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COLUMBUS, OH -- Stumping for Mitt Romney in a key battleground state Wednesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal hammered President Obama over remarks he made last week about the government’s role in the private sector.
“You know, his aides will try to say he just misspoke – it's not what he meant. I think these comments reveal something about this President,” Jindal said, adding later that Obama “truly thinks wealth is created through government spending.”
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses the Nebraska Republican Convention in Grand Island, Neb., Saturday, July 14, 2012.
Jindal made the remarks during a brief speech to about 150 Romney campaign supporters, volunteers, and staff at a headquarters office here in Columbus.
It was just the latest in a series of Republican attacks this week on Obama’s Friday remarks in Roanoke, Va., where the president said private enterprise is reliant on public support.
“If you were 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,” Obama said.
“Somebody invested in roads and bridges,” Obama continued. “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
The remarks gave an opening to Republicans, who have argued throughout the election cycle that President Obama has over-emphasized a public finance approach to fixing the economy and lacks faith in small business.
Speaking at an energy services company Tuesday in Irwin, Penn., Romney told supporters that while the American people “appreciate” the sacrifices of government workers, “taxpayers pay for government.”
“The president’s logic doesn’t just extend to the entrepreneurs that started a barber shop, or a taxi operation, or an oil field service business like this,” Romney said.
Wednesday, Romney’s surrogates who advanced the attack ratcheted up the tone.
“Under President Obama, you’ve got what I label basically the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ perspective,” Jindal said, before adding that Obama is “trying to manage the slow decline of this great country.”
Speaking earlier, State Rep. Cheryl Grossman cited her worry about how the President’s economic policy will affect her children.
“I cannot recall any time in my memory when I have feared a president as much as I do our current president,” Grossman said.
Jindal, who supported Texas Gov. Rick Perry during the Republican primary, has become an increasingly visible and sharp-tongued surrogate for Romney – and a speculated-about choice for the vice presidential slot.
Later Wednesday, Jindal visited a private fundraiser for Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican running for U.S. Senate. Guests leaving the event said Jindal spoke knowledgably about Ohio politics and urged restraint when it comes to the state budget.
But few guests listed Jindal at the top of their own wish list.
Edd Dunlap, who works for a local homebuilding company, said he was impressed by Jindal’s management of the 2010 BP oil spill crisis, though he hopes Romney selects Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.
“He’s local,” Dunlap said of Portman. “So of course I’ve got to support him.”
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The GOP ain't good at nuttin? They even have to go out of context to bash the president. Do they still think that anything built was built alone? "Thatsa givin credit whare da think credit is due, all to themselves." That's like saying the plantation owner picked the cotton, there were no Rubys, the soldiers were robots built by a owner, the owner built the Brooklyn Bridge, no employees ever helped an employer because the owner is just wonderful like Mitt who made his fortunes solely by himself, a marvel I tell ya, a true marvel.
Where are the Jobs???
Obama never said Business owners did not build their businesses. Obama said nusiness owners did not build their businesses alone.
For example, The Internet Highway research and development happened from the US Government throughout the 70'2-80's. And if it wasn't for the Internet, businesses would not have pay pal which provides businesses with a vehicle for transactions contributing to profit.
If it wasn't for the Interstate Highways, interstate commerce within the private sector would have no roads to deliver services and goods. Every business owner had a mentor growing up inspiring them to succeed at business. These are things Obama said. Not this garbage Jindal twisted........
The tax payer paid for these contributions paving the way for greater private sector profits. yet the private sector resents contributing to the tax base with a middle class contribution expecting coporate tax cuts.
This was President Obama's point Romney and Republicans want to conceal from confusion.
Obama/Biden 2012
Where are th Jobs???
The Republican adopted Grover Norquist idelogy will contribute to it's political demise. The Coporate tax cut with it's 1999-2000 abolishment of the Glass-Steigal Act of 1931 prohibiting Banks from defrauding Investors is the single biggest factor that has contributed to the economic chaos of 2008 until present.
Failed Trickle down economic policies never worked.....
Republican ideology is now obsolete............
Where are the Jobs???
Bob. Yes he sure fixed Louisiana. The state has the third worst public school system in the U.S. Bob, what is Bible math? You are likely from Louisiana so please inform me.
As someone who's actually from Louisiana, I can tell you that like most GOP governors of Southern states, Jindl has done nothing to make the lives of the citizens of Louisiana any better.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs ...........................as long as the Obamunists are allowed to distract us with Romney's tax returns, Bain capital, or whatever other trivial matter they wish, then they have a shot to continue to spend the USA in to oblivion. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and the current administration's record on the job killing econonmy is the real - the ONLY issue!! 2008 - 'If the job situation has not turned around by 2012 then, you know, this will be a 1 term proposition' - Barack Hussein Obama.
Art 15 sec 3 of this small arms treaty gives the US Government permission to bring the UN troups into this Country to enforce said treaty. READ IT! It gives the UN power to make unlimited Amendments by passing 2/3 vote by attending states. Obama is about to give the UN a blank check sponsored by Hillary Clinton her self!
copy and paste this link to the small arms treaty.
nagr.org/UN_Draft_Treaty.pdf
The insane fantasies of the right wing lunatic fringe have just got to be embarrassing for Republicans who are a sheet or two to the left of wackos like Jim, here.
The UN treaty Jim is confused about deals with the international shipment of small arms. It has nothing at all to do with domestic weapons sales. Jim and his neo-fascist survivalist friends are trying to drum up panic over a treaty that has no application inside the borders of the US.
PolitiFact with a Pants On Fire rating for Jim's crazy-as-a-@!$%#house-rat conspiracy theory:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/may/17/craig-james/craig-james-says-barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-/
Snopes with a big False on Jim's hysterical sniveling about the treaty:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
You can go back to your pork rinds and malt liquor, Jim. Everything's fine out here in the real world.