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...
Wasn't ist the railroads that built America?
Without a business you wouldn't have business TAXES to pay for these things.. You wouldn't have people with JOBS ( employees ) who earn a living AND who pay income taxes to PAY for these things.. Without Businesses you wouldn't have REASONS for these things..
The Tea Party,, who are FAR from being the fringe,, are 100% RIGHT
"Oh sure, you might have been the one with the original idea. You might have invested your own money. You might have done all the work yourself. But when you're finally presiding over an actual business...you didn't build it. And you damn sure shouldn't be allowed to keep the profits.
To help illustrate this point for his supporters, the president then related the story of "The Greedy Little Capitalist Hen," in which a chicken plants a grain, waters the grain, tends the grain, harvests the grain, mills the grain, then makes it into bread with no help from the other lazy farm animals.
When they smell the delicious fresh-baked bread, they want to eat it - but the greedy capitalist hen says, "No. None of you did any of the work!"
So the angry animals elect a leader who points out that the greedy capitalist hen didn't create the grain, or the soil, or the water by herself - and then says the lazy animals should not only get the bread, they should use it to make chicken sandwiches. And they all eat happily ever after!
Well, they ate happily ever after until they ran out of chicken sa...
"Oh sure, you might have been the one with the original idea. You might have invested your own money. You might have done all the work yourself. But when you're finally presiding over an actual business...you didn't build it. And you damn sure shouldn't be allowed to keep the profits.
To help illustrate this point for his supporters, the president then related the story of "The Greedy Little Capitalist Hen," in which a chicken plants a grain, waters the grain, tends the grain, harvests the grain, mills the grain, then makes it into bread with no help from the other lazy farm animals.
When they smell the delicious fresh-baked bread, they want to eat it - but the greedy capitalist hen says, "No. None of you did any of the work!"
So the angry animals elect a leader who points out that the greedy capitalist hen didn't create the grain, or the soil, or the water by herself - and then says the lazy animals should not only get the bread, they should use it to make chicken sandwiches. And they all eat happily ever after!
Well, they ate happily ever after until they ran out of chicken sandwiches and starved to death. But the president skipped that part of the story.
Despite the fact that this is clearly a fairy tale, the president's supporters are eating it up just like the lazy farm animals they are. And it's even possible that Barack Obama himself believes that neither bread nor businesses can be created by the hard work of just one person.
Though oddly enough, it's exactly the way he claims to have killed Osama bin Laden."
The moral of the story: Get the chicken to pay for your healthcare
BEFORE you kill her and eat her bread.
If you lived in the USSR, it didn't matter how smart you were or what brilliant business idea you had. The STATE didn't allow you to prosper (legally). Obama was saying that our system encourages building -- and we're ALL part of the system.
Bottom line: "No man is an island."
Even the most successful and ethical people can thank their parents, their teachers, their siblings, their employees, their customers, the government, their contractors, etc. Without them, they would be nothing. The unethical might want to work on their apologies.
President Obama gets it. It doesn't seem like there's a single Republican in this country who does.
Earth to Obama: Corporations and businesses were the reason that the government had enough tax-payer money to build roads, bridges and fund unionized, government workers (all the money comes from profit generated by corporations through commerce). Whereas corporations can exist without unions or the government (LIKE ANY HUMAN INDUSTRY), the government's and union's existences are predicated on the profit generated by businesses.
If that isn't communist theology, I don't know what is.
Yet you dimwits want to re-elect this scum?