Mitt Romney was CEO of a “downsizing consultant company”

Bain Capital was Mitt Romney’s company.

“Bain Capital turns a profit on floundering corporations by buying them at low cost, stripping away any projects that aren't profiting or which have potential, and laying off any excess workers.”
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital

If you want a graphic view of what Romney did at Bain Capital watch; “Up in the Air”. George Clooney’s character plays a heartless man whose job is firing people.

If the company in “Up in the Air” was Bain Capital Romney would have been George Clooney’s character’s boss: