We Built This?

First, it directly challenges something Obama said

Really? This is a slogan??

This has got to be the most meaningless convention chant ever. It is difficult for me to understand what the heck they are talking about (and I am a political junkie). I kind of get that they see this as an anti-government slogan (which is ironic because the convention is being held in a government funded arena and is filled with SBA recipients) but the "we" in "we built this" could be seen to include the teachers, road builders, police and firefighters. We are in this together is a similar slogan (if we really means "we").

It would be funny if we hear the same slogan chanted at next weeks Democratic convention. It would match the Democratic message as well.

There has to be a better slogan that the thousands of Republican activists could have come up with.

So, who built this? We did. The American citizen.

Consider who actually built most of the infrastructure... (Hint: It wasn't actually the govt.) Who built the communications infrastructure? Who built the gas pipelines? Who actually built the roads? All were built by private businesses. Even most of the stuff that the Govt could actually be credited for building were most likely built by private businesses under govt contract. And finally, where does the govt get the funding for such building projects? Taxes. Who pays taxes? Private businesses and people that bring home enough money to pay taxes. Then there are the other incidental taxes like the gasoline tax and sales tax that fund local govt. They use that money to then pay private companies to do work for them.

So, who built this? We did. The American citizen.

@McGentrix,
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Consider who actually built most of the infrastructure... (Hint: It wasn't actually the govt.) Who built the communications infrastructure? Who built the gas pipelines? Who actually built the roads? All were built by private businesses. Even most of the stuff that the Govt could actually be credited for building were most likely built by private businesses under govt contract. And finally, where does the govt get the funding for such building projects? Taxes. Who pays taxes? Private businesses and people that bring home enough money to pay taxes. Then there are the other incidental taxes like the gasoline tax and sales tax that fund local govt. They use that money to then pay private companies to do work for them.

So, who built this? We did. The American citizen.

This is the exact argument Obama was making. Hilarious.

Cycloptichorn

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me, because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -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 hardworking 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 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.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for president – because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.

You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.

Pubbies didn't invent this thing, it was handed to them. Your guy (Obunga) basically uttered the stupidest statement ever pronounced by an American politician since the day of the Clovis point, the mammoth, and the saber-tooth cat