Obama: People Don’t Get Rich On Their Own, They’re Successful Because Of The Federal Government…
He’s about as clueless as it gets.
(Fox News) — President Obama tells a college audience that people don’t get rich on their own. Obama’s point that without government and paying your fair share, ultimately the successful wouldn’t be able to get where they are.
“We do not begrudge wealth in this country. I want everybody here to do well. We aspire to financial success, but we also understand that we’re not successful just by ourselves,” President Obama said at a campaign event in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday morning.
“We’re successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We’re successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet. We’re successful because we have an outstanding military that costs money. We’re successful because somebody built roads and bridges. And laid broadband lines and these things didn’t just happen on their own. And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that’s not right. That’s not who we are,” he said.
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The two major thoughts in Obama’s head-
1) Goverment is the answer.
2) It must be someone else’s fault.
Yes, absolutely. I’m filthy rich after serving 28 years in defense of this nation. I’m so fucking rich, I’m going to buy Soros and make him my personal lawn jockey.
Two neurons away from a doorag.
Right out of the Sebelius playbook.
Therein is the defining statement concerning Obama.
He truly believes that the Government creates success and that private business creates poverty.
It’s a pretty simple choice we have this November.
He’s softening them up for the 25k and up tax increase if he wins.
Bill Gates?
Zuckerberg?
Irwin Jacobs ? (founder of Qualcomm)
heck, even Oprah…?
Oops, maybe that was the Warren playbook.
Daddy-O says:
January 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm
The two major thoughts in Obama’s head-
1) Goverment is the answer.
2) It must be someone else’s fault.
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The THREE major thoughts in Obama’s head:
1) Government is the answer;
2) It is someone else’s fault, whatever it is; and,
3) It’s all about me! Me, mine, me, me, what about me, hey, it’s me, so cool I am, I am, me.
Warren’s bullshit. This is the new Leftist scam….you didn’t do it by yourself, you owe us!
@Daddy-O – plus: 4) What’s my tee time?
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and decent fellow humans everywhere.
4. Keep moochelle busy and off my back! give her the country’s credit cards!
The simple error — of grand proportions, yet a simple one to identify — in Obama’s unreliable assertion as to “people being successful because of the federal government” is:
he relies on industries that were created by and have become successful due to private enterprise for his present-day funding, advice and rigging, now that he and the rest of the Dems have these industries and enterprises ensconced in federal government bureaucracy. They would not now exist had there not been private enterprise that created them, simply put.
Anyone else reading Ameritopia?
‘The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is lost but also when the spirit of extreme equality is taken up…’
I thought AlGore invented the internet!
This one assertion alone by Barack Obama surely identifies him as NOT the smartest guy in the room, on the block, in the town, nor in the country. Listening to him is like listening to a very poorly done comic book being read aloud.
What he and Warren ignore is that people and particularly businesses have been paying taxes for all these things, all along. If it weren’t for their taxes none of these things would exist, including the Federal Government!
Katherine says:
January 27, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Warren’s bullshit. This is the new Leftist scam….you didn’t do it by yourself, you owe us!
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I’m beginning to wonder if Warren Buffett is literally nuts. Maybe he had one talent and that was it, made billions but is actually now just plain crazy.
Another straw man argument. No conservatives are calling for zero taxes. Everyone understands the necessity of taxes for roads and bridges.
Obama then conflates the basic things government does with Solyndra insanity. It’s easy to do that with a college audience where critical thinking is at a low ebb.
Doesn’t that make the opposite true.
People are poor because of the Federal Government.
Here another one for you Obama. If life ends when your heart stops beating. Life must begin when the heart starts beating.
I have a hot newsflash for ya’ jugears. The rich get rich IN SPITE of the government !!
Everyday this man says something stupid……….
He’s driving the economy like he’s drunk. Someone please take away his Keynes
“try to pass off that bill on to somebody else”
That’s pretty much what this ass clown and his criminal kabal are doing….right?
“Therein is the defining statement concerning Obama.
“He truly believes that the Government creates success and that private business creates poverty.”
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It’s really because Barack Obama has always been supported by — his entire existence has been reliant upon — someone else, something else, some foundation, cause, grant, “silent scholarship” or otherwise a lot of money to fund his existence that just appears by way of some sort of bureaucracy (grandparents money, mother’s “ford foundation” salary and grants, silent pays for his elaborate educational sprees, etc.).
