You Didn't Build That

Posted by jalibah 12 years, 1 month 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 12 years, 1 month ago

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

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  Posted by overmanwarrior 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Hopefully more people learn also to say....................."no"
  
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Posted by RightinLA 12 years 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 12 years, 1 month 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 12 years, 1 month 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 12 years, 1 month ago
    
    Dittos and if he invented smelting he didn't invent fire!
    
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      Posted by Susanne 12 years, 1 month 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 12 years, 1 month 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 12 years, 1 month ago

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

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Posted by fivedollargold 11 years, 7 months ago

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

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