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'Somebody else made that happen'
American Thinker
Michael Harlin
7/16/2012
Excerpt:
symposium
Michael Harlin comments:
I read President Obama's comment from late last week regarding business owners: "If you got [sic] a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
What I didn't read until this morning was the next sentence: "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." Now darn it, he's right.
The government authorized the creation of telegraph in the 19th century. Lines were strung everywhere, even to California. Later came telephone lines and now the internet. Government, too, in that century authorized the creation of the railway system linking the East and West coasts. Later in the 20th century, the government regulated air lines allowing flights with routes across the country. In the 1950's the Eisenhower administration created the Interstate Highway system allowing more commerce to be had. And let's not forget the US Postal Service. Planes, trains, automobiles and internet, by golly, how could we have ever survived without these marvels without our government? Who could possibly have a business without this help?
Well Mr. President, you miss the point once again. Businesses do use these governmental created systems. But it is our creativity that makes the business work. Yes these systems allow commerce to work better, faster and thus potentially more profitable. Yet if any one of these systems did not exist, we would still do business just as the founding fathers did. They did without, but used their creativity to earn money in the absence of these systems.
I suppose that the argument could be made that the Beatles would never have been in business but for the help of Edison, inventor of the phonograph and Marconi, the inventor of radio, or Ed Sullivan for having a TV program. Neither Bach, Mozart, nor Beethoven had any of those things either. But the music lives on because of their hard work.
No Mr. President, "someone else" didn't make those successes happen, the person creating them did. Something you will never understand.
Michael Harlin is a commoner and attorney at law
C. Edmund Wright comments:
In the ever-growing roster of Barack Obama's ignorant statements about how business works, about how America works, about the reality of our nation today, Obama's pronouncements Saturday in Virginia probably will put the notion that Cambridge cops "acted stupidly" and that the "private sector is doing fine" into the second tier of rhetorical lunacy.
In chiding and insulting the rich, telling them that they "didn't get there on (their) own," the President has moved the economic debate as framed by his campaign and his Presidency to a new kindergarten intellectual low. It really takes talent to shoehorn this much ignorance and hate and misplaced anger into such few words. And yet he did.
And in response to his signature line from the speech: No, Mr. President, the rich generally don't "get there on their own" - but in case you haven't noticed, they rarely "arrive there alone" either.
Take any rich guy you want -- like, say, the late Steve Jobs -- and apply the "didn't get their on (his) own" warning. Steve Jobs, like almost every rich businessman in the nation, did not get there on his own but -- as if any of them ever claim to do so -- he didn't arrive by himself either! And this is what Obama and most liberals tend to miss.
The Apple empire has created hundreds of millionaires working directly for Apple or by working for any number of other companies who have ridden Apple's coattails in the high tech field of applications and the low tech fields of distribution and delivery and marketing. Steve has lots of company in his winner's circle. That's how this works."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...at_happen.html
American Thinker
Michael Harlin
7/16/2012
Excerpt:
symposium
Michael Harlin comments:
I read President Obama's comment from late last week regarding business owners: "If you got [sic] a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
What I didn't read until this morning was the next sentence: "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." Now darn it, he's right.
The government authorized the creation of telegraph in the 19th century. Lines were strung everywhere, even to California. Later came telephone lines and now the internet. Government, too, in that century authorized the creation of the railway system linking the East and West coasts. Later in the 20th century, the government regulated air lines allowing flights with routes across the country. In the 1950's the Eisenhower administration created the Interstate Highway system allowing more commerce to be had. And let's not forget the US Postal Service. Planes, trains, automobiles and internet, by golly, how could we have ever survived without these marvels without our government? Who could possibly have a business without this help?
Well Mr. President, you miss the point once again. Businesses do use these governmental created systems. But it is our creativity that makes the business work. Yes these systems allow commerce to work better, faster and thus potentially more profitable. Yet if any one of these systems did not exist, we would still do business just as the founding fathers did. They did without, but used their creativity to earn money in the absence of these systems.
I suppose that the argument could be made that the Beatles would never have been in business but for the help of Edison, inventor of the phonograph and Marconi, the inventor of radio, or Ed Sullivan for having a TV program. Neither Bach, Mozart, nor Beethoven had any of those things either. But the music lives on because of their hard work.
No Mr. President, "someone else" didn't make those successes happen, the person creating them did. Something you will never understand.
Michael Harlin is a commoner and attorney at law
C. Edmund Wright comments:
In the ever-growing roster of Barack Obama's ignorant statements about how business works, about how America works, about the reality of our nation today, Obama's pronouncements Saturday in Virginia probably will put the notion that Cambridge cops "acted stupidly" and that the "private sector is doing fine" into the second tier of rhetorical lunacy.
In chiding and insulting the rich, telling them that they "didn't get there on (their) own," the President has moved the economic debate as framed by his campaign and his Presidency to a new kindergarten intellectual low. It really takes talent to shoehorn this much ignorance and hate and misplaced anger into such few words. And yet he did.
And in response to his signature line from the speech: No, Mr. President, the rich generally don't "get there on their own" - but in case you haven't noticed, they rarely "arrive there alone" either.
Take any rich guy you want -- like, say, the late Steve Jobs -- and apply the "didn't get their on (his) own" warning. Steve Jobs, like almost every rich businessman in the nation, did not get there on his own but -- as if any of them ever claim to do so -- he didn't arrive by himself either! And this is what Obama and most liberals tend to miss.
The Apple empire has created hundreds of millionaires working directly for Apple or by working for any number of other companies who have ridden Apple's coattails in the high tech field of applications and the low tech fields of distribution and delivery and marketing. Steve has lots of company in his winner's circle. That's how this works."
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View the complete article at:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...at_happen.html
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