Swiss Bankers for Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has promised American voters that if elected president he would "create 12 million jobs". He offers no specific plan for doing this, but instead points his success in the private sector.  In fact, at the private equity firm Bain Capital Mitt Romney did make $millions for himself, but he did it by leveraging his portfolio companies with bank debt, shutting down US production, shedding US jobs, and shifting production - and jobs- overseas, primarily to China.  Romney has mostly kept his private wealth in offshore Swiss bank accounts.  So, while there is not a lot of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney among the American electorate, there is one group that is showing very strong support for the Romney campaign: Swiss Bankers. 

Für welchen Kandidaten zücken leitende Angestellte der Schweizer Grossbanken in den USA das Portemonnaie? Sie tun es vor allem für Obamas Herausforderer. ...Die beiden Schweizer Grossbanken UBS und Credit Suisse (CS) spielen eine wichtige Rolle, wie eine aktuelle Analyse des Newsdienstes von «Swissinfo» zeigt. Die CS und die UBS seien nämlich die einzigen ausländischen Unternehmungen, die unter den 15 grössten Spendern zugunsten von Mitt Romney figurieren.

( For which candidate do the top managers of the big Swissbanks in the US open their wallets?  They do this above all for Obama's challenger... the two big Swiss banks - UBS and Credit Suisse - are playing a key role, according to an analysis of the Swissinfo news service.  UBS and CS are the only foreign companies that appear among the 15 biggest donors to Mitt Romney.)

I really like the comment that Martni O'Malley, the governor of Maryland, made at the Democratic National Convention:

”Swiss bank accounts never built an American bridge. Swiss bank accounts don’t put cops on the beat or teachers in our classrooms. Swiss bank accounts never created American jobs!” 

O’Malley followed with a line not in his prepared remarks: “Just because you bank against the United States of America doesn’t mean the rest of us are willing to sell her out.”

Comments

[michijo]

Given the history of both Democrats and Republicans, I find it strange that you know so much bad about Republicans but see nothing wrong with Democrats. Both of these parties effectively back voters into a corner by being the only two that we are allowed.

[michijo]

Good thing I gave up caffeine. I would hate for my cortisol to go up after sampling Swiss Mitt.

[koogleschreiber]

"The rapiers which made the biggest conquests are those crested with diamonds." Lichtenberg

How long will the people of Europe and America still fall for paste? Did you see the financial stocks soar the last days when the ECB announced unlimited purchase of junk bonds? The ECB is owned by the European tax payers, Germany alone will be held responsible with 27%. But there isn't any democratic control of the ECB.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the socializing of the losses of Europe's big finance has been officially completed. And the best what is heard now of the ECB is that it, at last, acts like the FED. Birds of a feather...

Romney is the man with paste diamonds on his rapier. He can fool people, Obama can not. According to Murphy's law we must expect the worst. But maybe "That which is falling should also be pushed" as Nietzsche demanded?

[michijo]

Just face it, there is nothing to do with diamonds. It is caffeine addiction that is ruining the USA. It prevents people from entering deep sleep, just like a form of torture sleep deprivation. It makes the masses easier to control and hypnotize. Thus, only an anti-caffeine revolution can save America.

[michijo]

The Republicans will outsource jobs to China, while the Democrats will go to war with China. Either way we lose, but I admit that I would love to see the USA go to war with China and lose face, because the Chinese would destroy the USA. A lot of the military artillery and supplies actually are made in China, so we would be fighting them with stuff they sold to us. I am an American, but admit I would love to see the US empire destroyed by China.

[michijo]

The Democrats are "Hippycrites" like Bill Clinton and Obama. Peace love, long beard and hair in the 60s. Depleted Uranium in the 1990s. I guess a Democrat started the Vietnam war as well, so there is not much but to expect their war with China.