Romney Camp Silent On Whether Bain Purchased Brutal Chinese Factory
Source: TPM
The Obama campaign is pouncing on a leaked fundraiser video in which Mitt Romney describes touring a factory in China as president of Bain Capital. According to Romney, the company packed workers into crowded dormitories behind barbed wire, while paying them a fraction of American wages.
Left unclear, however, is whether Romney ended up investing in the facility himself. While the video has circulated for weeks, and drawn renewed attention in recent days, the Romney campaign has yet to deny that the candidate bought the factory. Its likely to get more attention now that more secretly filmed clips of a Romney fundraiser leaked to Mother Jones. The clips of Romney describing the Chinese factory appear to be from the same event in which Romney suggests all Obama supporters receive government handouts.
You know, that videos old, you can call Bain and ask them what they did in terms of investing on it, senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told reporters on Monday. I dont have any information on it.
The Romney campaign told TPM Monday that Gillespies no comment would be its final word on whether Bain acquired the factory. A spokesman for Bain Capital did not immediately return a message left on his phone, but CNN reported a source familiar with Bains investment history said Bain did not purchase the factory.
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George II
(67,782 posts)...that Romney and Bain actually DID buy the plant - make them deny it!!
That's the way they play the game, let's play it the same way.
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)how American workers should become more like Chinese workers.
Botany
(70,516 posts)So Mitt could live like a king and hide his money in overseas tax shelters?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)oldsarge54
(582 posts)Provide sub-standard housing, keep workers under lock and key, and very low wages? Sure looks like it to me. Bring back 1900.
Jessy169
(602 posts)this should be a very interesting and entertaining week, and it's just Monday.
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doublethink
(6,823 posts)You know, that videos old, you can call Bain and ask them what they did in terms of investing on it, senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told reporters on Monday. I dont have any information on it. -snip-
bs. It was taped May 17th just 4 months ago, confirmed tonight on the Rachel Maddow Show by David Corn.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)There's an audio clip somewhere of Romney talking about how wonderful it is that the women can sleep in bunks right at the factories! This evokes 2 images:
A. When a woman told W she was working 3 jobs and the dufuss said, "That's fantastic, uniquely American."
B. The virtual female slaves laborers that work for American companies in the Mariana Islands thanks to Tom Delay's policies. (Don't forget the forced Abortions!)
Mitt Romney has no fucking clue as to how ANY OF US LIVE! I'm willing to bet $10.00 (Sorry Mitt, I don't make $ 10.000 bets) that Romney wouldn't know how to use a can opener if his life depended on t. He has literally lived in that much privilege his whole life.
How can ANYONE vote for this man?
Amonester
(11,541 posts)The privileged and the gullible they successfully brainwash daily.
JHB
(37,161 posts)(which was always bogus because he profited from it anyway)
So why did he visit a Chinese factory, looking to buy in?
thucythucy
(8,069 posts)is to me far more devastating to Romney than the "all those who vote Democratic are leeches" segment. Williard actually delights in the fact that the women sleep ten or twelve to a room, work incredibly long hours, and spend their lives surrounded by barbed wire and watch towers. He also tries to convince this "crowd" (looks to be about a dozen, maybe less, not including the servants) that the wire and towers are there, not to keep these poor women in, but to keep potential employees OUT--yes, Chinese women are that desperate for work, and isn't it all WONDERFUL!!???
It's a truly frightening bit of video, it literally made chills run down my spine. I know Nazi analogies are generally spurious, but I couldn't help thinking, as I listened and watched, that it was like the part of Albert Speer's autobiography where he talks about being given a tour of a slave labor camp. Speer at least (according to his own account, anyway) had enough of a conscience to be bothered by what he saw. Mitt thinks it's all so wonderful--gosh, you should just see their work ethic!
Here's the link: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/15/hidden_video_shows_romney_at_a_fundraiser.html
And could it be Romney won't release his taxes because they'll show his income from this and other slave labor operations?
Please please please everybody, do what you can to get this portion to go absolutely viral!
Bragi
(7,650 posts)Yeah, Mitt, the guards and fences are there to keep job-seekers out, not to keep the women in.
Righty right, Mitt.
It's unreal how dumb this guy is.
- B
Bragi
(7,650 posts)If they didn't buy that hellhole, then surely the Chinese government/party found another for them.
What this clip shows is how dumb Mitt is. He actually believed the story about the guards and the fence being there to keep job-seekers away, not to keep the women in.