Deli Owners Bite Back

President Obama offended a lot of entrepreneurs with his infamous you-didn't-build-that statement (or gaffe, depending on how you look at it). Deli owners in particular seem to feel cut down by Obama's anti-small-business sentiment, and they're letting the world know it.

After the Ohio deli she owns was featured in a campaign ad defending Obama's business record, Debra Krause-McDonnell said she wanted her store's name removed from the ad because she did not give permission for it to be shown and she feared she'd lose some of her customers.

I didn't build that sandwich, but I want to eat it.  (photo:groupon.com)

Then, this Wednesday, Ross Murty, the owner of the Village Corner Deli in Davenport, Iowa catered an event for the President’s press corps. While working at the press event, he made a clear statement by wearing a Romney campaign t-shirt with the message, “Government Didn’t Build My Business, I Did.”

"I felt the comments were not only uninformed but uneducated," Murty said to The Blaze about Obama's you-didn't-build-that comments. "Basically coming from someone who has had zero business experience, who has no idea what a business owner does in a typical day. What kind of financial risk they take to start a business. What personal sacrifices they make to stay in business.”

It looks like the next Joe the Plumber may turn out to be a deli owner—or maybe a bakery owner.