What an opportunity-based economy looks like…
If you are Tagg Romney, you start a business. That’s great! Everybody should be able to do that.
You start it in concert with the chief fundraiser from your dad’s last presidential run. Oh! That’s very handy! Somebody who knows how to raise money.
The business you start is a private equity firm. Wow! That’s very courageous, because you have absolutely no experience in that area. So you’re really going out on a limb, right? It will be very, very hard to get off the ground.
But no! Somehow, $244 MILLION dollars falls into your lap so you can play around with it.
Of course that would happen to anybody. Because we are an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY society, right?
Solamere Capital. Look it up. You might want to invest there.
Tagg wants you to know that his father did not invest in this firm. Just like Mitt himself made EVERY CENT of his fortune on his own skin, without his father’s help.
Because in the USA, any kid from the ghetto can make a fortune. Equal opportunity, you know.
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