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Romney Cheats At 2012 Presidential Debate
Romney slips a cheat sheet out of his pocket before approaching the podium then manages to fold it up and slide it in his sleeve before leaving it.
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Mitt Romney New Ad “The Cheaters ” China and Obama
As campaign discourse pivots back to the economy, the Obama campaign is out with a new ad challenging Mitt Romney on China, accusing the former Massachusetts governor of outsourcing jobs and rebutting his claims that he would stand up to the nation. Just a day after Romney went after Mr. Obama for allegedly not cracking down on China’s economic “cheating,” the president’s re-election campaign is rehashing is attempting to cast doubt on his credibility on the subject. “Mitt Romney? Tough on China? Romney’s companies were called pioneers in shipping US manufacturing jobs overseas,” says a narrator in the thirty-second spot, entitled “The Cheaters,” which is set to air on television in nine battleground states. Citing articles from the Washington Post and the New York Times, the ad contends that Romney “invested in firms that specialized in relocating jobs to low wage countries like China,” adding that “even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China.” “Romney’s never stood up to China,” the narrator says. “All he’s done is send them our jobs.” Throughout this election, the Obama campaign has labeled Romney as an outsourcer, pointing to reports that Bain Capital, which Romney ran until 1999, was involved in such instances. As CBS News has reported, some companies that Bain acquired did ship jobs overseas, including Holson Burnes Group. PolitiFact reports that Romney did indeed work at Bain during the entire period during which Bain owned the company, and that it did …
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Author Of New Book On Scams Asks If Donald Trump Deserves A HugOr Maybe Not…
Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) April 26, 2011
In a recent article, Michael Friedlander, the author of a critically acclaimed new book on scams and white-collar crime, “Detecting the Scam: Nelson Mandela’s Gift,” explores the potential candidacy of Donald Trump. He suggests that Trump might focus on a more substantive issue than either the birther issue or his latest issue that President Obama didn’t deserve to attend the Ivy league schools he attended.
In looking at Trump’s pending candidacy, Friedlander invokes The Duck School, the school of common sense, the first rule of which is this: If what we are looking at looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, we might just be looking at a duck. When we look at Trump, Friedlander asks, what are we really looking at? Are we looking at a courageous and principled business mogul who is prepared to take on the powerful business and financial lobbyor are we looking at just another mogul in an empty suit seeking high office?
Friedlander focuses on two of the most serious ethical crises in the very business world over which Trump presides. The first is the crisis of pervasive cheating. The second is the crisis of those who look the other way as those around them cheat. He asks if Trump will address these crises? Friedlander sees Trumps celebrity and personal wealth as offering him the unusual opportunity to do so by standing up to the powerful business and financial lobby.
But why should Trump even bother with this, Friedlander asks?
One answer lies in the sheer magnitude of the cost of corporate crime. Another answer lies in Trump’s larger-than-life persona. And particularly in the light of the inability of our institutions and mainstream media to ask the hard questions and address the crises, who better than Trump to take up the challenge of getting our business and financial houses in order? And who better to stop the hemorrhaging of cash at the hands of corporate crime? And, Friedlander argues, if Trump has the courage to stand up to China, Saudi Arabia, OPEC and the ocean pirates, while sticking his fingers squarely in their eyes, surely those faceless business and financial lobbyists will never be able to withstand his glare? No, Friedlander argues,Trump is our manif he can summon the courage to confront those faceless lobbyists.
How serious is the problem of corporate crime? Friedlander argues that if corporate crime is the elephant in the room, street crime is an insignificant flea snuggled comfortably out of sight behind the elephant’s tail. He believes that it is time to start focusing more on the elephantand less on the flea.
He points out that, on the one hand, the FBI has estimated that street crime costs America more than $ 3.8 billion a year. On the other hand, the Corporate Crime Reporter estimates that auto repair fraud alone costs the country around $ 40 billion a year. Securities fraud costs around $ 15 billion a year. Healthcare fraud is reported to cost between $ 100 billion and $ 400 billion a year. And lest we forget the original mother-of-all-fraudsthe savings and loan fraud, this cost America close to $ 500 billion. And all of this is before we factor in the cost of the latest mother-of-all-frauds: Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom, Enron and the Bernard Madoff adventures. As the elephant grows enormously, the flea fades into insignificance.
None of this, Friedlander argues, is a deep and dark secret. The recent Oscar-winning documentary, “The Inside Job,” has masterfully shone a light both on the enormous cost of corporate crime and on the complicity of the government, our business schools and the financial and business lobby in making the regulation of our financial services industry almost impossible. As the documentary illustrates, this lobby that has now infiltrated our government and other institutions and colleges.
Friedlander suggests that Trump, with his enormous wealth, is potentially quite well-positioned to confront this powerful lobbyassuming he will be able to summon a level of political, intellectual and moral courage akin to that of Nelson Mandela to address these issues. While it is difficult for Friedlander even to refer to Trump and Mandela in the same breath, Mandela does offer Trump an example of what can be accomplished if that courage can be summoned. But, will he be able to summon it? Only time will tell…
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Obama, Osama and the Shrinking TrumpAuthor Optimistic As He Sees the Ghost of Nelson Mandela
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 10, 2011
In the aftermath of the raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound, Michael Friedlander, author of “Detecting the Scam: Nelson Mandela’s Gift,” thinks he sees unmistakable signs of Nelson Mandelas ghost wafting its way through the White House and our security and political establishment.
Friedlander suggests that, for the first time in recent memory, a United States administration has finally approached Nelson Mandela’s high standards of leadership and moral authorityand has shown the courage to make a difficult decision. Friedlander asks whether we might expect more of the same of our political leaders as they address upcoming economic issues? He also asks when we might expect the same of our financial and academic leaders?
In a recent article, Friedlander describes qualities that made Nelson Mandela such an iconic figure. He focuses on Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary leadership and patience; his decision-making process; his remarkable common sense, and his courage not just to confront his enemies, but also to confront those on the extreme wing of his party. Finally, Friedlander notes Nelson Mandelas determination always to seize and hold the high moral ground.
In the same article, as he applied these qualities to events leading to the bin Laden raid and to its aftermath, and as he applied them to Donald Trump’s recent foray into the “birther swamp,” he reached two conclusions. The first was that President Obama and his national security team would have made Nelson Mandela proudas would the bipartisan support the President received. The second was that, “Donald Trump, in venturing into the birther swamp, displayed none of those qualitieswhich might account for his shrinking stature and standing as a political force.”
Friedlander also notes how the approach to the bin Laden raid and aftermath was so different to the decision-making process leading up to the Iraq war. While President Obama and Nelson Mandela always demanded a free exchange of ideas and options and a vigorous debate of different views within their inner circles before decisions were made, according to Bush insiders and President Bush himself, this didnt occur in the context of the decision to invade Iraq.
In a series of radio interviews, Friedlander has asked some provocative questions. For example: