obama has done when bragging about increased oil production that was a result of another president's prior efforts, this President seems to have a penchant for taking credit for the hard work of others."
This is amusing. As I said, the Barry Kool-Aid drinkers have nothing.
Mitt "off shore your job" Romney will be the best thing that ever happened to the Democrats. Non-RINO Republicans tried to warn the Republican establishment about this guy, but publications like the WSJ just shoved him down everyone's throat.
The biggest problem the Republicans have is they have been trashing Obama for 4 years. Any legitimate attack they had on Obama, is now just a jumbled up pile of BS to most people by now. I forget is he a communist this week or a Marxists? I guess all I have to do to find out is pick up the WSJ. It has become very clear that Murdock is going to sacrifice what's left of the WSJ's reputation to try and win the 2012 election.
How great, thanks for bringing this up!! Let's then compare the Obama private equity track record with Romney's. After we do that, Mr. President, you'll probably want to stop talking about this too.
No need for democrats to attack the Mitt.
Cutting and pasting the republican attacks is more than enough.
Cheaper steel imported from Asia doomed GST, not Bain. Same with other steel mills.
How many people have I seen lose their jobs at my company and at my wife's company since O'bama took office. This ad is complete non-sense. I am suppose to believe Mitt Romeny is resposible for the steel industry problems. What has Obama done in three years to fix anything? I know my family and friends know this.
Don't Republicans support importing cheap steel? Isn't that the Republican line now, it's all somehow Americans fault that these treasonous corporations have off shored all the jobs?
RIP (Retire in Peace) MITT
Yeah, and how many of them had their jobs off shored so some rich executive could put an extra gallon of diesel in their yacht?
Face it, the Republicans are screwed!!!
Sad when liberal anonymous pats himself on the back for cutting and pasting, using yet another name.
Especially when we all know that Hillary and Obama tore each other's eyeballs out, then made up and moved on...it is called, politics.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL is right , but the joke is on you.
Obama has done more to hurt the job situation in this country than Romney did or would ever be able to do.
A bogus failed stimulus with empty promises and a big tab, plus a healthcare bill that is not a friend of the working people.
Face it, Obama is a failure !!!!!
The dense one is the one who unsuccessfully tried to tie the R's into being responsible for pertussis...without first researching his facts.
And the joke is on me, and this is how the joke is on me....it will be me, and the other working people who will be responsible for paying for all of Obama's trillions of waste that could have been much better spent.
You are entitled to your own minority partisan opinions, lies and equivocations.
We, the majority who supports the President and will reelect him by a landslide prefer to rely on the facts.
What are you talking about??? Tell that to the middle class guy that just had a baby, and because his girlfriend was allowed to stay on her parents health insurance, did not have to make his first act as a father be to file for bankruptcy.
Oh, excuse me, I forgot, only rich people are allowed to have a baby and a family these days right? The rest of us are just scum feeding off the rich right?
When the Republicans go down in 2012, and trust me they are going to go down hard, it will be a great day for the United States.
Lib/Dems will use the most vile tactics in the coming campaign because of their failures and lack of any record to run on. The American steel industry, like others, went through very hard times because of foreign competition, the inability of some of our domestic industries to retool quickly (it has taken GM decades and near bankruptcy, for example, to get back on their feet), and the obduracy of unions to renegotiate more competitive contracts. Anyone with an open mind who has paid attention over the last 40 years knows these things. However, the Lib/Dems will exploit weepy testimonials from poor blue-collar folks swept up in these international forces through no fault of their own in order to divide and conquer the electorate with their empty promises of bail-outs. Hear ye! Hear ye! BAIL OUTS DON'T WORK! Capitalism works. Shoring up failed industries with state money leads to national bankruptcy. If you don't believe that, get out your old history books on the USSR, or go take that long over-due back-packing trip through Europe. First stop: GREECE. Have fun.
Romney for President.
Tom is a perfect example of the blame America first Republicans. You see its all your fault that the treasonous companies off shored all the jobs.
