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Julie Reiser owns Made in USA Certified, a small business in Boca Raton, Florida, that specializes in making sure that products claiming to be "Made in America" truly are. Today, she opened up her business to the Romney-Ryan Economics: Middle Class Under the Bus tour. It was a fitting stop: Mitt Romney has a history of sending jobs to places like India and China, and he's currently campaigning on a tax plan could create up to 800,000 jobs overseas.

"A small business can tell how the economy is running," says Jhonny, general manager of Marte Auto Services in Orlando, Florida—one of our stops on the Romney-Ryan Economics bus tour. "We can feel it for good or for bad. And we feel secure with President Obama. We feel that we can take care of our bills."

Rasheeda left a career in banking to find a way to give back to the community where she grew up. She now owns a property development company in Charlotte. Hasan joined our Romney-Ryan Economics bus tour on the UNC Charlotte campus—because she says small business owners can't afford Mitt Romney's plan to raise their taxes.

Mitt Romney's campaign bus rolls into Southern battleground states this weekend, but there's a lot that the residents of Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio won't hear from the Republican candidate on his tour. That's why we're hitting the road on a bus of our own: to spread the word that Romney Economics throws the middle class under the bus.