And what is the best strategy in terms of answering or not answering these foolish claims?...Something like: “He SAID it! I’m not convoluting, spinning or lying. He said it and he MEANT it!” Period.
Just like Van Jones. Man opened his mouth, and a doctrinaire, Marxist-Leninist Communist popped out.
He probably meant that businesses don't build infrastructure -- but that isn't entirely true, either. Governments don't just dream up an Erie Canal or a Transcontinental Railroad like Zeus birthing fully-armed Athena from his forehead. Neither did the federal government dream up, on its own, the Tariff of Abominations and the Morill Tariff that precipitated disunion and civil war.
Someone should denegrate Obama and call him the most insulting president ever. He insulted every business person who was willing to take a risk in starting a business without government help. All the employees of those businesses should be insulted too for without that business owner taking a risk, they’d be on the dole.