What point was Obama making when he said 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen' ?

"That a successful business is not the result of one man's contribution, but the collective contributions of all employees and the contribution of countless others into the society that enables the business to function. Without infrastructure materials cannot be transported. Without civil protection, your resources can be stolen or destroyed. Without innovation, research, and technological advancement of others you could not perform your functions,possess the knowledge to understand or communicate the desire for your product. It is the rational realization that there is no such thing as a "self made man" because each person gains access to the collective achievements, knowledge and institutions from those before us, and it is all our responsibility to improve our society to better serve those after us and to contribute to that goal."

The problem with THIS analysis is simple and obvious..First of all.. Obama is NOT merely attacking the individual but the business community itself.. It's an attack on the SUCCESS of that business community and the analysis FAILS to mention that NO ONE contributes MORE to the infrastructure,, the civil protections,, innovative research,, technological advancements and the benefits that such a busines provides for the community then the business itself..

It's NOT the 49% of Americans who pay NO INCOME TAXES that provides such things.. It's NOT the person living in a rented home for $25.00 a month under Government subsidies that comes up with a new way to build a better Home..,,It's NOT the person that lives off of food stamps that finds more productive ways to get food to the masses.. It's NOT those who live off welfare that HIRES folks in this country.. No.. THEY are NOT the ones that provides for most of these benefits..

it is the BUSINESS Community that accounts for these things..

Obama's message is as it ALWAYS is,, HATE the person that YOU percieve to be better off then YOU are for it is NOT the Government that caused the problems we face today,, it is the Successful Business man or women that's GUILTY of these things because hey,, THEY get to live like Obama's Family while the poor average American must SUFFER having to PAY for it ..

Obama's message is simple.. the ONLY people allowed to ACT like Millionaires in THIS country these days are the members of Obama's FAMILY and his Administration..

YOU buy into the analysis that I quoted above and you might JUST as well open YOUR home to anyone who cares to move in because the vary SAME argument made against Businesses can be made against ANY American who managed to make ANY kind of success out of their lives..

After all.. WHo the hell are YOU to live in a comfortatble home while SOME people are homeless and living on the streets..

You have an administration that has RUINED our economy and like ANY good little community agitator worth his salt and Obama's message is EXACTLY the same as it has been from the start..

" I didn't DO it,, Nobody SAW me.. You can't PROVE a thing.."..

It's EVERYBODY'S,, and EVERYTING'S,, fault but Obama's..

Well, your first paragraph made sense. The rest is just more "business is the great benefactor of society" garbage.

It's not anti-business to expect social responsibility from the business community, in fact, government's involvement in regulating business is the very reason we live in a 1st world country (or used to before this moronic "free market" crap became popular) and why there ever was an American Middle Class.

Without government as the arbiter, as the referee, as the regulator, greed will win out and all of these wonderful business people will quickly gobble up the world's resources, all of us and then most of themselves - wrecking all societies on their way down. Just exactly what we have been experiencing over the last 35 years of the "free market" era, culminating in the orgy of financial greed that brought down the entire world economy between 1997 and 2008.

You simply, judging from your post, don't have a very broad understanding of how either economies or societies function.

Oh, btw, the economy was ruined (and on the road to ruination) long before Obama was elected. Granted, he did virtually nothing to help ordinary people in this ruined economy (mostly he just continued the Bush administration's policy of funneling taxpayers' money to the Wall Street thieves who ruined the economy) but you can hardly lay the responsibility for the ruined global economic system at his feet.

And if he's such an evil socialist/communist, business-hating scum, why is it that he and his justice department have brought no charges against the Wall Street thieves who ran the biggest Ponzi Scheme in world history, i.e., mortgaged-backed securities, credit-default swaps, and the general trading of debt that Wall Street has made all of its money from for over 30 years - essentially creating a system where betting on failure paid-off better than betting on success. As Blankfein (Goldman-Sachs) has been heard to say on many occasions, "thank god for debt, it's how we make our money."

You need to take off your tiny, little business-blinders and take a bigger look at the world around you.