Obamaverse: The Poetry of Barack Obama

You Didn't Build That

We can make some more cuts
We can make another trillion
or trillion-two,
and what we then do
is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more…

They know they didn’t - look,
if you’ve been successful,
you didn’t get there on your own.
You didn’t get there on your own.

If you were successful,
somebody along the line
gave you some help...
Somebody helped
to create this
unbelievable
American
system...

If you’ve got a business.
you didn’t build that.
Somebody else made that happen.