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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 01:47 PM Aug 2012

"As a socially disadvantaged minority woman, I appealed to the government

for help building my business. Thank God government was there for me!"

Did you hear Sher Valenzuela last night?

http://www.firststatemanufacturing.com/ <- Someone corrected her story here.



"...The Republican National Convention opened by smacking President Obama with the theme “We Built it.”...To pound that message, Republicans turned to a Delaware businesswoman, Sher Valenzuela...Valenzuela presumably was picked to speak so that she could thunder at Obama for disdaining capitalism.

Oops. It turns out that Valenzuela relied not only on her entrepreneurial skills but also on — yes, government help. Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, documented $2 million in loans from the Small Business Administration for Valenzuela’s company, plus $15 million in government contracts (mostly noncompetitive ones)....


Here.
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