Unfortunately, our Republicans in Congress over the last decade have consistently voted for less funding for public health programs that provide preventive care. Congressional Republicans once again voted to cut health care benefits in order to eliminate military spending cuts mandated by the compromise spending law to which they agreed last year which supposedly resolved the debt ceiling crisis:
On Thursday, in a razor-thin 218-199 vote of approval, the House passed another extreme bill that is destined to die: its Sequestration Replacement Act. The budget bill overrides steep cuts to defense spending that were set to begin in January 2013, taking the money out of food stamps, Medicaid, Meals on Wheels and a raft of programs that help the poor and elderly. The Act replaces $109 billion in defense cuts that were triggered last fall under the Budget Control Act, when the super committee failed to agree on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan.
Included in the $113 billion in cuts are Medicaid programs, allowing states to drop people who would currently be eligible, including a lot children. Two of the programs that are targeted have increased insurance rates for children to unprecedented levels, but the Republicans voted to repeal money in the Affordable Care Act that has maintained Medicaid and CHIP funding, and a new program that has rewards states for connecting eligible children to coverage. While the bill overrides the automatic cuts to the Pentagon included in the Budget Control Act, it keeps the Medicare cuts that were written into the bill. Oh, and of course it zeroes out the Prevention and Public Health fund in the health care law ...
International entrepreneurs will NOT come to donkeyland. It doesn't matter how tight they wrap themselves in a flag. Business isn't about altruism. It isn't about patriotism. It's about profits. I guess donkeys weren't taught that in socialist school.
@ph_2012: Everyone who uses steel in a product or building supports cheaper steel. Not just Republicans. There are many Democrats who own businesses that use steel. Think about that every time you buy or use something manufactured using steel. Your car. Every building you walk into. Most of the products in your house.
I really feel sorry for these ill-informed audience posting below......the republicans and the democrats are fooling u by creating an illusion of choice.....both of them are owned by the same elite ......it does not really matter who really comes to power u fools......ur screwed anyways!
Entrepreneurs are made in the United States not imported.
It seems Mr. Obama is willing to talk about anything . . . except his own record.
ph !130,
What are YOU talking about?
1) A middle class guy who gets a girl pregnant, who is still on her parent's insurance is a wimp for not marrying her and giving the baby a stable home in which to grow up.
2) A single woman, who is pregnant and without insurance, immediately qualifies for Medicaid, free insurance, as does the baby, without a responsible father. ( I get it...you are one of the people who do not think that fathers owe their kids, but the gov does, huh? )
3) You apparently have no idea how the system really works, just like the supreme court justice who thought that ER's can turn children away in an emergency. You need to read up....any pregnant, unmarried woman, is eligible for medical care when pregnant, and that has been the rule for years. Even the women who choose to have no prenatal care, whether it be from irresponsibility, drug abuse, etc...also gets a free bill when she shows up in labor. Under EMTALA, it is an emergency, and has to be covered. The social workers generally then get the babies on Medicaid to cover their bill.
So, your faux story has no teeth in the real world of medicine....try again.
ph, @200, in response to ken,
Entrepreneurs are made in the US not imported?...you say?
I thought that most liberals hate captialism? Isn't the most evil thing ever?
If this is the kind of business experience that Romney is offering, then my answer is "no thank you." We already have enough parasites in America.
Here is a link for you to read, ph....now try and understand that if you are not categorically needy because of income, and are pregnant...that makes you medically needy. You libs who support this bill, don't even seem to understand the current rules, and so wrongly envision dead people in piles outside of ER's.
I can't imagine that you read the healthcare bill....anyone who did can easily see where it is going. Some education for you, so that you don't wrongly think that poor pregnant women or single pregnant women have had nothing for years...simply not the case. I hate it that America is so uninformed.
Hospitals can get in trouble for breaking laws.....and trying to dump the "scum", as ph calls them, in favor of the rich people.
Sure, Bain has had some failed investments. Why would they want to purchase a company and have it go bankrupt? They wouldn't make any money if that was their business plan. The Romney campaign needs to fight back with stories of success (which helping companies succeed is the reason why they are a successful firm).
