The Reason Why Bain is important.

Willard Romney says that the reason he is qualified to be President of the United States is because he knows how to take care of the economy and President Obama doesn’t.

He’s not saying that he had executive experience because he was the Governor of Massachusetts – something that he has completely run away from. Look at Willard’s campaign – it’s like his time as the Governor of Massachusetts just doesn’t exist.

He’s not running on foreign policy experience – remember the articles from last week about him ‘forming a foreign policy after the election’.

No. He’s staked his claim on why he should be President because he’s a rich White man, and the crux of that is Bain Capital.

I’m fine if he wants folks to judge him on his time at Bain Capital.

LET US DISCUSS HIS TIME AT BAIN.

Let us discuss the American workers that were given the shaft by Willard and Bain.

Let us discuss the fundamentals of how Bain made money. They weren’t about making jobs. They were about making money.

But, they don’t want to discuss that. They don’t want to talk about:
1. the jobs he shipped overseas
2. the companies he bankrupted
3. the people whose economic lives he ruined.

They wanna bullshyt and call that the President’s attempt at ‘character assassination’.

Just once I wish someone from the Obama campaign to retort – you’d actually have to HAVE CHARACTER in order for it to be assassinated, but I know they can’t.

It’s not character assassination to break it down to the American people that Willard and Bain didn’t give a rat’s ass about ‘creating jobs’. They were all about ‘ making money’. And, they rigged the game, so, whether the company succeeded OR FAILED – Bain made money.

The whole 99% vs. 1% isn’t about the 99% being ‘envious’. They just know unfair bullshyt when they see it.

People understand – if a company is doing successful, then yes, people should make money.

But, it’s hard to explain, in anything other than 1% ridiculousness, how, if you run a company INTO BANKRUPTCY, how your ass should walk away with MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

And, that is EXACTLY what Willard and Bain did – time after time.

Time after time, bankrupting companies, walking away from the pension and medical benefit obligations of employees and retirees, while making MILLIONS for themselves.

On top of that, not only walking away from those worker and retiree obligations, but putting the AMERICAN TAXPAYER on the hook for them.

All while Willard – AND BAIN – walked away with MILLIONS.

THIS is why Bain is fair game.

Willard has said he should be President because of his ‘ business experience’.

Therefore, every inch of what was done at Bain is part of what the American People have a RIGHT TO KNOW.

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Women, IF IT WERE UP TO A ROMNEY PRESIDENCY, You Couldn’t Afford To Get Pregnant, But You Should!

If the latest Crossroad ad is a rebutal to the Obama camp’s The Life Of Julia, NEWS FLASH!!! MAJOR FAIL! This ad doesn’t not speak to the WOMEN MAJORITY

Mitt Romney’s policies would prevent you from ACCESS to abortions, contraception, fair pay, student loans, defunding Planned Parenthood, and affordable healthcare. HE’S ON THE WRONG SIDE OF ALL THE ISSUES that are IMPORTANT to women. This ad appeals to the fears of OLDER WHITE WOMEN voters, not those same women Sarah Palin yodeled on and on about as HOCKEY MOMS, only now Crossroads is changing the game and the color of the ball. IT’S a DECEPTIVE ad….SURPRISE!

Rising health care, inability to retire, kids coming back home, is not something my young adult daughters are looking at as the pressing issue. They are planning their future, which includes how many children they’re going to have (CONTRACEPTION), a well-paying JOB. How can you work if you’re sick and can’t afford healthcare, get pregnant and can’t affford the baby, because you didn’t have ACCESS to contraceptives?  Can’t go to an abortion clinic, because GOP legistlation is attempting to ROLLBACK Roe v Wade, and the extreme rightwingnuts are CONTINUING VIOLENT attack and bombing  abortion clinics.  Anti-abortion extremists TERRORIZE doctors in Georgia.

This isn’t an ad addressed to mom, it’s an ad addressed to any older American parent on the verge of retirement. The ad just stuck on the basketball court, and a mom’s face.

Here’s my ad rebuttal for this foolishness

I have two daughters, both college-educated and married now. Let’s set the stage: Both had worries about paying their student loans when Republicans are now doubling the interest rate because they want to gut preventative care. My daughters would fret over being without health insurance because their ability to remain on my or their dad’s insurance has expired. And now both of my daughters are trying to figure out how to live on minimum wage and no time off, because they need something to pay for their trip to the gynecologist for their yearly exams, since REPUBLICANS defunded Planned Parenthood.

Cutting taxes, and debt and creating jobs, that’s what we need? Seriously, folks.

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Sunday Open Thread

Good Morning.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend with family and friends.

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2012 Wisconsin Recall Debate

PART 1

Here’s the first of two RECALL debates:

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

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Saturday Open Thread

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs’ 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie, a friend of Laurey’s.

