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BRad, you're reaching so far on this one that your arms must be ten feet long.
And I don't unquestionably trust Obama. I don't trust him at all--he's a politician.
I'm mature and rational enough to say that if Rush Limbaugh had made the statement instead of Obama, I still would have understood it. Although I would have had to pull off the road and rest for a while after hearing Rush Limbaugh say something that wasn't bullshit.
As for your 4 arguments:
1. Nowhere in the quote are teachers' unions mentioned. Obama has also spoken of education reform.
2. The difference between the word "spend" and "invest" is minor. People SPEND money on things that return only enjoyment to them, for example. And people INVEST money not on the certainty that they will get a return, but on the hope that they will get a return. "Taxes" has another meaning entirely, and before you assert that all taxes are a punishment, keep in mind that our taxes DO provide funds for building roads and bridges, DO provide funds for small business owners to help with their start-ups, and DO get spent on our national defense. You can't blankly say ALL taxes are bad.
3. If you're in the highway construction business, yes you did build a highway. But you didn't build them all. You didn't build the highways over which your construction supplies were delivered to you in order for you to build the highway.
4. I agree about the government inventing the internet. That was DARPA, and I think it was called ARPANET, but I'm pretty sure I'm wrong on that. The internet at large was built by.... small and large businesses. All of whom worked off and improved what the government had done. All of them worked off and improved what each other had done.
The point is: If you amassed wealth solely by inheriting it from your parents in the form of stocks, bonds, and such, and not in the form of a family business, then in a sense you did indeed succeed on your own--by being born to the family who had that wealth. If you never work a day in your life, you can still claim to be a success, although arguably your "success" was a genetic accident. However.... if you have a small or large successful business, you didn't get there alone. You have workers whose production has helped your bottom line (and their own). You get mail from the Post Office, which you didn't start, and which you aren't delivering. You have telephone service from a company you didn't build. You have watercoolers from a company you didn't build. You have paper from a company you didn't build.
And so on, ad infinitum, or as close to ad infinitum as you can get.
Nobody does it alone. Is the success of your marriage totally all down to you, BRad?
The Corporate Motto of Wolfbitch, Inc: "Sucking at everything since before you were born!"
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