[quote=briansd1][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I’ll leave you with this, however. [/quote]
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich….”
Allan, you’re asking us to sympathize with the context of Mitt Romney’s multi-billion dollar business and the complexity of his dealings. Here you’re ignoring the moral and ethical sin of lying.
Romney could have said: “I ran a complex multi-billion dollar business; I had deals to complete, accounts to close, money to transfer, all in amounts that you people cannot begin to understand. Do you realize that I sacrificed and gave up making even greater wealth to become the leader of you people? So stop pestering me with the little details.”
But Romney was not honest….
Romney first deployed the defense that he left the firm in February 1999 as a candidate for governor in 2002, when Democrat Shannon O’Brien featured a laid-off worker from a Kansas City steel mill that went bankrupt in 2001, after Bain Capital had reaped a handsome profit from its investment in the company. “Romney has taken responsibility for making the initial investment but has said he could not be blamed for management decisions at the company,” the Globe reported at the time.
Romney wants credit for “creating jobs” while at Bain, but he doesn’t the public to analyze to totality of the Bain business model.
In reality, leverage buyouts or private equity, is all about financial alchemy and making money for investors.
What the public should be looking is the fact that Bain took foreign investors’ money through offshore accounts to invest in America. Those investors earned profits but were able to avoid US income taxes thanks to the offshore facilities.
Of course, all of Romney’s dealing are perfectly legal. But do they square with the public’s view of good policy for the American economy?[/quote]
Brian: It’s Red Herring Day! Nope, did NOT ask you to sympathize with anyone, rich or not. What I did was offer some examples off the top of my head of situations that may be similar. And those examples followed my assertion that I did NOT have all the facts, but would look into it.
So, whole cloth, you come back with a counter-factual (that contains NO facts) and attempt to paint a picture of Romney, wherein Romney tells us mere mortals what “really happened”. Except it didn’t happen at all and you simply made it up, because it supports your narrative and your worldview.
Did Romney lie? I don’t honestly know and you have yet to provide any “objective” proof (as per your catamite buddy’s view of events) that concretely makes that case.
Again, Brian, you casually cherry pick those “facts” that supposedly supports your view and ignore all others which don’t. I’m clearly stating that I don’t know, but will check it out, as I’ve clearly owned up to when I’m wrong. It’s interesting to note that you’re never wrong, just as Democrats are also apparently never wrong, nor do Democrats ever lie.
Gitmo
NDAA
Patriot I/II
Warrantless Wiretapping
Targeted Assassination of US citizens
Extraordinary Rendition
This shit would seem to be a mite more important than an SEC disclosure, wouldn’t it?
You want to have an honest and objective discussion, I’m all for it. But you really don’t, do you? You want to hold true to The Narrative and just ignore those things that don’t comport with it.
