Obama's statements were deliberately misrepresented. He meant that government created the environment for businesses to thrive. A basic example is the police that protect businesses from theft. Fact is, business doesn't thrive in anarchy.

Those who watched the words being spoken, listened to the follow up.... we know it was meant as we say it.

Excellent post Kemp

> Justinian I wrote:

> Obama's statements were deliberately misrepresented. He meant that government created the environment for businesses to thrive. A basic example is the police that protect businesses from theft. Fact is, business doesn't thrive in anarchy."

Not quite, and it didn't do that much either.

It's part of a far left commie pinko ideology this Admin shares with others in the Dem Party, like Elizabeth Warren:

"Warren rebuts the GOP-touted notion that raising taxes on the wealthy amounts to "class warfare," contending that "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody."

Warren rejects the concept that it is possible for Americans to become wealthy in isolation.

"You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did."

She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

Explicit in this dream is that the Elizabeth Warrens, not the factory owners, will decide what they can keep and what they owe according to a nonexistant "social contract".

In point of fact, maybe this [person I disagree with] -- and every other wannabe Democrat --should be ordered to spend a Saturday having the AFL-CIO lecture them about how factory owners got EXTREMELY wealthy in America with company roads, company scrip, company police, the state militia in their pocket through corrupt governors, and how they didn't mind uneducated workers AT ALL.

If you told Tyson Foods "You're on your own, it's 1868 for you pal" their board would have an orgasm

"The notion that businesses need to give thanks to government for roads and police is laughable and stupid. The notion that they owe government--which they already pay for--more, in order to pay for cowboy poetry festivals and Sheniqua's 9th kid, is disgusting."

Yup

y'ell be back in chains