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I am getting somewhat annoyed at this latest meme, whereby Romney is supposedly a bad guy for working for Bain consulting because part of his job was advising companies on how to fire people. Now, granted, Romney doesnt embrace this because he is, time and again, a coward, so he throws math around that implies he was actually helping SAVE jobs. He wasn’t. But that’s ok - and someone should call out Gingrich for painting Romney as some callous corporate monster when he was, in fact, helping companies succeed in the marketplace. Aren’t we mature enough as a country to acknowledge that sometimes companies need to let employees go in order help their bottom line?
Defending Romney’s Role At Bain - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Except he didn’t just fire people. He lobbied for and exploited loopholes that allowed him to buy companies but not their labor contracts so he could forces employees re-apply for their jobs at cut rates without actually firing anybody.
