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Old 05-08-2012, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Hinckley Ohio
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I keep hearing that having a "businessman" like Mittens in the White House will be great for the economy and job creation. I got a couple of question related to those claims.

What jobs has Mittens created in the last three years? If he is this fantastic job creator shouldn't he have been pitching in during the greatest economic downturn since the great depression? Why hasn't he created any new jobs since the crash? Am I to believe that the only way Mittens can create any jobs is from the Oval Office?

Businesses create jobs, we know that, why hasn't our Businessman in chief created jobs?
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Old 05-08-2012, 08:56 AM
 
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Can you document for us what businesses he owns? Can you document the number of people he hired, fired, and/or laid off at those businesses?

Sounds like an empty argument to me with data.
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Old 05-08-2012, 08:58 AM
 
Location: NC
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Solid post /10 by a true paragon of knowledge


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Old 05-08-2012, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Romney does not, and never did, create jobs. All he did was create profits for himself and his partners regardless of any damage done to existing company owners or employees. This man, and Baine Capital, are not corporate doves but corporate vultures.
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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When Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, the state ranked 47th in job creation!

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Job growth and the unemployment figures: Anybody who watched the first Republican caucuses a few months ago ought to thank Newt Gingrich for his infomercial on Romney's stewardship of Bain Capital and the practice of leveraged buyouts. If Gingrich's explanation of leveraged buyouts isn't enough for you, go back and listen to what then incumbent Senator Kennedy had to say on the subject of layoffs at Bain Capital plants, and a business ethos that exploits workers for capital gains. Oh, and Romney might want to avoid the subject of job creation altogether given that Massachusetts was 47th out of 50 states in putting people to work when Romney was governor.
Three Things Mitt Romney Shouldn't Talk About
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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I keep hearing that having a "businessman" like Mittens in the White House will be great for the economy and job creation. I got a couple of question related to those claims.

What jobs has Mittens created in the last three years? If he is this fantastic job creator shouldn't he have been pitching in during the greatest economic downturn since the great depression? Why hasn't he created any new jobs since the crash? Am I to believe that the only way Mittens can create any jobs is from the Oval Office?

Businesses create jobs, we know that, why hasn't our Businessman in chief created jobs?
Good questions.
At the very least, he certainly could have financed a few (thousand) non-profit training programs, inveigled his corporate pals to offer internships...
Seems like he could have done any number of things that would have proven that he is serious about getting people back on their feet.

Kind of makes you go "hmmmm..."
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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When Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, the state ranked 47th in job creation!


Three Things Mitt Romney Shouldn't Talk About
Yeah, the 90% Democratic Mass legislature had nothing to do with that.
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:11 AM
 
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This is a little know fact for those on the left.... but the current occupier of the Whitehouse is Barak Obama...

It is Barak Obama's record on job creation that matters in this election cycle. no amount of deflection will change that.

Barak Obama SAID he would keep unemployment below 8%. If failed.
In fact, if we used the same methods to determine unemployment that was used in the 1980s the unemployment rate would be closer to 15%

Barak Obama said it was unpatriotic to raise the debt ceiling back when it was around 10 trillion. As president he has (by his own words) been utterly unpatriotic on the subject. He DEMANDED the debt ceiling be raised and our debt is now around 15 TRILLION. Mr Obama is personally responsible for nearly ONE THIRD of Americas debt. He has been President of the United States approximately 1% of our history.

OBAMA = JOB FAIL
OBAMA = FAILED PRESIDENCY
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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When Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, the state ranked 47th in job creation!
It's hard to create jobs when we're at full employment.

What does it feel like to get hoodwinked by AOL - a megacorporation - on a regular basis?
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Old 05-08-2012, 09:21 AM
 
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I keep hearing that having a "businessman" like Mittens in the White House will be great for the economy and job creation. I got a couple of question related to those claims.

What jobs has Mittens created in the last three years? If he is this fantastic job creator shouldn't he have been pitching in during the greatest economic downturn since the great depression? Why hasn't he created any new jobs since the crash? Am I to believe that the only way Mittens can create any jobs is from the Oval Office?

Businesses create jobs, we know that, why hasn't our Businessman in chief created jobs?
People in glass houses should not throw stones. Obama has never created, or ran a business, where he created jobs by employing anyone, never met a payroll, never budgeted a five year plan, and he has not signed a budget as president either. The biggest decision Obama ever made in his life, was to buy his home, and even that looks to have been a scam he engaged in with Rezco.

When Obama was sworn in he was completely and utterly lacking in any prior experiences, that a we would expect a person to have to qualify for the job; which has become evident after his 3 1/2 years of failure.

Romney has ever qulaification that a person wants in a president; he has executive experience, business and economic experience, and experience as a governor of a state.
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