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OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« on: January 09, 2012, 02:14:43 PM »
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DNC officials can't believe they have Mitt Romney on video saying he likes firing people.

Here's the video:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/01/09/high_fives_at_dnc_headquarters.html#045609a

And the problem is?

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3. Yep...This should go over about as well as "Corporations are people, my friend".

Dickhead Republicans...They'll shoot themselves in the foot every time.

Really?  So if someone isn't doing their job you shouldn't be able to fire them?
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 02:48:21 PM »
Quote from: Maxiest on January 09, 2012, 02:14:43 PM
Really?  So if someone isn't doing their job you shouldn't be able to fire them?

Are you asking us, or the moonbats on DU?  The answers would be quite different.

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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 03:10:51 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 09, 2012, 02:48:21 PM
Are you asking us, or the moonbats on DU?  The answers would be quite different.

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The DUmmies of course.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 03:43:31 PM »
And what have Obama and Democrats done to improve the lives of people? how many jobs have been lost? how many people are on public assistance? you fools need to start paying attention to the idiots you voted and continue to vote for.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 05:58:58 PM »
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"I like being able to fire people who provide services to me," Romney said while answering a question from an audience member about health care.
As he described his approach to overhauling the health care system, the GOP candidate added: "If someone doesn't give me a good service that I need, I want to say I'm going to go get someone else to provide that service to me."
I don't like Romney, but this is bogus.  We all fire people we don't like.  We switch doctors, dentists, hospitals, insurance companies.  We don't return to places with lousy service, lousy food or goods, etc. This is the best part of a free market, the ability to support good companies and not bad.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2012, 07:33:48 PM »
Mitt likes firing people?  Quick, let's put him in charge of our bloated federal government.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2012, 07:38:02 PM »
Mitt likes firing people and Obama likes throwing people under the bus.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2012, 07:42:35 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on January 09, 2012, 05:58:58 PM
I don't like Romney, but this is bogus.  We all fire people we don't like.  We switch doctors, dentists, hospitals, insurance companies.  We don't return to places with lousy service, lousy food or goods, etc. This is the best part of a free market, the ability to support good companies and not bad.

Well that is kinda what I was saying with out "saying" it.  I am not a Romney fan either but, this is as bogus as it gets.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2012, 07:53:53 PM »
And.... ??

Doesn't Donald Trump have a show on NBC revolved around firing a bunch of people?

People get fired.  Life goes on.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2012, 07:54:39 AM »
And what makes me even more upset is his counterparts are running with it...
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2012, 08:15:08 AM »
Was it a bad choice of words?  Maybe.  Was it worth going apeshit over?  Nope.
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2012, 08:18:49 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on January 10, 2012, 08:15:08 AM
Was it a bad choice of words?  Maybe.  Was it worth going apeshit over?  Nope.

Yes a bad choice of words for sure.

He should have said "I like to be able to fire people" instead of "I like to fire people."
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2012, 08:47:04 AM »
Quote from: Maxiest on January 10, 2012, 08:18:49 AM
Yes a bad choice of words for sure.

He should have said "I like to be able to fire people" instead of "I like to fire people."

Or, even better, "I like having the option of taking my money elsewhere."
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2012, 09:13:08 AM »
What's the problem? Hillary liked firing people...travel office anyone?
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2012, 09:35:54 AM »
Quote from: Maxiest on January 10, 2012, 08:18:49 AM
Yes a bad choice of words for sure.

He should have said "I like to be able to fire people" instead of "I like to fire people."

Heard a clip of it this morning, and that's actually what he did say...it would have been a better choice of words to say 'I like having the freedom to change' or something of the sort, instead of using the Biz World veerbal shorthand like that ("Firing" really applies to your employees, not your goods and services contractors).
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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2012, 09:48:22 AM »
Yes, "I'd like the freedom to take my money elsewhere" is much better.  I heard Debbie Blabbermouth talk about the out-of-context ad this morning.  Not a good way to start the day. 

DUmmies, you know you do this in practice.  "BOYCOTT THIS THAT AND THE OTHER THING!!!!"  "I'm never going to Whole Foods again!!!"  "I'm never setting foot in a Target again!!!"  "**** Walmart!!!!!"  You "fire" businesses all day long.  NOT ONE DAMN DIME!!!!!

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Re: OH NOES, Romeny likes to be able to fire people...
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2012, 10:08:44 AM »
Rush mentioned this yesterday, in hour three, that this would be taken out of context and become a talking point for the moonbat party.
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