[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

CBS shilling for Obama on “you didn’t build that.” Ping to Today show list.

[PapaNew]

CBS is faithfully executing its job as a member of the MSM Obama Reelection Committee.

[ryan71]

Businesses DID build the infrastructure so they’re STILL wrong.

Roads were built as result of commerce and paid for with taxes from businesses.

Just because government collect the taxes and contracted the work does not mean government made it all possible.

[a fool in paradise]

Where is there ANY company that does not have a road leading to it?

If roads are the key to success, why aren’t “smarter” businessmen all successful? Why isn’t everyone an achiever if personal contribution and effort are not necessary for success?

[DManA]

It was ambiguous but of course the media wing of the democrat party chooses to pick the side that makes Obama look less stupid.

Never occurs to them that the core of the problem here is that Barry is an inarticulate moron.

[SkyDancer]

Reading the media quotes over the past several years reads like Best Korea media. They chop and edit and filter and present it as truth.

[faucetman]

Look, he talked about you not building infrastructure, true.

He also said THIS, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

He IS saying that you didn't build your small business, yourself. There is no getting around this. This was a MAJOR mistake for Obama. Not a “gaff”, because he actually believes it. A mistake because he is showing his socialist views for all to see.

[DoughtyOne]

DNCpropagandists or

DNCYA

[Lou L]

How does CBS explain away his disparaging remarks toward small businessmen-also said in the same speech—that in effect, “successful business people think they’re smarter and work hard” because, Obama said, “there are a lotta smart people out there...and they work hard too...”

[TribalPrincess2U]

Which came first, the road or the business?

The business —that built the road—that led to more businesses.

[Rytas]

Obama didn’t build Harvard either but he went there.
Apparently then he didn’t earn that degree.
Oops. We knew that already.

[EnquiringMind]

Who is the nasty beeotch subbing for Bob Shieffer? OMG, I think she is the most in-your-face Obama shill I’ve seen yet.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Detroit has lots of roads and bridges.

[P.O.E.]

Even so, who built all those roads and bridges before the federal gov’t started bloating?

That’s right, local citizens.

I guess we can even say the roads were started by the deer and their hunters as they foraged in the woods.

[SoFloFreeper]

Such tactics are a part of the reason CBS is losing market share hand over fist. :)

[SERKIT]

Regardless of how it is parsed or interpretted, this was a dumb and (hopefully) damaging thing to say:

"You didn't build that!" Meaning 'your company'. This is an insult on its face. Many entrepreneurs have built business without the help of goverment, the enabling of government, or as the result of government central planning.

"You didn't build that!" Meaning the roads, infrastructure, etc. Many businesses are forced to pay for infrastructure in order to build a new business site - upgrade water, sewer, curbs, intersection lights, street lights - as well as pay impact fees to schools and park districts. Where does Barry think he gets his money to be able to pick winners and losers? It is OUR money, not HIS money.

We are all supposed to take the attitude that 'your boss is corrupt and greedy and we need to hurt him as much as we can' to the point that he can no longer employ people. We are also led to believe that the Unions (and Union-influenced government officials) would rather have ZERO union jobs than ANY non-union jobs as a winning combination to create jobs.

Love jobs but hate job creators is a stupid premise to run on, but Mr. Soetoro seems to have a vast following.

[zencycler]

So what if his comment was about infrastructure. Either way he was elevating the role that government played in small business success over the entrepreneur's intelligence and hard work (two factors which he explicitly ridiculed).

So even if you concede that point (which I don't), he was still insulting small business owners, basically calling them delusional if they thought that they were essential to their own success.

BTW, while he mocked intelligence and hard work, he never mentioned the attribute of small business owners which is likely even more essential to their success: their willingness to risk and commit one's time an resources into an long-term effort, with no guarantees from others of a future reward - no government handouts, no union contracts, no tenure. They commit these resources based on their faith in their own abilities to build a successful business, not based on anyone else making that happen.

[LS]

We all know this is a lie---but even if it were true that Zero was referring to "infrastructure," GOVERNMENT didn't built that until the early 20th century.

Throughout much of the 1800s, private individuals and companies built roads, canals, and bridges (can you say Andrew Carnegie???)

[windsorknot]

CBS provides free propaganda for King Soetoro. Who needs to worry about campaign finance when you have a free press as your PR lapdog?

[Tanniker Smith]

They also think that Dan Rather wasn’t really proven wrong by the fake memo.