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"If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
I would imagine he would be referring to large corporations but since there is no video we will never know. I also refuse to believe it till someone other then FOX News reports it.
Well, it just so happens that there is a video.... Here it is, straight from the horse's ass...
Obama: If You've Got a Business, You Didn't Build That ... - YouTube
They can just run that clip, all on it's own, repeated for 30 seconds and it will sink Obama.
Yes and that's unbelievably stupid that people will actually fall for it you need the context.
Yes and that's unbelievably stupid that people will actually fall for it you need the context.
I hate both of the candidates. Obama is not socialist in any way he is somewhere between centre and centre-right. I'm also a social democrat not a socialist.
HA! I never thought that a campaign stop in my little old city would create a national story.
What Obama said, in its entirety, isn't horribly off base. Neither are those who would tell the exact same story but focus on the individual. The reality is that situations of success can be attributed both to the individual and to the environment they've had around them. The difference of course is the desire to highlight one or the other...to highlight the community or highlight the individual. It'll be interesting to see which thing people buy into larger this year.
I hate both of the candidates. Obama is not socialist in any way he is somewhere between centre and centre-right. I'm also a social democrat not a socialist.
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, 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 there. 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. (Applause.) If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. 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. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires
How do you know Obama isn’t a socialist? Social democrats are socialists….but whatever…obviously you’re confused.
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060694223 said:I noticed in the video that Obama gave credit to the building of roads and infrastructure and then stated, "you didn't build that."
Of course big government paved the way. Right...
For those interested in a reading of it without any additional outside commentary and other such things....Transcript for you from the white house
LINK
The money quote in full
If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
President Barack Obama
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060694208 said:Then maybe you'll want to change your lean, which states you're a socialist.
HA! I never thought that a campaign stop in my little old city would create a national story.
What Obama said, in its entirety, isn't horribly off base. Neither are those who would tell the exact same story but focus on the individual. The reality is that situations of success can be attributed both to the individual and to the environment they've had around them. The difference of course is the desire to highlight one or the other...to highlight the community or highlight the individual. It'll be interesting to see which thing people buy into larger this year.
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