The New Hampshire Union Leader’s John DiStato today reports that in 1999 the business in question, 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’…” In addition, in 2011, Gilchrist Metal “received two U.S. Navy sub-contracts totaling about $83,000 and a smaller, $5,600 Coast Guard contract in 2008…” – Jake Tapper, ABC News
WHILE SWIFTBOATING OBAMA and twisting words that Mitt Romney said himself during the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Olympic Games, his campaign ad star drones on and on in tones of outrage. How dare Pres. Obama say he didn’t build his company!
“My father’s hands didn’t build this company? My hands didn’t build this company? My son’s hands aren’t building this company?”
It hardly matters that isn’t what Pres. Obama said.
No one is saying people don’t deserve credit for the businesses they create. But you’ve got to ask the important question: What would Gilchrist Metal be without the tax-exempt revenue bonds issued by the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, and the two U.S. Navy sub-contracts?
Oh, and let’s not forget the U.S. Small Business Administration loan in the 1980s, either, that was “somewhere south of” $500,000, and, Tapper reports, “matching funds from the federally-funded New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center.”
Who can blame Jack Gilchrist? I mean, really, why not, right? After all…
“I’m not going to turn a blind eye because the money came from the government,” Gilchrest said. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m getting some of my tax money back. I’m not stupid, I’m not going to say ‘no.’ Shame on me if I didn’t use what’s available.”
Yes, I fart in your general direction, and your mother is a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries!
Good grief, it’s Al Gore “inventing the Internet” all over again.
Oh, and since self-made men don’t seem to be able to hear anything but what they want to, particularly if there’s a chance to be offended by it, here’s the cultural reference.
And now for somthing completly differerent, is anyone surprised that as Gov. of Massachussetts Romney signed one of the most restrictive gun laws ever passed into law by a state.
Is anyone surprised that in the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics Romney told the athletes that ‘ none of you got here on your own’. Or Romney on humans causing global climate change just a year ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G598Xno5qU
Hello? Been there, covered that already.
http://taylormarsh.com/blog/2012/07/romney-to-olympians-you-didnt-get-here-on-your-own/
During the 2000 VP debate, Joe Lieberman sat silently as Dick Cheney told the questioner that the money he made from Halliburton had “nothing to do with the government.” Never mind that without government contracts, the company would not exist.
Callers to CSPAN’s Washington Journal are forever bashing govt “handouts,” while explaining why the money THEY get from the govt is “different” because “they earned it.”
The states most heavily represented by GOP Congressmen who rail against the “Welfare State” and “Big Government”- Texas, Louisiana, etc- are also the states which have their hands out for that money the most.
There is no end to this hypocrisy. None.
Romney is a liar and a hypocrite, and the Obama ‘quick-response” team is falling down on the job of making that known. Or,
The Democratic PACS are not doing a good job of watching his back.
Their messaging sucks.