Last week the Obama campaign launched RomneyEconomics.com to highlight economic philosophy behind Mitt Romney’s business experience, which he has continually claimed as his chief qualification to be President. Romney economics is about doing whatever it takes for him and his investors to profit, regardless of the cost to workers, companies and communities. He believes in two sets of rules – one for himself and others at the top, and another for everyone else.

 The campaign released a new Romney economics video about another company Romney and his partners bankrupted – a paper company called Ampad. Like in so many cases across the country, Romney and his partners got a huge return on their investment while workers and community lost out.

o Please see this new campaign video titled “Romney Economics: Job Loss and Bankruptcy at Ampad.”

o For more information, go to www.RomneyEconomics.com.

 Indiana: Romney economics helped Romney and his partners multiply their initial investment in a paper company 20 times over while 1,500 Americans lost their jobs.

o Romney and his fellow investors bought the company in 1992 for $40 million – $35 million of which they borrowed.

o Two years later, Romney and his partners bought a plant in Marion, Indiana. All the workers were forced to reapply for their jobs with reduced pay and benefits.

o Less than a year later, Romney and his partners shut down the Marion, Indiana, plant, which cost all 250 workers their jobs. More than 1,500 workers were laid off when they loaded Ampad up with debt, drove it into bankruptcy, and closed factories across the country.

o Romney and his partners made $100 million on the deal, walking away with a major profit off of their initial investment after driving a company into bankruptcy and driving workers out of a job.

 An outstanding question was what would happen to the unsecured creditors who lost out on $170 million when Ampad went bankrupt. Today Politico revealed that they’re getting two-tenths of a cent for every dollar they were owed – they waited 11 years to find out they’re getting a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what they’re owed.

o Please see this Politico article on the subject.

 Romney economics does not make Romney a job creator. He was in business to make money for himself and his investors, not to create jobs. His partners have said it, he’s said it and everyone knows it.

o Kansas City: Romney and his partners walked away with millions after closing a 105-year-old steel mill and putting 750 people out of work.

o Florida: They walked away with a quarter of a billion dollars after closing two medical-equipment manufacturing facilities and putting 850 people out of