tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post5175885747435715592..comments2023-10-08T04:12:46.273-05:00Comments on The Political Environment: Romney, Rove And The Robber Barons' ReturnJames Rowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10203270946492159686noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-29908842152681451092012-11-04T05:42:31.138-06:002012-11-04T05:42:31.138-06:00According to [investigative reporter Greg] Palast,...<i>According to [investigative reporter Greg] Palast, “Romney picked Ryan at the request of one of their most important donors, Paul Singer, a hedge fund manager literally known in the industry as ‘The Vulture.’”<br /> <br />Singer has acquired this nickname from such capers as a lawsuit, detailed in Palast’s new book, aimed at seizing $400 million intended for cholera treatment in the Congo, a maneuver that the UK, Germany and Holland all declared illegal. “Singer is seen overseas as an international outlaw, but here in the U.S. he’s a ‘job creator,’” declared Palast.<br /> <br />Then Palast zeroed in on Ryan, who has been a major recipient of campaign contributions from Singer (and from other Wall Street interests such as Goldman Sachs.) Palast noted how Ryan loudly denounced the bank TARP bailout and the auto industry bailouts, to the delight of his Tea Party base, but then wound up voting for them, to the glee of Wall Street contributors like Singer and Goldman. Singer benefited hugely from the auto bailout, where he managed to buy out the only steering-column factory in North America and make a 3,000 percent profit. “The auto bailout team initially resisted the outrageous amount Singer wanted, but he had the industry by the ball bearings,” quipped Palast.</i><br /><br />[By Roger Bybee from <i>In These Times</i>, September 29, 2012]<br />enoughalreadynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621691715090523319.post-49628862879345478162012-11-03T09:13:59.396-05:002012-11-03T09:13:59.396-05:00I find it very interesting that our so-called libe...I find it very interesting that our so-called liberal media has failed to do real due diligence on Bain Capital. But fortunately <i>The Washington Spectator</i> has been following Romney's corporate money trail. Turns out, when he raised some of his start up money for Bain ($6.5 million of $37 million) Romney turned to "unscrupulous" expatriate oligarchs from El Salvador, the very sort of people who funded the extremist ARENA Party which, wrote the <i>Spectator</i> (Sept. 15, 2012), "was directly linked to paramilitary groups and death squads that savaged the country until the war burned itself out in 1992."enoughalreadynoreply@blogger.com