07-17-2012, 01:22 PM
The point being, it's pretty lame and ridiculous to excise 10 seconds of a speech about America's greatness and use it to pound our President.
Your success is the combination of a lot of effort by a lot of people--your parents, your teachers, the guys who maintain the roads, the people who run the water works, the people who maintain the power plant and grid. It doesn't matter if you pay your rates for these services. You could not possibly have built all these things yourself. It took a lot of effort and considerable expense by a lot of people--and the evil government.
Obama is absolutely right. We are all in this together, and when this country was much stronger than it is now, it was the result of a more equitable distribution of income and resources. When this country is brought to its knees, as it is now, it is mainly because of a greedy upper class.
Your success is the combination of a lot of effort by a lot of people--your parents, your teachers, the guys who maintain the roads, the people who run the water works, the people who maintain the power plant and grid. It doesn't matter if you pay your rates for these services. You could not possibly have built all these things yourself. It took a lot of effort and considerable expense by a lot of people--and the evil government.
Obama is absolutely right. We are all in this together, and when this country was much stronger than it is now, it was the result of a more equitable distribution of income and resources. When this country is brought to its knees, as it is now, it is mainly because of a greedy upper class.