“Romney is the frontman and apostle of an economic
revolution, in which transactions are manufactured instead of products, wealth
is generated without accompanying prosperity, and Cayman Islands partnerships
are lovingly erected and nurtured while American communities fall apart. The
entire purpose of the business model that Romney helped pioneer is to move
money into the archipelago from the places outside it, using massive amounts of
taxpayer-subsidized debt to enrich a handful of billionaires. It's a vision of
society that's crazy, vicious and almost unbelievably selfish, yet it's running
for president, and it has a chance of winning. Perhaps that change is coming
whether we like it or not. Perhaps Mitt Romney is the best man to manage the
transition. But it seems a little early to vote for that kind of wholesale
surrender.”-- Matt Taibbi, “Greed and Debt: How Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Staged an Epic Wealth Grab, Destroyed Jobs – and Stuck Others With the Bill,” Rolling
Stone, September 13, 2012
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