Mitt's Excellent Adventure at Bain Capital
Well, here comes the great businessman Mitt Romney, to run the country just the way he ran his company! That, as we are going to hear incessantly, is exactly what we need to get our economy back on track, after Obama ruined it, back there in the couple of years before Obama was President. We are going to have pounded into our heads the story that Romney's magnificent business success at Bain Capital demonstrates conclusively that the nation needs him in the White House. Meanwhile, if the past is any indication, no one in the mainstream press is going to spend a minute trying to find out what really happened at Bain Capital as Romney made his huge fortune there. So here is old Green Eagle to try to figure it out (pathetic, huh?), and here is what I have learned: First of all, let's set one thing straight. People keep calling Bain a "venture capital" firm. This is false. Venture capitalists find enterpreneurs and finance their compainies, hoping...