Why the free market and Western Civilization need defending

On July 13, 2012, President Obama was giving a speech in Roanoke, Virginia, and said this: "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."

Those three sentences sparked a brushfire in that year's presidential election that he spent the next few weeks tryin...