At a campaign stop on Friday, The Obama Fuhrer gave a speech that is flying around the net. The reason is that in the speech he claimed that you are not responsible for your own success. In Obama’s world your effort and energy count for nothing. Only the government has all the power to create success. Only government can make you rise or fall depending on whether you have a road in front of your house.
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. 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.
Over at The American Enterprise, James Pethokoukis has a couple of posts that provide us with the details on this latest from The Most Arrogant Man in the World. First we get the main story on Obama’s Friday speech. And then we get Paul Ryan’s response.
