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A Brief Look at Mitt Romney’s Family Tree

Genealogists know that putting together a family tree can be both interesting and fun. This is true whether it is your family tree, or the tree of someone else. Since there will be a United States Presidential election in 2012, I decided to put together a brief family tree for each candidate. Today, I am focusing on Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney was the Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Before that, he was an executive at Bain & Co., from 1978 to 1984. In 1984, Mitt Romney was one of the founders of Bain Capital, which is a private … Continue reading →

Can Your Realistically Fire Your Insurance Company?

Mitt Romney recently gave a speech where he talked about health insurance. In part of that speech, he said something that sounded as though he enjoyed firing people. He was talking about firing one’s health insurance company. Politicians should be extremely careful about the words they choose to say during an election year. Specific phrases, when taken out of context, can be used by a person’s opponents to make him or her look bad. I don’t think anyone would be surprised to learn that this sort of thing happens, or that it is a tactic that has been frequently used … Continue reading →