This is why socialists feel entitled to take what is yours. What's worse is, AOC uses racist tactics to do it.

"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 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."

While some of what you babble is true, it's clear that you haven't tried to build a business yourself, or earn a significant amount of money based on your own hard work. If you would try that, then you might feel that you were in a better position to say where your charity money goes.

In the very specific example of my wife, the govt does nothing but try to make it difficult for her business to succeed. Only through her incredible hard work and determination are we (yes we, because I work my ass off at it, too) able to make it succeed.

The logic is simple. If someone else built it, why aren't they running it? If we just leave our business to those who built it... it would stop dead in its tracks.

You need to learn how the real world works.

So, on top of everything else, you can't even recognize the original full text of the "you didn't build that" quote. That means at no point in the last eight years did you even bother to find out what Obama was referring to. You actually don't care, do you? Once you get your talking point from your ultraconservative message boards, you're happy to plaster it everywhere and you just don't care what was actually true.

Hey genius, if you think I'm stupid enough to put the entire quote in a meme... a freakin' meme, then you're not as smart as I think you are... which would be pretty hard to imagine, since I have a very low opinion of your intelligence. I know exactly what president Obama was referring to, and I know exactly what he said.

And I am not an ultraconservative. That's a common mistake the ignorant make when they encounter anyone who supports president Trump. Constant assumptions, which are usually wrong.

I'm just a middle of the road, registered with no party affiliation, hard working individual who has watched the Democrat party and the media implode since before Trump won the presidency.

Sorry for my slow response to your gibbering reply. I have been quite busy the last few days running the business that somebody other than my wife and myself built. Why they just built it and let us run it is a bit of a head-scratcher though. Maybe a genius like you can explain that to me.

See, right there - a middle of the road with no party affiliation isn't STILL deliberately misquoting Obama 8 years later!!!

Please explain how I misquoted him. I watched him say it. I re-watched him say it on the interweb just the other day. I watched the entire, boring, annoying, insulting speech.

Sure, he tried to give some credit to those who came before us, but he definitely back peddled afterwards when he realized he had stepped in it big time. If he had just changed the intent, and said that we stand on the shoulders of generations of great Americans who built this incredible country so that it has incredible opportunity for those willing to WORK for the American dream, then I might believe that the part of what he said before he said I didn't build anything was more than lip service at best.

If you can honestly listen to everything he said in that speech, and come away with any other impression than he was attacking the hard working people who build business (of all sizes, but especially the driver of the US economy; small businesses) in order to pander for votes from those who hate business, and think govt is the answer to all their personal problems, and want nothing more than a govt handout, then you are naive beyond belief.

Because otherwise, when I hear klowns like you and AOC claim that my hard work means nothing, and that what I built was really built by somebody else, or taken from others (and to quote AOC, stolen from brown and black people... unbelievably RACIST!) then I just laugh, and point to the incredible amount of money I pay in taxes every year, which funds the very things and people that idiots like you claim built what I actually built.

"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 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."

Your line: "I have been quite busy the last few days running the business that somebody other than my wife and myself built." But Obama's point was that you didn't build the roads, bridges, school system, Internet services, and everything else in the Commons that your business uses.

You're deliberately and willfully changing the meaning of his words to make a point that he never made.

Hell, according to the OP, his 'wife' built her 'business' (so many married CEOs blessing us on imgflip during their lunch breaks!) with his assistance.

But naturally infrastructure, her knowledge, the market for what they're - I mean, SHE - is selling, the method she's selling it, and all costs, came totally out of her imagination, pocket, and sweat.
For all we know, she might be the one Trump referrred to the other day who invented the wheel.

Why are you chiming in? Your ignorance level is off the charts.

When did I say we built a business that was large enough to have an actual CEO? Our business is considered a small business. (Oh, get ready for the 'small jokes' from the mature Vagabond and anticrisis!)

You klowns keep harping on infrastructure. How did that infrastructure you get built, and how is it maintained? TAXES, which we pay in droves, and which you probably do not.

You can insult the amount of work she put into building and now running the business all you want here on the flip, because IGNORANCE like that is quite common here. The fact is all costs did come out of her (our) pocket, and an incredible amount of hard work. (although she doesn't sweat... she glows!)

Have you built a business? Do you have any concept of putting in 18 hour days and working 7 days a week to make that business succeed? That's rhetorical, because obviously you have not and do not.

YOU didn't build that, you sad little househusband, your WIFE did.
With a little help from gov't, or is the view from your window that obscured from your belching?

Got a problem with that? Log out and start your OWN business. DONE.

You're welcome.

After I posted this, I thought about how off track this exchange has been, at least from my perspective.

The point of my meme wasn't to re-argue president Obama's insulting and inaccurate speech from so long ago. We clearly have philosophical differences that won't change based on what the other says.

Although, I would like to make one final point from my perspective regarding what president Obama was doing, CLEARLY, which was saying that it was govt that made your business possible. It's govt that built the roads. It's govt that provided the infrastructure you guys are so clearly in love with. I could get behind that, if he hadn't been doing it by trying to downplay the incredible amount of hard work put in by those who build businesses. He never built a business, so how in the world would he have any concept, or first hand knowledge, or experience necessary to make such outrageous and clearly inaccurate statements?

But back to the point of the meme. The point was that AOC said something so similar to what president Obama had said, that it reminded me of it, and I wanted to point out that this attitude is why socialists like them, feel they can just take the hard earned money of others. After all, if you don't think a person can build a business without govt being primarily responsible, or earn a substantial amount of money without taking it from others, you'll have absolutely no problem taking it all away from them.

AOC's comments were particularly insulting. She uses RACE to make her points, without any concept of how her comments divide us. The reason Oprah is in the meme, is because AOC's comments mean that she feels Oprah didn't earn her billions of dollars, she took the money from brown, black and yellow peoples' hard work.

That's why the meme asks if AOC's comments only apply to white billionaires, because she certainly didn't qualify those idiotic comments, at least not that I heard. And if people like you and Vagabond feel the need to insult the hard work put in by the owners of minority owned businesses, and the owners themselves, as in the case of my wife and her business, go right ahead. You're only making yourself look ignorant.