Infrastructure is now socialism. True Americans
never need to cross rivers.
They
just can't help themselves:
Dennis Sollmann, the owner of Sollmann Electric Company, appears in a Romney web ad released Monday morning that plays off the president's now infamous "you didn't build that" line. [...]
“I mean, I’m thinking, 'You’ve got to be kidding me,'" Sollmann says in the ad. "He was trying to say: ‘Hey, you didn’t build that business on your own. The government helped you build it.’ And that’s what ticked me off more than anything. Mr. President, unfortunately you have no idea how we here in Midwestern Ohio have to try to run a small business from daylight till night."
Yes, yes. Another self-made man who doesn't need any government help. But whose company has, as it turns out, gotten millions of dollars worth of government contracts,
in this case mostly to help build public schools.
Coming after this, and this, and this, I think my previous hypothesis is correct: The Mitt Romney campaign literally does not know even one damn businessman that does not rely directly on taxpayer money. Or, at least, those are the only businessmen that like Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney: the candidate for arrogant, self-aggrandizing business leaders that cash government checks while having hissy fits about how government never helped them with anything. I've said it before, but it fits the Mitt personality perfectly. He's the go-to candidate for corporate welfare and the entitled.
Oh, and Mr. Pompous up there didn't even understand what Obama actually said, which is another prerequisite for starring in a Mitt attack ad. The president didn't say the government helped you build your business (or, for that matter, has been giving you the constant work that keeps it afloat.) He said that your business, Mr. Pompous, benefits from the roads and bridges that allow you to drive from your office to your damn government-contracted construction jobs. Unless you've been airdropping your electricians to each of those government-built schools you've worked on, I think you might just want to concede that point.