"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.