What did it matter that the company went under? Bain got their money out immediately, and then ran the company into the ground. The facts speak for themselves. People like Romney are a cancer on America.
People like Romney are a cancer on America? Really? How about people who are tied to dumping poor patients, then act all concerned about the health of America?
Denise @ 2:30,
Perhaps that is where the campaign called "Let's Move" got it's catchy name?
I started my history of "outsourcing" in the 5th grade, with Coretta. Wonder if she is a lesbian now?
Obama is a failure as a President, leader of his own party, and as a champion of others' ideas. This ad, his attacks on private individuals who support his opponent, his constant dissembling, and his outsourcing of his entire "agenda" to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid shows how totally inept, un-American, and unconscionable he is. He can't run on his own record, he has no plan for the country other than "tax the rich" and anyone who opposes him is "investigated"! Welcome to Orwell's 1984 brought to you by Obama and his ilk! This ad is just more of the same! Nothing he or anyone who supports him says can be believed.
I've seen it time after time. Even the businesses that "suceeded" had their pensions plundered and replaced with an indeferent collections of 401K mutual funds. Early buy outs would rob the companies of expierence. And a focus on short term turnaround would steal any chance of future competitiveness.
The Idea was to polish the turd and sell it fast....
Obama is at it again ... Divide and Conquer !
What a loser
The loser on this one is Romney.
There are many middle class families out there that are just hanging by a thread. They work a job, sometimes two, but neither provides health insurance. The story I told about the guy whose first act as a father would have been to file for bankruptcy is very true.
There is something very real bubbling up in this country. My thought is that it's caused by Republicans stopping progress on everything so they can blame Obama. The Republicans have been trashing Obama for 4 years with very little success. You better believe that when the American people get a good look at this first class jerk the Republicans put up they are done for!!!
i mean, look at who is supporting mitty.. only the big money. what kind of campaign does mitty run? lies lies lies..
watch your pockets everyone..mitty has his eyes on them! this creature can't look anyone in the eye!
You have not been paying attention. We have been divided and conquered, long before the current occupant took office. Romney's solution?
Step 1. Find healthy, properous company
Step 2. In a leverage buyout, buy company
Step 3. Slash every expense.
Step 4. Issue hundreds of millions in corporate bonds for company
Step 5. Withdraw profit
Step 6. Company goes under
Step 7. Wash hands and move on.
That's Romney's vision for America. Cut, screw and run.
Forget the politics for a few minutes, whether you like or hate either one of these guys and answer this:
How is it that the greatest country in history has such a weak and polarizing president and the only guy the other side can come up with to run against him is just as weak and polarizing? Where are the truly good people and why don't they want to come forward?
If half of Congress decides that not cooperating with a President on any level is more important that running government, you end up with a "polarizing" and "weak" President. Nothing but sickening politics.
Why are all comments in this blog dominated by liberals and have such weak conservative commenters?
Though this was a Murdoch right wing news group.
Repeat again and again Coretta Solyndra
Coretta Solyndra
please please
Help me!
Bain Helps Romney.
It takes a strong backbone to CUT things. Which equates well with all Federal Departments and Programs which are nothing more then appeasement and extension of political favor
So Bain helps Romney. It shows as much as a closure may temporarily cause a few harm. IF it is a failed Agency or a failed Company the cut MUST be made. For the long term gains. Rise up stronger in another direction. Not cuddle a weak dying agency or company.
What the Obama campaign accuses Romney of is exactly what they've done to the U.S. taxpayer and their children. Steered tax dollars to donors for a healthy profit, gave away loot to the unions, and put people in this country on the hook for all the losses of bailouts and failed energy companies. And very big losses, at that. Not an impressive record, Mr. O.
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As a registered independent, I too am disappointed in many things that President Barack Obama has done. But after Congress (Democrats as well as Republicans) for decades callously ignored the plight of some 46 million uninsured in America, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a step in the right direction. The memory of the admittedly bungled rollout process is already fading, as hundreds of thousands of the uninsured at long last have access to affordable health care.
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Making Sunbutter – Sunflower butter the easy and cheap way.
