Obama: You're Never Alone

America. This is your President.
I addressed this position here.

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.

Ok. Who are these people and what do they want to give "back?" For every person who agree with him, how many don't?

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. 

Obama has been attempting to change the ownership narrative for a while now and people are beginning to jump on this.

And I'm struck by people who actually say this. I don't see the connection between "doing it on your own" and someone believing they're 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. (Applause.)

And very lazy ones too.

Sure, there are plenty of hardworking people. It's just that some work even harder. They have more on the line. There's a huuugggge difference between a hard worker who risked their own capital and one who doesn't. To me, you know, this is kinda an important distinction to make.

Empty, platitudes start...here. If they didn't get there on their own, who was with them exactly? You? Did you carry the debt?

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.

Yes. It's called family (and maybe friends). There certainly wasn't any government official that helped me. They preferred to throw "batons" in my wheels for the "greater good."

There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

And? So what? A great teacher doesn't necessarily correlate to a person's success.

I appreciated them and they play a key role in our lives but they still don't share in anything. People who invest do.

My wife is a teacher and she sure as hell doesn't think she helped that millionaire become who they are. Most of the time, such people are predisposed and driven enough to accomplish great things regardless of state propagandic self-aggrandizement.

Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.

Yes. They're called the American people.

Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.

Unless you're in the business of...building bridges...of course. But in Obama's Fable, only the government builds.

Moreover, that I didn't build a bridge is because I'm not an engineer or construction worker. Whatever public works were initiated (usually sub-contracted to private companies), were paid for through tax dollars to which I contributed in the first place.

I go buy my fruit at the local market. I get it because of a farmer. I compensate him or her for that. End of story. Obama is stating obvious human economic interactions.

Then there's the whole if I had a choice where would I put my money? In Quebec, I wouldn't invest in the STM. But I have to through taxes. I pay for transit public workers who tell me off for speaking English. So I choose to not use Montreal's public system but I still have to pay the taxes to pay for their salaries.

Somebody else made that happen.

Who is this person he keeps alluding to?!

 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.

Now the President is just being silly. Whoever wrote that line should be fired. Immediately.

The government (the military specifically) created the internet for companies to make money off it.

At this point, Obama is just being obtuse and annoying.

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 don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

Really? He believes that? He believes people would be Keystone Kops? Citation. Please.

It's astonishing. Lemme get this straight. If there's no state action we're aimless and disorganized?

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.

Read: The government is a warm gun.

This narrative of "we're in this together (by force of course) is curious. I've been hearing it on Canadian airwaves for some time now. One lady - a socialist - repeats this often as a panelist on a radio show.

Anyway, the founding of the nation was rooted in the power of the sovereign self with a focus on limited government all under a supreme God.

Obama asserts the GOP believe wealth is created from the top down. Perhaps. But his position is no better. He stakes the claim it all begins with the government and that it's the government who can best regulate and distribute the resulting success.

He's entitled to his opinion. Just don't tell me we're in this together since I know you'll come after me to redistribute things according to your ideological calculation.