remember 'You didn't build that." comment by the evil one? What his stupid comments again on the link.
The left's 'biggest offense and most evil lie' exposed
Obama ignited burning anger
with 4 simple words
t’s been five years since Barack Obama, during a re-election campaign speech, told entrepreneurs they weren’t really responsible for the successful businesses they built.
It was July 13, 2012, while campaigning in Virginia, Obama had this to say:“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.
“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.”
The immediate reaction to Obama’s astonishing remarks effectively made the following points:- He was diminishing the power and virtue of individual initiative.
- He was exaggerating the role of federal government spending in creating wealth.
- He was suggesting that without federal government programs, enlisting cooperative and collective efforts among individuals was virtually impossible.
Reflecting on this speech five years later, though, it hit me right between the eyes that there’s a much bigger point no one made at the time.
First, however, you need to recall the point Obama made was derivative of one made nearly a year earlier by another ultra-“progressive” member of his party, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Here’s what she said Aug. 11, 2011:
“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory – and hire someone to protect against this – because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless – keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
You can clearly see the connection between these two addresses – and the latter’s inspiration of the first.
But there are elements in Warren’s message missing from Obama’s:- Her remarks were predicated as a defense against accusations that the ideology of the left and the Democratic Party was based on “class warfare,” a strategic Marxist term.
- She introduced the term “underlying social contract” into her message, suggesting that government is, or should be, the manager of this vague, undefined moral imperative to determine how much wealth individuals should be permitted to keep or how they should dispose of it.
- And, she fleetingly introduced, perhaps even unwittingly, a religious element into the equation with two words: “God bless.”
It is the religious component of the left’s argument for collectivism that I seek to address today.
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