America ‘ain’t no kibbutz,’ says presidential hopeful
Mitt Romney tells fundraiser audience that the US is all about pursuing dreams and building enterprises and not just a ‘little entity’
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — America is not a kibbutz, Mitt Romney said, in a bid to underscore his commitment to individual liberties.
“It’s individuals and their entrepreneurship which have driven America,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said at a Chicago fundraiser Tuesday, in remarks first reported by BuzzFeed. “What America is not (is) a collective where we all work in a kibbutz or we’re all in some little entity, instead it’s individuals pursuing their dreams and building successful enterprises which employ others and they become inspired as they see what has happened in the place they work and go off and start their own enterprises.”
Romney just returned from a visit to Israel last week where he praised the country’s culture as a critical element in boosting its economy.
Kibbutzim, although internally adhering to varying degrees of collective principles, long ago adjusted to interacting with Israel’s free-market economy.
The Times of Israel Community.