You didn't build that

[desert dude]

Our president is taking a lot of well deserved scorn for the latest revelation of his opinion of individual merit. His, "you didn't build that" slip up is likely to haunt him all the way through November. This link contains just the opening salvo:

http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.ca/2012/07/you-didnt-build-that-definitive-poster.html

 

[canndo]

Oh never mind that everyone knows EXACTLY what he meant. This is no different than his 57 states. In truth no one in this country got rich on their own. I wonder how on the one hand so many can proclaim how wonderful America is because it is the land of opportunity but they all believe they managed to do everything by themselves with no help from either the founding fathers or our present day culture of prosperity.

 

[Ringsixty]

This is what he truly believes.
Funny, what happens when he goes off script.

 

[desert dude]

Oh never mind that everyone knows EXACTLY what he meant. This is no different than his 57 states. In truth no one in this country got rich on their own. I wonder how on the one hand so many can proclaim how wonderful America is because it is the land of opportunity but they all believe they managed to do everything by themselves with no help from either the founding fathers or our present day culture of prosperity.

I don't claim to read minds, all I know is what he said. You know what he meant, and it wasn't what he said?

 

[canndo]

This is what he truly believes.
Funny, what happens when he goes off script.

He truely believes Hilary's statement that was also crabbed about by rightists always prone to reading things into statements, "it takes a villiage". even when the right claims that it does not they demand that our political folk, and athletes and actors act as "examples", demonstrating that they too believe that it takes a villiage.

 

[canndo]

I don't claim to read minds, all I know is what he said. You know what he meant, and it wasn't what he said?

Listen to the whole speech and you know what he is saying.

 

[desert dude]

Listen to the whole speech and you know what he is saying.

I did, and I do.

 

[londonfog]

Our president is taking a lot of well deserved scorn for the latest revelation of his opinion of individual merit. His, "you didn't build that" slip up is likely to haunt him all the way through November. This link contains just the opening salvo:

http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.ca/2012/07/you-didnt-build-that-definitive-poster.html

did you just listen to the sound bite the right wing world is playing..LOL. I suggest you listen to the all thing, then you would understand what he is saying. Right now you look kinda stupid for falling for a sound bite...just saying

 

[londonfog]

I did, and I do.

if you did you would not have made this dumb ass thread

 

[StevenSD420]

almost as dumb as saying corporations are people too, friend.

 

[jessy koons]

Our president is taking a lot of well deserved scorn for the latest revelation of his opinion of individual merit. His, "you didn't build that" slip up is likely to haunt him all the way through November. This link contains just the opening salvo:

http://thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.ca/2012/07/you-didnt-build-that-definitive-poster.html

You are beating a very bored horse, cappy

 

[londonfog]

almost as dumb as saying corporations are people too, friend.

you know Mittens is all for Corp...fuck the people

 

[desert dude]

The main reason I posted the link was so people could copy the pictures and post them up. I know how much you guys like cartoons and pictures.

 

[ginwilly]

listening to the conversation in it's entirety it's easy to extrapolate that he means all things are possible only through government. Without that road nobody would come to you. It really is an insight to the central planners mind.

While it's obv true people use help along the way they are still the ones taking out a 2nd mortgage to start a business, not the government. They are the ones who picked an appropriate spot for their business, it's not like put up a business and the government builds roads to you. They are the ones who manufacture the products we want, the government doesn't force to buy a product. Oh wait, forget that last one.

Bill Gates didn't create Microsoft without help. Fortunately he recognized this and his people were compensated handsomely. I buy his products so I personally have also benefited from his business or I would have bought a different product. I don't feel I have a right to any of his money, I don't understand others who do.

 

[beenthere]

listening to the conversation in it's entirety it's easy to extrapolate that he means all things are possible only through government. Without that road nobody would come to you. It really is an insight to the central planners mind.

This is exactly what I got out of it, Obama's dream to fundamentally transform America was to make it a centralized government.

 

[newatit2010]

Well I guess being from asia I guess he don't understand that there were a lot of us around paying taxes to have roads built. Unless the bastard done it himself.

 

[ink the world]

Well I guess being from asia I guess he don't understand that there were a lot of us around paying taxes to have roads built. Unless the bastard done it himself.

Well that "Asian" has a better understanding of the English language than you do. Have another PBR, crank up the Hank Williams and leave the discussion to us non inbreeds

 

[Rob Roy]

you know Mittens is all for Corp...fuck the people

Which makes him very much like that Obama guy.

 

[Rob Roy]

Well that "Asian" has a better understanding of the English language than you do. Have another PBR, crank up the Hank Williams and leave the discussion to us non inbreeds

Dam,n I drink PBR drafts from time to time....Now I gotta go fuck my sister too!!?? Damn.

 

[canndo]

listening to the conversation in it's entirety it's easy to extrapolate that he means all things are possible only through government. Without that road nobody would come to you. It really is an insight to the central planners mind.

While it's obv true people use help along the way they are still the ones taking out a 2nd mortgage to start a business, not the government. They are the ones who picked an appropriate spot for their business, it's not like put up a business and the government builds roads to you. They are the ones who manufacture the products we want, the government doesn't force to buy a product. Oh wait, forget that last one.

Bill Gates didn't create Microsoft without help. Fortunately he recognized this and his people were compensated handsomely. I buy his products so I personally have also benefited from his business or I would have bought a different product. I don't feel I have a right to any of his money, I don't understand others who do.

Gates got rich because he begain his business in an environment where people can get rich. That takes a lot of people doing a lot of work for a very long time, lawyers who fight for laws that enable certain practices, many of them doing so for far less than they could make doing something else. Senators and congressmen, activists, other businessmen, and yes government, that institution that does no one any good but guarantees the money Gates made is good, that the contracts he signed were vaid and enforceable, that the products he purchased were up to standard and safe, that the environment in which he built what he did was predictable and secure, that unions elevated incomes to the point where consumers could afford his products and were given enough time off to play his games.

But the right actually believes that each man starts everything he does as an island. Even when one pulls oneself up by his bootstraps, someone else likely made the boots.