You were able to build it because the government provided the infrastructure and taught you and your employees how to read, write, and do arithmetic.

"Since the President doesn't understand how our economy works, let's take a moment to explain how small businesses are created," Palin wrote on her blog.


The sheer volume of what President Obama understands as compared to Bristol Palin would just about fill the Grand farking Canyon.

And yet, surprisingly, not every business is a success.....

Bristol Palin, whose entire moneymaking operation is owed another individual's voluntary donation of half of the genetic material necessary to build her product.

Ok, I'm not going to watch that, but it looks like it starts with someone who built an excavating company.

There is a picture of a large truck.

Now, I wonder how he got that truck from one location to another?

what_now: Ok, I'm not going to watch that, but it looks like it starts with someone who built an excavating company.

There is a picture of a large truck.

Now, I wonder how he got that truck from one location to another?

Bootstraps and Jesus

/would be an awesome name for a band

It would be awesome if whoever keeps submitting these "you didn't build that" links actually read the original context.

Link

Bristol Palin trifecta in play.

Lor M. Ipsum: Bootstraps and Jesus


If I ever write a book I am using that as the title.

what_now: Ok, I'm not going to watch that, but it looks like it starts with someone who built an excavating company.

There is a picture of a large truck.

Now, I wonder how he got that truck from one location to another?



"Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?"

"And that's the only thing I need is *this*. I don't need this or this. Just this ashtray... And this paddle game. - The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control. - The ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need... And these matches. - The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control, and the paddle ball... And this lamp. - The ashtray, this paddle game, and the remote control, and the lamp, and that's all *I* need. And that's *all* I need too. I don't need one other thing, not one... I need this. - The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control, and the matches for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of a jerk or something! - And this. That's all I need."

Why am I not surprised that all the Grifterette Junior is capable of is schmaltzy sentimentalism?

What have you built, Bristol? Other than a reputation as an ignorant copycat and easy lay?

Bristol Palin is absolutely correct. NONE of those people ever had ANY help or inspiration from their parents or teachers. No banker ever gave them a loan. No military, police or firefighters protect them. No animal control to call when a rabid raccoon roots through their trash.

I BUILT THIS PURSE!

Sorry, Bristol, but these people did a much better "We Built This" video. Take that, Obama!

Mr. President, we built this city on Rock and Roll. No help from the government.

Rock and Roll.

JerseyTim: Sorry, Bristol, but these people did a much better "We Built This" video. Take that, Obama!

Damnit!

..on rock and roll.

Wow, an entire ad campaign based on an outright lie.

Sgt Otter: "Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?"

Oh great, now she's going to slide right out of her office chair

Or you know, maybe I don't know the difference between Ford and Eisenhower.

Jackson Herring: Sgt Otter: "Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?"

Oh great, now she's going to slide right out of her office chair

I thought Gerald Ford was her designated Presidential Panty-Dropper.

/is angry about the direction this thread has taken.

This is so so backwards and stupid.

There are things that can not be built by small companies or even "one man with an idea". Some things like spaceships or telecommunications switches require very large infrastructure and other people to be involved.

So while the Right wing is stressing the bootstrappyness of small companies doing little things. We are in fact selling our real American achievements, like going to the moon to other countries like China.

But the GOP loves China.

I BUILT THIS, F*****S

Jackson Herring: [a.abcnews.com image 640x360]

I BUILT THIS, F*****S

Cute kid. Looks like one of the children from The Village of the Damned.

I just want to point out that whatever company you BUILD, you did so knowing that Visigoths and Picts couldn't come and take it. You did not need to build a moat around your company. You did not need to hire German mercenaries. You did not need to build a castle.

The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

what_now: The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the
ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia
and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own
excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander,
could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the
approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it
must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction
be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation
of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

-Fartbraham Lincoln

what_now: The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

Safe. Shut up.

Jackson Herring: Or you know, maybe I don't know the difference between Ford and Eisenhower.

They're hard to tell apart. Republicans...avid golfers...hey, maybe if you saw their 9-irons you'd know which was which.

The very first picture is Pat Roy Crane Enterprise, LLC, which received $103,000 in financing, including an SBA loan.

BunkoSquad: Jackson Herring: Or you know, maybe I don't know the difference between Ford and Eisenhower.

They're hard to tell apart. Republicans...avid golfers...hey, maybe if you saw their 9-irons you'd know which was which.

Oh come on, Gerald had at LEAST an 11-iron. If you get my meaning.

I am saying that he had an 11-inch penis.

Jackson Herring: Wow, an entire ad campaign based on an outright lie.

Welcome to your 2012 GOP presidential campaign!

I wonder if any of those bootstrappy individuals have business checking accounts... that are protected by the FDIC?

The working class built your business. Get over it.

what_now: I just want to point out that whatever company you BUILD, you did so knowing that Visigoths and Picts couldn't come and take it. You did not need to build a moat around your company. You did not need to hire German mercenaries. You did not need to build a castle.

The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

Lt. Presley O'Bannon of the United States Marine Corps wiped out the Barbary Pirates, to protect American shipping in the Mediterranean.

Lt. Col. Ranald "Bad Hand" Mackenzie of the U.S. 4th Cavlary Regiment defeated the Cheyenne, to protect settlers and commerce in the Wyoming Territory.

Why does Bristol Palin hate our brave cavalry troopers and Marines? Why? Have they not scarified enough for you, ma'am?

*narrows eyes*

joshiz: It would be awesome if whoever keeps submitting these "you didn't build that" links actually read the original context.

Link

Nah, they should read this instead.

what_now: what_now: The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

Safe. Shut up.

Lockbox.

Sgt Otter: what_now: I just want to point out that whatever company you BUILD, you did so knowing that Visigoths and Picts couldn't come and take it. You did not need to build a moat around your company. You did not need to hire German mercenaries. You did not need to build a castle.

The United States Government has kept your investment save from foreign invasion for 200 years.

Lt. Presley O'Bannon of the United States Marine Corps wiped out the Barbary Pirates, to protect American shipping in the Mediterranean.

Lt. Col. Ranald "Bad Hand" Mackenzie of the U.S. 4th Cavlary Cavalry Regiment defeated the Cheyenne, to protect settlers and commerce in the Wyoming Territory.

Why does Bristol Palin hate our brave cavalry troopers and Marines? Why? Have they not scarified enough for you, ma'am?

FTFM.

what_now: Ok, I'm not going to watch that, but it looks like it starts with someone who built an excavating company.

There is a picture of a large truck.

Now, I wonder how he got that truck from one location to another?

Bootstraps and good old-fashioned gumption!

People are still running with this OMG POOR PHRASING!!! stuff?

You didn't build this.

what_now: Ok, I'm not going to watch that, but it looks like it starts with someone who built an excavating company.

There is a picture of a large truck.

Now, I wonder how he got that truck from one location to another?

Jesus sparkle starlight.

Sgt Otter: U.S. 4th Cavlary

You didn't build this.

joshiz: It would be awesome if whoever keeps submitting these "you didn't build that" links actually read the original context.

Link

I suspect they know. They have been informed of this fact. They just don't care.

Lies are all they have.

vernonFL: [lolais40.com image 280x280]

Mr. President, we built this city on Rock and Roll. No help from the government.

Rock and Roll.

and since God gave rock n' roll to you, gave rock n' roll to you, gave rock n' roll... to everyone, God built this city