THIS IS HOW MY PRESIDENT THINKS! AMAZING!
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The words of President Obama:
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. [Emphasis added]
He continued:
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. [Emphasis added]
SOURCE: http://www.theblaze.com
Now there’s a guy who obviously has never owned a business in his life.
I love how he refers to American companies as “our” companies. They’re not YOUR companies—they belong to the owners and stockholders. They were successful IN SPITE of government taxation and regulation. Someone used their brains, took a risk and worked their butt off and now Obama comes along and wants to call their company “ours.” It’s sickening.
You said it best. It is pure socialism/Marxism.
Gary, I love your show, but conservatives are just as guilty as cherry picking quotations and taking them out of context, and this is another example. When President Obama says “you didn’t build that,” he’s not talking about your business, he’s talking about roads and bridges that you benefit from.
I’m not defending the president, nor his argument defending his desire to raise taxes on the wealthy, nor his dismissal of how hard working and smart successful businesspeople are. But I wish conservative pundits would refrain from intellectually dishonest finger pointing. It drags down a national dialogue that is already too far in the gutter.