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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/08/15-2

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Romney Still Reaps Huge Profits From Bain s Vulture Capitalism

John Nichols, The Nation: ''Romney was a robber baron. And he continues to profit, to the tune of $230 million and counting, from the 'vulture capitalism' his Republican primary opponents decried.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10911-romney-still-reaps-huge-profits-from-bains-vulture-capitalism



Romney Uses Banksters' Money to Play Race Card

Danny Weil, Truthout: ''Yet another cynical appeal to poor white voters and the growing right-wing racist fringe, [Mitt Romney s latest TV ad] conjures up images of working people of color as lazy and non-industrious, when, in fact, the so-called 'job creators,' like Romney and his supporters, are busy shipping employment overseas or engaging in high risk, high frequency trading on Wall Street where the real non-industrious can be found.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10888-romney-uses-banksters-money-to-play-race-card

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Early Bain-ization: How a few got rich illegally suppressing unions

Our Future
by Dave Johnson

08/17/12

A look at one of Bain Capital s first deals shows a get-rich-quick-at-everyone-else s-expense pattern forming: borrow heavily, gut assets, cut wages, cut safety, crush unions, restructure for tax avoidance and sell with a sweetheart, insider deal. That pattern foreshadowed what happened to our jobs, communities, industries, economy and country since the early 1980s. An already-wealthy few got fantastically rich(er) and the rest of us paid the price...

http://tinyurl.com/9n2ha48



Rage against Paul Ryan

The Nation
by John Nichols

No musician has been more identified than Tom Morello with the uprising against the crony capitalism of Wall Street speculators and Washington pawns like Paul Ryan. ... So you can imagine Tom Morello s response when the New York Times reported that newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan 'lists Rage Against the Machine, which sings about the greed of oil companies and whose Web site praises the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street movement, among his favorite bands'...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169432/rage-against-paul-ryan


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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With Romney-Ryan, GOP Becomes Grand Old Private-Equity Party

By John Nichols

The ticket Republicans will nominate in Tampa next week is uniquely connected to the ''vulture capitalist'' constituency, and uniquely committed to protecting the interests of today s robber-baron class.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32233.htm



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