Obama's Utopian Dream Repeated in Roanoke

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." --Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

By Douglas V. Gibbs

A year ago Elizabeth Warren said, "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, uh, 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."

Last Friday in Roanoke, Virginia, President Barack Obama said, "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 hardworkin' people out there! If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help! There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges! If you've got a business, you -- you didn't build that! Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

Karl Marx wrote, in Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, "Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."

To these people government, the ruling elite, are the reason for everything. The village raises children, and the community is more important than the individual. Without the collective nobody succeeds.

Statists like Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and other hard left nut-cakes, hate the entrepreneurial history of this nation. They believe that success somehow steals from the bottom. Money is finite so if someone makes more, someone at the bottom gets screwed.

If you made it, you didn't do it on your own. . .

Everybody else paved the way. . .

As if these successful people don't pay taxes.

You owe society for your success, is the thinking of the Marxist. That is why Obama is trying to soak the rich. Tax hikes and regulations are designed to get the successful under control, to enable the ruling elite to redistribute the money from the successful back to the masses.

With Obamacare and his tax the rich plans President Obama and the democrats are zeroing in on the private job creators, the wealth creators, the ones that dare to succeed based on their individual drive. You don't have the right to pursue happiness, they seem to be telling us. Your happiness is dependent upon their regulations, and their agenda. That's the liberal plan for you, the economy, and America.

United States companies pay the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. This has resulted in fewer jobs and lower wages for all Americans.

To rebuild America into a socialist nation they must destroy Americanism, the free market, and individualism. They are attacking the private sector, are trying to take down the real job creators by punishing them with punitive taxes and excessive regulations. They are working to convince Americans that success, that profit, is an evil thing, and that the needs of the community outrank the needs of the individual.

In reality, when the individual works for personal success, it ultimately benefits the community with a production of goods or services, a creation of jobs, and the rise of a wealthy consumer willing to buy other products.

Individual success is what made America what it is. The democrats wish to change that at the most fundamental levels. They wish to remake America into a socialist utopia that is doomed to fail, rather than keep it a place where one can enjoy life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To keep what we have, we must fight for it.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Obama: If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. - Washington Times

U.S. Now has the highest corporate tax rate in the world - Heritage Foundation

Grundrisse Quotes by Karl Marx - GoodReads

Elizabeth Warren: There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - CBS