Mark DC Wrote:I agree with much of what you said -- we are not only shipping jobs oversees, we are giving huge tax breaks to those who do, even if you don't realize it.
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but remember that video of Gov Romney giving that speech to 50,000 per plate fund raiser? He spoke of a factory he bought for Baine Capital in China. This was not some bad reporter trying to make it look bad, he was describing the factory himself. It was a live in factory -almost all young women he said, they LIVED in the factory. They had guard towers -- remember he said this! They had 12 girls to a tiny room, one bathroom per floor, and they were paid a "pittance". Keep in mind now, this is what HE said of the factory he was buying! The news talked a lot about the 47%, but he was basically right about that, in a way.
The news didn't even mention his comments about the factory he bought -- how much did he make? Did he pay taxes on that? Did he know the names of any girls that worked in that factory? Did he shut down one of his factories here to give more work to his huge live in factories there?
I think those were legit questions for a guy who was going to transform the economy.
ANd more -- given the overpopulation in much of the 3rd world -- why can't we have import laws that prevent these jobs going overseas? I know it's not a simple thing, I know it's more complicated. But I'd like to see living wages and benefits for everyone who works hard and obeys the rules. And if people want to get rich buying factories with guards and barb wire where the workers live, and get paid a "pittance" according to the guy that owns the factory, fine.
Just get it out in the open is all Im saying
No, that is not all you're saying. You're a hair on fire liberal who is more than comfortable with the present administration's distortions and misrepresentations. You're saying Romney was one of those dark and dastardly rich guys and no way could we trust him. Frankly, after four years of descent into an information vacuum as it pertains to recent federal machinations, one would expect to find the lack of transparency as being very suspicious and the direction in which we are travelling to be nothing short of frightening. There is a long list of transparency short falls to choose from but, let's just take the so-called Obama 'centerpiece legislation' as a suitable microcosm for example. We are speaking of ObamaCare now obviously. Not only did no one know what was in the legislation when it was first rammed down America's throat,
(you may remember the various shenanigans and bribes that were accomplished to that end by this White House) To this day no one really knows what all is involved. The legislation was passed in a format which afforded liberal democrats and an odd assortment of near-bureaucrats and acquaintances from within the circles of academia, to author as yet thousands of regs which will impact the nation in ways scary enough to make most folks hair stand up.
The whole process was accomplished in utter secrecy, no open hearings and no traditional Congressional process. Why? Obviously because republicans were excluded from the whole affair and as was in evidence by the strict party line vote. According to Obama, families were supposed to realize a $2,500 dollar a year savings in his first term. Competition was supposed to drive down the cost of care, remember that one? Well surprise, just as critics warned there is no competition, at all. As we speak projected costs, as well as measurable real costs are through the roof. This remark by Obama poster girl Nancy Pelosi pretty well sums it all up;
"We Have To Pass The Health Care Bill So You Can Find Out What's In It." March 10, 2010.
And you're worried about what effects a Mitt Romney administration may have had on our economy? If his accomplishments could have come anywhere close to those of his record as Governor of Massachusetts, (an open book BTW, truly transparent) his legacy would have shone like a super nova as compared to Obama's so far abysmal scene, speaking of books, from "The Night Land", a place of unimaginable darkness.
I found the whole transcript of the Romney text from which, you chose to further castigate his character ala the DNC suggested path. And, of all places, it was on "Mother Jones", I was shocked, LOL. The idea and subsequent DNC tack of choice, whether conscious or not, was the stuff of Nazi German propaganda. Make Romney look like one of those greedy rich Jews Hitler blamed, for all Germany's ills. Greedy people don't work pro bono (four years of service as Gov of Mass) , they don't give the millions of their father's inheritance to charity, nor do they give of themselves to help friends and neighbors the way the Romney's have.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012...cret-video
Let me help you with this one. All Romney was doing here was pointing out the incredible difference between the US and a place like China. The gist of the story was that though the girls were housed in a place with fences and watchtowers, those things were in place to protect the girls from the throngs of girls trying to
'get in' to the factory to work, not to keep them in as Romney wrongly surmised. So desperate were the general conditions outside factory walls, that factory was a place to earn and save money so they could get a leg up on a better life, perhaps an education. This was an eye opening experience for Mitt Romney and he was just using it as a tool to share how good things still are here and his vision to make them even better. To suggest that he got rich off of a deal that you nor anybody else even knows really ever came to fruition, is quite a stretch. And yet, a path well worn by the liberal jack boots of creative reporting tactics of the left.
As to the DNC talking point that Romney has and would ship our jobs overseas. You really ought to save that one for the Young Democrat's Club meeting, it might have a chance of flying there. Nearly as ridiculous as the guy blaming Romney for giving his wife cancer. :Thumbs: