Mitt Rom­ney hasn’t respond­ed yet to any of the let­ters sent to him by work­ers at Sen­sa­ta Tech­nolo­gies, a car sen­sor man­u­fac­tur­er in Freeport, Ill. owned by Bain Capital.

Bain believes it will make even more money by transferring American manufacturing and American jobs to China. It has no allegiance to the United States or to American workers; just to money. It got that philosophy from its founding father: Mitt Romney.

Rom­ney doesn’t run Bain any­more, but he still reaps mil­lions from the strip-and-flip firm each year. The Sen­sa­ta work­ers want Rom­ney to inter­vene with Bain and stop it from ship­ping their jobs to Chi­na. He won’t. Because the bot­tom line is that prof­it is more impor­tant to Rom­ney than people.

In the debate last week, Rom­ney said if elect­ed pres­i­dent, he’d cre­ate 12 mil­lion jobs, includ­ing 2 mil­lion by crack­ing down on Chi­na—the very place where Bain is trans­port­ing Sen­sa­ta: jobs, machin­ery and all. Rom­ney said:

​“That’s why I put out a five-point plan that gets Amer­i­ca 12 mil­lion new jobs in four years and ris­ing take-home pay.”

No doubt, 12 mil­lion jobs would be great. But the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion should ban this snake oil — no won­der Rom­ney hates gov­ern­ment regulation.

First of all, 12 mil­lion is not impres­sive. Real­ly. That’s because between 9 mil­lion and 12 mil­lion jobs are going to be cre­at­ed any­way. No mat­ter what. Even con­sid­er­ing the so-called fis­cal cliff. Those esti­mates are accord­ing to the non-par­ti­san Con­gres­sion­al Bud­get Office, Moody’s Ana­lyt­ics and Macro­eco­nom­ic Advi­sors. So Romney’s promise is emp­ty — zero more jobs than expected.

Maybe, in fact, Rom­ney pledged to achieve what’s going to hap­pen no mat­ter who is pres­i­dent because he believes gov­ern­ment can’t pro­duce jobs. In last week’s debate, Rom­ney repeat­ed twice his con­tention gov­ern­ment can’t gen­er­ate jobs. Okay. But then how is a Rom­ney gov­ern­ment going to cre­ate 12 mil­lion jobs?

Well, he has a five-point plan, right? Rom­ney says in a cam­paign ad that his tax cuts would cre­ate 7 mil­lion jobs; his ener­gy poli­cies 3 mil­lion; and his crack­down on Chi­na, his expand­ing trade and his job train­ing a total of 2 mil­lion. The stud­ies that the Rom­ney cam­paign offered to the Wash­ing­ton Post to sup­port these claims don’t actu­al­ly sup­port these claims. They’re so bogus that the Post gave Rom­ney its high­est liar rat­ing for his 12-mil­lion-job claim—four Pinoc­chios.

And then there’s Sensata.

It’s high­ly prof­itable, not some fail­ing enter­prise limp­ing over­seas for cheap labor, tax breaks and lax envi­ron­men­tal laws. Bain can’t claim that exces­sive­ly high Amer­i­can pay­roll costs are forc­ing it to move to Chi­na because Sen­sa­ta is mak­ing mon­ey hand over fist while pay­ing decent mid­dle-class wages.

Bain trans­port­ed its new Chi­nese work­ers to Illi­nois and ordered its Amer­i­can employ­ees, some of whom have devot­ed more than 40 years to the com­pa­ny, to suf­fer the humil­i­a­tion of train­ing their replace­ments. One-hun­dred-and-sev­en­ty mid­dle-class Sen­sa­ta work­ers will lose their jobs by year’s end. The com­mu­ni­ty will lose a major employ­er as well as the tax rev­enue it received from the com­pa­ny and the work­ers. The state will suf­fer the same losses.

Mary Kerr, who worked at Sen­sa­ta for six years and whose hus­band also worked there, told the Sun Chron­i­cle:

​“We only want to make a liv­ing and pay our bills, just like every­one else does. They’re not mov­ing our jobs because they’re los­ing mon­ey. They want to make an extra dollar.”

That’s exact­ly right. Obvi­ous­ly Bain believes it will make even more mon­ey by trans­fer­ring Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing and Amer­i­can jobs to Chi­na. It has no alle­giance to the Unit­ed States or to Amer­i­can work­ers; just to mon­ey. It got that phi­los­o­phy from its found­ing father: Mitt Rom­ney. The Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee also stands to gain because under his retire­ment agree­ment with Bain, when it makes more mon­ey, he makes more money.

To Rom­ney, and the crea­ture he cre­at­ed — Bain Cap­i­tal — it’s all about prof­it. Work­ers be damned.

Rom­ney has rebuffed entreaties for help from Sen­sa­ta work­ers who deliv­ered a peti­tion with 35,000 sig­na­tures to a Rom­ney cam­paign office, work­ers who went to the Repub­li­can con­ven­tion in Tam­pa, and work­ers who sought him out in Iowa dur­ing the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry, as well as from Freeport City Coun­cil and the gov­er­nor of Illi­nois.

Yet this guy wants Amer­i­ca to believe he’ll cre­ate jobs. He said in the sec­ond debate:

​“I know what it takes to cre­ate good jobs again. I know what it takes to make sure that you have the kind of oppor­tu­ni­ty you deserve. And kids across this coun­try are going to rec­og­nize, we’re bring­ing back an economy.”

The Sen­sa­ta work­ers have expe­ri­enced Romney’s econ­o­my and they’re advis­ing against it. In a ral­ly at Sen­sa­ta head­quar­ters last week, work­ers chanted:

​“We are from Freeport; we are unit­ed; we don’t want a Rom­ney economy.”

Rom­ney brags about being a busi­ness­man. That’s what he is, all right: a used car sales­man ped­dling Amer­i­ca an eco­nom­ic lemon. The coun­try can’t afford four years under a pres­i­dent who claims he’ll cre­ate 12 mil­lion jobs but won’t lift a fin­ger to save 170 in Freeport.

Full dis­clo­sure: The Unit­ed Steel­work­ers union is a spon­sor of In These Times.