Capitalism that forsakes everything for the bottom line is just out of control greed, no matter how it's dressed up.
See...Mike thinks different. His definition of capitalism is that it, like Spock, a corporation cannot have human emotions, like
greed. If a capitalistic entity had human qualities, it would be able to direct stuff like elections and donate huge sums of capitalistic money to candidates who's sole intent is to further the greed.
Oh.
Wait.
Nevahmind!
Speaking of greed and corporate personalities, guess who
Goldman Sachs is sleeping with? Kinda makes Newt's whores pale in comparison, huh?
When Bain Capital sought to raise money in 1989 for a fast-growing office-supply company named Staples, Mitt Romney, Bain’s founder, called upon a trusted business partner: Goldman Sachs, whose bankers led the company’s initial public offering.
When Mr. Romney became governor of Massachusetts, his blind trust gave Goldman much of his wealth to manage, a fortune now estimated to be as much as $250 million.
And as Mr. Romney mounts his second bid for the presidency, Goldman is coming through again: Its employees have contributed at least $367,000 to his campaign, making the firm Mr. Romney’s largest single source of campaign money through the end of September.
No other company is so closely intertwined with Mr. Romney’s public and private lives except Bain itself. And in recent days, Mr. Romney’s ties to Goldman Sachs have lashed another lightning rod to a campaign already fending off withering attacks on his career as a buyout specialist, thrusting the privileges of the Wall Street elite to the forefront of the Republican nominating battle.
Wow. $367k? It's actually $369 now. To put that in
perspective, that's waaaay more than the second place finisher, the esteemed Kirsten Gillibrand, at 52k, or the third place Marco Rubio (he of many dubious financial dealings himself) at 51k, or the president at a little over 50k.
