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Letter: From Romney, strategic reinventing

For the Monitor

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s obsessive pursuit of power entails a strategic reinventing of himself every so often. The American people shouldn’t be deceived by another dissembler pretending to be a “compassionate conservative.” Romney represents, even more than George W. Bush, the corporate oligarchy, the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson and the robber-baron bankers of Wall Street, not ordinary people.

The real Romney, besides falsely maligning 47 percent of his fellow citizens as freeloaders in private before wealthy campaign donors, enjoys throwing working people out of their jobs. To him they’re disposable liabilities. That’s why he supports a national right-to-work for less law.

As CEO of Bain Capital Romney purposely loaded good companies up with debt and pillaged them before they were forced into bankruptcy, costing employees and taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s neither an acceptable business model nor the capitalism envisioned by Adam Smith.

Romney’s contempt for the average American is apparent as well in the other policies he’s advocating, like his perverse opposition to Planned Parenthood, a very important organization promoting women’s health which he once supported. Romney, after being given $37 million dollars by Wall Street, wants to re-establish bankers as middlemen for student loans, needlessly costing young people and their families billions of dollars.

Romney knows his plan giving states complete responsibility for administering Medicaid means millions of people who require services won’t receive them because they’ll be thrown off the rolls, but that’s the intention, a goal shared by fanatics like Ovide Lamontagne in New Hampshire.

JOHN S. HANCOCK

Concord

BunnyHopzxcv wrote:
26/10/2012

Romney's record with Bain is there for all to see. His success rate is not bad. Now compare that with this adminstration"s success rate with their investments. And also, if Bain had not gone in and tried to rescue these companies they all would have gone under. Medicaid and Medicare are a worry. The ACA will make those two programs even more of a worry. When the govt reimburses health services at lower rates, those services stop accepting Medicare and Medicaid. We already see that happening in the Lakes region and it will happen all over the country. Nice to have ACA, but it does you no good if no health care services accept it. We also have a lack of Doctors. Adding millions of more on will not encourage future doctors because they will be getting low pay. Those Doctors will go into private practice and accept only folks with private insurance. Taxing new medical devices will prevent companies from producing them. And most likely cost jobs in those companies. Business will pay the fine as oppose to providing coverage. This adminstration has given waivers to their friends. Govt has a long history of running things badly. Allowing them to manage health care will ruin the quality of our health care, and it will also cost a lot more than they are telling you it will cost. We do not need to fund PP. They make huge profits. We need an overhaul of all tax payer funding. besides, I thought the ACA was going to cover BC etc.
TakeTheCountryBackzxcv wrote:
24/10/2012

Let's dissect this one point at a time: --"The real Romney, besides falsely maligning 47 percent of his fellow citizens as freeloaders...", not true. Romney told his donors that 47% of the population received a check and due to (being scared by Democrats that they would lose their "entitlement") that they would probably not support him. --"As CEO of Bain Capital Romney purposely loaded good companies up with debt and pillaged them....", not true. 85% of the companies came out stronger and still exist today after Bain turned them loose to make money again. Staples, Sports Authority and Burger King are just three. What would you expect, that he would keep putting good money after bad into a company. Note: Many of those companies failed 3-5 years after Bain spun them off. --"Romney’s contempt for the average American.... like his perverse opposition to Planned Parenthood....." Now how is that perverse, it is his opinion that if you want 'choice' and you want people to make their own decisions on reproductive rights, then why should government fund them? Especially abortions?
wrote:
24/10/2012

"Romney purposely loaded good companies up with debt and pillaged them before they were forced into bankruptcy" - This is exactly what the right wingers have been doing to the "good" United States for 30 years. Every vote for Romney will effectively authorize transfering millions of dollars more from our Social Security Trust fund to likes of the billionaire Koch brothers - the same individuals who buy and manipulate the right wing extremists that now control the Republican Party. Every vote for Romney, or for just about any Republican, is a vote to put up an Out Of Business - Gone Bankrupt sign on the United States of America..
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