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Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Still Outsourcing Our Jobs to China

Mitt Romney’s idea of Labor Day as opposed to yours and mine, is obviously very different. Mr. Romney’s lack of concern for ordinary people is no less than stunning, and that callousness must become common knowledge before we get stuck with Romney-Ryan for four or eight years. That said, I pulled this short excerpt from PoliticusUSA , and I hope that you’ll go read the rest of it (emphasis mine):

Bain Capital is the majority owner in Sensata Technologies in Freeport Illinois that manufactures sensors and controls used in automobiles and aircraft, and for the past 8 months has been dismantled and shipped in pieces to its new location in China. The company required American workers to personally train their Chinese replacements before their jobs are eliminated, and it prompted 170 workers to sign an open letter to Willard Romney petitioning him to prevent their jobs from being outsourced to China. The workers were especially disturbed that a month before the Chinese replacements arrived for training, the company physically removed the American Flag that flew outside the plant because Sensata was afraid of offending the Chinese, and put it back when the foreign workers left. The workers appealed to Romney and Bain Capital to keep their jobs in America, but they were chastised, locked out of buildings, and at one Romney campaign headquarters near Madison Wisconsin, were forcibly removed from the property.

The workers went to Tampa to entreaty Romney personally, and were met by protestors calling them communists and shouting the familiar Republican chant of, “U.S.A., U.S.A.” in an attempt to “make it sound like we were not patriotic” because we wanted to keep good-paying jobs in America. One of the workers said, “it offends 170 people who are having their jobs moved to China to increase the bottom line, because although these products have always been profitable, it’s just not enough,” and that “we need to stop this practice and keep the good paying jobs here; not the lower-paying jobs.” One of the organizers said that while they were in Tampa, they met a lot of people dealing with the same issue of outsourced jobs, or Bain Capital firing workers and hiring them back at very low wages without pensions or healthcare. It is the Bain Capital business model perfected by presidential hopeful Willard Romney, and it has been his standard practice of destroying the American Dream to increase profits.

So, I don’t know about you, but the idea of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in charge of the future of this country gives me nightmares.

Idiot Quote of the Day

Not just the “Idiot Quote of the Day”, no, Rep. Michele Bachmann, GOP presidential wannabe in 2012, is going for the “Anti-American Quote of the Year” when she tries to make a case that the U.S. ought to be more like China:

“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.”

So, Michele Bachmann would like to do away with the social safety net. So we can be more like communist China.

Via Bob Cesca