Title: Elizabeth Warren: "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own" Source:
cbs URL Source:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20110042-503544.html Published:Sep 28, 2011 Author:Lucy Madison Post Date:2011-09-28 10:49:34 by Ferret Mike Keywords:None Views:6407 Comments:30
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An August video of Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on the campaign trail is heating up on the internet, and some commentators are pointing to the clip - in which Warren makes a case for progressive economic policies - as evidence that the newly minted Democratic candidate could give incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown a run for his money.
In the video (at left), which was filmed at an event in Andover, Mass., Warren rebuts the GOP-touted notion that raising taxes on the wealthy amounts to "class warfare," contending that "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody."
Warren rejects the concept that it is possible for Americans to become wealthy in isolation.
"You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. 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."
She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
Warren's entrance into the Massachusetts Senate race marks her first-ever political bid - and while the longtime consumer advocate is beloved by a number of liberals, some wondered if her lack of political experience would prove crippling in the contest.
The Washington Monthly's Steven Benen, however, points to the video as an explanation as to "why Warren has a strong base of supporters who adore her."
"If there are lingering concerns about whether Warren could be an effective speaker on the stump, I think those questions are being answered," Benen writes. "If more Democrats were able to make the case for the underlying social contract as effectively, our discourse would be vastly less mind-numbing."
Yet another brain dead college professor who has never ran a business, created a job, made a payroll, or had to live under the oppressive regulations that people like her created.
Yet another brain dead college professor who has never ran a business, created a job, made a payroll, or had to live under the oppressive regulations that people like her created.
To hell with her.
That pretty much sums it up.
What that idiot doesn't state is that the flip side is true. Nobody ever became a serf or a outright slave without the approval of government.
Or that a man that lives in isolation and is self-sufficient is rich in every way possible except for money,and money doesn't matter when there is nothing to buy.
Or that the roads,bridges,etc,etc,etc were created in order for business to flourish so that people would have a place to work. They weren't made so you could catch a mule cart to visit your aunt Tilly that lives 5 miles away.
Massachusetts was also the only state that voted for George McGovern in 72, so you might very well be right.
However, the country is going to punish Obama for the rotten economy. If the punishment is large enough, she could get swept up in the tidal wave against him.
I'm from there. I grew up in Connecticut and originally was a Republican who supported Nixon over Humphrey. Most of my family hail from Massachusetts and she is all they talk about when I call and talk politics with them. I grew up going to private schools with high expectations and very competative mostly Republican classmates. I actually had to learn how to think in school.
Which was useful, but I would of prefered to get there without taking three years of Latin.
As for the result of the general presidential election? President Obama is a skilled campaigner and has the best team organizing and running the show for him. So we'll see how it will play.
He certainly is vulnerable, but I wouldn't count him out just yet.
