“Obama again gave Americans a look at how he thinks about concepts like success and wealth. Calling the wealthy “society’s lottery winners,””
Yeah, they came upon their wealth by pure chance. A mere toss of the dice. They didn’t earn it. They didn’t build it.
I heard him that day and I was very mad as I know two men who are still working at 70 and 71 well over 60 hours a week. One provides over 300 jobs to very skilled types like BSEE’s and the other owns master franchises all over the southeast and has worked since he was 15. Obama put down two of the most decent folks we know.
I don’t think the left believes it’s pure luck, but they believe several factors are involved, including luck.
Leftist love government—that’s a major factor for success in their eyes. For example, they think government creates the infrastructure that allows a business owner to get rich They don’t understand the wealth needed to build that infrastructure came from the owner’s industry (via taxation), and wouldn’t exist if the owner hadn’t “built it” first.
Government can be good for business and help people become wealthy, but not like the left thinks and certainly not like the government we have in America today.