Obama: People Don't Get Rich on Their Own

Fox Nation ^ | 27Jan 2012

[mandaladon]

President Obama tells a college audience that people don't get rich on their own. Obama's point that without government and paying your fair share, ultimately the successful wouldn't be able to get where they are.

"We do not begrudge wealth in this country. I want everybody here to do well. We aspire to financial success, but we also understand that we're not successful just by ourselves," President Obama said at a campaign event in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday morning.

"We're successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We're successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet. We're successful because we have an outstanding military that costs money. We're successful because somebody built roads and bridges. And laid broadband lines and these things didn't just happen on their own. And if we all understand that we've got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who've done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that's not right. That's not who we are," he said.

[kiryandil]

"...We aspire to financial success, but we also understand that we're not successful just by ourselves," President Obama pooped out his mouf today.

Does that mean that The Government is going to issue all of us our own personal Tony Rezkos?

"Obama gonna get me a Tony Rezko!"

**snicker**

[Sertorius]

National security also became the excuse for the national government to get its nose into education-remember sputnik scared everyone into expanding government in the direction of education.

[rigelkentaurus]

I know I did not succeed on my own. I did it in spite of the best efforts of government to hold me back.

There is a long list of individuals who were of help to me, too. But claiming that an intrusive government is responsible for an individual's success is offensive beyond believe.

This country is (or was) great beyond any imagination and beyond any example in the history of the world only because of the experiment in self government, limited government, personal freedom was tried for the first time. Only because of this, did the human race all of a sudden begin to make incredible progress and move beyond subsistence farming. If not for the American experiment, we would each still be trying to gather enough food from basic farming to avoid daily starvation just like humans had done for thousands of years.