Understanding Mitt Romney and The Job Creators

Condensed from a Washington Post article by Steven Pearlstein.

I am a corporate chief executive / business owner / private-equity fund manager and:

• I am the misunderstood superhero of American capitalism, single-handedly creating wealth and prosperity despite all the obstacles put in my way by employees, government and the media.

• I am a job creator and I am entitled.

• I am entitled to complain about the economy even when my stock price, my portfolio and my profits are at record levels.

• I am entitled to a healthy and well-educated workforce, a modern and efficient transportation system and protection for my person and property, just as I am entitled to demonize the government workers who provide them.

• I am entitled to complain bitterly about taxes that are always too high, even when they are at record lows.

• I am entitled to all the rights and privileges of running an American company, but owe no loyalty to American workers or taxpayers.

• I am entitled to confidential information about my employees and customers while refusing even to list the company’s phone number on its Web site.

• I am entitled to everything I have and more that I still deserve.

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If I were closing Mr. Pearlstein's article, I could conclude with:

And if you don't understand all that, then you must be a socialist liberal left-wing extremist America-hater.

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