And all of those people did that without using any of the infrastructure or public education for their employees.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:26 PM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > I disagree. > > A great many of the wealthy in this country come from family wealth built > before all of these things were prevalent. A great many wealthy got that > way through ideas they had themselves, and would have had without any of > those things. People have found and worked mines and all sorts of things. > > Also, we didn't pay for a lot of those things until 1917, before that the > government was small enough to be self sufficient. The social contract > didn't require that we extort our population. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The original source of "you didn't build that". What, if any, of this do > > you disagree with? > > > > "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. *Nobody*. You > > built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You > moved > > your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired > > workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory > > because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.... > > You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great > idea? > > God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social > > contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward to the next kid who > > comes along." Elizabeth Warren > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > You didn't build that > > > > ************ > > > > It was a very true statement. None of the businesses were built on a > > > > deserted island. > > > > ************** > > > Yeah, Obama personally went to each and every business and helped them > > > build it. No, not really. Small businesses were started by hard working > > > people. Sure some had to borrow the money, but so what? The people who > > > built the business built it with their ideas, their business plan and > so > > on. > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:356532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
