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Carl Gibson of the ''Huffington Post'', pointed out that the Republican National Convention's theme of "We built that" contradicts the fact that the convention's venue was constructed with taxpayer funding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/rnc-you-didnt-build-that_b_1830673.html|title=RNC: You Didn't Build That|date=August 26, 2012|accessdate=August 27, 2012|work=Huffington Post}}</ref>
Carl Gibson of the ''Huffington Post'', pointed out that the Republican National Convention's theme of "We built that" contradicts the fact that the convention's venue was constructed with taxpayer funding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/rnc-you-didnt-build-that_b_1830673.html|title=RNC: You Didn't Build That|date=August 26, 2012|accessdate=August 27, 2012|work=Huffington Post}}</ref>
The Wall Street Journal says “rarely do politicians so clearly reveal their core beliefs ... the President who says he wants to be transformational may be succeeding--and subordinating to government the individual enterprise and risk-taking that unlerlies prosperity.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304388004577533300916053684.html|title=You Didn’t Build That|date=Jul 18, 2012}}</ref> In the New York Daily News, S. E. Cupp charges that the President’s is attacking the individualism inherent in the American dream.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-07-18/news/32734440_1_hard-work-systemic-racism-success|author=S. E. Cupp|title=You Didn’t Build That|date=Jul 18, 2012}}</ref> Several authors points out the phrase in question comes from Marx’s “Labor Theory of Value.” Labor creates the product to which nothing is contributed by management. Profit, therefore, is theft. The capitalist is a parasite.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/13/obamas-labor-theory-of-value|title=Obama’s Labor Theory of Value|author=Ron Ross|newspaper=The American Spectator|date=Aug 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/karl-marx-and-our-emperor-of-envy/|title=Karl Marx and our Emperor on Envy|author=Robert Ringer|date=Aug 8 2012|newspaper=WorldNetDaily}}</ref> Forbes’ author Harry Binswanger, writes “This gigantic fraud is aimed at a single goal: re-assuring life’s losers that their failures are not their fault.” Achievement is an illusion, according to Obama, and you are just as deserving as Steve Jobs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/08/05/revenge-of-the-zeros-the-battle-between-ayn-rand-and-collectivism-reaches-a-climax/|title=Revenge Of The Zeros|author=Harry Binswanger|date=Aug 5, 2012|newspaper=Forbes}}</ref>
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