You Didn't Build That

Posted by jalibah 13 years ago to Politics

"If have a successful business, you didn't build that" - Barrack Obama (2012)
"He [Hank Reardon] didn't invent iron smelting" - James Taggart (1957)
Ayn was a genius!

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Posted by terrycan 13 years ago

Really enjoyed that part. Henry Rearden finally says one simple word...."No."

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years ago
  
  Hopefully more people learn also to say....................."no"
  
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Posted by RightinLA 12 years, 11 months ago

Ayn Rand knew the socialist mind. Barrack Obama reflects socialist thinking.

Sometimes genius is stating the obvious that others don't want to see.

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Posted by jmlesniewski 13 years ago

I don't think these quotes are the same. One is an abstract philosophical generalization. The other is a conflation of reality that creates a straw man.

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  Posted by HazelChaser53 13 years ago
  
  I disagree. While the second quote is more specific, it's basically saying that Rearden isn't responsible for his success because he didn't technically start from scratch--"Somebody else made that happen." It's basically the application of the philosophy to which President Obama refers. If they aren't the same, they are at least closely related.
  
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    Posted by terrycan 13 years ago
    
    Dittos and if he invented smelting he didn't invent fire!
    
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      Posted by Susanne 13 years ago
      
      And even if he did invent a more efficient way to use fire, he didn't invent Iron Ore.
      
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    Posted by jbrown314 13 years ago
    
    I guess that is why there is a race (political) this year...if you stretch things far enough you cannot see the truth! Let's get pithy: Obama built the downfall of the USA!
    
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Posted by DR_BRETT 13 years ago

Thanks for this very applicable quotation
(the second quotation) .

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Posted by fivedollargold 12 years, 6 months ago

Every once in a while Barry and Moochelle's real feelings slip out from beneath the teleprompter.

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