If the business would not exist without you, then yes, of course you built that. You may have received aid from the government, you may not have. The government did not put in the work, you did.
wage-slaves, *snicker*. I will however give you credit for recognizing Occupy is over, something Bandit still hasn't grasped. And keep in mind this is a gaffe Romney will now try to shove in everyone's faces -- how could Obama move to the left without having his poll numbers fall, and with a Republican House blocking legislative action?
Vosem, you refute yourself in your own post - the owner of a company doesn't put in any work, this is done for him by the wage-slaves.
Merely having large sums of capital is not 'work', you see, it is power to force others toil for you.
Excuse me? That capital stems from an initial moment of inception. And while today's owner might not have created the business, the first owner--the one who thought up the business--played
the pivotal role in starting the company and fuelling its growth. Maybe that one owner goes on to build a business that provides tens of thousands of jobs to people who need them. He does a good for himself, a good for others, and a good for country.
Moreover, the people who are shafted the most by Obama's comment
are those owners who are in the smaller stages of business. They're the business owners who work beyond nine-to-five. Whose personal finances
are the business's finances. Who sacrificed everything they had to follow their dream.
How can you sit there with a straight face and say "the owner of a company doesn't put in any work?" That's insulting, and it's exactly why Republicans are leary of President Obama when he makes comments like this. It's absolutely out of touch with what makes America America.
