You didn't build your own business?

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[John Robinson]

Liberals simply have no idea how offensive his comment is to a small business owner (of which I used to be one). We know what it takes to have a few people on the payroll, to many times have to go without pay so our employees can eat. But at the end of the day, a condescending jackanape like the Abortionist-In-Chief really can't do--or say--anything wrong in a socialist's eyes. That's ... astounding.

And not a little sad.

[Bold Believer]

Katy would you KINDLY quit defending that individual. It really makes me ill to see a Believer defending such a man.

[Bold Believer]

Well WHO ELSE built that business? The founder or president of a business may well borrow capital to get things going, but in the end, he or she is the primary initiator of all that business entails. In that sense, he built it.

And just what did Barack Hussein Obama do for work before he became President? No one has ever touched on that. He just came out of nowhere. And hopefully, that's where he'll go in November, back to wherever he came from.

[Guest LadyC]

business owners build their business.

THEY build it.

the loan officer at the bank doesn't build it, the individual does. the loan officer was doing his job as a bank employee... in a bank that someone else built.

the moms and dads who encouraged the individual didn't build it, the business owner did. mom and dad was doing what moms and dads do. they were doing their job as parents.

the teachers along the way who taught the individual how to read and write and do 'rithmatic didn't build it. they were doing the job they were paid to do.

it's a crying shame how some people can manage to find blinders big enough, earplugs thick enough, and integrity lacking enough to NOT see, hear, and acknowledge the destruction obama wreaks.

it will always amaze me how people are so hell-bent on redistributing other people's "wealth" that they can't even give credit to the person for what they've accomplished by their own hands and God's grace.

[Guest LadyC]

oh wait. it just clicked in my brain. of course! socialists and many democrats CAN'T give credit to someone for what they've accomplished... because then they'd have to acknowledge that they're STEALING from that person in order to give it to someone who isn't willing to work for it!

it's much easier to take what belongs to someone if you convince yourself that it was somehow not earned in the first place. right?

[Guest LadyC]

was that comment directed at me or at bold believer, katy? just curious. because as for what i said, i was talking about 50% of this country's citizens. you can take it personally if you wish, but i darn sure wasn't singling you out.

[other one]

If a person starts a business and runs that business and has no employees and the business is successful then you might say that the person built that business for himself...... I worked 40 years for a large corporation and there were many times in that 40 years that many of us were responsible for it not going bankrupt.

Employees put in another set of thoughts and values that help or hinder any business every day. Just because someone starts a business and makes most of the financial decisions is no excuse for overlooking the people who work for/with him/her to make a business successful As much as I despise Barrack H. Obama, it really isn't wrong in this one little instance.

And if you're offended by that statement, I would think you give yourself way way too much credit for what's happening around you.

[nChrist]

Great video - hits the mark.

[winsomebulldog]

I agree that I think much of the intent behind these words of Obama's has been ignored or missed. However, while I understand the point that "no man is an island" and every successful person got there with some form of help or another, I also am highly offended by two parts of this speech.

1. "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."

2. "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."

Innovation is born of ingunity, guts, intelligence, determination, and often an absolute refusal to allow doubts of others or even of your own to stop you. There are a lot of smart and/or hardworking people in the world. But the vast majority of them will never take the step to create something that didn't exist before. Whether we're talking about a physical technology or product that simply does not exist (think Apple) or a business that someone opens (think the only hardware store in a tiny town), the reality is that the only reason these things happen is because some person took the initiative to get up off their rear and take the first step to making it happen. Yes, they probably got a loan. Yes, they used publically built roads to travel on. Yes, they may have hired someone else to build their product or new business. They may have hired employees to help the company grow. But the fact remains that more often than not, the initial months, years or even decades of their new business venture were only kept going by their personal effort. Meaning, every single business that starts isn't done so with a loan of millions of dollars that allows the creator to build a good-sized factory and hire half a dozen employees to run it. It's started in someone's basement or garage (Apple again) by a guy who has a dream and isn't afraid to work his rear off to make it happen.

Sure, these days companies like Apple kept going by literally thousands of employees. But anyone who has the audacity of say that Steve Jobs doesn't deserve all the credit for creating and building it is delusional. There's a tiny hardware store in my hometown that has been in business since some time in the 1800's. As long as I've lived here (20 years) is has been run by one family. They lived over the store. They didn't have other employees. They kept that place open all by themselves through hard work and determination. Last year they finally sold the business so they could retire and the husband could devote himself to being an artist. He now has a studio literally across the street from the hardware store. Aside from the getting a loan, using public roads, having a teacher, etc. arguements, how can anyone be credited with the success of their business other than them? As has already been mentioned, banks, roads, teachers, ect. are all a part of the American way of life. Anyone can apply for a loan. Anyone can drive on a public road. Anyone can go to school. But not anyone can get that loan. Because it takes a good business plan and a stable financial history to convince a bank to hand over that money. And it takes a bit of sense to determine where to locate your new business to best take advantage of those public roads. And it takes personal drive to make use of the things the teacher has told you..

No one does anything completely on their own. It's true. We all have help in one form or another. Spouses who support us. Parents who love us. Partners who share our vision. And banks, teachers, builders, employees, etc. who help us bring our vision to life. But none of it would happen without us first having the vision, being willing to take the enormous risk of striving to make it real, and working hard to make it happen. I know a lot of hardworking people. But I know very few of those hard workers who have the guts to step out into the unknown and make something out of nothing.

This is why so many small business owners are so offended. It isn't about taking "If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen," out of context. In context just makes it worse.