"A top surrogate to Mitt Romney said making money -- rather than creating jobs -- was the primary goal of the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee when he was running Bain Capital LLC, saying he 'acted responsibly' as chief executive officer of the private-equity firm."

trot-trot · 2012-05-25T01:02:35.518787+00:00

So a CEO made profit a priority? Shocker. What I don't understand is why everyone's jumping on Bain and not his time as governor. Wouldn't a good overview of his time as an executive in the position of governor be a tell tale sign of whether these Bain accusations hold any water as to how he'd act in politics?

postgygaxian · 2012-05-25T00:38:03.019719+00:00

Pretty clear cut and dry. More articles should be written like this.

creo68 · 2012-05-24T13:14:16.922612+00:00

You think that would work if someone yelled it at an Obama rally?

BlueChainsawMan · 2012-05-24T06:23:39.301236+00:00

The diamonds are in the birds.

ItsBuck · 2012-05-23T22:02:42.191256-07:00

Not relevant to the economy.

gwigmig · 2012-05-24T04:55:34.667587+00:00

In WWII, should the US have invaded Japan instead? I'm not arguing with you, I'm interested in what you think. Since then, the nuclear bomb has probably saved more lives through deterrence than it's killed.

gwigmig · 2012-05-24T04:54:06.610607+00:00

And also there are elected officials in Iran but who knows how legitimate it is.

I'll tell you. Iran's Guardian Council approves candidates to run for office. After the president previous to Ahmadinejad (I forget his name off the top of my head, but he was a moderate pro-US fellow), the Council literally forbade about 2,000 similarly liberal candidates from even running.

And who appoints individuals to this elite council? The Supreme Leader (Khomeini). It's a pure theocracy with a very thin facade of democracy. It's like if the church in the US had to approve of every candidate before they ran for president. Imagine that.

yaaaarrr_matey · 1 day

But those are never your only two choices. You can still vote for another party or person. My argument is that eventually there will be enough transparency for people to see through the facade of "corporately sponsored" candidates. For example, do you consider yourself impacted by how much money a candidate has? Probably not, and neither do I. That pool of free minded individuals is growing.

278225mw · 1 day

My statistics teacher put a chart of payroll/wins over the past 20 years and we had to determine if the relationship was statistically significant. It's very correlative. Check back in another 40 or so games.

Edit: forgot I had flair. There goes my credibility...

mechesh · 1 day

I'll be at Fort Lee in a month. You nearby?

mechesh · 1 day

Well in Cyrillic the x looks like an x. That symbol makes a "juh" sound. However, K is fine

jmsprintz · 1 day

She wasn't 9

yaaaarrr_matey · 1 day

I don't think Republicans couldn't care less about the poor or only want the rich to have benefits, but that's for another discussion. But yes, the founding fathers put the power of democracy in the hands of only those they thought had the qualifications to make informed decisions, being white male landowners.

I personally believe were progressively becoming a system where money is becoming marginally less effective in elections. As individuals are exposed to more sources of unfiltered news and educate themselves on the matters of politics, it becomes easier to look past the ad campaigns and lawn signs and judge the candidate truly based on their platform instead. Thus, the rich are going to have less of an impact in politics as the body of the governed becomes more self aware.

lamefest89 · 1 day

Some guy last august had a similar problem, didn't shit for about a week. He did an AMA, resulting in him going to the hospital for a manual extraction. Needless to say it was one of the more interesting AMAs I've seen.

Inamanlyfashion · 3 days

Knock on wood man

Metal_Corrections · 5 days

I do like it. But old SA is old SA, if we want to listen to it then we just need to click on it in our iPods. I'm welcome to new SA, even if it's not up to par with their old material. I thoroughly enjoy atleast 4 or 5 songs from each of their new albums that marks solid progression in a new direction

AcidSIX · 5 days

I've got nothing against customer loyalty. It's just kind of annoying to find myself at a level 10 colonel and still wondering when the hell I'm getting my 1911 lol

AcidSIX · 5 days

Fair enough. Alright, you've convinced me. I'd just rather it be available to everyone, not just the guys who join EA's clubs or purchase their products.

seeellayewhy · 5 days

This is true. But the multiplier is less in the military industrial complex. If the government harnessed all our money and spent it on military equipment, that would be great for the military industrial complex, but that money wouldn't find its way as easily to other small businesses. If that money's dispersed throughout the population, it goes where people want it to go a lot more easily. That's a huge criticism of the USSR before their collapse.

AcidSIX · 5 days

Meh, im kind of morally opposed to those kind of deals, we'll see. I'll stick with my G18 silenced for now

wankmastag · 5 days

I was a 49ers fan before moving to New Jersey. Someone got me a Giants jersey for my birthday to help me "acclimate," been a fan ever since. That's said, I'm thrilled Manningham and Jacobs ended up on the 49ers instead if any other team. I still get to root for them.

AcidSIX · 5 days

Can someone tell me how this is unlocked?

seeellayewhy · 5 days

Because the economy is intrinsically driven by what consumers want, not by what government wants. Also, the government can't invest in businesses the way individuals can. I'm not saying government can't efficiently spend money, but it's almost always better off in the hands of consumers. The economy and the market is simply a manifestation of what people want.

figbash137 · 5 days

You would have had a 90 year old man arrested for that? Come on, he was being polite!

Metal_Corrections · 5 days

Ha, I could recommend just about their entire discography. You can't go wrong with Ecliptica, Silence, Winterheart's Guild, or Reckoning Night, I've gone through periods of obsession on all those albums. Some of my favorite songs: Fullmoon, 8th Commandment, San Sebastian, Abandonned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited, White Pearl, Black Oceans, Dethaura. White Pearl, Black Oceans is my favorite song by them, from the album Reckoning Night. I'd say start with that or Ecliptica.

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