The Republican version of the American Dream is a perverted vision, one where owners are successes and employees are the filth between your toes after a long hike through a swamp in ill-fitting boots. What is Mitt Romney's recipe for success?
We've always encouraged young people take it, take a shot, go for it. Take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents. Start a business.How does Paul Ryan define success?
Do you want the American idea of an opportunity society with a safety net where you can take a risk, start a business, make a difference, succeed and be honored for being successful? Or do we go down the path the president is proposing -- a social welfare state, a cradle-to-the-grave society where we have more takers than makers.How about Reince Priebus?
Well, how would he know? President Obama’s never run a company. He hasn’t even run a garage sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand. So it’s time for a President with real experience in the real economy.Here is what Tom Sternberg, the co-founder of Staples, had to say about Democrats:
They don’t believe in the spirit of the entrepreneur. They don’t understand what it means to risk money to create something new. They don’t understand the hard work it takes to get a business off the ground. The sacrifices you make, the Little League games you miss. They don’t see that this is a country of opportunity, where someone like myself, the son of immigrants, born in Newark, New Jersey … can live the American dream.Then there's Eric Cantor, on Labor Day:
Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.They are full of it.
