6:38 pm ET
Feb 4, 2012


Romney Credits Business Owners — Not Obama — for Improving Economy

    • He is wrong that things are improving, if "things" means the unemployment rate. The number of workers as a percentage of the able population is declining. At some point, the worker ants can't carry all that deadweight that Obama has wrought.

    • This man is a serial Liar. All who believe him deserve the disaster he and his wall street hedge fund buddies bring to them. Just like all those newly red states who hate their governors and are having their rights taken away to serve big business and corrupt corporations

    • Bain’s 1992 acquisitio­n of the Indiana based office supply company, Ampad.
      Bain bought the company on the cheap, used it to purchase other companies at bargain basement prices, only to shut it down after draining the various entities of all value. Here is an excerpt from the 2007 Boston Globe story depicting the history of Bain and Ampad:
      Through Ampad, Bain
      Sales grew, too – for a while. But by the late 1990s, foreign competitio­n and increased buying power by superstore­s like Bain-funde­d Staples sliced Ampad’s revenues.
      The result: Ampad couldn’t pay its debts and plunged into bankruptcy­. Workers lost jobs and stockholde­rs were left with worthless shares.
      This is how Romney made his fortune at Bain. Taking distressed companies under the pretense of investing in their eventual success and if–more likely when– that success doesn’t materializ­e, chopping those businesses into pieces and selling them off at a massive profit.
      Everyone knows that Romney doesn’t have the “common touch.” That he was a member of the lucky breeding pool club.
      What many don’t know is how he grew his wealth. He did it on the backs of the common man, the mill worker, the plant employee, the workers of Armco and Ampad.
      This is who Mitt Romney is. He builds nothing, destroys everything­, has gotten obscenely rich in the process, and his next project is our country.
      Expect more of the same on a national scale, with profits for corporatio­ns being his sole mission and primary directives­.
      Even the war to exploit another assets rich country is in his planning and by hiring the neo con Bush team, We’ll end up paying for it with our children’s lives, limbs and a whole lot of personal grieving.
      How can you expect more from someone who mistakes anger at how he made his money as envy?

    • Romney needs to keep on stomping on Newt just because Newt needs to be stomped on.

    • Not Decent you've hit the nail on the head. That's why most of his donors are rich businessman because the next ailing "corporation" they want to take over is the United States Herself!!! They've already tried it in Argentina to disastrous effects for the disappeared middle class. It's a shame so many can't see the obvious fraud that's is being committed on them.

    • Unable to give the President and his policies a little credit for the recovery?

      The Willard Romney lacks class.

    • Here's Mitt shifting with the wind. Yesterday he put the whole blame for the economy on President Obama. Today he proclaims that the economy IS improving, but that President Obama can take absolutely no credit for it. You can't logically have it both ways. Shreds Romney's credibility.

    • My opinions blow with the wind, which is why I wear Magic Underwear to protect me.

    • Eat horses crap every minute you try to pronounce Obama name,I recommend it and it might be your new find addiction. Listen closely because the rattle only warn you before i strike. Poison daggers and king cobras!!! "Mitt Romney is died"

    • Romney's Nevada landslide marks the beginning of the end for his GOP primary rivals -- and the beginning of a makeover that will determine whether the GOP has a shot at unseating Barack Obama. Mitt has clearly painted himself as a gaffe-prone rich guy with no touch for the common American or an understanding of ordinary life in this country. He is losing independents and has never really gained the trust of his own party's conservative base. Unless the Romney narrative is changed drastically by the summer, Republicans will face a struggle against the President. http://www.sunstateactivist.org

    • If the economy is bad you can't blame Obama and then turn around when the economy improves not to give Obama credit.

      Romney has no credibility.

    • you are all idiots...

    • 11:54

      Why write that? if you have nothing to say just say nothing.

    • "Business Owners Improve the US Economy"
      Well, I guess there is no reason to change Presidents in order to improve the economy.

      Smart Mitt.

    • If Romney becomes President there will be a war and large expenditure on weapons systems. None of the children of the wealthy will go to war. They will be those for whom the military is a good deal the middle and lower class. It will be easier to move capital out of the country with preservation of offshore havens and tax breaks. Workers will have to work harder for less and will be subject to exploitation. The poor whose so called safety net will be reduced will die. More of the middle class will find themselves among the very poor. They will die as part of the "economic adjustment". If America votes for him they will deserve what they get.

    • Well, Mr. Romney is correct. If unemployment is down, it sure isn't due to the presidents voracious appetite to continue to empty wallets and waste money on bad bets. Anybody dumb enough to think it's anybody but the person they see in the mirror every morning who's responsible for any forward motion deserves what they voted for.

    • The WSJ fails to report that the factory Romney was speaking in received over $2 million in stimulus funds. Why would they leave that rather important detail out of this report?

      You don't have to answer, I know why.

