To: skinowski who wrote (361887 ) 4/29/2010 12:44:28 PM From: gamesmistress 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to they focus on - and see mostly - "fairness" of outcomes. hotair.com After saying that Democrats don’t begrudge success that’s “fairly earned,” Obama then ad-libs — and reveals more about himself than he probably wanted: We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy. Now, we’re not doing this to punish these firms or begrudge success that’s fairly earned. We don’t want to stop them from fulfilling their responsibility to help grow our economy. The President doesn’t get to decide when people have “made enough money.” [tho I bet he thinks he does, or should] In fact, as the radio host notes, that’s a statist point of view. Furthermore, the responsibility of an entrepreneur isn’t to “grow our economy,” core or otherwise. It’s to grow his own economy. In a properly regulated capitalist system, the natural tension of self-interests create economic growth through innovation and efficient use of capital and resources. a free people work for themselves, not for the government. Barack Obama seems to have a problem understanding that.
