The idea that President Obama said people didn't build their own businesses is completely baseless and absurd. President Obama was obviously referring to the bridges and roads that everyone uses to help build there businesses, because they obviously don't have the private funding to build $100 million bridges. My family owns two successful restaurants and one hotel in a tourist destination, and without the infrastructure provided by government... our businesses wouldn't have been built, they wouldn't be able to stay open and we would have no business at all. We built our businesses, but we didn't build the billion dollar interstate leading to our town, the new two million dollar brick sidewalks put in or the drainage that prevents our coastal community from flooding. The bridges and roads, we didn't build that. His words were taken completely out of context. If looked at in context, any person can conclude President Obama was not referencing the actual businesses.