We recently found that one in our household had a peanut butter allergy and being lovers of the famous PB&J this hit us hard. We knew we had to find a substitute that we could all live with. Enter SunButter, the peanut butter substitute to brighten your day!
Well, at about $5.00 a jar, it hurt, but we needed to do it. It tastes very similar to peanut butter and made those bleary eyed morning lunch packing chores much easier. I just couldn't stomach the price though and last week I started googling recipes. What I am posting here today is a conglomeration of a couple that I found and seems to be the road to a sunflower butter that closely rivals that of the store bought product.
Ingredients to assemble:
3 cups roasted sunflower seeds. (Use raw sunflower seeds and roast your own. DO NOT buy pre-roasted or salted seeds as they are too dry and too salty)
1 teaspoon sea salt. (I prefer Maldon)
1 teaspoon sugar
Sunflower (or any oil of choice) to drizzle.
I started with roasting 3 cups of sunflower seeds that were under $2 a pound at our local Whole Foods. It takes just about 5 minutes on the stove in a heavy pan, I prefer the All-Clad French Skillet for this task as it has nice high sides and the aluminum core provides a very nice and even heat for roasting, but any good heavy pan should do. A cast iron skillet would be wonderful for the task. Preheat the pan on medium heat, add all your raw sunflower seeds (don't skip this step and use roasted seeds. Trust me) and turn them constantly so they do not burn.
When most of your sunflower seeds are golden brown you are ready for the next step. Now pour all of your seeds into your food processor along with a teaspoon of sea salt and the teaspoon of sugar (you can add more to taste later if you wish) . It is going to be running for a long time and will probably get hot. Don't panic. If you have a sturdy, quality, food processor, you shouldn't have any problems. I use a Cuisinart Elite 12-Cup Food Processor.
- Once you have your seeds loaded up you are ready to go! So turn it on. In just about 30 seconds you should have a pretty grainy batch of ground up sunflower seeds. Most recipes tell you stop here and add the oil. Don't. Let it keep going so that the seeds can release the oil within them, naturally.
- Keep going and you will see it starting to clump.
- At this point you want to start using a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides. Do this every so often, but don't be afraid to walk away and open up your chicken coop for the day. I did. Found an egg.
- It will start to get shiny.
- Then clump together nicely.
- Now you can start drizzling in the oil a little at a time until you reach a nice spreadable consistency.
- Scoop it into a pint jar and you are ready to go!!! Sunbutter for less than half the cost of store bought and in less time than it takes to load up the kids and head to the store!!!


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The Internet Of Things Conversation and CES
By Devin Cheevers and Eric Pfeifer
Of all the conversations out of CES 2014, the concept of the "The Internet Of Things" stood out, we discuss further here.
As the cost of connectivity and sensors falls, more items, beyond computers and smartphones, including everything from cars to shoes, will report data to the internet. This increased connectivity of previously "dumb" things, "The Internet of Things*" or IoT, will bring a wave of creative destruction to many industries, similar to that caused by connecting people to the internet.
In his keynote at CES, Cisco's CEO John T. Chambers promised the IoT will alter the trajectory of virtually every person on the planet. A tad hyperbolic, maybe. But for consumers and marketers, the internet of things should realize a host of previously unavailable opportunities.
Internet of Things
For consumers, the IoT will make life easier. Examples include smart homes and health tracking. Smarter appliances, windows and air conditioning will reduce chores and save energy. Passive tracking of your habits and diet will improve your health.
For brands and marketers, new interaction models and revenue opportunities will be created. Take iBeacon technology from Apple and Qualcomm's Gimbal technology. By enabling more precise location tracking indoors, new ways to change in-store behavior will become available.
Digital Sixth Sense
At CES, there were product announcements that highlighted many areas of the IoT, including connected car initiatives, wearables and connected retail. However, beyond the buzz of these individual announcements, the discussion of how the IoT will create a "digital sixth sense" for consumers presents the most interest to marketers. Understanding how to provide truly relevant and personalized value to consumers, enabled by this "digital sixth sense," will become a business imperative.
