There is a huge difference between businessman/entrepreneur/captain of industry and a corporate raider and vulture capitalist like liar Mitt Romney. People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford represent the true visionaries and capitalists that create jobs and grow economies. Mitt Romney never created a business that actually created any product, service or jobs. All Romney has ever done is convince investors to give him money to help him and Bain Capital execute leveraged buyouts of companies. In many cases the investor got screwed, companies were raped and workers lost their jobs but in every case Romney made money. There are name for people who do that. Sometimes they are called bookies and other times they are called pimps. Romney is both a pimp and a bookie. Romney calling himself a businessman laughable. Romney showed just how clueless he is when he said, "let Detroit go bankrupt.
Here is why that was clueless.
Romney tried to back pedal on that one by saying that GM and Chrysler needed to go through a structured bankruptcy and then get funding from the banks. The problem with that is that the banks were failing and also needed a bailout and President Bush did exactly that and he also started the bailout of Detroit and President Obama expertly managed it
. Every financial expert and economist knew Romeny was full of shit and he still is
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1. Ranked 47th in job growth: Despite Romney’s professed expertise in creating jobs, Massachusetts
ranked 47th in job growth
during his time as governor. The state’s total job growth was just 0.9
percent, well behind other high-wage, high-skill economies in New York
(2.7), California (4.7), and North Carolina (7.6). The national average,
meanwhile, was better than 5 percent.
2. Suffered the second-largest labor force decline in the nation:
Only Louisiana, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, saw a
bigger decline in its labor force than Massachusetts during Romney’s
tenure as governor. The US Census Bureau estimated that between July
2002 and July 2006, 222,000 more residents left Massachusetts for other
states than came to it. That decline largely explains the state’s
decreasing unemployment rate (from 5.6 to 4.7 percent) while Romney was
in office, according to Northeastern University economics professor
Andrew Sum. At the same time, the nation as a whole
added 8 million people to the labor force.
3. Lost 14 percent of its manufacturing jobs: Massachusetts lost
14 percent of its manufacturing jobs
during Romney’s time in office, according to Sum. The loss was double
the rate that the nation as a whole lost manufacturing jobs. In 2004,
Romney vetoed legislation that would have banned companies doing
business with the state from outsourcing jobs to other countries.
4. Experienced “below average” economic growth and was “often near the bottom”: “There was not one measure where the state did well under his term in office. We were
below average and often near the bottom,”
Sum told the Washington Post in February. As a result, the state was
more comparable to Rust Belt states like Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio
than it was to other high-tech economies it typically competes with.
5. Piled on more debt than any other state: Romney left Massachusetts residents with $10,504 in per capita bond debt, the
highest of any state
in the nation when he left office in 2007. The state ranked second in
debt as a percentage of personal income. Romney regularly omits those
statistics from his Massachusetts record, instead touting the fact that
he balanced the state’s budget (he was constitutionally required to do
so). He wouldn’t be much different as president: his proposed tax plan
adds
more than $10 trillion to the national debt
