When you're dealing with a crisis - like the one the President stepped into upon his inauguration - you take crisis management measures. There was a lack of liquidity and confidence in the economy. All the economists and analysts were saying that we were facing a recession turning into a depression. By getting people working and spending money your President addressed the crisis.

This speech has been quoted out of some very vital context and spread all throughout Romney's campaign advertising.

Read the transcript of his speech then try again...I guess you Libs think if you tell a lie long enough people will accept it as the truth.

Here's where your argument about context falls apart..."If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."...

"Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,”...Out of context really?

Read the transcript of his speech then try again...I guess you Libs think if you tell a lie long enough people will accept it as the truth...
Here's where your argument about context falls apart..."If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."...

"Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” Out of context really? why did he say you didn't build that instead of them if he was really referring to roads and bridges?

"There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

"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.

"The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the G.I. Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together."

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,’” she said. “No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. 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.

“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.”

It is the public systems in place that allows businesses to thrive.

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.

The government created the internet so in case of nuclear war all lines of communications could not be severed. It did not create it so businesses could make money...

Let's face it, that speech of Obama's was a major mistake. What he was saying, though apparently not even an original thought, is that "YOU" cannot accomplish anything without "US". This same attitude permeates all actions by this administration, completely contrary to any economic progress, as is evidenced by our worsening situation.

NONE of his examples give any credit to individual persistence, tough-mindedness, or ability to perceive and exploit an opportunity in a given market.

And all those things are paid for by "US" so "YOU" can accomplish your goals.

The point President Obama was trying to make is that a public infrustructure is necessary for everyone to succeeed. You need roads. You need education. You need a working government. If those things are not in place your business is not going to succeeed.