IoT: The Next Evolution From Mobile and Tablet
Below are some questions to consider as you meet the challenge and opportunity of the IoT. Notice how they are similar to those brought about by smartphones and tablets. Begin to discuss these with your team as a way to start thinking of the IoT.
- How flexible is our content, and how can we deliver it across multiple screen sizes and interaction modes?
- How, as a brand, are we dealing with customers consuming two screens at the same time?
- Do we have systems in place for customers to transition between multiple screens and devices, throughout the day, to accomplish a single task with our organization?
- Do we have data and measurement expertise and knowledge, including management of privacy issues, to take advantage of the explosion of data around our customers?
Beyond these foundational questions, consider the new areas that smart devices will bring into consumers' lives. Smart cars, smart homes and wearables all provide interesting platforms to engage with consumers. Brands that take advantage of these new platforms, while connecting the entire user journey, will have a competitive edge.
Momentum Increasing
So while CES brought us advances in consumer electronic goods, it also showcased that 2014 is the year we can begin to realize the opportunity of the internet of things. Google's purchase of Nest Labs, makers of home-automation thermostats and smoke detectors, for $3.2 billion is one of the opening salvos in the battle for the internet of things this year. Google, with the multiple it's paid, believes in this space.
To examine the individual product announcements and goings on at CES, please check out:
*Cisco used a term of "Internet of Everything" in this keynote, which it defines as "bringing together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before — turning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity for businesses, individuals, and countries."


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A homosexual term tea or t standing for trade. T or tea parties are underground raves where drugs are involved.
whats your tea? = whats up?
whats your t? = whats new?
tea partie = an underground rave
whats your t? = whats new?
tea partie = an underground rave
লিখেছেন- Eric Sleezy E Jackson 8 de মার্চ de 2005
A stereotype for English people, while there are alot of T-STORM here it doesn't mean we like tea. Only people from Richmond-Upon-Thames like tea.
"Dude, tea is disgusting, tea and leaves."
লিখেছেন- Soiled Undergarment 13 de অগাস্ট de 2003
A liquid made of hearbal crap in a bag that is put into water.
I hate drinking tea.
লিখেছেন- LPBABY 18 de মে de 2003
The Gossip, the lowdown.
'Spill the tea! What's been happening?'
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Lately I've been feeling really antsy. I originally planned on travelling after graduation, but my full-time job happened to start the day after. To quell my amassed wanderlust Kevin and I headed to the Jersey Shore this weekend.
Though my pre-conceived notions of the shore consisted of obstreperous drunks with big hair , Kevin assured me that nice parts do exist. We visited the quaint beach town of Ocean City, located mere miles from Atlantic City.
We didn't reach the town until late Friday night and, after an early-morning swim workout, definitely craved a hearty breakfast.
We headed to a local favorite, Uncle Bill's Pancake House.
Both Kevin and I selected blueberry pancakes with fried eggs.
After breakfast we went para-sailing (a lifetime dream of mine!) and then hit the pool for our second workout of the day.
After our workout we headed over to the boardwalk to explore and grab some dinner.
We ended up at the famed Monco Monco, whose extended line moved fairly quickly.
We scored counter seats and immediately ordered a half veggie, half plain pie.
Though never a huge pizza fan, Kev's love of the slice may be rubbing off on me. Starving from the day's physical activity, I quickly wolfed down three slices.
Next up was another Jersey Shore tradition: Frozen custard from Kohr's Brothers.
Oh baby. This stuff definitely lived up to the hype. I should also note that Kevin and I probably consumed at least three pints of ice cream over the course of the weekend. That's just how we roll.
After dinner came a ferris wheel ride, the perfect conclusion to a wonderful day.
Sunday we had limited time and began with another breakfast at Uncle Bill's. Kev scarfed down this platter:
while I tried to be slightly healthier with fresh fruit
The super fun ocean swimming, parasailing, biking, board-walk exploring and plain relaxation made returning to the city very difficult. Such a fun time with such a fun person!


