ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: At a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati, Mitt Romney was introduced by three women who own small businesses. Each gave a testimonial about the tough times they've experienced under President Obama - starting with the owner of a window company, Laura Derger-Roberts.So let me get this straight. Two small businesswomen speak. One owns a window company and complains about how bad the housing market is. I think that market went to shit before Barack Obama became president. The other sells construction barrels and is bitching about how much she pays in taxes. Does she happen to think that if rich people get tax cuts then the private sector will come in and buy more construction barrels than the government currently does? Does she realize that you mainly need construction barrels on existing highways that are under construction, and that almost all existing highways are government owned and maintained? Or is she just one of those businesspeople who is successful in spite of their lack of brains? Finally, the only change I can see coming from Romney is a change in position from the one he took ten minutes before. For cripes sake, all he did during the last debate was agree with everything Obama did on foreign policy except for the imaginary apology tour. And Romney's five point plan is the same one George Bush used to get us into the biggest recession since the Great Depression. To paraphrase the Republicans about Obama: yes, change, but not for the better.
LAURA DERGER-ROBERTS: The demand, in our industry, for windows has dropped dramatically over the past four years, as American families don't have the disposable income they once did.
SHAPIRO: Then Kelly Hollis took the mic. She owns a company that sells orange barrels for road construction sites.
KELLY HOLLIS: It's absolutely despicable, the amount of money that I pay in taxes every year. I could employ a large handful of people.
SHAPIRO: Finally, Mitt Romney took the stage, and adopted the mantle that his opponent made so famous four years ago.
MITT ROMNEY: I mean, do you want real, big change in this country? Well, you're going to get it on November 6; you're going to make it happen. We're going to get America on track again.
SHAPIRO: He used that phrase "big change" a dozen times in 20 minutes.
Friday, October 26, 2012
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