Posted on 07/19/2012 1:43:00 PM PDT by IbJensen
This week, President Obama spelled out just how much he hates American business in an off-prompter moment in Roanoke, Va. If "you've been successful," said Obama, "you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out here. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there."
So, according to Obama, it wasn't your brains or your work ethic that made you successful. What was it? Obama continued: "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
In other words, the government did it.
Now, if Obama were merely saying that without roads and bridges it would be more difficult for businesses to function, he'd be right. If he were saying that we all need great teachers, he'd be right. If he were saying that businesses require a law and order society to thrive, he'd be right, too.
But he wasn't saying any of that. Because if he were saying that, we'd all presumably earn about the same amount of money. We'd have the same amount of success. After all, we already pay trillions to guarantee decent teachers for our students, good police and firefighting forces, and decent roads.
And yet we don't. Some of us are more successful than others. So if that inequality still exists, despite government providing for basic communal needs — and if inequality can't be explained by personal decision making — then something else is needed.
More government.
This is the philosophy that underlies Obama-ism. We shouldn't be proud of our success, says Obama; it's not our success at all. We didn't build it. All success is reliant on the helping hand of government. If you have liberties that allowed you to create a company, that's the largesse of the government, not some innate human right. If you have freedoms that allowed you to make the most of your abilities, that's thanks to the government, not thanks to your own choices.
And if there's inequality, that, too, is thanks to the government. The government is a cruel master — it taketh, and it giveth away. According to Obama, it's the government's job to balance individual success and collective needs. If there's inequality, that's a clear indicator that government just isn't doing enough.
The truth is that all the government-provided roads in the world don't create the conditions necessary for individual success. As Dennis Prager has pointed out, the USSR had roads. So does Cuba. In Mussolini's Italy, the trains supposedly ran on time (Actually, they didn't, but Obama thinks they did). Somehow, these states were not economic powerhouses, and individual entrepreneurship didn't flourish.
The reason that you are successful is that we instituted a government on the basis that all men are created equal in their rights — and that a government that violates those rights forfeits its reason to exist. It is not the government's job to create equality. It is the government's job to build roads and get out of our way so we can drive into a better future. Obama doesn't understand that, which is why we're currently motoring in reverse, off a fiscal and philosophical cliff.
Obama is like the Frankenstein monster. He was assembled by America haters of various parts harvested from a cemetery. After all a dead man's social security number is his identification.
His brain is unique. Somehow someone crept into Lenin's tomb and swiped the commie's brain.
Every word is true. Obama himself has referred to his "Muslim faith." That wasn't a mere slip of his tongue, it was a confession. That's why his administration installed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere.
Stevie is so blind he willingly shills for America’s Enemy Number One.
The communist-muslim, phony president is a citizen of the world without question. He shares several things with the disgraced ex-president Billy Goat Clinton. They both never knew their fathers and both were hand-picked for the oval orifice.
My father started his business with a loan and an office in a converted chicken house. We kids often slept in his car, parked just inches from the “office” door, while he and my mother worked way into the night. They paid back the loan and made a good living in the business they built.
When it was our turn, my spouse and I also started from scratch, with only the money we had earned and saved. We calculated that we had enough to survive for a year, and, if the business didn’t make it in that time, we’d give up and go back to work for somebody else. That was a long year, but we were on our way. We’re still eating three square meals a day, and, in a small way, living the American dream.
Mr. Obama is a Communist. My political contribution will stay in my pocket until Mr. Romney has the guts to call him what he is.
Business is only part of it.
0bama hates America. Period. And so do the democrats.
It's all a mystery to him. Whenever he opens his maw, he sounds like some barely literate and mentally challenged child who only understands the world from magazine pictures in the dentist's office. “O” is a perfect joke of a ‘leader’.
What Obama is doing is unAmerican and it should be shouted from the roof tops as such.
“Our Business-Hating President”
Our Business-Hating PSEUDO-President
I fixed the title for you.
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