He didn't say that at all.

Reader comment on: Rand Paul on Immigration and the American Dream
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Submitted by ben (United States), Aug 30, 2012 14:14

I read the speech, and he was making the point that Elizabeth Warren made more clearly, that if a person finds great success there were others who helped him along the way including the government. And if someone is successful, they should keep get rich, but also pay back into the system to maintain and build the systems that will allow the next brilliant entrepreneur to find success as well. Had Bill gates been born in rural Rwanda, would he have founded Microsoft?

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The Future of Capitalism replies:

The whole point of this immigrant-success-story message is to undermine that hypothetical about Bill Gates. Sergei Brin was born in Soviet Russia and founded Google. Condi Rice was born in the Jim Crow South and became secretary of state and provost of Stanford. Etc. etc. etc.

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Did the Taing's receive government help when they arrived here? [128 words]MarilynAug 29, 2012 22:04
A whole convention built on taking words out of context. [85 words]benAug 29, 2012 21:56
↔ Obama's speech [48 words]MichaelAug 30, 2012 05:59
↔ ⇒ He didn't say that at all.
[w/response] [83 words]		benAug 30, 2012 14:14

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