“If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
That was a phrase by former President Barack Obama, and it was a phrase that was so egregiously anti-American that Mitt Romney used it against him in the 2012 election. While Romney ultimately lost that election, that phrase would haunt Obama and the Democrat Party. It still does.
Not that I don’t get the sentiment behind what Obama was saying. His point was that, on a societal level, nobody creates something successful all by themselves. There was the infrastructure of civilization to help that happen, and civilization is a team sport, paid for by taxpayers. In that regard, he’s not necessarily wrong. Without society, there’s no underlying function to help a business grow.
But while Obama was right on a logistical level, he was beyond wrong for minimizing the individual in the grand scheme…
