To the editor:

Mitt Romney tells us that his business experience qualifies him to be our president in these troubled economic times.

If success is defined as making money for his investors and for himself, then Romney has been successful.

However, Romney’s goal at Bain Capital was decidedly not to create jobs. Nor was his goal to create new productive enterprises. His goal purely and simply was to make money.

It made no difference to Romney how that goal could be reached. He could buy a company and sell off its assets, leaving the company too burdened with debt to survive, or he could close the company. He could move a company’s operations to a foreign country. Nothing mattered to Romney except making money.

In such cases, jobs in our country would be lost, but to Romney, those job losses would only be collateral damage, and not his problem, as long as he made money.

There may be nothing illegal about Romney’s business activities, but that is beside the point. The point is that Romney’s cold-blooded money chase in no way qualifies him to be our president.

Daniel Harris

Brunswick