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Old 09-07-2012, 05:17 AM
 
Location: South East
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Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn't Work for Bain

The left is just full of liars!

Steele worker whom spoke at the convention claiming to have formerly worked for Bain lied. I know the left s desperate, but this is getting ridiculous.
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Old 09-07-2012, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Steelworker Featured at DNC Didn't Work for Bain

The left is just full of liars!

Steele worker whom spoke at the convention claiming to have formerly worked for Bain lied. I know the left s desperate, but this is getting ridiculous.
HEre's his speech:

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I’m David Foster, and I was a steelworker for 31 years. For 15 years, I laid brick and tapped the furnaces, and did all that hard, dirty work that turned molten metal into the cars and bridges and buildings that make America what it is today.
I also led the steelworkers in the upper Midwest, including GST Steel in Kansas City, a 100-year old company bought by Mitt Romney and his partners at Bain Capital in 1993. It’s a story that I wish didn’t have to be told, but America needs to know the truth.
When Romney and Bain took over the mill, they loaded it up with millions in debt—and within months, they used some of that borrowed money to pay themselves millions. Within a decade, the debt kept growing and was so large the company was forced into bankruptcy.
They fired 750 steelworkers while they pocketed $12 million in profit. A steelworker at GST Steel would have had to work 240 years to make $12 million.
In 2001, with GST bankrupt and Romney still CEO of Bain, I stood in front of hundreds of steelworkers in their 50s and 60s, and retirees in their 70s and 80s, and told them Romney and Bain had broken their promises. Jobs, vacation pay, severance, health insurance and pension benefits that were promised—they were all gone.
Now, some companies succeed; others fail. I know that. But I also know this: We don’t need a president who fires steelworkers or says, “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”
We need the leadership of a man who, during the darkest hours for America’s auto industry, rolled up his sleeves, risked his presidency, and saved over one million good auto jobs. We need Barack Obama.
Where did he say he worked at Bain/GST? And where is the lie about what Bain did?
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Old 09-07-2012, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I am calling this another Con fail, which seems to be typical with the group of liars they seem to have for their politicians
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Old 09-08-2012, 05:27 AM
 
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HEre's his speech:



Where did he say he worked at Bain/GST? And where is the lie about what Bain did?
Read the OP's link:

"The Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured three speakers billed as "former employees of companies controlled by Bain Capital.""

He never worked for Bain and he never worked for a company controlled by Bain. Maybe it is nitpicking, but the DNC certainly is not telling the truth as it sold its convention speakers.
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