Channeling "Native American" professor Elizabeth Warren to the extreme, President Obama presented a flurry of oh-no-you-didn't comments regarding the building of businesses. In all fairness, yes, the government builds roads, pays teachers, and creates technology (e.g. the Internet), and does other things that provide tools to help business growth....BUT government does those things via taxes they collect from other American citizens and businesses in prior years.
Government doesn't create things from nothing. Without the money it gets from people and businesses, the government can do nothing. (Yes, taxation is necessary.) On the other hand, businesses and individuals do not necessarily require government in order to be productive. Certain things about government can help...while other things about it hinder.
That said, Obama's mission has been to convince us all that the people must and should depend on government. The people should give up as much of their hard earned income as possible to the government and let it take care of us through (or in spite of) it's vast, inefficient bureaucracies.
Obama's own book illustrates his leftist extremist roots. In fact, the "Frank" he describes as a mentor and father-figure was card-carrying communist and Pro-Soviet activist Frank Marshall Davis.
Kennedy's noble "Ask not what your country can do for you..." has become Obama's "Ask what you can do without the government."
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