Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business

I was going to point out the irony of that cartoon, but you beat me to it.

 

Precisely.

 

That's a very good point and something for these lunatics to remember when they start posting nonsense about how socialist the U.S. has become (Not "becoming" --but become!) They are blind to the reality that the United States is the most capitalist large country the world has yet known -- a country that in fact has perfected capitalism in its most pernicious form. Some of these idiots are not even aware that they are anarchists.

 

Horseshit argument, since the bridge and road is purchased by the government by private enterprise and therefore OWNED by the government. So even in that silly example, if you had the biggest racist POS in the world who built a bridge, he could not deny access to anyone since he does not own it. What a joke of an example.

Private business DOES have the right to serve who they choose. People don't like LOTS of things about Freedom of Speech, but they have to respect it being exercised.

Hell, a lot of what you lefties spew as your personal creed makes my skin crawl, but you have a right to say it. You have a right to say anything that makes you look ridiculous. I have a right to ignore it. That is the way it goes.

 

His thinking is junk. The "business" doesn't build anything, either. It's the people employed by it that perform the labors. Similarly, government.

 

There's that comprehension deficit again. That's not what TraDaToR was talking about. Read his post again and then have someone explain it to you. Here you go:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3577884#post3577884

There, now wasn't that a fun "debate?"

 

Obama’s Dangerous Message
by Blaise Ingogia, GGW

We have all heard the Obama “Roanoke Rant” rant by now.

“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen”

After hearing that, my first reaction was “did he really just say that?”. I then I realized that the President went off script (and teleprompter). When he ad libs like this he is prone to giving us clues into his true core ideology. In an effort to save him the left has been hitting the airwaves trying to convince people the “that” he was referring to was government infrastructure. I am not so sure.

This is another in a long line of ill-timed “truths” that give us insight into the mind of Obama. Remember the statement “you need to spread the wealth around” when speaking to Joe the Plumber? Or, what about his remarks that “the private sector is doing just fine”?

Welcome to Obama’s world. It is a world where government can do no wrong and the private sector can do no right. It is a false reality where government can, and should exist, without the free market. It is a place where capitalism is a necessary evil, and not the driving force for prosperity. Maybe someone should remind him that the federal government would not exist if it were not for the states granting it power, and, government infrastructure such as roads and bridges would not exist if not for the tax revenues generated by the private sector.

Many of us can look back at our childhood and remember certain speeches given to us by our elected leaders. Some of these speeches have come to define us as Americans. Some of these speeches have defined the time. Will our children and grandchildren look back and remember this speech from our 44th President? I sure hope not.

In 1996, I decided to leave the high tax, high regulation state of New York and move to business friendly Florida. Since opening my businesses, like many business owners, I have worked tirelessly to make an impact on my community and my finances while creating jobs. It wasn’t until last week that I realized that I never built it, that somebody else made that happen.

This is a dangerous message that Obama is sending to our youth. It is a message that says you are not in control of your own destiny and that you cannot succeed without government. It is a message that says your hard work will not be rewarded. This type of rhetoric should be resoundingly rejected by the American people. There are too many people in this nation that think that the governments job is to take care of them. In order to remain the greatest republic this world has ever known we need more entrepreneurs, not less.

Obama is sending a dangerous, wrong message. In November, we need to send ours.

 

The left is filled with people who could not make it in the private sector.
That is what has to be understood.

 

Last I checked there was no shortage of righties in government, either.

 

in the private sector people exchange their physical and intellectual property - per agreement - for something of value.

Business does build bridges.

In fact, in the infinite wisdom of leftist at the Fed and in CA Obama stimulus money went to hiring foreign companies with foreign workers to build bridges Now- who is building that bridge?