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As a trainee city lawyer I often find myself acting for new start up businesses and assisting with the incorporation of a 'newco', or for all you non-shelf lawyer using people, a limited liability company. I thought that instead of my usual post this week, I would write something remotely useful and help all you would be start up entrepreneurs and tell you how to incorporate a company. The lawyer in me at this point is barking out to say that I literally make no representation as to the accuracy of this information and I accept no liability whatsoever for any reliance placed on this information. If you act in accordance with what I say below and it goes at all wrong then that is your fault. PLEASE DO NOT THINK THAT THIS IS ADVICE. IT IS NOT. IT IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY ROUGH SUGGESTION AS TO THE STEPS WHICH OTHERS MAY HAVE TAKEN WHEN FORMING A COMPANY. Now that I have that out of the way, I feel like I can write at will and without the ever looming fright of some crazy entrepreneur suing me…
So what does it take to incorporate company?
Well not a whole lot. How about I write a 'limited company recipe' for you?
So to make this potentially tasty and lucrative dish what you will need is:
- 1x an IN01 form (Also known as the Incorporation form). This form is available on the companies house website (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/forms/generalForms/IN01_application_to_register_a_company.pdf)
- A Pen
- A cheque for £40.00 addressed to Companies House
- One Envelope
- One First Class Stamp
How to prepare:
- Print your IN01 form.
- Take out your pen and enter your proposed company name where it says to do so. (perhaps it is worth at this point checking online that your company doesn't already exist)
- Read through the form and fill in all the details where prompted to do so.
- If you wish to incorporate a limited company with Companies Act 2006 model articles (google what this means if you are unsure but it is the norm) then tick this box in section A7.
- If you wish to be the director of the new company enter your details in box D1
- In part 3 (statement of capital) explain how many shares you wish your company to have and the value of each share on incorporation. Also explain if these are ordinary shares with ordinary rights (google this term also).
- Part 4 is only relevant if you want a company limited by guarantee (which to incorporate a limited company you don't)
- Sign Part 5.
- Enter your details in the presenter information section
- Tick all of the boxes in the checklist box that apply.
- Attach the £40.00 cheque to the IN01 form.
- Put the companies house address on the Envelope (Cardiff address for England incorporations)
- Put the IN01 form in the envelope and attach the stamp thereto.
- Place the envelope in the post and wait 4-7 days.
- You should at this point have a Limited company.
Serve and Enjoy!
Preparation time: 30-90 mins approx depending upon amount of googling
To reiterate: THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE AND ALL VIEWS ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN


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Miami had possession at midfield, up 21-20, and seemed destined to milk the clock and put the Bills in a tough situation. Instead, Ryan Tannehill dropped back, was sacked by Mario Williams, fumbled, and Kyle Williams recovered at the Dolphins 34 with 2:48 left to play.
From there, Fred Jackson ripped off a critical 10-yard run to convert a third down at the Miami 18, and that set up ex-Dolphin kicker Dan Carpenter for the ...


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Donna Zapata, executive director of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Sonoma County, is leaving her post to become a business development representative for Redwood Credit Union.
Zapata, who has been with the chamber for four years, said her decision to leave the organization was extremely difficult and she has "mixed emotions" about the change.
"But at the same time knowing what I was able to do for the last four years, being able to be part of something like that was always a badge of honor -- I love my community," she said.
Zapata said she is most proud of her efforts at the chamber to establish a leadership forum aimed at cultivating local leaders who reflect the county's rapidly changing demographics. Modeled after The Press Democrat Leadership Forum, the program launched in 2009.
"It was one of the first things I implemented with the Hispanic Chamber. It's very dear to my heart," she said.
Pedro Toledo, president of the chamber, said Zapata helped build a solid foundation for the chamber, which was founded in 1998. She joined the chamber as office manager and was promoted to executive director in November 2011, Toledo said.
"She's always been the face of the chamber," Toledo said. "When people think of the Hispanic Chamber they think of Donna Zapata."
