Obama is basing his comments on his personal experience. Someone had to forge his bc, someone had to pay for his private school education at Punahou, someone had to admit him into Columbia and Harvard and pay for it along with his living expenses.
Then of course when he went to Chicago someone had to finance his political ambitions. So nothing he accomplished was done without the assistance of others.
Unless there is corruption involved, most companies survive and thrive despite the government, not because of it.
By chance I listened yesterday to Thomas Friedman’s “That Used to be Us.” He propounds this exact “America is great because of government” theme, and of course thinks “cut backs” in education, research, and “government investment” are what has gone wrong. (But there have been no cutbacks whatsoever...). The solution of course is more wasteful, scattergun stimulus (while reigning in spending), more “green jobs” (oops, this has totally failed), more subsidies of failed businesses (even though he recognizes that giant companies like GM are arrogant and uncompetitive), more “education spending” (though he admits that public education in America is a pathetic and wants further federalization), more “public-private partnerships” (ugh) — and especially more taxes as part of a “shared sacrifice” (that only productive people share).
Obama’s teleprompter must have enjoyed the book.
Leftists believe these fairy tales to our great harm, and actually take comfort in their superiority.
This guy needs to be the VP choice...
Paul Ryan rips Obama’s comment that ‘if you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen’
Obama has it backwards.
People don't "give back" because they used the bridge, the bridge is the government "give back" to the people for taking their wealth as taxes.
It's only if you believe that the government owns all the money and that they let you keep some of it for yourself that the idea of "giving back" to the government makes sense.
-PJ