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Starke County Republicans

 

Leadership You Can Believe In

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Congressman Joe Donnelly just launched his first TV ad of the 2012 campaign, and it’s full of false claims about Richard Mourdock’s stance on Social Security and Medicare.

 

The truth is, Congressman Donnelly is the one who voted to cut $500 billion from Medicare when he voted for Obamacare. Donnelly is also placing Social Security at risk by refusing to reform it in order to save it from bankruptcy.

 

The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Donnelly’s ad also claims that Mourdock supports tax cuts for Wall Street just because he signed a “no-tax-increase” pledge, when it was Donnelly who voted to bailout Wall Street.

 

Joe Donnelly is desperate to distract Hoosiers from his liberal record.

President Barack Obama addressed supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for their success:

 

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)

 

    If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

 

    The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.