We Built It. The Romney campaign and the wider conservative movement believe they have a winner in a slogan designed to refute President Obama's comment about the role of government assistance to business in favor of idealized Ayn Rand-style entrepreneurship.
Yet at the Republican convention the key messengers chosen to express that theme were a group of governors who are among the most enthusiastic practitioners of corporate welfare -- from South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose state is giving $900 million to a non-union Boeing assembly plant, to New Jersey's Chris Christie, whose administration has paid out more than $1.5 billion to corporations.
See We Subsidized It.