Um...yeah...about the whole "You didn't build that" thing...

[WilliamPitt]

Win.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Pragmatic!

The Pragmatic Progressive Page on Facebook:

Like it!

http://www.facebook.com/PragProgPage

[riverbendviewgal]

2. I p ut it on my facebook

It should be in the campaign for Obama

[one_voice]

3. I love that page on facebook!

K&R

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. The People Who Believe In The Self Made Man Do Not Let Them Hire Anyone.

Deny these same people the use of roads, telephones, employees, government services etc. They are all so full of shit.

[freshwest]

5. YAY! Love Thomas Paine. Thanks, William.

[Zax2me]

6. Obama says he was referring to infrastructure.

Roads...bridges.
He's always supported self-made individuals.
In fact, when the romney campaign accused President Obama of saying 'you didn't build that small business' he called them on the lie it was.

[caraher]

7. Paine's essay would cause your average Ayn Rand worshipper's head to explode

The full 1796 essay, "Agrarian Justice," advocates...

To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property:

And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age.

[zeemike]

12. holy shit he's a commie!

Tom Pain is a commie....Tom Pain is a commie!
Now what will the right do for intellectual justification for their nutty theories?

[spin]

8. Obama was entirely accurate in his statement ...

but in a poor economy it did offer Republicans an excellent opportunity to attack him.

Fortunately Romney makes plenty foolish statements.

[IggleDoer]

9. Would the "job creators" really be "job creators" ...

... If they truly built their business themselves? Every employee helps build their employer's business. That's why they got hired.

Maybe that's why there isn't enough jobs available right now - the "job creators" think they can do it all by themself.

[modem77]

10. Here is another good part of Agrarian Justice I bet the Repugs don't know about.

It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim. Make, then, society the treasurer to guard it for him in a common fund; for it is no reason that, because he might not make a good use of it for himself, another should take it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

15. This is awesome.

Welcome to DU!

[spanone]

11. k&r...

[WillyT]

13. K & R !!!

[progressoid]

14. Yeah, I heard that quote on Glenn Beck's show.

NOT

[WilliamPitt]

16. Up

[MADem]

17. Heathen socialist!! Commie radical! Those aren't "Anglo Saxon" values!!!!!!!!

Who does this Paine guy think he is???? I want some sauce for MY goose, and sauce for MY gander, and that's all there is to it!

[WilliamPitt]

18. Up

[Skidmore]

19. Thomas Paine-greatest of the forefathers.

Passing it on.