I heard yet another discussion today about president Obama's claim that if you have been successful in business, you do not get credit for that success. I guess I should use the pertinent part of the actual language:
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've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
It struck me today that Obama is not only having the government take credit for individual success; in reality, what he is saying means that the government also gets the blame for individual failures. A person who works 60 hour weeks for years and develops a business is just someone that the government helped. So, a person who doesn't work at all and who robs people to support a drug habit is just someone that the government failed. A person who risked his or her life savings to begin a business is just someone who the govenment helped. So, a person who dropped out of school and has never had anything but a minimum wage job is just someone that the government failed. All those folks who have achieved enough success to have a comfortable life are just people that the government helped. So, all those who are unemployed or who lost their homes to foreclosure or who lost their retirement savings are just people that the government failed.
In short, under Obama's own standard, we ought to judge the success or failure of his administration by how many people have achieved success compared to how many have suffered failure. And there can be no argument that the amount of failure in America during Obama's term is unprecedented in modern times. Unemployment is at levels not seen since the great depression and it is staying there. This means Obama's government has failed. Income levels for the average American have fallen by about 10% during the Obama presidency; this means Obama's government has failed. Home foreclosures have remained at extremely high levels during the entire Obama presidency; this means Obama's government has failed. Indeed, in the world according to Obama, his presidency can only be described as an unmitigated failure, a disaster, indeed, the worst in a long time.
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