What point was Obama making when he said 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen' ?
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President Barack Obama addressed supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Saturday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for their success:
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. (Applause.)
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.
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Mrs. maggot 2012/07/16 12:13:21Other Thoughts!
+24Ok Mr. Obama, just exactly who was it that got up before sunrise to cook from scratch several varieties of soup each day. Who was it that hand crafted each and every specialty sandwich and salad? Who washed those dishes ran the cash register and mopped the floors? My little "mom and pop" was very successful and with the exception of my one employee who worked as a waitress from 8am to 2pm and my mom who handled the register through the lunch rush, I seem to have different ideas about small business than you do...
So to answer your question; WTP (the government) "earns the $ to do all of this", by providing the services ,through our elected representivs, that WTP deem desirable.
To take the last few words out of a long and poorly constructed sentence, in order to pretend that something that was not said, was said, is disingenuous at best, and at worst, recognizing that a fully and accurately informed electorate is nessary for the survival of a representative form of gov., an un american attempt to miss inform WTP
O ya, the "only 47% pay taxse" is another B/S talking point intended to foster resentment and distrust among WTP in order to devide and weaken us, -
Uninted We Stand, Devided We Fall, remember ?
According to a popular argument from the "Right" businesses don't pay taxes, they simply pass that expence on to the consumer (WTP) so it's back to you & me, and it is our responsibility to each other to do the work nessary to become fully and accuratly informed.
So Good Luck to you, for my sake as well as yours.
Oh that's right, it's been almost 1200 days without a budget.
In fact, I'd rather stand with the mob, they don't pretend to be what they are not.
We the people pay for the services and provide the services, while the gov't wastes our money on never ending administrators who skim from the top.
Obama wouldn't know much about a budget, he has never been a business man.
He has a blank check for his pals and wants more money from those who already are taxed enough already.
Thanks to his policies, we have 129,000 less millionaires in America since his inauguration.
I agree we should be informed, but like most Obama idolators, there information comes directly from mybarackobama, think progress, mother jones, and other Obama fed propaganda.
Would the postal service be what it is today simply carrying person-to-person mail?
Without successful businesses needing intelligent employees, we could all just be farmers, hunters and gatherers with little or no schooling.
These "support" services you mention owe their success to the successful business owner....NOT the other way around.
OK, I'll rephrase....."SHOULD the govenment build roads that go nowhere?"
I do not disagree with your assment from a historical point of view, it is your either/or conclusion that I can't agree with.
I would instead suggest that the relationship is symbiotic, not either / or.
Your example of the Postal Service is a good one .The entire Mass Marketing industry owes it's existance, in part, to the pre exestance of the USP. Mass marketers were able to take advantage of an existing GOV. system and negoseate a rate that would be beneficial (profitable) to both partys. (junk mail) thanks ?
To your land development example; (I'm in the business) land developers/home builders look for locations that have two important components, Proximity to major transportation corridors, and cheap raw land, or cheap abandoned or active agricultural land.
In my neck of the woods all of the new development strings out east and west out of town along the existing I-10 corridor, "urban sprawl" .
Which brings us to the National Highway System. In 1921 our Gov. asked the millitary for a list of roads they needed for national defence. The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 mostly funded it at a cost to date of $425 Billion in 2006 - $.
We The People built it, every one benefits from it.
What the hell has happened to this country where We the People suddenly feel ENTITLED to claim responsibility for their successes....when THEY are the ones who came up with the ideas, worked nights and weekends, sacrificed, mortgaged their homes in some cases, took all the RISKS.
We all have the opportunity to stop working for others and try to fulfill the dream for ourselves....THEY had the courage and determination to do something about it. Now people who have ventured nothing sit back and listen as their president says "they're not so special...they owe their success to US". As if by merely paying my taxes, I've ENABLED them in some way.
Not a SUCCESS they won't take credit for....not a FAILURE they won't try and blame on someone else. I've never been more disgusted.
What I did hear Obama say is that America contributes to the sucess of American businesses, that's all.
P.S. Would you mind if I told people that you were a personal frind of mine ? I'v always wanted to be able to retort; " Actualy I do know Jack and . . . well you know.
He was talking from the heart, the heart of a Marxist.
