LeBron James knows what Obama and Elizabeth Warren don't - Granite Grok

LeBron James knows what Obama and Elizabeth Warren don’t

Caught at The Corner:

The line in his [LeBron James] return-to-Cleveland statement that resonates most with us denizens of the North Coast is the following:

“In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.”

Contrast that statement with Barack Obama’s obtuse, insulting, and dispiriting 2012 observation:

” You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Rumor has it LeBron’s a better basketball player, too.

In the case of Obama, other people DID make it happen for him – and IMHO, on a silver platter. And let’s add the erstwhile Fount of the Progressive Work Ethic, Senator Elizabeth Warren (who beat Scott Brown in his last campaign for US Senate): 

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. 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 always the Collective that should have the glory according to Obama, Warren, and their ilk.  LeBron knows better

 

 

 

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