Comments on: Thoughts On “You Didn’t Build That” http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/07/27/thoughts-on-you-didnt-build-that/ A First Things Blog Sat, 18 May 2013 01:42:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Raymond Takashi Swenson http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/07/27/thoughts-on-you-didnt-build-that/comment-page-1/#comment-20949 Raymond Takashi Swenson Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:18:47 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=7991#comment-20949 I did not see randomness as a factor in Obama’s argument. To the contrary, his thesis was that the ONLY reason ALL smart, hardworking people are not rich business owners is that government did not predestinate the rest of us for salvation, in its own infinite wisdom. Obviously government playing favorites like this violates the constitutional guatantee of equality under the law. The next corrolary is that, because Obama has not used the magic of government to make the rest of us rich, he has failed at the job which he claims is his! He needs to be fired and replaced with someone who knows how to use government to increase private wealth for more people.

]]> By: Kate http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2012/07/27/thoughts-on-you-didnt-build-that/comment-page-1/#comment-20913 Kate Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:15:45 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=7991#comment-20913 It is hard to understand why paying taxes for roads, birdges and local infrastructure translates into the further necessity of paying taxes for welfare and government health care systems.

The NHS glorification display at the Olympics was one of the best arguments against creating a national health system that I’ve ever seen.

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