The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    The zinger I should have thought of 6 months ago

    "As you walk into that voting booth remember:

    The only thing we know for sure that Mitt Romney can change, is his mind."

    Feel free to share, now at the 11th hour.

     

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/romney-delphi-auto_b_2051373.html

    The facts are simple. Mitt Romney's blind-trust invested more than a million dollars in a "vulture fund" managed by Paul Singer, a Romney adviser. In 2008, while Delphi Auto Parts was in bankruptcy, Singer's fund bought, for twenty cents on the dollar, Delphi bonds -- lots of them. With Delphi under Singer's control, he threatened to shut it down unless the taxpayer bailed it out -- holding General Motors and Chrysler hostage, because if Delphi shut down, the companies would lack steering columns and other essential parts. After getting his way, and a $7.3 billion bailout from the public, Singer then closed all but five U.S. plants to move these operations and 25,000 jobs to China. Mitt Romney's investments in Singer's fund help make this loss of American jobs possible.

    Here is the tangled web that leads to lost American jobs -- and a 3,000% profit for Singer and Romney.

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    And then Stockman's take on Romney & Bain, much less successful vulture capitalists than credited with:

     

    Click here to find out more!http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet

     

    In Newsweek Magazine

    Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer

    Oct 15, 2012 1:00 AM EDT

    Is Romney really a job creator? Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, takes a scalpel to the claims.

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    Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that have been perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed. So Bain’s billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise.


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