Obama - 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'
By Kerry Picket
The Washington Times
July 15, 2012, 03:22AM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/
President Barack Obama addressed supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for their success:
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.
Well, well, well ... let's just take a good, hard look at what Barry Soetoro had to say, shall we?
1. "There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back." - The vast majority of small business owners across this country absolutely do NOT agree with you, Barry, because they already give back to their communities far more than you have ever done or have ever thought about doing or will ever do ... they provide employment and financial security for their fellow community members, they pay huge sums of taxes, and they make self-sacrificing charitable contributions for the betterment of their communities. But, that isn't good enough for the Communist-inclined Barry because he wants the government to control privately owned small businesses - to decide who gets hired and at what wage, to decide what becomes of disposable income generated by the business operations, and to divert profits away from owner-directed charitable contributions to "non-profit" organizations and causes that are more politically correct to the Marxist tastes of Barry Soetoro and his not-so-merry band of Statists.
2. "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. ... If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help." - The clueless narcissist, Barry Soetoro, stupidly believes he has "astutely" stumbled upon the "profound" notion that "No man is an island," eh? ROTFLMAO! Yes, Barry ... we all get help from others along our way ... just like you did in developing your hatred for the United States of America from the Communist, Frank Marshall Davis, the terrorist, Bill Ayers, the black liberationist, Jeremiah Wright, and the convicted criminal, Tony Rezko. However, only a craven Communist, such as yourself, would lamely attempt to parlay that general condition of being in society into an excuse to dismiss individual effort and creativity in favor community control over any one person's success. 
3. "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges." - Ah, Barry, you are quite delusional about this ... small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and they are the ones who have paid the bulk of the costs for the roads and the bridges. Your beloved "somebody" who "invested in roads and bridges" is quite obviously the government, but you clueless twit, where did the government get the funds for such investment, eh? Government took the funds from the taxpayers and the very taxpayers you are miserably trying to castigate are the ones who bore the brunt of the hard-earned wealth that was confiscated by the government.
4. "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." - Ah ha, here is the money quote ... this is Communism 101. There is no room for individual achievement ... except for those who aspire to be members of the Politburo, that is ... everything is achieved by the commune. Therefore, everything belongs to the commune. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." - Karl Marx And, of course, Barry Soetoro and his Politburo will decide who has demonstrated excessive individual ability and who has needs that should be satiated. This is pure anti-Capitalist anti-Americanism.
5. "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - Yes, Barry ... and the things we do together through government are severely restricted by an overarching document that you know very little to nothing about ... it's called The United States Constitution. The government has a few limited tasks for the general good of all Americans, and it should equitably raise funds to cover those costs. Otherwise, it should stay the hell out of the way of its citizens and allow them to lawfully conduct their lives in the way in which they see fit. But, that isn't acceptable to a Communist like you, Barry ... because you and your ilk have an insatiable desire to control everyone else.
Sorry, lil' Barry ... but your words condemn you for the anti-American traitor that you truly are.
B.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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