Obama: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Obama said this at his 07/13/12 Roanoke, Virginia speech and it isn’t sitting well with me as a business owner!
While I totally agree that cooperative efforts are the free market, each one of those cooperative efforts (with customers, suppliers, vendors, colleagues, and lenders) that I need to be successful …also represents individual entrepreneurial initiative as well.
Interdependency and individual initiative are not mutually exclusive because interdependency is the relationship of multiple individuals’ initiative.
Make no mistake Mr. President, with God’s blessing, I HAVE built all of my businesses over the years – I HAVE put it all together. Mr. President, my God given smarts & talents HAVE been essential! My working harder than many others HAS been essential! Without me, there would have been no business and therefore, no jobs created, no employee wages paid, no payroll taxes paid, no service provided to others, no income tax paid, and no expenditures paid to other businesses, all incrementally driving the economy.
I totally recognize and value the need for government (at a certain level), but you are trying to minimize the importance of personal initiative as the key to an organization’s success.
Personal initiative drives our country’s economy. You minimize personal initiative in an effort to convince the people to change our free market America into a socialist one through equal distribution for all. After all, if we’re all the same, shouldn’t we have the same? We’re all created by God equal in value, but we’re not all the same in terms of function (desires, talents, abilities, initiative, etc.).
You clearly don’t understand what’s best for the people. Government certainly doesn’t know best. Government doesn’t earn and create, it spends the tax on what it’s people earn from creating and working. In fact, our government has spent far more than the tax on what the people have earned and will earn from creating and working for a long, long time into future generations.
How does devaluing personal initiative motivate people create and work more to drive the U.S. economy (and pay off the huge national debt)?
Don’t you see Mr. President, more government is not the answer to our country’s problems or mine specifically?
You are eroding at the very core principals of the United States and putting our country in extreme jeopardy. Please stop and go elsewhere if you want to live in and lead a socialistic state.