Obama: If you've got a business, youdidn't build that, someone else made that happen.

How to put this charitably?

Try this. Liberals believe that we are all serfs of the state. Whatever we have, whatever our earnings, it all belongs to the state, which gave it to us in the first place. Whatever we happen to possess right now is just what the state has allowed us to keep for now.

Here is Obama to explain it to you:



And this is the rest of his speech:

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

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. 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.