Obama: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.”
No. They didn’t “help” me.
They traded with me. Cash for goods & services.
Ditto your precious roads & bridges & internet, although getting taxes taken out of my hide wasn’t exactly VOLUNTARY.
Still, a transaction in not the same as charity. Don’t use language that conflates them.
Without taxes, who would voluntarily contribute to society? No-one seems to be able to answer that.
So, who is helping Obama (assuming he’s “successful”)?
I’ve been taking this one particularly personally. Ten years ago, my husband told me he wanted to start his own business. We had just had our second child and he desperately wanted to stop working 12-14 hours a day plus weekends for someone else and actually get to SEE his children occasionally. So he put all his money into starting up a business from scratch. No one gave us ANYTHING to get our business going. We took no loans. We took no government “small business” incentives. We used OUR money and thus, ALL the risk. If it had failed, we would have gone back to working for others. We wouldn’t have filed for bankruptcy protection. My husband works his BUTT off to provide for our family knowing that no one is going to pick us up, dust us off and feed us cake. My kids know who pays the bills around here. They know who provides them with clothes, food, shelter and any extras.
I have close family who has lived off the government their whole lives. To put my husband in the same category as them is obscene and insulting beyond measure.
Bratgirl, I hope you homeschool (or private school) your kids. Public education will destroy them. Congrats to your hubby.
Wait, so if I just find an empty storefront and occupy it, a business won’t spring out of nowhere that I can have?
Disappointing.
(ps: homeschooling rules)
And anyway, doesn’t that logic make the hatred of Romney a little misdirected? Who do I need to hate because Romney has a car elevator? The government?
Consider it done.
Karl Marx in 1848 – Workers control the means of production
Barack Hussein Obama 2012 – If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
blarg — You beat me to it! If Barry didn’t convince you with his speach that he’s 100% a Marxist; there is no hope for you.
In order for the government to be successful, someone in the private sector had to make that happen. Government doesn’t get anywhere but on the backs of those from whom it takes.
This is a little off topic, but over this weekend my wife and I went to the Ronald Reagan Library. She always thought that my Reagan admiration was a little bit silly and probably due to the fact that I actually came from a Communist country and had a little soft spot in my heart for the guy that ended the Cold War.
After we left the Library, she said to me “I get it now”. She understood what Reagan actually stood for. It was like a whole new world was opened up to her – what he was saying about socialism and entitlements in this country as well as Communism. Especially listening to his speeches back in the 1960’s, what he was saying about California, and how he subsequently fixed those problems…that gave her hope that what’s happening now can still be fixed. She saw his optimism. She also understood why we still have to fight Communism.
She was also really struck by the paintings on display from the Heritage Foundation collection from a Russian artist who survived a Siberian gulag.
She also said she got a sense of what it meant to be a classy First Lady, and the role that position SHOULD be.
Of course there was cool stuff like Air Force 1 that Reagan used that you could actually get onto, but somehow, it just didn’t seem nearly as cool after walking through Reagan’s life.
If you ever find yourself in Southern California, I offer you two things:
1) my sincerest condolences
2) my strong suggestion that you take some time and visit the Reagan Library in Simi Valley.
Important question: Did Al Gore have help creating the internet?
Would the other people responsible for building my business into a success get to work already? I wanna goof off and Obama said I didn’t have to work on it.
I think I understand Obama’s “we’re all in this together” message. It’s kind of like– when your professor assigned a group project, and your grade was linked to the team’s performance. One person lead the team, and two followed. But there was always that one guy who lacked even a single skill of value, offered no useful input, and constantly distracted the two followers by asking if they wanted to get high. On team USA, Obama is that guy.
Maverick – during my college group-work projects, all I really asked of the stupid people was to shut up, stay out of my way, and quietly ride my coattails to an A as a reward for knowing their limitations.
Best Post Ever !!!
I think this speech might help a lot of people see the truth in how O really is. He’s been trying to hide it with the press covering for him but this lets it out pretty clearly. Obama is a post turtle and thinks that everyone else out there is also a post turtle.
I heard this guy on the radio this weekend – I think I know who I want for Romney’s VP pick!
Congressman Bob McEwen – The Politics of Freedom