1-term governor's record of failure

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Romney says: “I speak the language of business. I know how jobs are created.”

When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs — a rate twice the national average — and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom.

Instead of hiring workers from his own state, Romney outsourced jobs to India.

He cut taxes for millionaires like himself while raising them on the middle class and left the state $2.6 billion deeper in debt.





http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/us/politics/focus-on-states-jobs-in-romney-era.html
 
I don't get why cons push the idea that Romney would make a good president because of business experience. History has proven this wrong.

We have had 20 presidents in the modern era (i.e., since 1900). Five of those had significant business careers before entering politics. Unfortunately for Romney, the results are not good for the businessmen...

Probably the most successful president with real business experience (and success) was George H.W. Bush. Before going into politics he founded Zapata Petroleum, which ultimately became Pennzoil. Bush 41 ended up a one-term president unable to kick-start an economy in a recession and seemingly out of touch with the problems of the common man. Sound familiar?

It gets worse from here. Jimmy Carter, another one-term president beset with economic woes, was a success in agribusiness (peanut farming) before getting into politics. He generally falls into the lower half of the historians' rankings.
And then we get the big three—the men widely considered by historians to be the worst presidents of the modern era: Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and George W. Bush. One left the country on the verge of a depression, one left the country in a depression, and one presided over such corruption and ineptitude that despite the failings of the other two he still manages to get the lowest ranking of them all. And yet all three made millions of dollars in the private sector before entering politics. All three were successful businessmen (a newspaper publisher, a mining tycoon, and the owner of a professional baseball team). Bush 43 even went to Harvard business school, like Romney, and like Romney promised to bring business principles to the Oval Office.

With this kind of track record, maybe voters should apply some market principles to the core Romney Rationale and choose a different brand of dog food.


http://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...-good-businessmen-rarely-make-good-presidents
 
it is not just cons christie, most people trust romney on the economy over obama. and prior examples prove nothing about why romney would make a better president given his business experience.
 
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