It's a statement to convince the laziest of all that they didn't get a fair shake.
And to the rest of us it is the REAL Obama who wants total government control over every aspect of our lives.
Did Obama Say, ‘If You’ve Got a Business, You Didn’t Build That’? OH REALLY? This is the sort of comment made by someone who has never signed a check in a self owned private company
iamnothere
2012/07/17 11:56:00
Obama shows not just his ignorance of private sector business.. but his disdain for those who work, live, and breath success into business that they personally have built. Tell us OSCUMBO if I run a repair company.. and you suck 50% of my profits out to pay for you to go jet set around the world or play a hundred rounds of golf with 25 guys standing around just watching ... also on my dime.. hum.
Talk about a communist in chief
Jake Tapperr
Jul 16, 2012 3:21pm
Did Obama Say, ‘If You’ve Got a Business, You Didn’t Build That’?
Conservatives have been jumping on comments President Obama made in Roanoke, Va., in which he said “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”
As an example, read what the Heritage Foundation posted at its blog that the comment was a “slap in the face to hard-working Americans conveyed Obama’s belief that it takes a village – a heavily subsidized village – to create that venture you’re profiting from.”
A Romney campaign spokeswoman told Fox the comment was “insulting” to small business owners.
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics and a lighter take on the news at OTUSNews.com
The president’s argument, which is similar to one made by Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, revolves around the idea that business people need the infrastructure provided by the government in order to succeed.
Here’s the full context of what he said:
We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts. We can make some more cuts in programs that don’t work, and make government work more efficiently…We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more …
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”
Talk about a communist in chief
Jake Tapperr
Jul 16, 2012 3:21pm
Did Obama Say, ‘If You’ve Got a Business, You Didn’t Build That’?
Conservatives have been jumping on comments President Obama made in Roanoke, Va., in which he said “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”
As an example, read what the Heritage Foundation posted at its blog that the comment was a “slap in the face to hard-working Americans conveyed Obama’s belief that it takes a village – a heavily subsidized village – to create that venture you’re profiting from.”
A Romney campaign spokeswoman told Fox the comment was “insulting” to small business owners.
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics and a lighter take on the news at OTUSNews.com
The president’s argument, which is similar to one made by Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, revolves around the idea that business people need the infrastructure provided by the government in order to succeed.
Here’s the full context of what he said:
We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts. We can make some more cuts in programs that don’t work, and make government work more efficiently…We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more …
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.”
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JoeBtfsplk 2012/07/17 12:02:21
He reminds me of a renter who thinks the owner didn't work and sweat to provide the rental property and they tear it up as much as they can.
I am curious if any people who previously voted for 'Bama have seen the light and changed.
A guy, who has never started a company, never met a payroll and, never had a real job; of course he thinks everything comes from the government, inasmuch as he has lived off the government tit all his life.
This is class warfare at its finest. Calculated to make his loser supporters feel sooo good about the fact that they are . . . well losers, and at the same time they are somehow responsible for helping successful people become so.
Analyst, Ph.D.
NOBAMA 2012
Anybody with half a brain will not believe this nonsense because it doesn't even begin to make common sense. He is ridiculous and waaaaaaay out of his league. He is good at one thing...Blah blahing with teleprompters. Period.
However these days since you need permission by the government on some level to start a business and the government says what standards pay and just about everything else you'll have to answer to could be there is no more free enterprise....
What cuts, what is Obama talking about?
They're making the false assumption, as Elizabeth Warren made, that the successful entrepreneur contributed nothing before, during and after becoming successful. Nothing could be further from the truth. They paid their taxes all along the way, they contributed all along the way and continue to do so. This is just a resentment/class warfare play, nothing more.
What they did assume correctly, though, is their minions will buy this hook, line and sinker.
As a percentage of the money collected by the government today it is very small percentage.. Worst of all given the funds to repair the infrastructure with the stimulus packages all that really went into this was a lot of signs
I''l ask my dot friends.
And just watch those regulations get more and more stringent.
To Obama supporters... pay attention. When someone creates a business, they did create it and they did create the jobs that come with it. What Obama is trying to do here is focus you on the money that the super rich possess but he's not pointing out that for every successful business venture that creates jobs... there are a thousand business ventures that fail where those who tried to build a business lose everything and some are indebted for the rest of their lives because their business did not succeed... and often, those that are successful now and who are among the super rich, can fail tomorrow and be indebted millions or even billions of dollars.
True, they have so much money that they never worry about paying their bills and they can buy so much that we can only dream about. But also true that if they did not have the initiative, the drive and the good fortune to create a successful business... the common person would today still be living under a serf system and everyone would be slaughtering their own chickens or praying to God their crops do...
To Obama supporters... pay attention. When someone creates a business, they did create it and they did create the jobs that come with it. What Obama is trying to do here is focus you on the money that the super rich possess but he's not pointing out that for every successful business venture that creates jobs... there are a thousand business ventures that fail where those who tried to build a business lose everything and some are indebted for the rest of their lives because their business did not succeed... and often, those that are successful now and who are among the super rich, can fail tomorrow and be indebted millions or even billions of dollars.
True, they have so much money that they never worry about paying their bills and they can buy so much that we can only dream about. But also true that if they did not have the initiative, the drive and the good fortune to create a successful business... the common person would today still be living under a serf system and everyone would be slaughtering their own chickens or praying to God their crops don't fail as you need a successful planting season to put back food for the Winter to survive.
Unless you live on a farm where you can grow your own food... then you depend upon the jobs created for you and while some prosper, most fail to establish a business.
The example by Iamnothere is very astute because Obama's ignorant statement slaps the individual business owner, who employs only themselves, directly in the face... no, let me correct that, Obama has spit in their faces.
You can attack Romney as being a wealthy businessman far removed from the common man... but when you look at Obama, he's even more removed from the reality of the common American and unlike Romney, Obama doesn't have a clue how jobs are created. Obama is like an innocent child who gets a toy at Christmas thinking Santa and the elves made it... then he notices it says Made In China on it and asks, "Does Santa live in China now daddy".. and daddy has to answer, "No child, Santa doesn't live in China, he just outsources jobs to China exploiting cheap labor because the elves wanted too much money... so the elves all starved to death and Santa's a multi billionaire with all the money he saved using Chinese labor". That's Obama logic as if anyone asked him about Santa, he'd just blame Santa for everything that's gone wrong in the world and get his supporters to voice hatred for Santa as part of the 1%ers.
And to the rest of us it is the REAL Obama who wants total government control over every aspect of our lives.
Your exactly right. This was little more than a message to drive class warfare. Of course if you ask Obama how he got to be president he would tell you that he paid for his education, studied hard, and made sacrifices.
Obama is a buffoon, a clod, a narcissist who gives no impression he can think on his feet. We would be much better off if we had a sanitary worker or ANY person who has lived a somewhat natural life for President.
"They are getting screwed and won't know it until they feel the weenie wiggling....and then it's too late"
This describes the Obamabots mentality...unable to think or reason for themselves..just blindly follow based upon what they are told and what meets their "someone owes me something or it's someone else's fault" mentality. When they get what they pushed for they then deny their support of wanting it.