YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!!!!! The Response ---------->

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1. Finally.

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2. I wonder how Romney would respond.

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3. He would change the subject like he always does

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4. You know, that would make an odd campaign ad ...

Mitt Romney, "candidate of change" ... as in changes his mind on issue after issue.

The candidate of the quick change!

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5. Romney Tells The GOP He Is The Hero Who Will Destroy Social Security

Romney Tells The GOP He Is The Hero Who Will DESTROY Social Security

Romney resorts to every conservative hero’s tactic of lying to promote an agenda that harms millions of Americans. At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Romney resorted to lying to promote privatizing Social Security. Willard said, “We’re going to have to recognize that Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable and we can’t afford to avoid these entitlement challenges any longer.” It is a typical Republican lie that Bush used in 2005, and the truth is that without any adjustments, Social Security will remain solvent for the next thirty years or more. Romney also lied when he said current retirees would not see a change in their benefits under his plan. During the same speech, Romney promised to increase defense spending, give the wealthiest 1% approximately $6.7 trillion in tax cuts, and slash “entitlement” spending that surely includes Medicare and Social Security as part of his balanced budget farce.

Republicans are so consumed with hatred for the New Deal that produced Social Security, that 76 years after its creation they are still attempting to dismantle the only retirement income for millions of Americans as well as the largest insurance program for children. The program has never failed to pay out benefits on schedule, and the surplus is invested in U.S. Treasury securities that are considered the safest investment in the world. More than anything, Social Security provides a measure of security that Wall Street can never match, but that doesn’t stop conservatives from lying about the system to garner support for eliminating it. Romney is not the first conservative to promote privatizing or eliminating Social Security and he will not be the last.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/social-security-romney.html

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6. The recession we are coming out of.

That they built!

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7. The GOP has a history of creating recessions ...

1982 -- Reagan

1990 -- Bush I

2002 -- Bush II

2007 -- Bush II

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8. This is a good graphic you can add.

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9. thanks

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10. They're still at it ...

Romney Camp Holds 24 ‘We Did Build This’ Events Today

Wednesday July 25, 2012

Mitt Romney has arrived in London for his overseas trip. But his campaign today is holding 24 events hitting back at President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” line. The events will be held in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Nevada.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-camp-holds-24-we-did-build-this

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11. Romney's "You Didn't Build That" Fails

By Adam Serwer

Mitt Romney is having a hard time finding businesses that didn't get any help from the government.

Romney has been holding events and making speeches focusing on a set of remarks President Barack Obama made about how government and other people help individuals succeed. The original line Obama used was "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 Romney campaign has spent the last couple of weeks deliberately ripping Obama's remarks earlier this month out of context, implying that Obama was disparaging business people by suggesting individual initiative has nothing to do with success. As Slate's Dave Weigel writes, conservatives have seized on this misinterpretation as "proof" Obama is actually a secret Marxist. The implication here is really twofold: Obama can't fix the economy because he doesn't understand business, and because "you didn't build that," Obama thinks it's perfectly fine to take from hardworking rugged individualists (like you) and give to a bunch of freeloaders who'd rather not work for a living (like them).

The problem is that the real-world examples Romney keeps seizing on include people who got help from the government. As ABC News' Jake Tapper reported Monday, the star of a recent Romney ad hitting Obama over "you didn't build that" had received millions in government loans and contracts. Romney stopped in Costa Mesa, California Monday to meet with a "roundtable" of small business leaders, held in front of a sign that says "We did build it!"

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/romney-didnt-build-that-fail

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12. I actually turned on FOX Noise yesterday.

Once early in the morning, then in the late evening. I just had a suspicion that they would still be stuck on the same story.

BOTH times the lead story was the "You didn't build that" quote.

Rich Lowry claimed the strategy is working and that the Republicans will be able to use it all the way until election day. At that point, I switched channels. FOX viewers must think they actually have a winner.

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13. Lowry is a sniveling *#&()!@

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14. Now for some hypocrisy ...

Romney’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Attack Ad Stars Businessman Who Received Millions in Government Money

And, as it turns out, Jack Gilchrist is no different. The New Hampshire Union Leader reports today that Gilchrist benefited from millions of dollars of government loans and contracts to get his business on its feet:

In 1999, Gilchrist Metal received $800,000 in tax-exempt revenue bonds issued by the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority “to set up a second manufacturing plant and purchase equipment to produce high definition television broadcasting equipment,” according to a New Hampshire Union Leader report at the time…

Last year, Gilchrist Metal also received two U.S. Navy sub-contracts totaling about $83,000 and a smaller $5,600 Coast Guard contract in 2008, according to a government web site that tracks spending.

Gilchrist wisely took advantage of these funds, which help small businesses like his survive in their early years. He also took a U.S. Small Business Administration loan in the late 1980s totaling “somewhere south of” $500,000, plus matching funds from the federally-funded New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center.

read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/23/570621/romneys-you-didnt-build-that-attack-ad-stars-businessman-who-received-millions-in-government-money/