Sen. Warren: ‘You Didn’t Build’ That by
Yourself, ‘All of Us Helped’
Cybercast News,
by
Craig Bannister
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
8/21/2019 6:01:09 AM
Echoing the “You didn’t build that” claim made famous by former President Barack Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a pitch for a new tax while addressing the Black Church PAC's Youth Leadership Conference in Atlanta on Saturday.
But, Obama’s controversial 2012 comment actually appears to have been a paraphrase of remarks Warren made a year earlier when she was running her successful campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown.
On Saturday, promoting her proposal for a new “wealth tax,” Democrat presidential hopeful Warren told her audience that, if any of them have built a fortune, they didn’t do it on their own, because “all of us helped” them:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 8/21/2019 6:04:06 AM (No. 157749)
'cause I'm the taxman, yeah, the taxman....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Petronius 8/21/2019 6:28:45 AM (No. 157779)
I have built a lot of things in my lifetime, but I don't recall paleface squaw ever lifting a finger to help.
And by the way Elizabeth, I do not consider raising my taxes as "Helping".
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 8/21/2019 6:28:51 AM (No. 157780)
I think that the "you didnt build that" meme started with Warren.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 8/21/2019 6:40:40 AM (No. 157799)
I just mowed my yard. Wait. No I didnt. Husqvarna made the mower, and I paid them for it. Chevron made the gas, and I paid them for it. Someone built my hose, and I paid them for it. Yuengling made the beer, and I paid them for it. Everyone who was even marginally involved got paid for it except me. So yes, I did that.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/21/2019 6:48:06 AM (No. 157803)
Squaw heap loco. Smokum much peyote.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/21/2019 6:52:07 AM (No. 157810)
The wealthy did it despite government's help.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ming 8/21/2019 7:03:13 AM (No. 157821)
A-holes like Warren, and Obungler before her, talk contemptuously about greedy capitalism, greedy businesses, and the greedy rich, but there is nothing greedier and more filled with avarice than a leftist bureaucrat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/21/2019 7:04:49 AM (No. 157822)
Isn't the Warren net worth estimated to be about 12 million at this point, built on the back of a generous Harvard salary as their diversity hire and defending cigarette companies etc. Also being a iffy landlord in very iffy buildings?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 8/21/2019 7:24:23 AM (No. 157839)
We are pushing aside socialism and galloping toward communism.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 8/21/2019 7:34:16 AM (No. 157849)
The Democrats are doubling down on stupid economics.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mobyclik 8/21/2019 7:44:09 AM (No. 157857)
FTA: "You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.''
Under you, those ''marauding bands'' would be your communist government, Chief-ette.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/21/2019 8:23:40 AM (No. 157894)
Those of us who worked twelve hour days know we darn sure did "build that."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/21/2019 8:27:11 AM (No. 157903)
Re #12: Upon reflection I'll make that sixteen hour days.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/21/2019 8:46:39 AM (No. 157925)
It may be fun to call her names but she is a plenty scary person. A large percentage of Trump voters last time around were really anti-Hillary voters. This time we don't have the H-Factor. Warren is telegenic and smart as opposed to the previous wannabe glass ceiling breaker. I still can't believe she got caught in a racist lie and then apologized and moved on as though nothing happened. I personally can't imagine another politician who would have the huevos to do that---she outperformed Bill Clinton with his "it depends on the meaning of is." She comes across as a no-nonsense person just at a time when lots of people are yearning for less theatrics.
I'm NOT defending her in any way; I just think we shouldn't blow her off with the Demo bucketload of crazies. She's seriously dangerous and we'd better have a good plan to deal with her.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/21/2019 8:48:38 AM (No. 157927)
Sorry Elizabeth Warren. Democrats really do have a God problem. No, God built everything for us.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/21/2019 8:58:42 AM (No. 157943)
I own and am the sole employee of my company. I am the designer, the project manager, the manufacturer, the accountant, the janitor, the office manager, the procurement officer, the secretary and the CFO, among others. Please tell me, Princess Pandering Fool, who built my business if it wasn’t me?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/21/2019 9:05:29 AM (No. 157950)
So am I supposed to let the construction workers who built my house live here with me? I paid for the house. It's mine. Companies paid taxes for roads and other infrastructure -- they own those (along with the rest of us who paid for them) and can use them for their business purposes.
But most of the taxes we pay don't go towards infrastructure. Most goes towards buying votes for dimocrats. If we only paid taxes for public infrastructure, maybe I would be willing to pay a little more. Except I would be paying 1/10th of what I pay now, so I would be will to pay a tiny bit more, if needed.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/21/2019 9:14:17 AM (No. 157962)
Lieawatha...somebody had to lead the way with ideas and gumption to get something done. Then the others got paid to get it to market. I wish Trump or somebody would set this idiot straight. And I am tired of this fake Indian always always shaking her skinny fist at us and scolding us like we are little kids. Who needs her?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/21/2019 9:19:37 AM (No. 157976)
God in heaven, I absolutely love how tone deaf these people are. Go, Lizzie!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rusino 8/21/2019 9:20:44 AM (No. 157980)
.....and those Rich People also Pay Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, for Schools, Police Departments, Fire Departments etc.! Working hard and being Successful and Rich is a GOAL not a Crime! Those on The Left want us all to live at the Same Level of Poverty!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Krause 8/21/2019 9:26:05 AM (No. 157990)
This country was formed on the notion of individual freedom and opportunity. It developed by rugged individualism, motivation, imagination, and hard work. Now that we have become a most prosperous nation through capitalism, the socialists (who didn't build anything) want to take it over. They want to be in control of the treasury that others provided! They will squander it at will. Disaster.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/21/2019 10:00:16 AM (No. 158036)
This thinking is the idiocy of the Socialists, that it's "the people" that make everything happen. Let's be real, the average person has no ability or interest at the level of creativity and drive to build what a top leader does. If everyone was a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs or a Winston Churchill or a Sister Teresa or a George Washington or a Leonardo Da Vinci, we would all be billionaires and the advancement of society would be at light speed. Comparatively, few are at that level. That's OK. But the people that are, DO BUILD THAT, DO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
People like Warren that minimize others to elevate themselves and their agenda are corrosive to society. If you don't celebrate merit, you celebrate mediocrity or incompetence; people like Warren and the rest of her fellow smurfs.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Gnana1 8/21/2019 10:20:23 AM (No. 158071)
This is a racist comment. Warren is implying the blacks are incapable of building anything without the aid of government. She is a RACIST!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
vinegrower 8/21/2019 11:14:07 AM (No. 158162)
This woman won't wear well. Something unlikable about her just like Hillary.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/21/2019 11:59:37 AM (No. 158223)
Idiot remarks like this only serve to give the Democrat nomination to befuddled Biden.
Idiot remarks like this will also help re-elect President Trump in 2020. Voters remember who last said that. They all voted for Trump in 2016.
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You are not going there again. Going to tell you like Obola, we brought them here and we built this country and served in every war since the 1600's. You, on the other hand, lied about your heritage to become a millionaire. You didn't help any of us along the way. However, Dr Phil put you on his show for name recognition. Shut it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
judy 8/22/2019 3:56:35 AM (No. 158785)
Since we helped her build her wealth of millions of $$$.... will she share with us?
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