Posted on 08/15/2012 5:13:32 PM PDT by kristinn
Ross Murty, the co-owner of the Village Corner Deli in Davenport, is a proud small-business owner who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
Serving up pulled pork, beans and cheesy potatoes for the press at the president’s campaign event this evening, Murty wore a T-shirt that said, “Government Didn’t Build my Business, I Did.”
The shirt is a reference to a comment Obama made last month. While discussing the importance of government investments in public services, the president said, “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. … 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.”
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I'm not the only poster that noted that.
Didn’t Walt Disney wear a Goldwater pin to an LBJ event in which LBJ was giving Mr. Disney some award, maybe the Presidential Medal of Freedom???
Gunner, I miss your ER stories. You write better than most of the stuff I pay to read.
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