David Stockman On Mitt Romney: ‘He Was A Master Financial Speculator’
“That Mitt Romney had a successful tenure as CEO of Bain Capital doesn’t mean he’ll be able to turn the economy around, according to an ex-Reagan budget director. Instead, he says, it’s just evidence that the financial system is rigged.”
“In an op-ed in The Daily Beast, David Stockman argues that the Romney campaign’s refrain is “dead wrong” — the refrain being that the Republican candidate is prepared to help the sputtering U.S. economy because he transformed struggling companies and created jobs. Instead, Stockman says, it’s ‘crony capitalism’ and central bank help that’s made gambling on failing companies a relatively safe bet… Stockman goes on to write: “Bain’s billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise…”


for the rest of the Huffington Post article goto> 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/david-stockman-mitt-romney_n_1968106.html?utm_hp_ref=business
for the original article at the Daily Beast goto>
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html

David Stockman On Mitt Romney: 

‘He Was A Master Financial Speculator’

“That Mitt Romney had a successful tenure as CEO of Bain Capital doesn’t mean he’ll be able to turn the economy around, according to an ex-Reagan budget director. Instead, he says, it’s just evidence that the financial system is rigged.”

“In an op-ed in The Daily Beast, David Stockman argues that the Romney campaign’s refrain is “dead wrong” — the refrain being that the Republican candidate is prepared to help the sputtering U.S. economy because he transformed struggling companies and created jobs. Instead, 
Stockman says, it’s ‘crony capitalism’ and central bank help that’s made gambling on failing companies a relatively safe bet…
 Stockman goes on to write: “Bain’s billions of profits were not rewards for capitalist creation; they were mainly windfalls collected from gambling in markets that were rigged to rise…”





for the rest of the Huffington Post article goto> 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/david-stockman-mitt-romney_n_1968106.html?utm_hp_ref=business

for the original article at the Daily Beast goto>


http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html

“The vast majority of Americans fulfill their legal and civic obligations to pay the taxes they owe, and rightly expect others to do the same. But too often, corporations and wealthy individuals use overseas tax havens to dodge their duty, passing their tax burden off onto others and increasing the federal budget deficit.”
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/in_the_news/article/want-to-cut-the-deficit_end-offshore-tax-abuses/

“The vast majority of Americans fulfill their legal and civic obligations to pay the taxes they owe, and rightly expect others to do the same. But too often, corporations and wealthy individuals use overseas tax havens to dodge their duty, passing their tax burden off onto others and increasing the federal budget deficit.”

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/in_the_news/article/want-to-cut-the-deficit_end-offshore-tax-abuses/