During her brief tenure, the chamber added 20 new members, increasing its membership to 250, he said. Aside from her work with the chamber's leadership forum, Zapata helped improve the group's operational effectiveness and strengthened the chamber's communications with members, Toledo said. Zapata will continue to work with the chamber on events and initiatives, he said.
"Donna's not really going away," he said. "She will serve on our advisory committee. She's still very committed to the chamber."
Before joining the chamber, Zapata worked at Redwood Credit Union in its call center serving members.


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England's Elizabeth II is one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs and arguably the best known, but in truth, her real personality remains an enigma. Now in her mid-eighties, this circumspect queen has adroitly concealed her identity behind her royal persona. Andrew Marr's The Real Elizabeth is designed to raise the mask and reveal the remarkably different person beneath it. (P.S. Crowned in 1953, Elizabeth II has now served longer than her Elizabethan namesake and nearly as long as Queen Victoria.)
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Parisian provocations: At Dior, Raf Simons suits
We think of Dior as a house built on evening wear – the French call that flou, which, as the name implies, denotes garments with a sense of fluidity and lightness. Even if a Dior ball gown was anything but. But Dior's most famous fashion image is of la tailleur Bar, the black-and-white suit that epitomised the silhouette Monsieur Dior christened "Corolle", but which the world heralded as the "New Look".
The Bar suit is one of those house codes that Raf Simons has been fixated on since he began redesigning Dior in 2012. Hence the fact that the suit's jacket, the nip-waisted, thrust-hipped silhouette originally cut in tussore silk by Pierre Cardin (a tailor at Dior before setting up under his own steam) appears again and again, insistently, in his collections, cut in everything from grain de poudre to denim.
This season, Simons' fixation broadened: to tailoring, as a whole. It's often overlooked with that flowery flou stuff, but Dior's curvaceous suiting formed a core of his collections, often pushing and provoking in a way a ball gown couldn't. That nip-waisted Bar suit had a profligate forty metres of pleated wool in the skirt alone. As daytime attire, walking the streets, that was profoundly provocative. Especially in a post-war Paris where fabric was scarce, and many couldn't afford to buy a loaf of bread. There are reports that women wearing Dior's New Look suits had the garments shredded by enraged members of the public.
Raf Simons' tailoring-focussed collection was provocative, too. He showed it on the eve, of the eve, of the Oscars. It barely contained any evening clothing. Considering how high-profile their red carpet moment s have been, that spoke volumes. The volumes it spoke were about Raf Simons' fixations, his demands as a designer and, most importantly, the demands of the modern woman.
I don't want to say the modern Dior customer, because I can't help but think this collection, like the couture collection which preceded it, is the fashion equivalent of a recruitment drive. Not into the mid-century, cinched-in flower-lady stuff? Try a sharp suit in burgundy or hunter-green flannel, a vibrant fuchsia coat or a pair in primrose and cobalt.
Simons background is predominantly menswear. His sense of colour makes his work vibrate (think of those synthetic-y, neon mixes that so energised his spring 2014 menswear show), and it's shown at Dior before. But never to quite this degree, plains of pure colour laid together to contrast brilliantly. Embellishment was pared down to touches of embroidery and quilting, giving an airy bounce to silk or nylon dresses. Nothing felt heavy, or forced.
It was similar in mood to the dynamism of the spring Dior couture show: if that show made every dress into a trainer (or, at least, it's hand-crafted clothing equivalent) this cross-bred trainers with high-heels, and then cross-pollinated Dior's flower-women with suited city girls, striding to work on footwear that mangled their Nike air-max with their pointy office stilettos. Wouldn't it be so much easier if they could just wear one pair of shoes that did both tasks?
The duality of this show was fascinating. I loved it when Simons hacked up old Dior silhouettes, running his shears through the seams until sweetheart necked Dior cocktail dresses expanded around quilted satin underpinnings. Maybe he was thinking about those enraged onlookers ripping apart Dior's originals? Flounced scarves looked like dresses chopped in half and wrapped around the neck, over slick suits.
Slick. That was the word.
