Paul Ryan was promoting the Romney campaign in Roanoke, Virginia on Wednesday. Small business owner Chris McMurray, owner of Crumb and Get It Cookie Co. introduced the Vice President hopeful. McMurry declined request for Vice President Biden to visit the bakery last week.
Ryan emphasized Romney's business background provides knowledge on how to improve the economy. "Obama said last summer was going to be the summer of recovery. It's a summer later and it's still worse. He said that the private sector is doing just fine, we need more government. This is President Obama's imaginary recovery. It's not here." Ryan added, "We have a mountain of uncertainty that's plaguing small businesses and we have a person in Mitt Romney who knows through experience the challenge that businesses face, how job creation works, that the engine of opportunity, the nucleus of our economy is not the government, but the successful small business, the entrepreneurs, the people of this country."
Although he never said the phrase, the Republican theme of "We did build it" backdropped Ryan on a very large banner. This theme stems from an unscripted comment Obama made in Roanoke on July 13, "If you are 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."
The Romney campaign continues to build on the remark stating that Obama is "out of touch" with small businesses.
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If that decision is to opt for a split of Republican leadership in the White House and Congress a 2nd Great Depression will begin in 2013.
If that decision is to opt for Democratic leadership in the White House and Congress then the chances of avoiding a 2md Great Depression will be better, even if not very good.
What a Communist bastard.
I understand why you people are upset with President Obama's remark '...you didn't build ir...'.
"What Obama has done to the economy: restore 93% of the jobs " you are to believe that President Obama (as he does) that he actually created all the new jobs then you have to accept that he truly does believe that the small business owners didn't create their businesses. For if we have to give all the credit to Obama for the new jobs then there is no room for private businesses to create those same jobs.
The trouble I have with who created the jobs is that the government money went to 'shovel ready projects' that Obama later said weren't exactly shovel ready, or when he said private business is doing just fine but the governments weren't fine and need more jobs.
We have to choose, the President created the jobs or the businesses did, at least that is what bamam is saying.
Are businesses hiring because they have new customers or are they hiring becuase Obama told them to (the Government is paying the salaries?
Are the business owners taking risks and making sacrifices in their businesses or is the government/President Obama taking the risks and making the sacrifices?
Obama gets credit for job growth in the same fashion that "you people" on the right want to blame him for not enough of it. If Obama can be blamed for a sluggish economy resulting from a collapse that predates his presidency, then he can certainly be credited for the improvement in that economy under his watch.
Did he hire all those folks, is he paying them? For the most part, no, nor should he be. What he did was use the stimulus to generate economic activitiy and help create an environment in which that activity would stimulate more, private activity, and with it hiring folks into jobs.
The businesses hire because they see demand in the market for expanding their operations, and that demand is at least in part a spin off of Obama's stimulus package.
What Obama is saying, quite truthfully, is that the myth of the rugged individual who did it all by himself is utter BS. We all rely on one another and on the collective actions of society at large. We all build on the shoulders of the giants that came before us. We all create and build on our own in various ways, but not in a vacuum. The resources we draw on are resources others have provided to us and that allows us to build newer, bigger, better. But we did not build it alone. No one did. Not since the cave days.
"is that the myth of the rugged individual who did it all by himself is utter BS." I am not so sure. Could you describe 'rugged individual'?
No one did. No one does. The myth of the rugged individual is storybook fantasy.
I have been under the dillusion that we should be listening to what the President says. What you are telling me it is what he meant and not the words he uses.
Does that also apply to other politicians, like the Senate candidate Akin in Missouri or is it only allowed for the Democrats or jsut the President? Though I have heard that approach applied many time to the VP.