Obama and Romney on the culture of entrepreneurship
Barack Obama, July 13, Roanoke, Va.:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to 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.
Mitt Romney, National Review Online, July 31:
Israel is also a telling example. Like the United States, the state of Israel has a culture that is based upon individual freedom and the rule of law. It is a democracy that has embraced liberty, both political and economic. This embrace has created conditions that have enabled innovators and entrepreneurs to make the desert bloom. In the face of improbable odds, Israel today is a world leader in fields ranging from medicine to information technology.
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August 20th, 2012 at 9:20 am
[...] (Oddly, by acknowledging that democracies create political and economic “conditions” that have “enabled innovators and entrepreneurs,” Romney’s remarks would seem to undercut much of his criticism of Obama’s “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that” quote.) [...]