Obama Furiously Defending His Gaffe “You Did Not Build That”

Obama Furiously Defending His Gaffe “You Did Not Build That”

So let’s take a look at the trancript line by line and you can decide what he meant. I will add my thoughts throughout. The video clip will be at the end.

          “Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own.”
Really? I know may business owners who not only did it on their own, but needed government to get the hell out of the way.

          “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.”
These are the comments that prelude the big “you didn’t build that” gaffe. And these are the ones that are the most offensive. He say’s he is struck by the arrogance of business men who thought that they were smarter or more hardworking than anyone else, well in most cases, they may not have been smarter but they definitely worked harder than the average 9 to 5 worker bee. His smug thumb to the nose of these business men in this comment alone is telling of what he thinks about capitalism in America. Without a doubt it shows a disdain for business and a prelude to his big government thoughts in the next paragraph.

          “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”
I worked for a company whose owner quit school in junior high, worked for a few years, bought a backhoe, and started his own business. He now employs over 50 people. The only thing that almost made him close his doors was the housing crisis in 2008. And guess who created that mess? It was not private business, it was government intervention forcing banks to quit redlining and give anybody a home loan. This was a directive of the Clinton administration. If that is the help he is speaking of, please don’t help anymore. 

          “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.”
Bingo! There it is. “the American system that WE have allowed”, that small two letter word “WE” is the most telling of all. In a nutshell, “we” the government “allowed” you to be successful. That’s it. That’s his thinking, “we” the government is all knowing and and can do whatever, whenever it decides, and apprently, they have decided to “allow” you to own a business.

          “Somebody invested in roads and bridges.”
Your damned straight somebody invested in the roads and bridges. The American taxpayer and business around the country paid for ALL of it. What was Obama thinking? The money does not grow on the magic tree out back of the Fed. It has to come from US! How can he say this and think it would not come back to bite him in the arse. Is he really that naive? If so, that is a chilling reality that he is in charge.

          “If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Who is the somebody else? We, the American taxpayer, made that happen. With every gallon of gas that you purchase, you are “building that!” The arrogance is staggering.

          “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.”
Once again, who paid the employees to do the research and come up with an early sampling of networks, that eventually became the internet? The American Taxpayer you smug son of a bitch! Government is only functioning if taxes are imposed on it’s people to pay the salaries of it’s goverment employees. Senators, Congressman, interns, staff, Mr. Obama and his DOJ, EPA, DOE, USDA, ATF, FBI, CIA, bla bla bla is all owned and paid for by Americans…..PERIOD!

Now watch the video clip and look at his actions and the way that he makes these comments. The man is out of touch with reality. And if he get’s re-elected God help us all.
http://youtu.be/YKjPI6no5ng

6 thoughts on “Obama Furiously Defending His Gaffe “You Did Not Build That”

  1. If you tell a lie long enough, people do believe.
    I just got off of a Tea Party blog and was shocked.
    One of our friends got kicked off. I thought, “How strange! She always backs up everything with proof.
    The administrator of the blog stated she spoke “hate speech.” Hate speech by telling the truth with proof?

    I read 17 pages of her comments as well as his. She was getting many, many “thumbs up!” He wasn’t. Therefore, calling her out and banning her due to Hate Speech? Guess Obama has put it in the water now.

  2. That whole sequence reveals so much of his ignorance and lack of understanding regarding how the economy and the free market works that I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll limit myself to two points.

    First, as you point out, everything the government does is paid for by money taken from productive individuals and businesses. That teacher and those roads and bridges he talks about were paid for by those of us who work for a living – not by the 50% of people in this country that don’t pay income taxes.

    Second, that teacher and those roads and bridges are available to everyone. So why isn’t everyone successful? Because, like it or not, some people are smarter or work harder than others.

    I could go on and on, but I think I’m preaching to the choir here.

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  3. Tim – Yep singing to the choir. He can justify the one sentence about being out of context…if taken the way he says. But it is the entire speach that shows he has no idea of where the money comes from. It is so simplistic to me but escapes his grasp. Shocking.

  4. Well, Obama believes our money belongs to the government, and the government allows us to keep what we “need”, so I’m not surprised by this.

    I’m just surprised the TOTUS was on break.

  5. I’ll tell you and everyone else What HE DID BUILD and/or support:

    Fast and Furious….deaths of American Citizens and helping to build the statistics of crimes perpetrated upon innocent people including our border agents.

    He aided to BUILD and funded the army of vicious attacks on OUR Ambassador and OUR Military in Libya.

    He has personally BUILT an astounding debt in our country to deliberately destroy us.

    He has BUILT chaos through class warfare, loss of the economy, loss of jobs, hunger and loss of homes and hope.

    There is more, but you all can fill in the blanks I left.

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