From his perspective, someone else has always drug his sorry ass into everything he has every been given in life. So it's very natural for him to think this way because it follows from his experience.
Of course other people help you. I've helped plenty of people in my career. And when they've gone and done great things, I've been very proud of them. But I was realistic about my contribution. Yes, my contribution was part of their success. But, they did it. And they don't owe me a thing.
*** OBAMA OUTSOURCING JOBS
"The clip shows President Barack Hussein Obama addressing a crowd of his supporters with the Alexander Hamilton Bridge in the background. “Help us rebuild this bridge,” the president urges the crowd in his speech to trusting workers. “Help us rebuild America!” he shouts to his supporters. “Help us put American construction workers back to work,” the president tells those now cheering him on.
However, the $400 million project was given to the Chinese government owned construction company and only Chinese workers will be used to rebuild that American bridge."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/brin...
"The Obama Stimulus has turned out to be an exercise in Venture Socialism . Unlike Venture Capitalism, in which investors risk their own capital to help companies launch and grown, Venture Socialism is when the federal government loans other people’s money (the taxpayers’) to companies. If the company pans out, the government gets the money back. If it goes belly up, the taxpayers—who had no say in the transaction—lose.
The federal government should not have made these loans in the first place, to domestic or foreign companies. After the decision was made to loan to companies in the name of helping to sti...
*** OBAMA OUTSOURCING JOBS
"The clip shows President Barack Hussein Obama addressing a crowd of his supporters with the Alexander Hamilton Bridge in the background. “Help us rebuild this bridge,” the president urges the crowd in his speech to trusting workers. “Help us rebuild America!” he shouts to his supporters. “Help us put American construction workers back to work,” the president tells those now cheering him on.
However, the $400 million project was given to the Chinese government owned construction company and only Chinese workers will be used to rebuild that American bridge."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/brin...
"The Obama Stimulus has turned out to be an exercise in Venture Socialism . Unlike Venture Capitalism, in which investors risk their own capital to help companies launch and grown, Venture Socialism is when the federal government loans other people’s money (the taxpayers’) to companies. If the company pans out, the government gets the money back. If it goes belly up, the taxpayers—who had no say in the transaction—lose.
The federal government should not have made these loans in the first place, to domestic or foreign companies. After the decision was made to loan to companies in the name of helping to stimulate the American economy, some of these loans ended up funding projects in foreign nations and employing non-American workers.
Fisker Automotive was the beneficiary of Venture Socialism and a classic example of the outsourcing of jobs to the tune of $529 million in federal loans. The California-based company, partially owned by the Qatar Investment Authority, took the money and outsourced the job of actually making its cars to a plant in Finland."
http://townhall.com/columnist...
GM (plants opened in Mexico), the jobs advisor Jeff Immelt of GE, the no taxes paid company (plants opened in China and India)
Now millions of illegals caught working illegally are just released, free to take on another job.
http://www.americanworker.org/
It's the irony that Obama chose the bridges to use as a campaign stump for NEW American jobs, swaying the crowd with his phony rhetoric as if he cared, and did nothing to stop all 3 huge construction projects (2 he used as backdrops for a speech).
Tell them what they want to hear and then mock them later when he laughs about No shovel ready jobs.
Nothing to say about anything else I wrote huh? I knew you wouldn't, you swallow the lies hook line and sinker.
Obama's superpac is named "American Bridge" and the chinese are working on our bridges today.
Another failure!
Are you people really that stupid to take this out of such context??
Of course you made your business happen. But somewhere along the way you were inspired, or helped to make your dream happen! He's not saying YOU didn't make your business.
I was horrified at that.
He's said worse and done worse, he's a follower of Marxist ideology admittedly. He grew up mentored by a raging Communist Frank Marshal Davis, and proudly joined the New Party whose members are running the Center for Progress today.
I've been a teacher, its' not what you think it is, they're not perfect people, they're human. There is no idyllic atmosphere or common goals, no utopian society, it's actually a huge let down once you're in there working. The thanks is not needed but parental involvement is what most teachers desire.
Look at any city school district, deep in the red, most of the people using the schools don't pay a dime in taxes and it reflects the community, most are outright dangerous. People run from the city unless they can afford private schools, but the rich have business and property there, pay their taxes to fund the public system even though they don't even use them. Go thank a rich person for that.