Taking the Context Out of Context

In yet another revealing comment, President Obama proves he has no idea what really drives the American economy. He recently told an audience on the campaign trail: "If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." 

Yep, a typical liberal two-step: use misleading oversimplification to rationalize unnecessary meddling by a byzantine bureaucracy that operates with all the circuitous inefficiency of a Rube Goldberg machine.

‎"If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen." - Barack Obama, July 13th, 2012

The great irony of Obama's statement here is that this statement is sort of true, but in a way that undermines the very point he was trying to drive home. He was trying to say that successful business people owe their success to the government for making America a great place to do business, even though his policies are very unfriendly to people trying to start or run a business. Unless, of course, you're an uber-wealthy donor to the Obama campaign, then you get preferrential treatment, subsidies and loan guarantees that undermine fair competition for your competitors, and sticking it to the taxpayers and providing you with a nice golden parachute when your ill-conceived business goes belly up.

The usual herd of Obama shills are of course claiming these comments are being "taken out of context." But look at the context of his remarks, and it's no mere platitude about no man beign an island and we're all in this together, kumbaya. The guy wants more central control of the economy as though government is the fount of every blessing.

What progressives don't seem to understand is that "FREE MARKET" means people are free to become successful by providing others the products and services they want at a price they both agree on -- not because everything in the market ought to be free.