Big Government Helped “You Didn’t Build That” Star

Posted on July 24, 2012 at 4:20 pm by JM Ashby

This is Mitt Romney’s latest selectively-edited ad attacking the president for saying “you didn’t build that.”

Beyond the obvious edit job of the president’s words, there’s something else wrong with this ad

via ABC News

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…”

The businessman, Jack Gilchrist, also acknowledged that in the 1980s the company received a U.S. Small Business Administration loan totaling “somewhere south of” $500,000, and matching funds from the federally-funded New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center.

The star of the ad has received tax breaks from the local government and contracts from the federal government. He was also subsidized by the Small Business Administration! But, you know, the president is “attacking success” when he mentions that private business didn’t build the roads or the infrastructure that makes doing business possible.

You can’t necessarily rely on most Americans to put 2 and 2 together, however. From my experience, the average American has no idea that they’re neck deep in socialism every single day of the lives no matter who they are or what ideology they subscribe to. We’re all socialists, some are just in denial or in the proverbial closet.

With that said, Team Romney has been screwing the “you didn’t build that” chicken for several weeks now and it doesn’t seem to have done them any favors. The latest round of polls show Romney trailing in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, and even Florida. President Obama now maintains leads in every swing state except North Carolina, and Romney would have to perform a near sweep of the swing states to win.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Krupski/100002308768984 Kevin Krupski

    Yup, the Obama game plan is curtainly not working according to Hannity. But then again Sean thinks that Obama is suppost to loose and let the Tea Part do whatever they want. Team Romney is such a joke and I am enjoying it sooo much.

  • mrbrink

    “You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers encouraged your hopes. Coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them. We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches and communities.”

    – Mitt Romney in 2002.

    Is there anything this fucking goof off doesn’t lie about?

    • MrDHalen

      ^Brilliant!!!

      • mrbrink

        Mitt Romney retroactively addresses Olympians:

        You represent yourselves, “U.S.A.” is just another word for “me, me, me!”

    • nathkatun7

      The title of this should be: “When Mitt Romney acted like a sane human being.”

  • MrDHalen

    This is what scares me the most about the future. It appears to me, that our society has become so unhinged and self-absorbed, that I don’t know how we come back to reality without some catastrophic fall from grace.

    I’d like to tell these people to their face, government is the only thing that’s stopping me from killing you right now. (It’s really my moral compass, but WTF people????)

    • Brutlyhonest

      The greed and selfishness also floors me. The entire economy of this region is based on Federal spending, yet they scream and holler about taxes and wasted spending. I’m not sure there is a family on my street that isn’t using subsidized healthcare (military dependents as well as federal and city civilians). The two loudest wingnuts are retired on federal salaries. I shit you not. What they’ll tell you is they earned and deserve their benefits. They will not accept actual facts about how, relatively, little of their tax dollars are wasted on fraudulent claims by lazy (of course they’re brown, silly) people.

      It’s all I can do sometimes to squelch my government issued anger management problem and not throttle them.

      • MrDHalen

        People are living in their own little bubbles and making up their own reality and there is currently no major consequence for doing this. If we’re not all living by and accepting the same social contract, then I think history tells us we’re headed for trouble.

  • Brutlyhonest

    What a shocker: another asshat who is oblivious to the handouts he received.

  • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

    President Obama now maintains leads in every swing state except North Carolina…

    That’s not what I am reading online. It’s no wonder Republican’s feel like the system if fixed. They hear time and time again about how close the race is or how Romney has a chance of winning, then if he doesn’t, they think the fix must have been in. When Romney was never close or never had a chance.

    I know how easy it is to lie with stats and polls but where are you getting your numbers from and why am I not seeing them online? I know the MSM has the false equivalency thing going on, but from what I am reading in the polls they are in the GOP pocket when it comes to reporting on poll results.

    • mrbrink

      Irish’, this could help sort some things out.

      Adding, if you’re hearing that Romney is on the rise, you’re listening to the sound of desperation.

      • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

        Thank you! That was helpful