Comments about ‘Let the private sector flourish, Romney says’

Well here Mr. former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that ran for President and quit for McCain to trash Sarah Palin, about the only thing you can seem to do right is to cut a ribbon for APX Alarm's new 125,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Provo, perhaps as a personal payback to them and free PR, now, as a Vietnam era Veteran, I get really tired of these google freak's / armchair Generals, seeing it's time to log in again, and never served in the military in their life, and think they know it all, because Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, that also never served in the Military, told them so on a AM radio station.

As a small business owner, I'm very much a capitalist and want nothing more than for government to keep their greedy paws out of my business.

Yet, isn't it odd that a company that excels in tough economic times is being lauded as a shining example of capitalism at its finest? Our economy is suffering from the unregulated greed of a few large rouge companies that have resulted in the devistation of our economy...and now in this bad economy when crime rates are rising sharply, when the homeless and unemployed are desperate...we consider a company that does well in the middle of everyone elses hardship, a success story?

Romney, what exactly are you smoking?

Of course it's growth and sucres, APX has been growing since before the economy sank. It's an excellent example of one man's can do attitude.

Yeah, apx is a perfect example. Perfect example of shady biz practices, enticement of FREE hardware and nearly impossible to get out of contracts.

Romney just dropped in my book.

What shady business practices? If getting customers to sign contracts is an example of shady business practices you must similarly hate mortgage companies, car loan providers and every other company that asks you to sign an agreement for the services they provide. ADT and Brinks have similar practices but they aren't considered shady.

It seems to me that people who agree to one thing and decide to do another are the people who should be hated. The shady practices that you should be "hating" on are people who want the easy way out instead of fulfilling the agreements they enter into.

From the looks of your post you prefer Socialism? Would you have these so-called unregulated greedy companies give some of their money away?

The devastated economy is not the result of successful companies actually PRODUCING something of value, it's the exact opposite. It's the companies that failed that are the problem.

Your post seems to assume that if these companies would stop "being greedy", everything from unemployment, to crime, to saving the whales would be fixed.

I've never sold door to door and I never would because I think I'd go crazy, but what person in their right mind would knock doors all summer out of any desire besides that of earning money, as much of it as possible even?

If the "evil capitalistic" people behind these greedy companies like APX, or other successful companies had no desire to make more money, they would stop functioning at their full potential and would no longer be able to afford to hire people and pay their employees and produce goods and services for people to buy etc etc etc.

PS- Rouge is a color :D

Mitt Romney obviously was not invited to Obama's "jobs summit", therefore this administration lost out on possibly GREAT IDEAS!

Non-partisanship? Hope and change?

Doubtful!!

"Jobs Summit" no - just more political hype!!

Wall Street really liked to be "connected" with the government housing fiasco and we all know how that went...

Both Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch suffered from the same ailment - heavy subprime mortgage losses. As both were heavily exposed to complex financial instruments which were connected with the property market, last year's property price crash in the US, and the onset of the credit crunch, left them with huge amounts of devalued assets on their books.

Some accountability and regulation for the banking and mortgage industry- please Mr. Romney! How about health insurers and why are they protected from anti-trust laws? Wow, your theories about private business are totally amazing. Agriculture and farming = 200 billion in gov't subsidies last year alone. What a marvelous private sector! Food stamps for every eighth American so they can buy all of that subsidized food. Most likely APX got some big tax break to open the doors just like E-bay in Draper!

When was the last time you created a totally private job with your own time, effort and money Mr. Romney?

Romney likes the government trough (Governor) just like everybody else.

I have a lot of friends that started with APEX and they are all rich. The people that go out and sale door to door make big big money. My understanding is that they will use fear as a sailing point. Fear is a good sale; our politicians do it all the time. Anyway, this is a legitimate company. Also, I understand that most of the people they target to sale to, live in trailer parks and high crime areas. That is a no brainer, If I sale air conditioning units, do I go to AL or TX. ?

More of Utah's fascination with Romney and trying to keep him in the news. Only in Utah is Romney a newsmaker until the next election. Give it up. He won't be president in 2012.

Sounds like APX needs some kind of federal regulation if they promise free hardware and contracts that are impossible to get out of. No wonder they are making money on their greed and bad contracts. The company needs to be run out of business. Pass the word along.

I can't vote for am a man who had 5 sons and none of them, not one of them, ever served in the military.

such avarice!!!!!! Patriot?

make me laugh again will yah!!!!!

We heard this same old story for eight years with Bush, deregulate the economy and watch us flourish. Bush deregulated the economy into near depression, just like Hoover.

Now that Obama has a solid recovery with two consecutive quarters of growth (the definition of a recovery), the Dow is back over 10,000 and businesses are starting to invest, the Hooverite Republicans can only complain about spending and jobs. It is exactly what they did to FDR.

In every recession it takes a year or two for jobs rebound. Since the Bush near depression was so deep, it may take longer for jobs to rebound, but we are on a solid path to recovery.

Those who complain about spending our way out of a recession and the national debt claim that the New Deal (big govt. spending) did not end the depression, they claim WWII (bigger govt. spending) ended the depression, only argue that govt. spending is the way out of the mess Obama inherited from Bush.

It was the elective war of aggression in Iraq that ran up the deficit. Obama has us leaving Iraq and Afganistan as well.

Good Luck Mitt in 2012!

NUMB3RS I appreciate your service for this country. Without valiant men and women serving we would not enjoy the liberties we now have.

However, you apparently believe that without having been on the front line you are incapable of being a leader. You reflect your arrogance and the fact that you are far from knowing it all.

Apparently you don't recognize all of the business owners or employees of these businesses that never served in the military but that allow you to have the tools you need for you job, whose taxed good allow us to have tanks in place of leather, whose prayers sustain life, whose etc, etc

It is God that makes people leaders (whether in the military or not), not the military. Our founding fathers in their battles against England's trained military is evidence of this.

I just love how anti-Mitt haters pop out whenever Mitt appears and denigrate his success and advice. What great financial success have you "haters" achieved? Still looking for work and blaming Pres. Bush for YOUR failure? Haven't got the courage to take a risk and start your own small business? Still waiting for Obama to "change" things FOR you? Yeah, we know. . . You'd all be successful except for the things OTHERS have done to you. You're not PROACTIVE, just reactive, reactive, reactive. . .

Since, in your opinion, the only thinkers and decision makers on the planet are vets, why don't you," vietnam era veteran" run for office? I do have a question though, if you were not a combat veteran, without notches on your belt, are you still entitled to command our troops?

Yeah, Mitt, it's that easy. I'm sick and tired of Republican politians critizing the president and not offering any real solutions other than simple ones. I heard Sarah Palin say on an interview last night that to fix the economy "we just need to lower taxes and reign in big government." Mitt Romney offers much of the same. Newsflash: The economy is much more complex than that, and offering a few simple bromides for political spin is nothing more than a political ploy to prey on a gullible public.

APX and other similar businesses if your service is such a great product, why do you have to lock people in. Satisfied customers stick around, sounds more like yours are just stuck. Cell phones, credit cards and all the rest that suck people into something they don't really need and can't afford panders to fears and avarice.

"Same Old Story" is so lost he/she doesn't even know it. Go educate yourself before you try to act like you know what you are talking about

If businesses would be honest in their practices instead of greedy, there would be no need for any type of regulation. And "socialism", whatever you want to call it, cannot regulate greed, either.

Business calls us "consumers"; government calls us "taxpayers"--isn't it time we demanded they recognize us as PEOPLE?