"You didn't build that"

For some reason Obama usually gets a pass.
"You didn't build that" is a notion that deserves some thought for, though it is very shallow thinking, it is quite defining. It essentially dismisses basic ownership rights because there was more than one creator involved. So you may not own your shoes. But it is bigger; it implies that those basic rights that we all assume actually have no real basis because you did not create them either. So freedom of speech comes from where? You didn't create that.
Strangely, the idea implies something even weirder. Somehow the ownership of what you did not create falls to the collective who had a part in it. But, since they did not do it all, nothing is specifically theirs. The shoemaker did not make the nails for the shoes or raise the cows that were the source of the leather for the shoes you mistakenly assumed were yours so....the shoemaker didn't build that either. Conveniently this ownership then falls upon the functionaries of the government, the presumed organizers of the band that contributed to the making of those shoes.
So, I suppose, like Jasay, the guard dog owns the house.