Our good friend Dan Joseph of our sister site MRCTV is in Charlotte to cover the Democratic Convention. Yesterday he walked around Carolina Fest, a free festival in the Queen City preceding the start of the convention, the theme of which is "We make it possible."
Dan talked to street vendors who insisted that, yes, they built their business, without help from the government. Of course there seem to be a few Obama fans in the mix who self-consciously spinned for the president, including one business owner who said that the stimulus package "indirectly" benefited him because it all "trickles down." For the most part, however, the vendors were unwilling to credit the government for their hard work. Watch the video below the page break:
