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by ktizo
5031 days ago
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To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context. Is more to ignore the rest of the speech. He goes on to say - "The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together." - which doesn't sound as though he is claiming that you can't take credit for building a business, just that you can't take all the credit. Now, I am no fan of Obama (Or roughly 90% of politicians, for that matter), but to try and make out that he was claiming that no-one can take credit for their business, when he clearly states that success comes from individual initiative, is disingenuous at best. |
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Yes, he's saying you can't take all the credit, which means that you can't "take credit" for it.
Taking credit has an implied "all the", as in, "take [all the] credit."
This distinction actually matters. Obama is taking something absolute -- This is my business, these are my profits -- and turning it into something vague. That vagueness leaves plenty of room for all kinds of government controls and taxes.
In fact, contra Obama, if you built a business, it is rightly your business, along with all of the profits (and all of the credit).