The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,243 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions.[1]

This musical, building on the innovations of the earlier Show Boat, epitomized the development of the “book musical”, a musical play where the songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that are able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter.[2] In addition, Oklahoma! features musical themes, or motifs, that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story.[3][page needed][4] A fifteen-minute “dream ballet” reflected Laurey’s struggle to choose between two men. A special Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for Oklahoma! in the category of “Special Awards And Citations – Letters” in 1944.[5]

 

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3 Chics Politico Memorial Day Weekend Thread |Tributes To Our Fallen Soldiers & Our Loved Ones

What a powerfully poignant way to start our Memorial Day Weekend right here with Vice President Joe Biden’s delivering a heart to heart to families of Fallen Soldiers.

VP Biden shared the tragic deaths of his wife and daughter, and he recalled sympathizing with those who commit suicide, noting he felt the same after his daughter and first wife were killed in a car accident.

“I probably shouldn’t say this with the press here, but no, but it’s more important. You’re more important. For the first time in my life, I understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide,” he said.

“Not because they were deranged. Not because they were nuts. Because they had been to the top of the mountain, and they just knew in their heart they would never get there again,” Biden said. “That there was never going to get — never going to be that way again.

“That’s how an awful lot of you feel.”

Wiki:  Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May.[1] Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had decorated Confederate graves in Richmond and other cities during the Civil War, but each region had its own date. Most dates were in May.) By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] As a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.[3]

By the early 20th century, Memorial Day was an occasion for more general expressions of memory, as people visited the graves of their deceased relatives in church cemeteries, whether they had served in the military or not. It also became a long weekend increasingly devoted to shopping, family gatherings, fireworks, trips to the beach, and national media events such as the Indianapolis 500 auto race, held since 1911 on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.[4]

3 Chics invites our community to share news of your favorite, fondest memories and pay homage to loved who have fought and died in combat, and those who have passed on

Have a peaceful, safe, and loving weekend, Everyone!

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BAIN, BIRTHER, & ROMNEY/OBAMACARE: Are They Winners For Presumptive Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney?

BIRTHER

Will the media ask Mitt Romney if he will denouce racist, Donald Trump? Because anyone questions the legitimacy of a BLACK man who has been elected PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES by the majority of Americans, and who has NEVER quesstioned another presidential candidate’s legal birth records with such blantant and utter contempt and lunacy, to me is a FLAIMING BIGOT AND RACIST.

Trump started his Obama is a birther kick in 2011, and Mitt Romney’s pefectly ok with palling around with Trump, the BIRTHER.

From POLITICO: Trump: Obama born in Kenya

“That’s what he told the literary agent,” Trump insisted. “That’s the way life works… He didn’t know he was running for president, so he told the truth. The literary agent wrote down what he said… He said he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia… Now they’re saying it was a mistake. Just like his Kenyan grandmother said he was born in Kenya, and she pointed down the road to the hospital, and after people started screaming at her she said, ‘Oh, I mean Hawaii.’ Give me a break.”

Romney, meanwhile, is embracing Donald Trump:

At first Trump was like…

And then this:


NOTICE THE SIGNATURE?

Romney has no plans to distance himself from the Trump, the Racist Birther and will appear with him at a Las Vegas fundraiser next Tuesday.

ROMNEYCARE:

June 6, 2011

07/30/2009 – Mr. President, What’s the Rush?
This opinion article by Mitt Romney appeared in USA Today on 07/30/2009. It is entitled Mr. President, What’s the Rush?

EXCERPT:

Try a business-like analysis

I spent most of my career in the private sector. When well-managed businesses considered a major change of some kind, they engaged in extensive analysis, brought in outside experts, exhaustively evaluated every alternative, built consensus among those who would be affected and then moved ahead. Health care is many times bigger than all the companies in the Dow Jones combined. And the president is rushing changes that dwarf what any business I know has faced.

Republicans are not the party of “no” when it comes to health care reform. This Republican is proud to be the first governor to insure all his state’s citizens. Other Republicans such as Rep. Paul Ryan and Sens. Bob Bennett and John McCain, among others, have proposed their own plans. Republicans will join with the Democrats if the president abandons his government insurance plan, if he endeavors to craft a plan that does not burden the nation with greater debt, if he broadens his scope to reduce health costs for all Americans, and if he is willing to devote the rigorous effort, requisite time and bipartisan process that health care reform deserves. Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.

April 2010 Nowhere in this video did Romney say he would repeal ObamaCare, he said there were things he like and didn’t like about ObamaCare

Jan 26, 2012

March 26, 2012

And for BAIN & ROMNEY, here’s a collection of videos:

AND WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA IS FOCUSING ON ROMNEY AND HIS YEARS AT BAIN CAPITAL:

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Serendipity SOUL | Friday Open Thread | Funk Week!

Happy FRY-day, Everyone! Hope ya’ll are enjoying FUNK week! We’re going to end with the Masters of FUNK

Parliment Funkadelic

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