23 the rresponsibility esponssibility to ccare are ffor o or them,”” Dushku Dushk u says saayys that we wer weree seeing the “real “r eal R Romney.” o omn ney.” people “He sees other p eople in need as lazyy and sla slackers, laz ackers,” Dushku Dushku notes. notes. “He doesn’t do esn’t acknowledge ack knowledge that the path took was he to ok w a a privileged path, from as from parents, gave his par ents, that ga ave him distinct advantages. advant ages.” Romney say R omneey lik o llikes kes e to sa ay that his Capital was ccontroversial ontr troversia e iall rrole ole l att B Bain i C apit itall w aas to t out”” other “help out o ccompanies ompanies or “assisting them”” or “pr “providing them rovviding business eexpertise. xp x ertise.” It’s It ’s a narrative narrativ ivve that ccompletely ompletely obfuscates the Romney obfusc ates th he rrole ole that R o omneey and weree actually Bain wer a eexecuting xxecuting during leveraged buyouts their le eveeragged buy yo outs of vulnerable They weree ccorporate ccompanies. ompanies. The T ey wer o orporate pirates—nothing more thing mor re and nothing pirates—not less—in the worst sense of the term. been In what has b een the most investigative iimportant imp ortant work k off iin vestigativ i i e Romney’s journalism m dealing with R o omney’s Capital rreal eal rrecord ecord at Bain C apital ((Rolling Rolling o Stone, St toone, Aug. Aug. 29), Matt Matt Taibbi Taaibbi described described Bain’s business practices being Bain ’s busin ness practic es as b eing driven byy a “make-nothing, driv en b “make-nothing, ttakeakeeeverything, verything, screw-everyone screw- everyone ethos” Romney and R o omneey himself as a “Gordon “Gordon Gekko…without PR.”” Gekk o…wiithout the PR. Off course, manyy of the victims of O course, man Romney’s weree R o omney’s corporate corporate raiders wer women—clerical workers women— cl i all work cleric kers and d midid level administrators workers le vel admin nistrators and line work ers jobs weree vulnerable when —whose jo obs wer plundered Bain plund dered them ffor or o profits. profits. Romney’s R o omney’s leadership l team at Bain— likee the nat national leadership— lik tional LDS leadership — was all-white all-male.. w as all-whi ite and all-male Republican presidential The R eepu ublican pr esidential was nominee w as effective eff ffeective at Bain, Taibbi T aibbi a cconcludes, onccludes, but not in the way w ay that hee and his inner sanctum front tout. “Romney “R Ro om mney is the fr ont man and apostle economic ap ostle of an a ec onomic rrevolution,” evolution,”” Taibbi T aibbi a cconcludes, onccludes, “in which transactions aree manufactured transaction ns ar manufactured products, instead of pr p oducts, wealth is accompanying generated without w ac companying prosperity, Cayman pr osperity, and C ayman y Islands partnerships aree lo lovingly erected par tnership ps ar vingly er ected nurtured and nur turred while American American apart.” ccommunities ommunitiies fall apar t.”
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