Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people - not governments - create jobs.
Mitt Romney turned businesses around in the private sector. He saved the Winter Olympics.
With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.
Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn't get it.
It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.
Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.
Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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