"If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that" (updated)

Looks like our president has no respect for people who own businesses and/or are successful.

Last Friday our great president said this in front of the TV cameras:

"If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own."
"If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."

In those few sentences Obama shows how little he thinks of those who try to better their lives on their own. He also makes an opening for the future when people we never met might be able to co-own our businesses (and that includes our government).

Those words are hardly a motivation for us to work harder.