I'll apologize in advance for posting a link from Foxnews, but you can ignore commentary and look at the actual quotes attributed to Obama...
Obama to business owners: 'You didn't build that' | Fox News
In a speech to supporters, Obama downplayed the role of the individual in starting successful busineses. Instead, in true socialist fashion, Obama lectured business owners that they didn't do it on their own. Look, no one has any issues with reminding business owners that the capitalist system creates the environment in which they thrive, and that it must continue to be supported. No one disagrees with that.
But why can't Obama acknowledge that,
and at the same time, remind the rest of us that business owners are to be commended for taking the risks they take? Why can't he stop bashing business leaders?
Moreover, Obama took this notion to deranged, Twilight Zone levels. He said this, it's an exact quote from our Bolshevik-in-chief...
"If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen"
Read that again. And a third time for good measure. That statement came from the mouth of the sitting president of the United States.
JohnR, aren't you relieved to hear Obama declare that it wasn't YOU that built this great website? Nope, it wasn't YOU who toiled away with building this. Rather, it was the FCC! Hooray for the government!! John, therefore you OWE it to the rest of us to give even more of your revenue to the feds. Otherwise, you are a selfish, greedy, bastard.
Individuals who start businesses from the ground up are to be honored, not dismissed. (I have never started a business, never so inclined). Those who start businesses from scratch work endless hours, take second mortgages, max out their credit cards, take enormous risks. Does Komrade Obama congratulate such folks? No. He derides them, to remind them that they owe the rest of us, big-time. He casually dismisses successful entrepeneurs who think they got where they are because of hard work. Even though that's irrefutably true, Obama cannot acknowledge it, because it contradicts liberalsim. Obama reminds business leaders that there are lots of smart, hard-working people out there.
In other words, those who start businesses from the ground up, aren't any different than anybody else, and therefore,
they don't deserve anything more than those who don't start businesses. That's obviously what Obama is implying, and it's complete, 100 percent, bullsh*t.
JohnnyD, according to Obama, you never built a business. Someone else did it for you. No doubt some member of a public labor union.
Unfreakinbelievable. And here in CT, Obama will win with 98% of the vote.
How long, O' Lord?
Go ahead Spence, defend that...