No Corporate Predator for President, Please
January 30, 2012 at 6:23 PM
By MIKE BROWN
Imagine a candidate for CEO of a U.S. corporation being asked in an interview with the Board of Directors: "Why do you want this job." He answers: "Because I don't much care for your company - it's part of our problems, not a solution to anything. That's why my associates and I bad-mouth it every chance we get. I want to slash its revenues and tear it down, and make lots of money doing it."
Would this clown get the job? No one would be crazy enough to do this anyway, right? Wrong! Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is doing just that.
Romney says his experience (as a corporate predator) at Bain Capital is directly applicable to "cleaning up the Federal Government." At Bain, he swooped down on companies, slashed revenues, dismantled them, sold off the remains, fired employees, stole their pensions, destroyed the lives of thousands of American workers and their families, and enriched himself and his investors in the process.
Now he's coming to the American voters, the Board of Directors of our U.S. Government, asking for the opportunity to do that to us. He and his GOP comrades have tried to poison public opinion about our Constitutionally created Executive Branch that he would lead. He wants to slash revenues (more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations), and dismantle programs that Promote the General Welfare such as Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, education, food/medicine/water safety, and bridges/roads repair while further enriching the wealthiest 1%.
Sorry, Mitt - not this time.
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