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DemocracyInaction

(2,506 posts)
Tue May 15, 2012, 01:31 PM May 2012

Andrea Mitchell and Her Bag of Quarters

Was half listening to her when I realized she was like a cat stuck on Bill Burton's face!!! She thinks it's outrageous to attack Bain because it was a very successful company and unfair to attack Mittens and the new add is deplorable ---blab blab,....Koch quarters must be rolling in!!!

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Andrea Mitchell and Her Bag of Quarters (Original Post) DemocracyInaction May 2012 OP
She's just repeating what she hears pscot May 2012 #1
Did shecomplain about Gingrich, Santorum or malaise May 2012 #2
I don't watch Politicalboi May 2012 #3
It was a very successful company! gratuitous May 2012 #4
In a small business, you know the ones that create most jobs, the owner usually pays himself last bigbrother05 May 2012 #5
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. I don't watch
Tue May 15, 2012, 01:48 PM
May 2012

Mrs.Greenspan. She doesn't know what she's talking about. MSNBC should team her up with Gregory on MTP, or get rid of her. She has enough money already, let someone new take over.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. It was a very successful company!
Tue May 15, 2012, 01:49 PM
May 2012

And there's only one measure of success in Andrea's world, and if you're not fabulously wealthy like she and her pals are, well, fuck you, that's why.

The question posed at Kos is appropriate, and doesn't seem to be getting asked: Bain Capital made money when their tactics worked and the company they took over became more successful. Bain Capital also made money when the company they took over soon ceased to exist, and all its workers joined the ranks of the unemployed. I don't think anyone cavils at the first proposition. But why did Bain Capital realize a profit when it destroyed something, too? Shouldn't they have lost money when their deal didn't pan out? Isn't that the way it's supposed to work?

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
5. In a small business, you know the ones that create most jobs, the owner usually pays himself last
Tue May 15, 2012, 02:31 PM
May 2012

At Bain and most large corporations, the owners and managers take their money first and if there's any left they pay the workers. If there isn't enough left, they ask the workers to take a cut in pay, medical, and retirement before they declare bankruptcy and walk away.

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