But the point is, that still doesn't amount to a net job loss.
And sure, Staples made autonomous decisions without Romney. But it had ONE store before Bain put money into the company. "That was easy" wouldn't mean much if there was only one Staples location. I mean... maybe Staples could have flourished on its own--but Romney and co. certainly sped up that process. The way history played out, Bain was THE catalyst behind what Staples is today.
Did you ever consider that if there had been no Bain, some other venture capital firm would have invested in Staples or one of the other successes attributed to Bain? And then lets not forget the jobs that were lost whenever Staples or some other big-box store came into town and killed off one or two mom-and-pop stores in the same market segment?
Yeah, Romney was a successful venture capitalist, but the claims that he
created jobs instead of merely shifted jobs to companies Bain invested in are rather dubious, especially in the retail sector. To be fair, they are same sort of job-creation claims that politicians and businesses like to promote all the time.
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