Things the media hasn't told us about Mitt Romney

[Faster horses]

After reading this you will know more about this candidate than you do about the current occupant of the White House, and it's only one paragraph long.



Mitt Romney from his Mitt Romney 2012 Site: After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney. As a venture-capitalist, Romney's first major business deal involved investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies.

That company, called Staples, now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people. Romney or his company Bain Capital (using what became known as the "Bain Way") would go on to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.

Got your calculators handy? Let's recap :

- Volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

- Unpaid intern in Governor's office 8 years.

- Mormon missionary in Paris 2 years.

- Unpaid bishop and stake president for his church 10 years.

- No salary as president of the Olympics 3 years.

- No salary as MA governor 4 years.



That's a grand total of 28 years of unpaid service to his country, his community and his church.

 

[Steve]

but Obama was a community organizer..

Obama's Inflation-Adjusted Community Organizer Salary: $39k to $63k

as a community organizer that he frequently mentions comes out to $23,658.63 in 2007 dollars. (Throw in the money he was given to get a car and it's up to $27,601.73.)

the $12,000 Obama quotes was his "training salary" for the first few months. "After three or four months, he was up to $20,000, and after three years he was probably making $35,000 or so."

In 1985, the year Obama began as a community organizer, that $20,000 would be the equivalent of $39,431.04 in 2007. His salary when he left Chicago to attend Harvard law School in 1988 would be the equivalent of $63,093.21 in 2007.

Not too shabby. Community organizing: Nice work, if you can get it.

 

[TexasBred]

After reading this you will know more about this candidate than you do about the current occupant of the White House, and it's only one paragraph long.



Mitt Romney from his Mitt Romney 2012 Site: After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney. As a venture-capitalist, Romney's first major business deal involved investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies.

That company, called Staples, now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people. Romney or his company Bain Capital (using what became known as the "Bain Way") would go on to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.

Got your calculators handy? Let's recap :

- Volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

- Unpaid intern in Governor's office 8 years.

- Mormon missionary in Paris 2 years.

- Unpaid bishop and stake president for his church 10 years.

- No salary as president of the Olympics 3 years.

- No salary as MA governor 4 years.



That's a grand total of 28 years of unpaid service to his country, his community and his church.

AND:

Working Background:
• After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
• After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney.
• In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
• In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.
• He was President and C.E.O. of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
• In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
Some Interesting Fact about Romney:
• Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts , turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
• Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
• He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
• Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.

Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
• He will show us his birth certificate
• He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
• He will show us his social security card.
• He will show us his law degree.
• He will show us his draft notice.
• He will show us his medical records.
• He will show us his income tax records.
• He will show us he has nothing to hide.