Mitt Romney on a visit to a Roxbury truck company Thursday slammed President Obama for suggesting profitable businesses owe their success to government.
Flanked by denim-clad workers in a garage bay at Middlesex Truck & Coach, Romney praised company owner Brian Maloney and his family, asserting “they did build this business.”
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Government wouldn't have been able to build one road without taxpayers, that's what people forget.
Government wouldn't have been able to build one road without taxpayers, that's what people forget.
Sorry but its just too obvious: Couldn't Romney's people have found a company with at least one black person in it somewhere in Roxbury?
Not without leaving sight of BCH....
Looks like a bought-for-tv moment. Plastic and pretty. Like Willard.
If Obama would just admit that the statement was taken out of context, and he could have worded it differently Romney wouldn't have more ammunition for his "Obama is anti-business" rhetoric. It's a dumb statement that even when reading the whole thing makes sense, but it just too long for the sound bite. Romney can't really talk about building small business since he didn't, all he did was provide the capital and reap the rewards of others or sell off the assets, hardly a small business except like loan sharking.
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You can get anyone to say anything if you just ignore the words you don't like. Is Mr. Maloey saying that he did in fact build the system of roads and bridges that makes it possible for his company to even exist? How well would Middlesex Truck & Coach do if it were Mogadishu Truck & Coach?
Perfect Romney moment. A business built on government low interest loans and a government contract in an minority neighborhood with one non white face in the picture (in the back row no less).. What a clown and the same can be said for the owner. And of course no questions little speech. Hilarious.. Mitt just say vote for me I'm the white guy !
The only brown faces were outside protesting!
No wait, now that I see the picture on my computer rather than my phone I do spot one black person way in the back there. My bad. I didn't know there were that many white people in Roxbury. Looks like Romney found 'em all!! Now that takes some skill. That I can respect.
Excellent point. Not to mention state and local sales for busses, fire trucks, snow removal equipment, road repair contractors, garbage trucks.. Not to mention government regulations specifying highway dimensions so trucks can round corners and fit under bridges... Not to mention food safety requirements that mean more refrigerator trucks... Not to mention truck safety regulations that ensure the fleet is well maintained by companies like this. Not to mention any of this, because Obama's point was that there was a great teacher in your past, who was a government employee.
If the Boston Globe had any pretensions of journalistic ethics, it would build a front page article around the President's actual remarks. "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. 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. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet." Clearly the President is saying that the business owner did not build the roads and bridges that bring customers to that business. Your phony attempt to add context to the President's remarks some 20 column inches later in the article even had me fooled for a while. You journalists (or is it editors) have more tricks up your sleeves than even I thought.
I also was fooled by the Globe article to think that it was just poor wording by the President......................................................................................................... In fact the President actual words meant that the business owner did not build the roads and bridges that lead to the business.................................................................................. The Globe cleverly pretended to add the missing context late in the article, but they were actually trying to lend extra credence to the misinterpretation ............................................................................................... What do you think of a newspaper that gpes out of its way to bamboozle you?