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Emit

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Tue Oct 23, 2012, 03:21 PM Oct 2012

Mitt and Ann personally gained at least $15.3 million from the auto bailout

From Greg Palast, at The Nation.

This bears repeating...

Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.

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http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza#
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Mitt and Ann personally gained at least $15.3 million from the auto bailout (Original Post) Emit Oct 2012 OP
That's some serious parasitism/freeloading/looting. They did ZERO to earn it. kestrel91316 Oct 2012 #1
They are parasites! Emit Oct 2012 #2
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