Boo Radley
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I don't dispute that the business owner has been helped. Nor does the business owner himself. He has been helped. He has been helped DIRECTLY by the people he personally paid in exchange for their help, and he has been helped INDIRECTLY by the infrastructure that was funded indirectly (but proportionally) by his taxes. There is no residual debt the owner has to anyone.
So there is a covert political undertone to his message. It's Mr. Rogers' level of obviousness that the business owner did not build the nation's roads and bridges. He knows that, we all know that. So why preach about it? I will tell you.
Obama is doing two things: 1) Rallying the voting folks who are salivating at the thought of government redistributing a greater amount of that owners' assets/income to them, which he may or may not actually do, or 2) giving the business owner the heads-up that he is actually going to do that.
No one says debt. Just a factual statement.
Covert message? Shouldn't we listen to the entire speech, seek to grasp the main point? What too many do, is take out an excerp and try to make it something different from the whole. The message is more likely that we're worked to do things and this has benefitted business. This is not covert, or particularly controversial.
It is as important to listen, seek meaning as it is to hold a belief system.