Brian Maloney of "Middlesex Truck & Coach" supports Romney, took government loans.

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57476287-503544/romneys-obama-attack-gets-sidetracked/

"Company owner Brian Maloney, 69, agreed with Romney's assessment. "I take umbrage at the suggestion that people don't start and build businesses," Maloney said. "I started out with 500 bucks and worked with my hands to afford grad school at night. My wife supported me. Started a little body shop and was able to bring together people, one at a time."

But in an interview with Boston-based reporter Jon Keller of WBZ-TV, Maloney acknowledged that his business received some government help. "The only way I was able to come here, because I had no money, was with an industrial revenue bond," Maloney said in the interview."

http://www.middlesextruckcoach.com/

[DavidDvorkin]

1. According to his Web site, his business is based on repairing trucks and buses

and providing equipment for those vehicles.

Highways? Bridges? Traffic police? Licensing and inspection? I guess none of that has anything to do with the environment that made his business possible.

[chelsea0011]

2. Some help??? How about a $560,000 federal loan to rehab 10 trucks

In its first year at the new location, Maloney’s company accepted a $560,000 federal government contract to overhaul 10 buses. Within a half-decade of the move, Maloney reported, his company had quintupled its annual revenue.


http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/07/19/mitt-romney-campaigns-trucking-company-roxbury/ZQ73CGRX5rueJMhBeIYLLO/story.html

No man is an island!!!!!! He is the friggin' transportation business and relies on the federal transportation system for his welfare. I'm happy he has made a successful go at it. But admit all the help around you that made it happen.