The Viral Video Of Elizabeth Warren Going After GOP On 'Class Warfare' Charge

Business Insider ^ | 9/21/11 | Zeke Miller

[Nachum]

Massachusetts Senate candidate and Wall Street "Enemy #1" Elizabeth Warren was caught on video last month decrying the GOP's charge that Democrats are engaging in "class warfare."

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,’” Warren said. “No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.

She goes on to describe how the "social contract" helps everyone.

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Watch the video below:

[ml/nj]

Rush has been talking about this today.

I would add two things to what Rush has said.

First, government is only supposed to do the things we agree government is supposed to do. We agree that government is supposed to build roads (even though they all seem to be built by private businesses).

When de Tocqueville made his survey and wrote about it in Democracy in America there were businesses making profits here but there were no government police and no government schools.

ML/NJ

[Will88]

I’m not satisfied with any of the presidential candidates, either. If Palin should join the fray, I think she’d be closer to my views than any current candidates, and she doesn’t have the very heavy baggage of implementing a state health care plan, or of a very weak record on illegal immigration.

I’ve always like Palin well enough, but have never been one of her ardent supporters.

[sappy]

she got rich on her own. i bet her income according to obama is above $200k. that’s rich. unless she is saying someone else took her classes, tests and passed the bar for her.....

[Sick of Lefties]

For what it’s worth.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2781200/posts

BlogPimp Alert: It’s my own writing. She’s provided me with frequent subject matter this year.

Quite a woman. Completely unreflective. Not a self-critical bone in her body.

[Nachum]

I like the writing- and you can pimp that blog all you want. I’d rather we promote our own interests than some big news organization.

[Sick of Lefties]

Thanks for the compliment.

It’s an honor to stand against her and the Statism she represents. We=together=government=cough up your dough.

I only wish I could trust Scott Brown.

[Boardwalk]

He graduated? Did anyone witness that? Really the only written material that ties 0bama to being the editor of the Harvard Law Review are his parking tickets in the Cambridge/Somerville area and the apartment he lived in at the time in Somerville.

[Sick of Lefties]

I had one class with him. He was in the year ahead of me. Carol Platt, who was an editor at HLR and now blogs for Town Square has written that he was a chief who mostly worked at home—a euphemism for leaving the hard work to others, like her.

He was around. He was a big man even then, someone who the faculty was grooming for big things.

I remember him speaking at rally lionizing Derek Bell for his decision to take an extended Sabbatical at Columbia or NYU in order to protest HLS’s failure to hire “a woman of color.” That was one of the big issues back then. (Lani Gunier was hired shortly thereafter.) He introduced Bell to the crowd saying in Jacksonesque cadences: “He made his name by standing up when he was told to sit down, and sitting down when he was told to stand up.” The predominantly black crowd really whooped it up. He had them.

BlogPimp Alert: I blogged about this era (1991) on 8/9/11 after WSJ’s Brett Stephens wrote “Is Obama Smart?”. With apologies: http://nomansays.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-obama-smart.html.