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Ninga

(8,275 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:08 AM Oct 2012

Monday's debate is Obama's chance to stick a fork in Romney.

Sensata....Sensata.....Sensata

It is a plain and simple story.

All Obama needs to do is serve it up, in plain and simple language, with a simple question.

"Mr Romney, because you are the largest share holder in Bain , and Bain Capital owns Sensata a very successful operation, why have you refused to save Sensata from closing and shipping the jobs to China??"

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Monday's debate is Obama's chance to stick a fork in Romney. (Original Post) Ninga Oct 2012 OP
Problem is romney is not part of this particular action. Yes, the subject is valid, and it is the still_one Oct 2012 #1
Ok, I was under the impression that because he is the largest shareholder in Bain, Ninga Oct 2012 #2
Good question, I don't know still_one Oct 2012 #3
Romney is 51% owner of Sensata as I understand it ProfessionalLeftist Oct 2012 #5
He he needs to bring up the irony of Romnesia's "tough on China" talk ProfessionalLeftist Oct 2012 #4

still_one

(92,222 posts)
1. Problem is romney is not part of this particular action. Yes, the subject is valid, and it is the
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:22 AM
Oct 2012

same practices romney engaged in when he was with bain

However, you cannot pin sensate on him, and to do so would be a mistake I think. However, you can blame that philosophy on him


Ninga

(8,275 posts)
2. Ok, I was under the impression that because he is the largest shareholder in Bain,
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:39 AM
Oct 2012

he could over ride the decision to close. He can't?

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
5. Romney is 51% owner of Sensata as I understand it
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:48 AM
Oct 2012

and due to his very handsome retirement package with Bain, stands to personally profit to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars off of the Sensata deal. His company, Bain, is one of the biggest contributors to the RNCC and one of the minority owners of Sensata donated around $655,000 to Romney's campaign. AND Bain - under Romney - was an "outsourcing pioneer" having developed the model other corps use to ship millions of US jobs to China every year, including shuttering Sensata one day before the election - one day before which Romney will ask for American worker's votes.

Oh yes, this IS tied to him and Obama needs to lynch him with it. Yes - LYNCH.

ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
4. He he needs to bring up the irony of Romnesia's "tough on China" talk
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 10:45 AM
Oct 2012

while Romnesia's Bain ships good-paying, high-tech jobs of a very profitable company (which Romnesia has 51% ownership of) to China, shuttering plants here -- AND personally profits handsomely off the deal.

He needs to bring up the irony of Romnesia's "tough on China" talk while Romnesia presided over a company that developed the model themselves and which other companies use to ship the operations of 50,000 manufacturing plants (during bu$h's term) and millions of jobs -- to China -- and they're still doing it, Sensata being one example.

He needs to (excuse the term) LYNCH Romnesia over China. I think he has Libya in the bag. I think that since he is President and has experience and info Romnesia doesn't have and since HE got bin Laden, he's ok on those issues.

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