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Monday, July 30, 2012

2012 More of Romney's Self-Sustaining Businessmen Got Government Loans

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:54 PM

I reiterate: Romney's attacks on President Obama's "You didn't build that speech" are all constructed on a falsehood. Go watch Jon Stewart prove that Romney is being disingenuous about this.

But the funny thing is, even though the most successful attack that Romney has levied against Obama in months is based on an outright and purposeful misreading of something that President Obama said, Romney's attacks are all proving President Obama's original point.

“We’ve got a group of business people here – including myself – who really take offense to the idea that government builds businesses,” said Dave Leinweber, the owner of Angler’s Covey, at Monday morning’s [Romney] press event. “We create the jobs. We’ve doubled our work force here because of our hard work, not because of some program or anything like that. We’ve just worked hard.”

But, in an interview with FOX31 Denver, Leinweber also acknowledged that, as much as he was frustrated by government regulation, he was only able to finance his business’s expansion to a new, larger location with a loan backed by a government program that enabled him to get a small business loan.

This is not the first time that this has happened. You'd think the Romney people would start vetting the businesspeople they choose to represent hard-working American individualism. And even if they did find an American small business owner who never took a penny of government loans, they'd never be able to find a small business owner who didn't profit from government-owned-and-maintained roads, or workers who were educated in public schools, which was President Obama's real point.

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And entertained in America's publicly subsidized sports stadiums, if you accept the preposterous notion that privately run professional sports franchises are public infrastructure.

Posted by NaFun

on July 30, 2012 at 6:25 PM

nothing matters to the feeble minded "independents" but catch phrases. "you didn't build that" is what they remember, because it confirms their bias.

go open a branch in somalia, rugged individualists. show us.

Posted by Max Solomon on July 30, 2012 at 6:56 PM

Do as I say, not as I do.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 30, 2012 at 8:24 PM

This story provides further proof of these two facts:

1) Mitt Romney has no moral character whatsoever. "You didn't build that" referred to roads and bridges in the preceding sentence. You know - the one that Romney completely omitted.

2) His campaign is run by rank amateurs.

Posted by Free Lunch on July 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM

I've been watching this series called I Shouldn't Be Alive, a reality show. So the typical story is some "rugged individual" sets out on a challenge climb, just him and nature, and he barely leaves information about where he is going and when he will return. He just wants to get away from society.

Well, wouldn't ya know, halfway up the mountain he gets caught in an ice storm and plummets 200 ft and ends up on his back with a fractured pelvis, stuck on a ledge and night falls.

Suddenly the guy is whimpering and crying out for anyone to rescue him. After a 3 to 7 day ordeal he sees the rescue helicopter, and, thinking only of himself, yet not having prepared any of the gear that could have saved him like a satellite phone, he wimpers for them to practically smash their craft into the cliff to save his rugged ass.

That is what is wrong with people.

http://www.ytepisodes.com/series.php/I-S…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on July 30, 2012 at 10:48 PM

@5 Still nothing relevant to say, huh?

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on July 30, 2012 at 11:23 PM

@5 yep your right those rugged individualists should have done what Romney did, put himself through school off of accumulated earnings and investment income he got from money his dad invested for him each yr on his birthday.

Then after working for his dad's bud for a couple yrs, accept a loan from him to start up Bane capital but only after being guaranteed that if he failed he could return to his old job no fault no foul.

Take a leave of absence from that company but retain ownership of it to "save" the Olympics using a few truck loads of federal government money. Only to retire retro-actively 3 yrs later when you've won the Governorship of a State.

Yep there is a lot of rugged individualist risk taking going on in Romney world.

So totally more ass on the line risk taking then say being a single mom raising a bi-racial kid in the 60s n 70s.

Posted by Machiavelli was framed on July 31, 2012 at 2:29 AM

@6, 7: i think he was conceding the point.

Posted by Max Solomon on July 31, 2012 at 6:53 AM

@8 - RE:6,7 on 5

More than conceding the point, I'd say. Which is surprising, and almost raises SRotU to multifaceted person hood.

So many people are so invested in they're own personal Horatio Alger story, that they can't see any of the ways that we have given them a hand up and a hand out.

I imagine that Dave Leinweber didn't flag anything for the Romney campaign because he didn't think of the loan backed by a government program as something we did for him, but rather something he earned to the exclusion of all other narratives.

Posted by I Liked Kent Area State Liquor Stores on July 31, 2012 at 9:26 AM

@8:

Which for Bailo, is actually pretty remarkable...

Posted by COMTE

on July 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Haven't tried applying for a government loan yet, would you tell me what are the requirements needed for me to get that loan? Been interested on loaning these days.

Posted by Liz Loan on August 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM