They all weighed in on the concept of individual achievement in
the context of the greater society. Obama recently made a speech
in which he said the following: ”…If you were successful,
somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great
teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this
unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to
thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a
business — you didn’t build that… The point is, is that when we
succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but
also because we do things together… ” His Republican opponent,
Mitt Romney, vehemently attacked Obama’s speech with the
following comment: “The idea to say that Steve Jobs didn’t build
Apple, that Henry Ford didn’t build Ford Motor, that Papa John
didn’t build Papa John Pizza, that Ray Kroc didn’t build
McDonald’s, that Bill Gates didn’t build Microsoft, you go on
the list, that Joe and his colleagues didn’t build this
enterprise, to say something like tha