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The Real Mitt: Romney Admits That He Likes To Fire People
The real Mitt Romney resurfaced again today. At a New Hampshire event, Mitt Romney admitted that he likes to fire people.
Here’s the video:
In the video, Romney said, “It also means that if you don’t like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people that provide services to me. If someone doesn’t give me the good service I need, I want to say I’m going to get somebody else to provide that service to me, so that’s one thing I’d change.”
It would be difficult to find a statement that sounded more wealthy and elitist than Romney’s claim that people are to serve him. The implication being that Mitt Romney doesn’t know what it’s like to have to be a person waiting on tables, running a cash register, or working in the American service economy. Mitt Romney has always been the person getting services. He has never been the one working at a paid by the hour job giving them. For his whole life, Mitt Romney has been the entitled consumer. He has no clue about how the other side of the counter or phone call lives.
The context of the comment is that Romney was pitching a healthcare plan that would allow people to buy private health insurance by giving the corporate healthcare industry taxpayer dollars in incentives to in insure people. (In short, Romney was floating the same plan McCain bombed with in 2008).
Democrats are rejoicing that they were able to catch Romney admitting the truth about the GOP. In this economy, Romney’s comment about liking to fire people comes off as especially cold and unsympathetic when millions of Americans are jobless and looking for work. Romney was using the event today to make the case that he started at the bottom. In Romney’s version of the story, he wasn’t born with silver spoon in his mouth and a nanny by his side to remove it.
However, Romney was unable to keep the charade going through his entire event. According to The Boston Globe, the wheels fell off for Romney when he made his disastrous comment in a response to a question about healthcare in the final moments of his appearance.
Today’s blunder is a follow up to yesterday’s unsubstantiated Romney claim that he has been worried in the past about being fired himself, “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.” Mitt Romney has no idea what it’s like to have to worry about paying the rent or mortgage and keeping food on the table while wondering if you are going to still have a job next week.
Romney can’t explain away his time at Bain, and he when he does try, he can’t stop his real personality and feelings from coming out. Mitt Romney’s comment today about liking to fire people should show up in Democratic and Republican ads all through 2012. The Republican frontrunner is trying to pretend like he is something that he isn’t both to his own party and the American people. He has tried to spin it a million different ways, but his true feelings always slip out.
In his heart of hearts Mitt Romney is corporate raider, not a job creator.
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11 Responses to The Real Mitt: Romney Admits That He Likes To Fire People
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Anne
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I sincerely hope that each and every asinine, tone-deaf, and heartless statement Willard has made will be used against him if he’s the nominee. The ugliness of the inner man keeps oozing out like pus from a sore, and he just can’t seem to help himself. In some ways, he is the worst of the lot, in spite of the efforts to portray him as the most sane or the least worst of the GOP candidates. He’s out of touch with the issues that everyday Americans who make a living deal with, not to even mention the poorest ones. In spite of his claims as a job creator, his past shows him to be a job killer because he fired countless people, which he obviously likes to do. Any job creation on his part is the result of outsourcing jobs to other countries. He’s not only the worst panderer who says whatever he believes will help him win the nomination, but he’s also a compulsive liar. The more I see of him and hear him say, the more he makes my skin crawl. He is a sorry excuse for a human being.
rod
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
More of the ugliness of Romney will come out as time goes on. He is not of Presidential material or character at all.
Sally
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
The worst thing is that Romney is eventually caught, while Santorum keeps lying, Newt keeps rewriting history, and Paul keeps pushing the envelope until he drives voters away. It really doesn’t matter who they run; Obama has the record and the experience and knowledge to beat any of them.
The Platzner Post
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Mitt Romney is a Jackass!!! “In his heart of hearts Mitt Romney is corporate raider, not a job creator.”
Reynardine
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
The ads are already out there, and they’re nasty, while the networks are running with it, and they’re not appreciatively less nasty.
Evelyn
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
I do not support Romney, but for crying out loud… If he’s paying somebody, heck yeah, they’re there to serve him.
If you’re going to hate on the guy, find a legit reason to do it. You won’t have to look very hard.
allen
Jan. 9th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
i would like to add this to the discussion about Mitt, i posted this back in the middle of 2011, every bit of it is true and can be confirmed:
i have to comment on this post b/c i was personally affected by this mans ideology and would like to give readers of this blog a personal story about what the radical right economic agenda is all about.
everything in this post can be verified via a internet search.
short and to the point:
in the beginning of this article, 3rd paragraph, there is a quote from Marc B. Wolpow. This man is co-CEO of private equity firm Audax. Must be the business he started after working with Romney.
They (Audax) bought the company I worked for called Winchester Electronics located in Wallingford CT.
To make this even briefer, they eviscerated the CT workers and also workers in their South Carolina plant (Kings Electronics)while sending ALL the jobs to China and mexico. (So any souhtherners reading this blog, you are no longer immune to the radical free trade ideology)
These were companies that combined had operated for well over 100 years in the United States of America. Winchester once had over 1000+ approx employees in the state of Connecticut.
WIPED OUT…lives ruined (suicide’s i’ve been told)so these vicious scumbags like Wolpow and Romney can live in what 5, 6 7 mansions or however many and the rest of the workers get to die on the vine.
these people are parasites and blood suckers of the middle class. This is the horror unleashed when Reagan took the government off the back of US Corporations in the early ’80′s.
Every so often a republican will proudly tout that he will run the government like a business if elected. Many right wingers have used that line over the years.
This sociopathic behavior is the last thing i would want in our government and i hope more United States citizens raise their voices and are heard.
These scumbags need to pay up… they have killed the middle class… and i want it back… every god damn bit of it
thank you
Robert
Jan. 10th, 2012 at 5:48 am
I have had to fire people for various reasons and every time I found it to be a horrible gut wrenching experience. If there was anything reasonable I could have done, could have negotiated to avoid it, I would have done so.
Firing always represents your failure, failure to make to correct selection initially, failure to supervise properly and basically failure to nip a problem in the bud before firing became necessary.
For anyone to say they enjoy it, to me is sickening, it represents a complete lack of moral character, of ability to take responsibility for ones own actions and a truly appalling lack of empathy.
I see those words come out of some ones mouth and I see someone who is less than human, some one who is not a part of human society they just prey upon it, Mitt Romney a smooth talking snake in a suit.
An animal that derives pleasure from foreclosing on some ones house, that enjoys cutting of health care to their children, that revels at the idea of their family car being repossessed and, as for Christmas never for those that provided him bad service they can spend Christmas out on the streets just so he can enjoy his more. What does he thinks happens to all those people who lose their job and can not find another.
Anne
Jan. 10th, 2012 at 8:57 am
I worked in a managerial position in a previous job in which I had to fire at least 2 people. It was not a decision I took lightly or enjoyed, because in at least one case, I genuinely liked the person. There is no pleasure on the part of someone with humanity in seeing someone have to go without a paycheck at least for a while, even if the person brought it on himself or herself. The more Willard the Rat exposes himself through this campaign, the worse and worse he looks. He is both ethically and empathically challenged.