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let’s put it back in context random thoughts Send a noteboard - 01/09/2012 05:23:01 PM
"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."

You didn't succeed because you are smart or work hard does not diminish what people accomplish? I think we need an honest fact checker to look at that claim. Does the left really look at those statements and think there is no problem with them?

Read the HP Way, it tells the story of how Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started Hewlett Packard and helped to found Silicon Valley. During the height of the depression Dave Packard left a good paying job at GE to start a company building audio oscillators in their garage and baking the coils in their home oven. What Obama missed and what liberals in general tend to miss is that how smart they are or how hard they are willing to work isn’t really the issue it is how bold they are and their willingness to take risk that makes the diffidence. Most of take the safe 9-5 route where someone else is responsible for making sure the company succeeds and we keep food on our table. It is a hard and scary thing to strike out on your ownbut that is what drive our economy. But liberals look at two men like this who built one of the largest companies in world from nothing and they don’t say you succeeded becausenot because you were bold and innovative (not to mention smart and hard working) and able to inspire smart hard working people to help follow you but instead credit needs to be given to the government because they took some of your money and built roads with it. Yes we have to have roads and that is why republicans regularly vote for highway bills and why states like Texas are constantly investing in infrastructure but we understand that the infrastructure will attract the bold and we don’t try and take credit for their success or claim that they only reason they were able to succeed is we built the roads. the best we can do is take credit for creating and envrioment that rewards thier risk and attracts them to take those risk here.

Being capitalist we believe free markets create wealth and opportunity while liberals seem to think success is partially undeserved and being undeserving of the all of the credit for their success the successful really shouldn’t complain if we take more. That is why “You didn’t build that” resonates, the failure to understand that is why liberals go around saying dumb things like “ republicans shouldn’t drive on roads if they are against the government building things”. Instead they call letting the successful keep more of their money theft because in their minds that money really never belonged to them to begin with.
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Does Not a "WE [Not I] BUILT THIS!" Banner Concede Warren and Obama Were Right? - 01/09/2012 02:45:52 PM 812 Views
It amazing how much the left doesn't get tis issue - 01/09/2012 02:55:44 PM 545 Views
It is amazing how well every sentence but your last covers the "We [not I] built this" view - 01/09/2012 03:29:27 PM 561 Views
let’s put it back in context - 01/09/2012 05:23:01 PM 655 Views
Politifact already did. - 01/09/2012 05:53:23 PM 741 Views
+1 - nicely said. The "built it" comment drives the left crazy, since they know..... - 01/09/2012 04:25:52 PM 462 Views
Nope, it drives us crazy because it's an out-of-context fragment quote - 01/09/2012 07:01:24 PM 453 Views
they all know what he said and context doesn't change it *NM* - 01/09/2012 07:11:01 PM 268 Views
...of course it does. - 01/09/2012 08:31:37 PM 499 Views
This is the kind of shit that makes me and my family not want to vote Republican. - 02/09/2012 12:01:01 AM 544 Views
Interesting response.... - 02/09/2012 12:07:01 AM 450 Views
They're both acting normal (for politicians) - 02/09/2012 12:12:31 AM 585 Views
I disagree; they both did something downright bizarre (again, for politicians; see link.) - 02/09/2012 12:20:32 AM 528 Views
Heh. - 02/09/2012 12:25:10 AM 563 Views
Yes the GOP really need to make more effort into trying to win Massachusetts - 02/09/2012 02:17:49 PM 523 Views
I don't like irrational hissyfits. - 02/09/2012 05:27:25 PM 601 Views
If don't like having hissyfits stasy on your med - 02/09/2012 09:26:50 PM 498 Views
Only if you want a Senate majority. - 02/09/2012 07:39:23 PM 685 Views
I don't think so - 02/09/2012 01:47:03 PM 471 Views

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