02-20-2016, 04:37 PM
"You didn't build that."
To the multitudes who criticized that sentence spoken by Obama, here's Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's 2010 rejoinder:
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. ... 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 didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, 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 for the next kid who comes along."
Any disagreement?
And actually some people did get rich on their own -- like the Koch Bros and Donald Trump, who inherited wealth.
In contrast, conservative boogieman George Soros, a leftist Hungarian-born Jew who, after being graduated by the London School of Economics was reduced being a traveling salesman in Wales, immigrated to America in 1956 with little but a promised Wall Street job. And megainvestor Warren Buffett, no man-the-barricades lefty and whose early life was decidedly middle-class, has decried paying less in taxes, percentage-wise, than his lowliest employees, and called for greater equity.
My final response to devisiveness is: Please define the cohorts who are being divided.
To the multitudes who criticized that sentence spoken by Obama, here's Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's 2010 rejoinder:
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. ... 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 didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, 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 for the next kid who comes along."
Any disagreement?
And actually some people did get rich on their own -- like the Koch Bros and Donald Trump, who inherited wealth.
In contrast, conservative boogieman George Soros, a leftist Hungarian-born Jew who, after being graduated by the London School of Economics was reduced being a traveling salesman in Wales, immigrated to America in 1956 with little but a promised Wall Street job. And megainvestor Warren Buffett, no man-the-barricades lefty and whose early life was decidedly middle-class, has decried paying less in taxes, percentage-wise, than his lowliest employees, and called for greater equity.
My final response to devisiveness is: Please define the cohorts who are being divided.