If Simons' last Dior ready-to-wear show implied a sense of travel, or of ideas still in transit, they appeared to have reached their destination in this show. The destination is here, and now. Where these clothes resolutely belong. Fashion has a duty to be a testament to its time. This was a bold, brave, confident and convincing proposal.Tagged in: autumn/winter 2014, Christian Dior, Paris Fashion Week, Raf Simons
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The PC girls golf team will try to hit think golf course today, they're scheduled to play at the Oskaloosa Invitational. The girls are coming off a second place finish on Thursday.
Boys varsity tennis is scheduled to compete at the Pella Invitational. The boys also have two meets scheduled for next week, hosting Newton on Tuesday and at Oskaloosa on Thursday.
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Don't hate you that much.
Oh you flirt!
What kind of girl would I be if I killed you before the wedding?
Just like all the others....
Now, don't be silly.
Unlike the others, I'm smart enough to shoot you after I rob you blind in the divorce.
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The native languages and culture of the Ojibwa tribe and Peruvian natives will be introduced through words, song and dance in a lecture by two faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Spanish professor Elia Armacanqui-Tipacti and social work professor Sonny Smart will present "Importance of Indigenous Languages: Ojibwa and Runasimi (Quechua)" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday4/8 in the Pinery Room of the Portage County Public Library, 1001 Main St. This is the seventh of the eight-part 2013-14 Community Lecture Series sponsored by the UWSP College of Letters and Science.
The presentation will give a short history of the languages, how each connect to native culture and how the languages have survived western influence and attempts to discontinue them through historic federal policies and missionary schools. A demonstration of song and dance will explore how languages and cultures interact with each other.
The Lecture Series schedule and previously recorded lectures may be viewed at www.uwsp.edu/cols/lectureseries.


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Press Release: March 8, 2012
National Archives at Kansas City
National Archives offers 2012 Summer Institute for Educators
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Mickey Ebert, 816-268-8013
Kansas City, (MO)…The National Archives at Kansas City is pleased to announce that it is one of seven locations across the country to host Primarily Teaching: Original Documents and Classroom Strategies. The week long institute will be held June 25 – 29, 2012, at the National Archives, 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108.
Primarily Teaching is designed to provide access to the rich resources of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for educators at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. Participants will learn how to research historical records, create classroom materials based on the records, and present documents in ways that sharpen students skills and enthusiasm for history, government, and the other humanities.
Each participant will research the holdings of the National Archives at Kansas City for documents suitable for classroom use and develop strategies for using these documents in the classroom or design professional development activities to help classroom teachers use primary source documents effectively.
- The fee for each of the workshops is $100, which includes all materials.
- Participants will receive a stipend upon successful completion of the course and submission of a project. For more information, please call Mickey Ebert at 816-268-8013.
- Graduate credit from a major university is available for an additional fee of $100 per credit hour. Please call the office at UMKC at 816.235.1188 for more information.
- Space is limited; interested persons are encouraged to apply early. Deadline to apply is May 11, 2012. An application and more information is available online at http://www.archives.gov/education/primarily-teaching
The National Archives at Kansas City is one of 15 facilities nationwide where the public has access to Federal archival records. It is home to historical records dating from the 1820s to the 1990s created or received by Federal agencies in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. For more information, call 816-268-8000, email firstname.lastname@example.com. or visit www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city.
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|Cerebrovasculopathy in NF1 associated with ocular and scalp defects.
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|Vascular lesions are uncommon in children with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) but can cause serious complications. We report on a child with NF1 who presented at 18 months of age with symptomatic stenosis of the left middle cerebral artery and its branches, and associated moyamoya disease. She also had bilateral posterior embryotoxon, left corneal opacity (Peters anomaly), and cutis aplasia of the left scalp. All of these defects may have occurred as a result of disruption of the blood supply caused by NF1 vasculopathy prenatally. This constellation of vascular anomalies has not been previously reported in a patient with NF1. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
|Matt Smith; Manraj K S Heran; Mary B Connolly; Harindar K Heran; J M Friedman; Kimberly Jett; Christopher J Lyons; Paul Steinbok; Linlea Armstrong
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