Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
you are a pathological liar. I hasve corrected you in this and other threads and here you are STILL lying.Of course he was. He was suggesting that small business owners don't deserve the credit. They don't work longer hours or work harder than anybody else. They built their businesses because somebody else built an infrastructure or taught a class and/or otherwise helped them do it.. It is not them doing their own thing to prosper and thereby provide taxes so that government can build and maintain an infrastructure. His meaning was 100% clear that they owe their success to society and all us working together and therefore should be grateful and obligated and pay more in taxes.
OBAMA: "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
The whole speech was to drive home the point that being smart and working hard take a lowly back seat to the concept of collective effort, and he was quite clear that the collective effort was through the government. Or at least he made no reference to anything accomplished by the private sector; only that 'help' we got from government. There was no praise for the entreprenour or small business or large business owner. Only contempt for thinking he or she had anything to do with his/her own success. Yes he acknowledged that individual initiative figured into the mix, but there was zero recognition of the necessity of private business owners for a healthy economy or that the business owners contributed to the 'help' anybody has gotten along the way.
That is what is known as "throwing you a bone". Obama is graciously conceding that maybe entrepreneurs did a little more than just sit back, sipping lattes, before going back to telling them that they shouldn't get cocky and above themselves, because they'd be nothing without the benevolent collective in the form of Big Government.