"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
-Indira Gandhi (Former Prime Minister Of India)
In the Star Trek TV Series, the Borg was a cyborg collective that assimilated everything in it's path.
They turned everyone into cyborgs with one collective mind. You lost all individuality.
Their main communication was "Resistance is futile".
From the editor of "Off The Grid News".
Dear J.,
Many a news pundit has claimed that Obama's recent "You didn't build that" quote was taken out of context.
Even a campaign spokesperson has come out saying that people are twisting the President's words. Let's take a look at the full quote, in context:
"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 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."
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped 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."
First of all, we know this is completely ludicrous. My parents have started three very successful businesses, and I guarantee you that they thrived IN SPITE OF government meddling, not because of it. But, for the sake of argument, let's take the President at his word for a moment.
If the government is the one helping all the businesses (and therefore the jobs), then why is there a single person on unemployment at the moment? Has the government just decided to ignore the almost 13 million people who are without jobs, as news outlets declare that the unemployment rate continues to tick up?
Is it just me, or does it seem like this could be a scene straight out of The Wizard of Oz? Everyone believes that the wizard is great and powerful, but when you pull back the curtain, he is nothing but a silly little man spinning cogs and pulling levers. And it turns out that the things Dorothy and her companions were seeking were within themselves all along.
Let's take a cue from Dorothy and look beyond the smoke and mirrors to see the truth of the matter. The wizard can't save us--the only way we'll get where we want to be is to realize we've had the ability all along.
In the end.
Government didn't build that
Obama, you didn't build that.
The people who earned the wealth that government used... they built that.
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