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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (114030)	5/21/2012 4:57:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

met a manager from Bain Capital on one my international flights. He was wearing a T-shirt with big letters that said Bain Capital. He chuckled when I asked his opinion about Romney's claim. His comment was that Bain is not in the business of creating jobs. They are in the business of making profits and in that pursuit, if they have to fire people they do and if they have to hire people they do. "We do not make intentional decisions to create jobs." And t hen he said something that I found very very interesting. As Guv, Romney had full powers to create conditions so as to create jobs. He failed to do so miserably in spite of Mass. being number 2 behind California as the High tech and biotech hub of this country. Its ridiculous the claims Romney has made. Fortunately, it looks like Americans are starting to get it. In prior polls, Romney has led Obama when it comes to the economy. However, today's USA Today/Gallup poll shows them evenly split: latimes.com Meanwhile Booker's comments are getting used in a Romney attack ad against Obama. Booker looks pretty stupid today.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (114030)	5/21/2012 6:30:10 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

More Fiscal Magic from Bain Capital "Ampad, an ultimately bankrupt company backed by Bain ...laid off all 250 workers at an Indiana factory it purchased in 1994 and added debt to its rolls for years after. The company went into bankruptcy in 2000, holding a debt load of more than $400 million. Bain's return on its $5 million investment was $100 million. Out of a debt load of $170 million owed to unsecured creditors, Ampad ended up paying out less than $330,000, the filings show If Obama and the Democrats do not make this THE central issue of this campaign, they are total failures as politicians. Here, written small, and twenty years early, is the exact recipe for what caused the collapse of the American economy under the leadership of the last Republican president. Mitt Romney is a poster child for the savaging of our economy by the hyper-rich, and it takes one hell of a lot of nerve for the Republicans to foist him, of all people, off on us as the solution to our problems. largegreenbird.blogspot.com