{"id":12194,"date":"2012-08-29T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T00:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2012-08-29T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:31:14","slug":"the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/29\/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine has the article The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks to ToddS for recommending this article.<\/p>\n

In fact, government documents on the bailout obtained by Rolling Stone show that the legend crafted by Romney is basically a lie. The federal records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Romney’s initial rescue attempt at Bain & Company was actually a disaster \u2013 leaving the firm so financially strapped that it had “no value as a going concern.” Even worse, the federal bailout ultimately engineered by Romney screwed the FDIC \u2013 the bank insurance system backed by taxpayers \u2013 out of at least $10 million. And in an added insult, Romney rewarded top executives at Bain with hefty bonuses at the very moment that he was demanding his handout from the feds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sort of calls to mind the book by Bill Black – The Best Way To Rob a Bank is to Own One<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Mitt seems to have come up with a way to rob a bank that Bill Black didn’t even think about.<\/p>\n

The Rolling Stone article concludes with<\/p>\n

Even as consumers took a loss, however, a small group of investors wound up getting a good deal in the bailout. Bain Capital \u2013 the very firm that had triggered the crisis in the first place \u2013 walked away with $4 million. That was the fee it charged Bain & Company for loaning the consulting firm the services of its chief executive \u2013 one Willard Mitt Romney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the title of another book could be, “The Best Way To Get Rich Is To Steal Money.”\u00a0 Maybe “Mitt, you didn’t build it, you stole it” would be a better title.<\/p>\n

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