Romney was a business man; he started up a business that bought out small companies to create a massive ones, claiming it would encourage local spending. Even with what he considers to be an American success story in buying and selling big businesses and creating American jobs, the thousands of low paying jobs he claims to have created came directly at the expense of the small businesses that could not compete with what he was putting on the market. Yes, he can use the evidence that he was creating several dozen minimum wage jobs, but he was putting local Mom and Pop stores out of business just from sheer competition. This resulted in the only other form of competition being Office Max to prove the point. However, it is wrong for Mitt Romney to claim credit for being a job creator when the result was at best merely shuffling deck chairs and more likely a trading down in full-time work and benefits based on an obvious high employee turnover. He uses this business carrier background as a advantage over Obama, claiming he is more qualified to be president with the poor economical state the US is in. Not only are we loosing more jobs in this situation, we are out sourcing everything we’ve got. Take a walk in any isles in a Staples. Other than paper, it is difficult to find products made anywhere but Asia. Romney says he will end the currency manipulation that gives China and other large countries with growing power the unfair advantage over US manufacturers. But Mitt’s companies feed money directly into outsourcing until our supply networks can no longer compete.
Mitt Romney's hypocrisy is his absence of leadership. You would expect a man who wants to be President because of his loyalty to his country and its people, also to be commitment to the little guys trying to run a small business; or an employee who he promises will keep his of her job, or find one for that matter, and help them to earn a living wage! If he claims to be the strong business figure that he is, why hasn't he already done something to provide for our country. He hasn't proven himself to anyone! Instead we see nothing but his interest in getting the most money for his thriving company. If Romney wants to take an idealized view of business, the least he can do is demonstrate his strong business stance and put it towards his own country. Add all this to his obvious avoidance of his own taxes using his “smart business tactics” and it is hard see any patriotism in his own professional life.
Based only on the limited tax records Romney has released, he has demonstrated no efforts to eliminate tax. Not only that, but has demonstrated no real efforts to save Americas local business owners. As a country we can only hope that President Obama continues to try and save our drowning country.
