Romney "Sick at Heart" Over Bain Job Losses

[kpete]

Back in 2007, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney declared that taking a big payment from a company that later failed "would make me sick, sick at heart." If so, Romney by now must be badly in need of a quadruple by-pass. Because as the New York Times became just the latest to report, through massive consulting fees, sales of stock and, most perversely, dividend payments, Romney and his partners at Bain Capital reaped whirlwind profits even when the companies they acquired collapsed.

Back in January, McClatchy offered this primer on how private equity firms like Bain Capital work, at least on paper. As candidate Romney explained at a GOP debate back in June 2007, "Don't forget that when companies earn profit, that money is supposed to be reinvested in growth."

But as the New York Times documented Friday, large sums of that money were going to Mitt Romney and his Bain colleagues whether their portfolio companies were profitable or not. Put another way, Bain won either way:

Bain structured deals so that it was difficult for the firm and its executives to ever really lose, even if practically everyone else involved with the company that Bain owned did, including its employees, creditors and even, at times, investors in Bain's funds.

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http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/romney-sick-at-heart-over-bain-job-losses
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/23/us/politics/companies-ills-did-not-harm-romneys-firm.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

[BarbaRosa]

1. Crying all the way to the bank.

[Initech]

2. No he.isn't - once a psycho.always a psycho.

[marmar]

3. "Romney by now must be badly in need of a quadruple by-pass'

[valerief]

4. The Tin Man has no heart! nt

[Wait Wut]

5. He makes the HAL 2000...

...look compassionate. I'm fully expecting him to start singing "Daisy" during his concession speech.

[onehandle]

6. Crocodile tears. nt

[Enrique]

7. and he was frustrated that he wasn't in Vietnam

here's him sick at heart over job losses





here's him longing to be in Vietnam




“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”

[napkinz]

19. He has a strange way of showing it ...

[Demeter]

8. Nixon Did It Much Better (ass-covering)

Get the hook!

[freshwest]

9. I am too crying! Really. My allergies are really bad today.

[spartan61]

10. A compound word is a word using

two words put together to make a new word. The two words I want to put together to make a new one for romney are bull and shit. Together they make BULLSHIT!! This compound word best describes what I think of romney's sick at heart statement.

BULLSHIT!!!

[thelordofhell]

11. Says the man who dried his tears with pink slips and hundred dollar bills

Fuck you Mitt Rmoney

[GoCubsGo]

12. Yeah, he's sick at heart, alright.

He's sick because failure of those companies meant less money in his pocket. And, because people are actually finding out how many lives he ruined.

[MH1]

13. He's sick, period. nt

[SDjack]

14. He just has no vision. Couldn't see that we was killing jobs. Now he is

"sick at heart", but not enough to return the money.

[Hatchling]

15. I truly believe he is.

He sick at heart because the ads detailing his career at Bain are immensely effective. He's sick cause he's been found out.

Sick fuck.

[BeyondGeography]

16. Putting struggling co's deeper in debt so Bain could be guaranteed their "fees"

No-fault capitalism...it's a good thing.

[The Blue Flower]

17. Living on a steady diet of lies

This man's sickness is soul deep.

[perdita9]

18. Is Mitt Romney a Sociopath?

He reminds me of that Chainsaw Al character from the 1980s.

[Life Long Dem]

20. Beats building your own coffin

Bain made $100 million on a $5 million investment by closing down this business. I don't think he cared what happen to the workers.

[napkinz]

21. remember when presidents FELT our pain?

[Skittles]

22. LET'S SEE HIS "SICK AT HEART" FACE