Mitt Romney, In 2003, Touted Benefits Of Entrepreneurs Using 'Free' Federal Funds

[maddezmom]

On July 19, Mitt Romney stood at a truck repair shop in Roxbury, Mass. and extolled the virtues of starting your own business.

"The president does, in fact, believe that people who build enterprises like this really aren't responsible for it," he said of the shop's owner, Brian Maloney. "But in fact it's a collective success of the whole society that somehow builds enterprises like this. My view, we have to celebrate people who started enterprises and employ other people."

In an attack on a recent line President Barack Obama made on businesses, Romney said, "this is not the result of government. This is the result of people who take risk, who have dreams, who build for themselves and their families."

Cue the pro-Democratic super PAC American Bridge, which is a powerhouse for opposition research. The group dug up a clip of Romney, speaking in the same urban Boston neighborhood as governor of Massachusetts, touting the benefits of getting "free money" from the federal government on July 24, 2003. Romney promoted the "free money" by noting the fact that Massachusetts, like other high-income states, gets less back from the federal taxes it pays than Mississippi, for instance.

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/mitt-romney-free-federal-funds_n_1703769.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. Great Find! K/R!

What an asshole.

And to think of how many of among the 1% don't pay taxes while the middle class members pay a proportionally much larger share, this really IS free money if it goes to them.

It's regressive redistribution, I tell ya!

[rfranklin]

2. Gee Mitt, why do you expect the government to give you "free stuff?"

What are you, some kind of welfare queen?

[B Calm]

3. So they did have help after all. . .

Make up you mind Mitt!!!