VIDEO: The Truth About Romney Economics: Cindy From Dade
During the final night of a Republican convention when Mitt Romney will be extolling his record in the private sector, one group won’t be getting the microphone tonight: the workers who lost their jobs and were devastated by Romney’s singular focus on profit creation for himself and his partners while leading Bain Capital, no matter what the consequences were for the middle class.
To make sure their stories are told, Obama for America will be releasing videos throughout the evening featuring middle-class Americans whose lives took a turn for the worse as Romney and Bain shut down factories, fired thousands of workers, and invested in companies that were pioneers of outsourcing American jobs – while Romney and his investors made millions.
It is from firsthand experience that Cindy, a former Dade employee featured in the third video, finds Mitt Romney’s claim to be job creator “offensive.” By eliminating jobs that offered a living wage, Romney has proven his record as a candidate whose policies “will create a further erosion of middle class.” No wonder she is concerned that more and more people will slip away “from the American dream no matter how hard they work for it.”