It’s hard to know
where to begin with this one
From Fox News in reference to a speech President Obama made
on 7/13/12:
President Obama, in a speech to supporters,
suggested business owners owe their success to government investment in
infrastructure and other projects — saying “if you’ve got a business, you
didn’t build that.” Obama’s comment Friday during a campaign stop in Roanoke,
Va., came just days after he urged Congress to extend tax cuts enacted during
the Bush administration only to families earning less than $250,000 annually —
part of his argument that top earners have an obligation to pay more to trim
the deficit.
“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with
me because they want to give something back,” the president said. “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,” he said. “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.”
Whew.
The genesis of this talk track was when Elizabeth Warren,
the native-American wannabe – dubbed by some as FauxCohontas – went off on a
tear a while ago about why everyone owes an enormous debt to big government.
Not the least of which are businesses.
So now even President Obama said essentially the same thing
a couple of days ago.
To my fellow small business owners: Take heed.
All the work you’ve put into your business, all the people
you’ve employed, all the obstacles you’ve labored to overcome, all the hours
you’ve put in, and all those nights you sweated about making the next payroll –
well, so what?
Big deal. Somebody
else deserves credit. Not you. Your government made it all possible.
In short, you owe everything to your government. What you’ve done is insignificant compared to
what your government has done for you.
Anyone who claims otherwise – that
they might have had a larger hand in their success than government – is wrong.
So my fellow small business owners, stop whining about
taxes. Stop whining about regulation. Stop thinking that you had that big of a role
in the success of your business.
You got a lot of help from Uncle Sam (you ingrates). Apparently, the government did all the heavy lifting for you. All the while, you simply sat back and reaped the benefits, but didn't know who to thank.
Well now you know.
If anybody still thinks Obama is on the side of
small business, this is your wake-up call.
Oh, and he's ignoring one eensy-teensy little thing; something Warren and other big government proponents forget, or refuse to concede ...
All those things government did for us?
We paid for all that. With our taxes. We didn't get anything for free.
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