Topic: Obama Ad - Romney is a Vampire!

[Libertas]

“We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer,” says one former mill worker in the ad. Another calls Bain “a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/obama-ad-calls-mitt-romneys-bain-capital-firm-a-vampire/2012/05/14/gIQA25BdOU_blog.html?wprss=rss_campaigns

 

So says Count Blackula?!

 

NOBODY has killed more jobs, destroyed more industries and ruined more lives than Barack Hussein Obama, period!

Most epic-fail ad ever!

     

[Pandora]

They're full of it, too.  Romney left Bain in 1999; the company in question went bankrupt in 2001.

[Libertas]

And we cannot even talk about anything about Obama from any year/decade...

The irony is stiffling!

[benb61]

Saw a report on Hanity last night regarding this ad.  Not only did Mitt leave Bain 2 years before this steel mill went out of business, but Bain was able to rescue 80% of the businesses that they went into (which would have probably failed) during his time there, and the year that that mill closed there were another 17 steel mills that went bankrupt during that year because of foreign steel dumping (foreign steel manufacturers selling their product at or below cost in the US).

[charlesoakwood]

Steel dumping anecdote:
                                    In the sixties and later Japan was dumping steel to America.
                                    Japan has no iron as a natural resource, how could they do
                                    that?  

                                    Easy, they bought the raw material from us shipped it to
                                    Japan, processed it then shipped it back over here and sold
                                    it back to us.
                                    
                                    So why didn't we process the iron here?

                                    Because unions increased the cost so much it was cheaper to
                                    export the mineral then bring it back as steel.

    

[IronDioPriest]

Steel dumping anecdote:
                                    In the sixties and later Japan was dumping steel to America.
                                    Japan has no iron as a natural resource, how could they do
                                    that?  

                                    Easy, they bought the raw material from us shipped it to
                                    Japan, processed it then shipped it back over here and sold
                                    it back to us.
                                    
                                    So why didn't we process the iron here?

                                    Because unions increased the cost so much it was cheaper to
                                    export the mineral then bring it back as steel.

    

That scenario can generally be extrapolated across the manufacturing sector. Then union workers bitch because companies move production overseas.

[benb61]

This all feeds into my "Unions destroyed the Steel Industry in Pittsburgh (America)" rant.