Hey, Obama: We Built That Stuff Too!

Townhall.com ^ | July 19, 2012 | Neal Boortz

[IamConservative]

There have been some well written and passionate responses to “You didn’t build that.” Glad to see the right unite.

That one sentence may give us enough momentum to see images of Fonzi on water skis dancing in our dreams a year from now.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The issue is much worse then what was written. The issue isn't who built the product. The issue Obama was talking about was why we are all forever indebted to the government. Remember this was his ration of .... trying to explain why the rich need to pay more.

Which means Obama was explaining why we are peasants. Obama was actually explaining to us his reasons why we live under a system of feudalism and there is nothing we can do about it.

[Atlantan]

Thanks for posting the video. And God bless the hard working family that built the business.

[griswold3]

True.
Classic Collectivism “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
This IS about why those who have created wealth should be willing to fork over more. You OWE society for allowing you to succeed.
The problem with this argument is that those who operate small businesses already pay license fees, taxes, permits, etc along their way to the top. Now there’s a majority of voters that are convinced they are entitled to your talents and property. We’re screwed as history has proven time and again.
(in the words of Robert A. Heinlein):

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

[doug from upland]

Too funny. I pulled that MIDI today to see if it might be the right parody.

[doug from upland]

His hatred of and disdain for businessmen is unprecedented. Before a businessman pays himself, he pays wages, unemployment, employee benefits, taxes, insurance, rent, inventory, accounting, maintenance, advertising, loan payments, all kinds of government fees, etc. If there is any money left, he finally pays himself. He is the one taking all the risk.

[Cyber Liberty]

That would be a good one....

[Steve Van Doorn]

WOW I never heard it put that way. Very nice

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

24 posted on July 20, 2012 12:45:06 AM EDT by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)

Most excellent, griswold.

Theodore Roosevelt famously asserted that

"It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . . 

[SCalGal]

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