GOP's 'We Did Build This' Speaker Didn't Build That

Sher Valenzuela, GOP's 'We Built It' Speaker, Received Millions In Government Loans

Sher Valenzuela, who is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention next week, embodies the American Dream. The 58-year-old, who is running for lieutenant governor in Delaware, started an upholstery business with her husband in their garage more than a decade ago to pay for their son's autism treatments. The business, which makes padding for baseball umpires and vests for the Israeli military, now employs at least 40 workers and pulls in millions in revenue each year.

But there's one problem for Republicans, who hope to align Valenzuela's story with the convention's "We Built It" theme: She didn't actually build her company without the government's help.

Valenzuela's company received roughly $17 million in federal loans and contracts and she's openly encouraged other business owners to rely on taxpayer funding, Media Matters reported Thursday.

"But where do I start?" Valenzuela wrote in a presentation to a group of women entrepreneurs at a Delaware business conference earlier this year. "With your BIGGEST secret weapon!" the presentation read. "You start with the no cost/low-cost resources that you, the taxpayer, have already paid for."

Valenzuala's advice -- to rely on government funds when growing a business -- stands in stark contrast to Republicans' "We Built It" slogan, which seeks to capitalize on a controversial remark made by President Barack Obama on July 13.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/2 ... 28847.html

You can't make this hypocritical stuff up! rofllol rofllol

Can't wait to see what her speech will be about because they aren't going to want her to tell the truth.

Soulshiner wrote: Can't wait to see what her speech will be about because they aren't going to want her to tell the truth.

The truth? rofllol Since they haven't got a clue what that is, I expect her to stand up there and lie, right into the camera, and say she "did it all by herself."

But $17 MILLION sure buys a lot of "I did it myself"... :Whistle

The goverment may have provided the tools, but they didn't build it. Don't you understand what it is to build? Of course not, you are lefties.

Don't you understand that she wouldn't have been able to build it without the $17million of GOVERNMENT MONEY? She DIDN'T DO IT BY HERSELF.

God, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

But she did build it. Would you tell that construction worker he didn't build that house because he was provided tools and materials? Your point has no merit.

I guess some people think loans are agreements to receive money with out building a way to pay them back.
LJ must have helped the Lady with her loan payments.

She wouldn't have been able to build it without the $17million of GOVERNMENT MONEY? She DIDN'T DO IT BY HERSELF. If the Government had not been there with the $17million, she would have had nothing to build it with.

God, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

So the Governments 17 million dollars to loan wasn't a build up from Tax payers building their own lives?
If the Government didn't have money to loan, then the Tax payer would have something to build with.

With the OP's logic she would say her kids didn't build their treehouse because she supplied the lumber.