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In reply to the discussion: There is not a single business owner in this country who got where they are 100% on their own [View all]GreenMask
(48 posts)Or their own tax dollars, fees, etc.
Obama is disparaging success, by pretending that "If youve got a business. you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen."
The line is the worst one in the speech, and blatantly false. Some services allow business to work better, but it takes a whole ton of individual effort and sacrifice and ingenuity and risk to make a business work. A business doesn't succeed because a road was built close enough. A business doesn't succeed because of government services. It may succeed by making use of them, but the government doesn't come in and open doors every morning and lock them at night.
If Obama had gone to a small businessperson with that speech before reading it, the line would have been dropped.