Reply
Wed 30 May, 2012 08:22 pm
I say NOTHING. Discuss.
@farmerman,
It certainly prepares him to know just what big business wants from government...
@Rockhead,
hmmm, I had not thought of that. All the better to deliver the largass, eh?
@farmerman,
like giving the monkey the key to the zoo...
(except that Romney is not descended from them, he was created)
@Rockhead,
Lincoln tried his hand in business , and , he was not a big success. However, he did make a loiving as a lawyer and that was a business.
Did Romney get a patent for anything? or did he just rearrange finaces?
@farmerman,
He learned how to sell cars from his father who was prexy of American Motors before that went out of business.
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
He learned how to sell cars from his father who was prexy of American Motors before that went out of business.
Implying that the company ended.....it was in fact bought by Chrysler, and by the time it was given to Fiat conventional wisdom has it that Jeep (which came from AMC) was the only part of Chrysler which had any value.
Sir, your politics are fogging your brain.
Or is it old age?
Romney'sentire spiehl about his quals are based upon a pedigree that includes all this stuff re: Bain Capital. A president of the US is not even remotely like a CEO. A CEO engages in top dopwn direection and has a lot more unquestinoined power in the business. A president of the US doesnt really have the same powers and is subject to lots of overview in accordance with the Constitution.
I think the fact that he doesn't want to talk about the only time he held a political executive positon (Governor of Massachusetts 2002-2004) is more revelatory than all his blather about business experience.
@snood,
Quote: I think the fact that he doesn't want to talk about the only time he held a political executive positon (Governor of Massachusetts 2002-2004) is more revelatory than all his blather about business experience.
To be fair, he was actually governor a little longer. Elected in 2002, sworn in in January of 2003 he departed in January of 2007.
As to the balance of your post, I have to agree.
@snood,
Exactly, he fails to even mention this fact. IS he trying to distance himself from medical insurance issues?
Medical insurance is not conserative PC . . . the less said, the better . . .
@Setanta,
He was the first chief executive in any state to come up with what has now come to be called Obamacare. Nobody called it Romneycare for some reason. But it's no secret that Obama was inspired by Romney's mandate for universal health insurance for all Bay State residents and Romney will find it hard to explain his citicism of Obama when it's brought out after the
real campaign starts.
isn't it enough that he's a millionaire, gets to wear magic underwear and will some day be god of his own planet, why does he want to be president
@farmerman,
Hopefully, someone with a little business experience will understand that spending is not exactly the same as investing. There has been a surprising lack of understanding of the difference in the past several years.
@roger,
roger wrote:
Hopefully, someone with a little business experience will understand that spending is not exactly the same as investing. There has been a surprising lack of understanding of the difference in the past several years.
In terms of a nation's outlays, what is the difference?
The nation can't just 'go out of business.' It can't fire it's citizens. For these two reasons alone, I find parallels between business operation and governance to be rather contrived.
Cycloptichorn
@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:
In terms of a nation's outlays, what is the difference?
The nation can't just 'go out of business.' It can't fire it's citizens. For these two reasons alone, I find parallels between business operation and governance to be rather contrived.
Cycloptichorn
More contrived than those two examples? I think not.
@roger,
roger wrote:
Cycloptichorn wrote:
In terms of a nation's outlays, what is the difference?
The nation can't just 'go out of business.' It can't fire it's citizens. For these two reasons alone, I find parallels between business operation and governance to be rather contrived.
Cycloptichorn
More contrived than those two examples? I think not.
This is an insufficient answer to my question, and really nothing more than a dodge to avoid answering.
Cycloptichorn
@roger,
roger wrote:
Hopefully, someone with a little business experience will understand that spending is not exactly the same as investing. There has been a surprising lack of understanding of the difference in the past several years.
How many is "several?"
I have a hard time accepting that Bush's policies were any more "investments" than Obama's policies.
Please, provide a list of "investments" that the Republicans have fostered.
When the Social Security Trust Fund was established in 1935 (with one and quarter million dollars--it now exceeds 600 billion dollars), the Republicans howled about socialism--one senator asked Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor) in a public hearing if it weren't socialism. When she answered no, he asked "Isn't this a teeny-weeny bit of socialism?"
But that was nothing compared to the howl when it was proposed that the trust fund be invested in publicly traded stock. Republicans went apeshit, saying not only was it socialism, it was a blatant attempt to "steal" the means of production for the proletariat
Now, any excess in the Social Security Trust Fund (when Congress is not looting it for pork barrels) is invested in non-marketable government bonds. The idea that the Republicans would ever agree to investing government funds is truly hilarious.
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace