(POST PUBLISHED 7/19, REVISED 7/24/12)
Romney Attacks Obama for Saying Businesses Need Start-Up Help - Something Romney Himself Has Been Saying
(BTW Here is How President Obama and Mitt Romney compare on support for small businesses.)
Romney - taking an Obama sentence out of context, said the other day:
“It shows how out of touch he is with the character of America. This idea of criticizing and attacking success, of demonizing those in all walks of life who have been successful, is something that is so foreign to us that we can’t understand it.”
Here is the sentence from President Obama:
"If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that."
And here is the context:
"There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Nice to know that Romney wants businesses to benefit from government support - like roads and bridges. Too bad he also wants to remove the Medicare and Healthcare safety nets which keep poor, working people from dropping out of the already-shrinking American middle class.
American working people? They are not part of Mitt's circle of support. Romney is much more interested in supporting the super-rich Latin American right wing. (See: Romney's Bain Capital Invested for Right-wing Salvadorans Associated with Supporting Death Squads)
"There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
You be the judge:
Did Obama say (as Romney spins it):
"It shows how out of touch he is with the character of America. . . ."
Or, was Obama talking about "a great teacher somewhere in your life . . ."
and "roads and bridges" when he said: "you didn’t build that."
Meanwhile, while criticizing Obama for praiding " . . . this unbelievable American system" that fosters business growth, Romney admits that businesses ought to benefit from society's help:
“I was on a bus trip a few weeks ago, you may have seen, across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan. . . . I was in Indiana, Wisconsin, and these are the states headed by Republican governors, and you know what? They are doing the right things, and it’s making a difference.”
Nice to know that Romney wants businesses to benefit from government support - like roads and bridges. Too bad he also wants to remove the Medicare and Healthcare safety nets which keep poor, working people from dropping out of the already-shrinking American middle class.
American working people? They are not part of Mitt's circle of support. Romney is much more interested in supporting the super-rich Latin American right wing. (See: Romney's Bain Capital Invested for Right-wing Salvadorans Associated with Supporting Death Squads)
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