“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.”
Alleged President Comrade Barack Obama
1.) If there are a lot of wealthy successful Americans who agree with comrade Obango and who want to give something back, then who is stopping them? I’m sure the US Treasury would be glad to take any contributions they may desire to make. No, what is really being said here is that Obama wants to force others who don’t want to give something back to give something back.
2.) Why does “give something back” always mean “give something back in terms of more taxes to the Feds?” What has the FEDS ever given us that could not have been gained in a far more efficient, less costly way than the way they gave it? Keep in mind that if we are forced to “give something back” to the FEDS in terms of more taxes what that means it a lessened capability to give something back to our families, our charities, or our Churches. The FEDS already, in fees, taxes, inflation, regulatory costs, already take a incredibly high percentage of our income. Why should anyone want to give anything more back to these scofflaws?
Second, the whole notion of “giving,” is a laugh. I never ever “give” to the FEDS. The Feds take … steal … purloin … appropriate … loot … pilfer, etc. I never ever give to those people and when they start pillaging more, I won’t be giving to them then.
3.) Let me get this straight. Because I didn’t get to my success on my own therefore I should vote for a collectivist Marxist who is doing all he can to fundamentally transform this country so I can no longer be a success with other people’s voluntary help?
4.) It is true that none of us have gotten where we have gotten on our own but the difference between the reality of that help and the agenda of Obango is that the help I received unto my success was voluntary and came with few strings attached whereas Obanago wants to to force people to involuntarily help others and will place massive strings on those who are “helped,” as well as those who are being stolen from in order to force their “help.”
5.) There may be a lot of smart people out there but the fact that this snake oil salesman is successfully selling this elixir suggests that the dumb people outnumber the smart people by a considerably wide margin.
6.) All the people that comrade Obama cites as helps are either on the Government dole or are a government agency. Teachers are government employees. The “someone” who helped to create the American system you can bet, in Obango’s thinking, is the Federal Government. In comrade Obango’s Marxist world it is all for the State and nothing outside the State.
7.) Nobody “invested” in roads and bridges. Investment is what you do when you expect a reasonable return on your money. People paying taxes for roads and bridges have never thought that they would see a return on their money. They didn’t invest. They were stolen from.
8.) “Allowed you to thrive.” Note, given that all of those who helped in comrade Obango’s speech are either Government employees or Government agencies what Obango is telling us is that it is Mother State (FEDS) who have been so very kind as to allow American citizens to thrive. O how good of the Rodina to allow us to thrive and to take such good care of us comrade citizens.
9.) “You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen”
Well, as all the “somebody elses” that Comrade Obango mentioned were agents of the State we know Comrade Obango thinks that whatever the individual has accomplished was in reality accomplished by the collective as represented by the State.
Comrade Obango has given us his vision of a collectivism that holds that the individual has no rights to what he builds because he didn’t really build it. For Comrade Obango the life of the individual and their work belong to the group (to society, to the tribe, the State, the nation) and we are going to learn that Comrade Obango believes that the group may sacrifice the individual at its own whim to its own interests.
10.) The FEDS did not create the Internet so people could make money off of it. It was a Defense project originally having military application. A common Defense is actually one of those items that public monies are allowed for in the Constitution. Secondly, nobody foresaw where the internet has gone. Comrade Obango is an idiot.
Look, Comrade Obango should be nicknamed “Checkerboard,” because he is Black and Red at the same time.
