Bain Capital and Mr. Romney

Mitt Romney has called his own company Bain Captial, "one of the nation's most successful venture capital and investment companies." He is proud of his company as any company founder should. However this presents one problem. This man is proud of his company... This is the same company that is working with a Chinese Defense contractor. He is financing them to buy an American Defense contracting company 3Com. 3Com provides equiptment used by the Pentagon to block hackers and keep them out of our computers. This brings one two problems... The first is obvious. Foreign firms owning OUR defense companies isnt a good idea. However its a bad idea to sell this company to the Chinese, who have hacked our Pentagon computers before. Why would we hand our computer defenses to the people who want to get around them the most???

That is a much smaller issue compared to the bigger outrage though. I'm outraged with the Chinese Defense contractor's history. This is the SAME Chinese Defense contractor that provided Saddam AND the Taliban with air defense networks prior to our invasions. So let me get this right. This man, and his company want to HELP the Chinese get the secrets to get around our computer defenses? We want to reward a Chinese company that supplied our enemies with the tools to kill us? Romney's Bain Capital along with Goldman Sachs are working the dealings. What they need to do is turn around and tell this Chinese company to get the HECK out of our country. We need to turn them around and tell them NO! Romney wants to be the president of this country, and he is willing to sell out and reward the Chinese for putting our troops in danger? No, Mr. Romney.

Romney refuses to comment on this issue, which would be the obvious thing to do. He wants to wait until after the election and finish up the deal so that it doesnt haunt him and trash his dreams of being President. But this is an outrage! Not only is it an outrage, its crazy! This company needs to go home. They put our troops in harms way by supplying our enemies with weapons, and now they want to get their hands on our computers.

Dont vote for Romney. This outrages me. I'm terribly suprised that this hasnt made headline news. But I guess if you have a pocket thats worth more than $50 million, you can keep a lot of people quite. If this man wants this deal, he obviously doesnt know whats best for the country, nor keep it safe. No, Mr. Romney, now go home.


Comments

I am a little sad that there are no replies to this! I was expecting to catch some fire in this from the Romney supporters... Where are yall??


Posted by josephstepp - Thu, 2008-01-24 14:43

Maybe the likes of those who would vote for Mitt are realists and realists typically don't argue with truth.


Posted by scnative - Thu, 2008-01-24 14:58

scnative wrote:

Maybe the likes of those who would vote for Mitt are realists and realists typically don't argue with truth.

Im actually suprised that nobody has expressed any concern or anything. The company broke UN mandates and sold weapons to Saddam Hussien. Weapons that were responsible for the deaths of our troops...and Mitt Romney is helping them gain ground in this country? They need to go the HECK home!


Posted by josephstepp - Thu, 2008-01-24 19:43

So much for our SOVEREIGNTY! Wait a minute....the U.N. already took that away.


Posted by unidentified - Thu, 2008-01-24 21:10

josephstepp, could you please provide us with the link to your source? I don't doubt what you say is true. But in light of the Fox screwups....fox isn't your source, right?


Posted by unidentified - Thu, 2008-01-24 21:13

unidentified wrote:

josephstepp, could you please provide us with the link to your source? I don't doubt what you say is true. But in light of the Fox screwups....fox isn't your source, right?

I actually heart Duncan Hunter talking about this in an interview on the news the day that he quit and then I can home and researched it.


Posted by josephstepp - Fri, 2008-01-25 08:07

Is what you posted what Hunter said or is your post a result of your own research?

If a result of your own research, do you have a link to your sources?

I think that is the crux of unID's question.


Posted by scnative - Fri, 2008-01-25 09:30

scnative wrote:

Is what you posted what Hunter said or is your post a result of your own research?

If a result of your own research, do you have a link to your sources?

I think that is the crux of unID's question.

Its a combination. Duncan Hunter mentioned the Chinese contractors sales to Saddamn, and that the other company provides anti-hacker hardware to the pentagon, and that spurred my intrest. The deal is even listen on Wikipedia if you would like to look it up. However...according to Wikipedia, the deal has already gone through and taken place, which is not a good thing.


Posted by josephstepp - Fri, 2008-01-25 13:17

After further research, I found that its not a Chinese DEFNESE contractor, its a telecommunications company that has ties with the Chinese Military. But that doesnt change the fact that they aided Saddam and the Tabliban. It also doesnt change the fact that they now own a 49% share of a company that provides defense network technologies. Here are some links for those of you who would like to do some reading:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/02/hunter-romney-should-denounce-bain-capitals-chinese-ties/

This one talks about Hunter asking Romney to denounce the deal.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/magazines/fortune/dubairedux.fortune/index.htm

This one talks about how some in the House and Senate are trying to fight the deal for National Security reasons and are comparing it to the Dubai ports deal.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/archive/s_530778.html

This is an editorial that I found in the Pittsburg Tribute explaining the deal and questioning "why is the United States loading a Chinese pistol and pointing it at itself?"


Posted by josephstepp - Fri, 2008-01-25 13:44
Syndicate content

Recent comments