Debbie Wasserman Schultz last night, criticized Mitt Romney for suggesting that he built up his own career.
“I thought the most false statement was that when Mitt Romney said that he lives on the streets of America, who knows what the people on the streets of America are going through,” said Wasserman-Schultz on MSNBC last night, ridiculing him for owning a 10,000 square-foot home and being worth close to $200 million.
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“That’s not quite someone who’s in touch with people who live on the real streets of America,” Wasserman-Schultz declared. “Barack Obama, as a community organizer, as someone who’s been in there fighting to make sure that people who do live on the real streets of America have a fair opportunity to be successful in this country, he’s the one who gets it.”
During the debate, Romney said he found it “amusing” how much credit Washington takes for jobs created on Main Street.
“There’s a sense that Washington is pulling the strings in America,” said Romney. “But you know what? The free people of America, pursuing their dreams and taking risk and going to school and working hard — those are the people that make America strong, not Washington.”
Romney also insisted he earned his own money although his father was the the former chief executive of American Motors and governor of Michagan.
“I could have stayed in Detroit, like him, and gotten pulled up in the car company,” said Romney. “I went off on my own. I didn’t inherit money from my parents. What I have, I earned. I worked hard, the American way.”
