President Obama recently made comments at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia, attempting to remind business owners that they didn’t build their businesses on their own and claiming that everyone receives help in putting together a company.
In response, Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, publicly announced that Obama’s comments were “insulting to every innovator in America.” Romney’s position is that, although we need the government, businesses are developed by people that try hard, not just by having things handed to them.
In his speech, Romney said:
“People who reach to try and bring themselves up, the president would say, ‘Well you didn’t do that, you couldn’t have gotten to school without the roads the government built for you, and you couldn’t have gone to school without teachers, so you’re not responsible for that success.’ Look, President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success, and I will change that.”