Social networking sites have been filled with images mocking President Barack Obama over his "you didn't build that" remark, but Obama's argument actually does deserve to be addressed in a serious manner. One of the points that Obama was trying to make, badly, was that business benefits from the infrastructure investments of government. This is true. The criminal justice system helps keep business relatively safe, roads and highways (and other infrastructure) allow transportation of goods, the patent system allows people to make money from what they invent by discouraging theft of intellectual property, and so on and so forth.
"You didn't build that..."
"You didn't build that..."
"You didn't build that..."
Social networking sites have been filled with images mocking President Barack Obama over his "you didn't build that" remark, but Obama's argument actually does deserve to be addressed in a serious manner. One of the points that Obama was trying to make, badly, was that business benefits from the infrastructure investments of government. This is true. The criminal justice system helps keep business relatively safe, roads and highways (and other infrastructure) allow transportation of goods, the patent system allows people to make money from what they invent by discouraging theft of intellectual property, and so on and so forth.