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Romney Campaign Press Release - Florida Small Business Owners To President Obama: We Built Our Businesses

July 25, 2012

Hispanic small business owners in Florida today released the following statements in reaction to President Obama's recent out-of-touch comments on American free enterprise:

"I take pride in my work to build my business, and that of my employees to grow it," said Alexis Calleja, founding partner of Hudson & Calleja LLC, a boutique law firm in Florida. "I was insulted when I heard President Obama's comment that, 'If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made it happen. It is even more insulting when you think of the fact that, under this president, we have seen 41 consecutive months of an unemployment rate stuck above 8%. Of course, for our Hispanic community it is even worse at 11% and over 30% for young Latinos. Mr. President, I built my business, no one else did. I stand with Mitt Romney because his economic policies of less taxes and less regulation are what my business needs to succeed."

"As a small business owner, I am offended that President Obama would denigrate the many hours of very hard work I put into building my business," said Lou Ramos, of Value Enterprise Solutions in Florida. "Mr. President, with all due respect, I built my business with my own hands, and I don't owe that to anybody else. In my state of Florida, as in the rest of the United States, small businesses are the engine behind job creation. We need a president who understands the impact we have on our national economy; someone who will cut our taxes, and remove the hurdles to our growth. Mitt Romney is that man; and that is why I am proud to support him."

Mitt Romney, Romney Campaign Press Release - Florida Small Business Owners To President Obama: We Built Our Businesses Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/302072

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