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The Washington PostPATASKALA, OHIO — Mitt Romney donned safety glasses and toured a rock-crushing-equipment factory here on Wednesday, saying President Obama’s economic policies have choked the manufacturer and thousands of other businesses across America.
Companies like Screen Machine Industries are at the center of the political fight over the government’s role in the private sector, an issue that is a key part of the debt-ceiling stalemate in Washington and that could define the 2012 presidential campaign.
Romney, the early front-runner for the Republican nomination, and the factory’s owner see government as the problem — stunting growth at every turn with stringent environmental and labor regulations, a new health-care law, and trade policies that they say disadvantage U.S. companies.
Yet it’s been the government — and Obama’s policies in particular — that has helped propel Screen Machine’s growth at its sprawling new headquarters here, even during the recession. The company, which builds heavy-duty crushing and screening machines used in construction, mining and recycling, received four stimulus awards totaling $218,607. It is also benefiting from a 10-year deal with local and state governments to not pay taxes on its property, equipment or inventory, according to public records.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-visiting-ohio-factory-says-obamas-policies-are-bad-for-business/2011/07/27/gIQA5pchdI_singlePage.html
Further down, the article quoted Bill Burton of the pro-Obama Priorities USA PAC calling Romney a "compulsive flip-flopper." How could those workers stand Romney standing on a podium and lying to them? It's an insult.
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