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

