Every time I see Romney I see the person who became wealthy by sending my job out of the country

[NNN0LHI]

Think I am the only one?

Don

[rfranklin]

1. I am reminded of the saying "he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple..."

This guy had all the connections ready made to make millions. He may not be as lazy and stupid as George W. Bush but he is just as clueless about the advantages he started out with.

[Botany]

2. I see a man of the people

[HopeHoops]

3. Yeah, that's about right.

[Zalatix]

4. I see a whole country that hates politicians who send jobs overseas.

We've come a LONG way from the pro-offshoring days of the 1990s...

[NNN0LHI]

5. pro-offshoring days of the 1990s?

My job disappeared during the early 1980's. About the same time Bain went into business.

Don

[Zalatix]

8. Back then I saw polls that showed a majority supporting sending jobs overseas

People were going with the comparative advantage arguments, freeing people up to do more valuable work, etc.

Most were drinking the kool-aid back then. Most are throwing the kool-aid overboard now.

We just need our politicians to wake up. America is one big incident or one big bold political move away from a huge anti-offshoring revolution. A huge one.

If offshoring had a nuclear war clock it would be at 23:59:50.

[NNN0LHI]

10. That was Reaganites who fell for that

That quickly changed when their own jobs, pay and benefits that began taking a hit though.

They had a come to Jesus moment.

And to top it off I see some around here where I live who caught on to this after it was too late blaming it all on Obama now. When in fact he was just a kid when this began.

Kind of sickening.

Don

[Zalatix]

12. A "Come to Jesus" moment, lol. Good way to put it.

[Itchinjim]

6. For over thirty years guys like him have been putting guys like me out of work.

Good union jobs gone so the Mitts of the world can throw another few hundred million bucks on their giant piles of money.

[Life Long Dem]

7. Romney is the last person I want to see as president.

Someone who offshores jobs out of the country shouldn't even be running for the presidency.

[Zalatix]

9. Not of this country, anyway.

[treestar]

11. I had a question on the suicide thread though

Are these the same jobs? That job that led the group of Chinese to threaten suicide - is that one of "our" jobs?

I don't see that it can be traced job for job. Though I know questioning this and trying to understand it is anathema on DU.

Mitt would have done what was profitable for the company, which could have kept jobs here. So I'm not sure what can be done about that. Any company has to compete with other companies and has to do what it has to do - how do we keep the jobs here? It seems a large phenomena that would take something more than just complaining and blaming - and note we don't turn down jobs created by foreign investors here - we've stolen jobs from Swedes and Germans but I haven't heard them complaining about that.