The news has been filled quite a bit with our President's famous quote, "You didn't build that" while campaigning in Virginia. In a complete reverse of President Reagan's famous lines stating the worst thing a business can hear is, "I'm the government, and I'm here to help," Obama is trying to give government the credit for all successful businesses. You see, without roads businesses couldn't take their goods to market. Without teachers you would never have learned the skills needed to achieve. He of course ignores folks like say Lincoln, Einstein, Gates, etc that were more self taught then schooled, and don't even think about considering parochial schools...
Mr. Obama is simply trying to establish credibility for expanding the welfare state. Rather than encourage entrepreneurs to take risks and start new ventures, he is attacking them as ungrateful. With a broad stroke he is saying that those who establish successful businesses are just dumb luck. Dumb luck? Is that really your belief Mr. President? What type of message are you sending our children? Don't work hard, don't achiever more, don't strive to make a change. Because in the end nothing you do matters. Everything you accomplish is only realized because someone handed it to you.
While Mr. Obama says we are all taking his message out of context, I think we should all be looking at it for exactly what it is. A new way of thinking, that flies in the face of everything our nation stands for.
Of course, he wouldn't be President if it weren't for his friend David Axelrod, so maybe he has a point :)
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