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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:06 PM Oct 2012

More Romney Lies & Hypocrisy: Makes Anti-Gov't Speech at Corp. that Got $689,314 in Stimulus Funds:

Romney Makes Closing Argument At Firm That Benefited From Stimulus Funds

By Josh Dorner posted from ThinkProgress Election on Oct 26, 2012 at 9:55 am

"On Friday, Mitt Romney will make his closing argument on the economy in what his campaign is touting as a major address. The site Romney has chosen, however, exposes the hypocrisy and fallaciousness of one of Romney’s central economic arguments: the notion that government has no role in growing the private economy and helping businesses expand. Romney frequently mocks Obama’s “didn’t build it” remarks and routinely derides the 2009 Recovery Act as a failure that did nothing to create jobs.

But now, the GOP presidential candidate is delivering one of the last speeches of the campaign at Kinzler Construction Services in Ames, Iowa. A search of Recovery.gov shows that the firm benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts funded by the Recovery Act. Kinzler received $649,944 in contracts under stimulus-funded Department of Energy weatherization programs. The company also received $39,370 as a sub-contractor on a federal government contract to renovate a building owned by the federal government, making for a total of $689,314 in stimulus funds...."

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More Romney Lies & Hypocrisy: Makes Anti-Gov't Speech at Corp. that Got $689,314 in Stimulus Funds: (Original Post) amborin Oct 2012 OP
Do we need to say this? I just assume everything rMoney says are lies & hypocrisy Justice4All1 Oct 2012 #1
I assume it's romneys ignorance and company executive hypocracy blue_heron Oct 2012 #2
Ask Romney to mstinamotorcity2 Oct 2012 #3

Justice4All1

(119 posts)
1. Do we need to say this? I just assume everything rMoney says are lies & hypocrisy
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 02:43 PM
Oct 2012

Make life much simpler. He's a pathological lying hypocrite douche who stands for nothing except giving himself and the 1% by extension a tax cut.

blue_heron

(223 posts)
2. I assume it's romneys ignorance and company executive hypocracy
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 03:12 PM
Oct 2012

I doubt Romney knew they took stimulus money...although you could argue he should. But the company who allowed him to use the facility as a back drop tp argue against Obama's policies is the real hypocrit and should return the money since it 'failed' to help!

mstinamotorcity2

(1,451 posts)
3. Ask Romney to
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 03:16 PM
Oct 2012

talk about Sensata and the Automobile Bridge loan that help them stay in business for Bain Capital to export the whole damn factory to China.

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