** Paul Krugman sums up Mitt Romney's advice to students in the NY Times:
....Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney
gave to college students during an appearance last week. After
denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his
audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education,
borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the
distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent
families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their
ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.
I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public
colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions
in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that;
he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would
drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students
to lose their Pell grants.....
A "President" Romney (heaven forbid!), operating under the Paul Ryan budget, would create chaos, hardship, and massive unemployment. Are you willing to risk your future on someone that will enrich his friends and condemn you to poverty?
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* An article at InformationClearingHouse, details the seek and destroy missions that Mitt Romney and Bain used in absorbing companies, paying the executives, and firing the workers.
Here is an excerpt from InformationClearingHouse:
...An example
of Romney's cold-blooded approach is his 1994 purchase of
Dade International, an Illinois medical-equipment company.
He soon merged it with two similar firms, a move that tripled
sales.
Once
again, he couldn't help but raid the vault, peeling away $100
million for himself and investors at the same time
Dade was laying off 1,700 American workers.
After Bain
closed a Dade plant in Puerto Rico, human-resources manager
Cindy Hewitt was asked to lure a dozen of those employees to
work in the company's Miami factory.
But that
plant soon closed as well. Although Romney was gobbling up
millions, Bain still wanted those laid-off employees to repay
their moving costs....
Can you imagine your employer forcing you to repay your moving costs from Puerto Rico to Miami? What about people that lost homes because they no longer had jobs?
