Here's some reaction to the president's attack on the productive. First, Charles Krauthammer.

This is a man who spent a trillion dollars and left not a residue... he spinkled the money on cronies and pie in the sky ideological fetishes...

Jonah Goldberg explains why the president's remarks demeaning hard work and individual achievement are 'creepy.'

It is a fairly holistic view that government needs to be involved in everything and that no man's accomplishment is his own...

Here are the president's remarks.