Quantum Windbag
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- May 9, 2010
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I've seen a lot of people talk about what was said, but I thought it might be a good idea to actually put up what he said:
Weve already made a trillion dollars worth of cuts. We can make some more cuts in programs that dont work, and make government work more efficiently We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didnt -look, if youve been successful, you didnt get there on your own. You didnt get there on your own. Im 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 youve got a business. you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didnt 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 dont do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. Thats how we funded the GI Bill. Thats how we created the middle class. Thats how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. Thats how we invented the Internet. Thats how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and thats the reason Im running for president because I still believe in that idea. Youre not on your own, were in this together.
You post this, including the part where he is arguing about taxes, and want me to believe he wasn't trying to argue the same stupid thing you have tried to argue. Obama obviously realizes he can't argue he did not mean that business needs government, which is quite clearly what he meant from the context of the speech, so he has switched to saying he didn't actually say it at all.
You are going to loose even if you put this in context, because the context makes it worse.