    • Mitt is totally right. The economy didn't start semi-improving until Nov 2010 when we got a Republican House. And all we have heard from that loser Obama is about a do-nothing Congress meaning they haven't implemented Obama economy destroying policies. So you can't say Obama's policies helped the economy if Obama is saying Congress hasn't implemented Obama's policies if it is a do-nothing Congress.

      I think the economy is semi-improving because a lot of businesses are seeing that Obama may lose, actually they are hoping he will lose, and it looks more positive everyday as people start waking up to the fact Obama is in over his head.

      If it looks like Obama may win (big trouble for the U.S.) then watch out for a another deep recession as businesses stop hiring and stop spending.

      Why are people worried about Mitt actually being successful and making money? Look at John Kerry, he is a multi-millionaire and was when he ran for president, and his tax returns showed he only paid 12.5% in taxes. Where were you liberals then?

      Is a person running for president allowed to be successful and make a certain amount of money based on some arbitrary upper limit?

      I mean when Mitt becomes president, he is going to have to take a pay cut. He could just go live on a tropical island somewhere and not do anything to help the country, but he is giving back to the country by running for president and being slammed for being successful and giving a huge amount of his money to charities that help all people of all religions.

      Obama is the typical Blago Chicago opportunist, taking bribes, and paying back his cronies, and living like he is King. All Obama cares about is making money off the backs of we the people and living la dolce vita with his White House parties.

      Doesn't Obama have any shame for being so greedy and non-caring. Why is the Black unemployment rate so frickin high, higher than 20% and worse off under Obama then any preceding modern president.

    • Poor Mitt. Just can't stand the fact that Obama has always been blamed (by Republicans) for negative aspects of the economy and (by that logic) must take credit for positive aspects. Poor Mitt -- so frustrated that he has to pick and chose his logic. Poor Mitt -- it's been a bad week for his talking points. Poor Mitt....why are you running, again?

    • Mary,

      Take your medication girl.

    • Thanks for that fairy tale Mary. It made my day. I like the funny part "The economy didn’t start semi-improving until Nov 2010 when we got a Republican House." Actually...I found all of your statements hilarious. You should write a few Hollywood comedies. :)

    • At this point, what choice do we have? Paul can't beat Obama. Santorum is a lost cause. Newt is a nut-job. Unless someone "good" gets into the race quick, Mitt is the only one with the brains to defeat Obama. He's far from ideal, but he's our best chance.

    • Then Romney will give full credit to business owners for his more than certain defeat in November.

    • Everything bad is because of Obama and everything good is in spite of Obama.

      Romney knows that's not true, he's a smart man, but he has to play dumb to appeal to the GOP base.

      What does that say about the GOP base?

    • "Mitt is totally right. The economy didn’t start semi-improving until Nov 2010..."

      By your logic, the economy was fantastic until Jan. 2009. Jan. 20th, to be precise. It's idiots like you for whom Romney has to dumb down. Every vote he gains from people like you is a vote he loses from a thoughtful, moderate voter.

    • I wonder what happened to Mary?

      I was hoping that she'd return and explain her comedy....excuse me -- views. Perhaps she's waiting for fresh talking points from Faux News tomorrow.

      I wonder if Mary was one of the happy ones who cheered when the President failed to bring the Olympic games to America? My, oh my...that's a lot of jobs that the GOP was rooting against. I wonder when they'll stop rooting against job creation?

      Sigh. Such lack of logic, inability to pivot and plain old angry, looney views are why I'm glad I stopped listening to Republicans years ago!

    • I would be delighted to know what the owner of that plant would be willing to say about hiring there, since Romney didn't point to any specifics.

      From the article:

      “That stimulus he had, it did not do the job,” Mr. Romney said. “That stimulus did not create private sector jobs like it should have, like it could have. It instead protected government jobs.”

      I suppose Romney missed the news that since about March, 2007, some 500,000 federal jobs have been eliminated one way or another -- fully ONE-FIFTH the federal workforce back then. Yes, that means that nearly two years of that belong to President Bush -- but the other nearly three years belong to President Obama.

      "Everyone's entitled to his opinion, but not to his facts." -- the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan

    • President Barack Obama holds a clear lead over Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
      Among all Americans, Obama leads Romney 52 to 43 percent, whereas among registered voters, the presidents has a narrower edge over Romney, 51 to 45 percent. This is the first time that Obama has more than 50 percent of the votes in a match-up against Romney among all Americans since July, when the president led the GOP candidate, 51 to 44 percent.

      Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72490.html#ixzz1lc59YOqu

    • The first set of ads the Democrats should run against Romney : things Gingrich and Perry said against him.

      The second set of ads should be things Romney has said against himself.

    • This is just more of the same irrational, desperate GOP posturing we're sure to see more of as the year progresses. Things are bad...Obama's fault. Things improve...no credit to Obama.

      Like I said...irrational and desperate.

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