Romney the Perfect Mormon - Screw the Little People

[_Eric]

I wonder what Romney thinks about the Church Welfare System / Bishop's Storehouse

I mean, giving away all that food and assistance to poor people... that sounds pretty damn Socialist to me.

[_Quasimodo]

I wonder what Romney thinks about the Church Welfare System / Bishop's Storehouse

I mean, giving away all that food and assistance to poor people... that sounds pretty damn Socialist to me.

An excellent question for some reporter to ask Mitt. His reply might be "Next question".

[_Sethbag]

It wouldn't be a good idea. Then Romney will just say he's all for charitable giving - he's just not in favor of the government doing it at gunpoint. It would be lobbing him a softball and he'd hit it out of the park.

I am not a fan of the article quoted in the OP. I read the article, and it looks to me like Romney's company was involved in quite a few companies. Some of them were more successful than others. The article focused in one of them where it didn't work out so well. I don't know if that's really fair. They ignored the successes. There will be wins and there will be losses, but focusing in on just the losses isn't really telling the whole story.

I don't like Romney very much, but I don't think the article in the OP was a fair look at Romney's business practices. If he deserves to be criticized based on the whole picture of his overall business activities, then so be it, but that article did not demonstrate it. I'd like to see what he did overall.

[_Analytics]

I wonder what Romney thinks about the Church Welfare System / Bishop's Storehouse

I mean, giving away all that food and assistance to poor people... that sounds pretty damn Socialist to me.

Wasn't it Romney that said the following?

Give a man to fish, feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and you ruin a great business opportunity.

[_asbestosman]

I wonder if someone on this board reduces waste processes in business for a living. Perhaps he or she could enlighten us. I mean, it'd be pretty crazy to think that he or she took this job because he or she doesn't care about screwing the little people. This is just a guess, but perhaps such a job isn't primarily about reducing staff. I'd be surprised, though, if reducing local employment wasn't one of the considerations.

In any case, I echo what Sethbag said about this just being one instance.

[_Quasimodo]

I wonder if someone on this board reduces waste processes in business for a living. Perhaps he or she could enlighten us. I mean, it'd be pretty crazy to think that he or she took this job because he or she doesn't care about screwing the little people. This is just a guess, but perhaps such a job isn't primarily about reducing staff. I'd be surprised, though, if reducing local employment wasn't one of the considerations.

In any case, I echo what Sethbag said about this just being one instance.

Thank God that I don't lay people off for a living. I'm self employed and have only myself to lay off. Fortunately, I haven't found that necessary, yet.

I don't think anyone feels that their job is about screwing the little people. It's just the way corporations work in this country right now. A CEO"s main task is to increase profits for his share holders. If he or she doesn't do that, they will be replaced (albeit with a golden parachute). At the moment, the most reliable way to do that is to reduce the workforce.

Boeing, a company that I know a lot about, has had it's best year for plane sales ever. It's one of America's largest employers and doing VERY well financially. It just announced another series of layoffs for January (even though they are working huge overtime hours to meet commitments in airplanes). Many of the non-production jobs have been contracted overseas. Many of the production jobs have been sub-contracted to smaller companies both here and overseas.

That's the reality of business in the U.S. right now. Romney was just cashing in on that.

[_Droopy]

But it depends upon how you define success, doesn't it? If the success criteria was "maximize profits" then sure he was successful. If the success criteria was "make a reasonable profit without screwing the little people", then perhaps not.

My intellectual vacuity meter has just jumped off the scale and blown a capacitor.

Probably at this juncture we have around 130-140 or so million lying in their graves all around us, and countless millions more degraded, debased, scarred, and crushed as human beings all in the endless war of class hatred and relentless economic leveling waged by starry eyed utopian dreamers trapped in the tortured, labyrinthine catacombs of their own cosmic moral pomposity.

No logical argument, no facts, no reasoned philosophical reflection will help Analytics and those like him. They have excommunicated themselves from humanity, a humanity they seek to save and redeem as academic theoretical classifications; as collective lumpen abstractions all sharing a single, unifying body of beliefs, motives, hopes, dreams, and personal perspectives of the world.

The "progressive" ideology may yet, despite the break-up of the Soviet Union, be the end of liberal democracy, freedom, and human potential everywhere.

I really don't know if I want to be here to see the Morlocks in their grandest final triumph.

[_Droopy]

Give a man to fish, feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and you ruin a great business opportunity.

In all honesty, I don't know if it Marxism is necessary to create total, complete, utter, and abyssal economic illiteracy, but there is little doubt it is sufficient.

[_moksha]

Big surprise that business places profits before all other concerns. That is the way of the beast. The investment capital business thrives by being able to produce profit. Romney wants to bring those principles to American government so that the investment capital business will thrive with increased profit. Who knows, maybe some of that profit will spill over onto the rest of the economy. Hopefully, it will be the economy of this country.

[_Droopy]

Boeing, a company that I know a lot about, has had it's best year for plane sales ever. It's one of America's largest employers and doing VERY well financially. It just announced another series of layoffs for January (even though they are working huge overtime hours to meet commitments in airplanes). Many of the non-production jobs have been contracted overseas. Many of the production jobs have been sub-contracted to smaller companies both here and overseas.

That's the reality of business in the U.S. right now. Romney was just cashing in on that.

Talk to the unions about this. Take it to the clear and present causes (also, the strong anti-business tax and regulatory climate of the U.S. government).