SEIU: ‘I helped you build that’

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One of the major unions supporting President Obama apparently decided it would be helpful to remind voters of the most unpopular words of his presidency: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.”

The Service Employees International Union is distributing buttons, at the Democratic National Convention, that say, “I helped you build that.” SEIU explained the choice of the phrase in a statement saying that “without a strong community and a fair economy nobody can build a successful business that lasts.”

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