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woodsprite

(11,926 posts)
2. I didn't trust him (or any of them), and according to the Wash Post just now, I was correct.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 10:21 AM
Sep 2020

He just caved.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
4. Anyone who thought we should ever trust the 'vulture capitalist' was kidding themselves.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 10:29 AM
Sep 2020

Romney is a greedy pig and he always has been. The shit Bain Capital did to American workers was disgusting.

Lest we forget, Bain targeted vulnerable companies, loaded them with debt, sucked exhorbitant fees from them, then bankrupted them. Many workers lost their jobs and their pensions.

This is the republican party, fucking over average people so the soulless assholes in charge can gain wealth.

malaise

(269,169 posts)
5. You nailed it
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 10:39 AM
Sep 2020

Anyone who thought we should ever trust the 'vulture capitalist' was kidding themselves.

SWBTATTReg

(22,166 posts)
6. Absolutely right, people sometimes forget that in order for someone to make money, someone...
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 10:47 AM
Sep 2020

has to lose money, eh?

It's one of the primary cornerstones of this so called great system of capitalism, that these thugs (republicans mostly) don't harp about.
Nothing about a fair and equable system of equal play or pay, it's all about who is first at pushing someone's face into the mud first in order to win.

And it seems like that the only changes that this system of capitalism will allow or absorb is those due only to bankruptcy, gross incompetence, or wildly successful companies (which does not happen very often). It's all about who is first at the food bowls to eat upon the bodies of their competitors.

That's one of the primary disadvantages of a pure system of capitalism that we have today, in that public service announcements, made solely for the benefit of all, has been mocked and make fun of all too much by those interested in only making a buck. They are afraid of hearing the truth spoken out against their excesses. This needs to change, and for the good of the vast majority of Americans, more needs to be done to address the needs of the many, vs. not doing anything simply to protect a very limited class of people (the 1%ers, who have magnified the so called harm done to them via free speech and other anti-monopolistic actions undertaken by society).

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