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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

Obama - 'If you�ve got a business -- you didn�t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

I'll remind the eatery I'm going to tonight of that. Nope, wasn't your risk of your capital. Nope, wasn't your knowledge. Nope, you had nothing to do with it but get lucky.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday night, Obama made the case that those who created businesses should be taxed at higher rates because they are fortunate and were helped to achieve success by the government and other people.

'There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me - because they want to give something back,' he said. '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.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

And he is saying. You need to feel guilty and give back to others that refused to work, or those who were not successful. We will tax you to get it back.

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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

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ORIGINAL: Yachtie

Obama - 'If you�ve got a business -- you didn�t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

I'll remind the eatery I'm going to tonight of that. Nope, wasn't your risk of your capital. Nope, wasn't your knowledge. Nope, you had nothing to do with it but get lucky.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday night, Obama made the case that those who created businesses should be taxed at higher rates because they are fortunate and were helped to achieve success by the government and other people.

'There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me - because they want to give something back,' he said. '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.

Your OP, taken from the Racist Times, doesnt even quote Obama correctly, so I will remedy that for you. Then you may see what Obama was pointing out. "someboday gave you some help"..... Most business`s start with a bank loan, and indeed many use tax breaks. Are you starting to see a picture here, ie help from society, with customers driving to your eatery along roads built by the taxpayer. Some of you Republicans have your head so far up your arse, that you cant see the wood for the trees.

" If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. "
 
 

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Now read it in context, where it says something very different than your rant.

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.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

And he is saying. You need to feel guilty and give back to others that refused to work, or those who were not successful. We will tax you to get it back.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Why? Mitt can just bring up 8.2% unemployment, and that's happening right now.