Trevor Monreal said: Come-on now...
We all know they "didn't build that"
Somebody else made all that happen.
Way to grab low-hanging fruit, Trevor. Break a sweat?
Here's what more than 2 seconds of thought looks like..
Obama's comment was a riff from a debate Warren and Brown were having in Massachusetts about the GOP blaming the Dems for trying to start "class warfare"
[quote">Warren: "You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says.
"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 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."
She continued on taxes:
[quote">Warren: "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."
The over-arching comment here is that if the very wealthy fundamentally don't agree that taxes are going to the right thing (i.e. social programs, entitlements, infrastructure) then they are going to get around paying them by using loopholes in the system. They've decided, on their own, that they don't have to pay their fair share if they can find a way not to. That's what Obama was riffing on. From that, it took a minute of editing and a hungry conservative machine to turn it into what Trevor, as a good soldier does, trotted out...again.
Cherry picking quote's is silly bidnizz because it erodes the foundation of your argument.
When dems did it to Romney, it was just as dumb and useless. Whenever The 47% gaffe, and the "I like to fire people" gaffe were used, it sounded desperate and grasping, like the 'you didn't build that' clip. They mean nothing when they're taken out of context except for people who want to be incensed by it. So, basically far leaning libs or cons.