“…That’s not who we are,” he said.
And we know EXACTLY who you are referring when you say “we” jugears.
And it ain’t America.
the lip bulge!
does he use chew?
“Obama: People Don’t Get Rich On Their Own, They’re Successful Because Of The Federal Government…”
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That’s actually true for Democrats. They join government to make their fortunes. Serving government gives them a perfect opportunity to create opportunities for friends and family.
A simple rule change could put a stop to this though. We should no longer allow them to profit from insider trading.
This guy has more angles than a compass, and uses all of them, sometimes in one day. Governments do not create wealth. Enterprise creates wealth.
So he can stop with the circle jerk egg-chicken argument. It all starts with somebody creating something somebody else wants to buy or trade for at a cost equitable to both parties. Check in with the cavemen. They’ll tell ya it was that way back then, too. One cut wood and traded it for a stegosaurus haunch.
Gimmee a break.
fubar says:
January 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm
the lip bulge!
does he use chew?
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Someone might scream racism, just not sure if it will be coming from the Congressional Black Caucus or the hills in TN.
@NWMN
how is chewing tobacco rascist?
or do you mean the lip bulge ? i’m afraid i was absent that day they gave out the anti-minority handbook.
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Gee , I wonder how George Washington became so rich?
And look back to before income tax, how many were rich then? LOTS!!!
Just look at how many jobs the EPA has created with their new regulations. O’Blamey could create more jobs but on the seventh day he golfs.
Obongo: “Repeat after me, Angka will provide for all.”
The 4 thoughts in Obama’s head are…
1) Government is the answer;
2) It is someone else’s fault, whatever it is; and,
3) It’s all about me! Me, mine, me, me, what about me, hey, it’s me, so cool I am, I am, me.
4) What’s my tee time?
5) Fanatical devotion…
AMONGST the thoughts of Brack Obama’s head ARE…
“You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” Obama
fubar says:
January 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm
the lip bulge!
does he use chew?
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Please, Obama is way too worldly for dip. He would obviously use imported snus.
Pass the bill on to somebody else? Like the way the next 2 0r 3 generations have to pay off his “stimulus” spending?
I guess Obama never saw this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24nH03NccI&feature=player_embedded
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good point[s]. It’s in the script; sell it with his own inimitable sophistry {spells bs}.. but it’s the same rapidly expanding, ever centralizing, power-grabbing crap all wrapped up pretty bows of unprecedented deficit spending since day one..
And I wonder how many of those “College” kids actually believed that?
If they did, the Future sure looks dim !
Rupaula says:
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Please, Obama is way too worldly for dip. He would obviously use imported *snus.
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interesting *use.
I haven’t heard anyone refer to snus as snus in a long time.
BILL GATES
Obama fell on his face in Denver yesterday, in that he addressed a small private audience of ‘energy’ people [green energy, I guess] but even there, the local news reported it as a a flat audience.
Little applause.. might be funny if it weren’t so pathetic
It’s never going to stop! Before the election it is going to get worse and worse… and still more worse. They will try and make whoever is the Republican candidate, appear like the devil incarnate! Heaven help us !
I recall The One’s comments at a town hall in May of last year, that there is nothing more important than a government job.
That should especially ring true for him – it’s certainly doubtful that he could hold a job in the private sector. His success is certainly due to government.
I paid for the DSL coming into my home. Companies pay for the phone lines, T1 lines, DSL, etc. coming into their offices. Service providers/telecommunication lines pay for lines being installed, etc. I thought the private sector laid the broadband lines. Am I missing somethin’ here?
This the same spew that Elizabeth Warren uses and the Marxist/communists in government.
@DanlBoone
Those idiots at the Ohio Postal Service sent all his snus to the un.
Goverment is not the problem goverment is the problem
Wrongo!
People get rich by providing the best product or service to people that want it.
period
Tell that to Benjamin Franklin you clown. Paul Revere disputes that notion. Frederick Douglas educated himself and makes you look like a preschooler. Edison, Marconi, Tessla, Copernicus, Lindburgh, Curie, Fleming, Thoreau, Beethoven, Bach, Hendle, Tchaikovsky, Cugnot, Twain, Newton, Descartes, Dante, Archimedes, Plato, Aristotle, Diades, Colt, Winchester, Benz, Ford, Wright, the list is virtually endless.
You don’t even know who did those things you listed. In every case “somebody” was not the government. They can’t even run a damn postal service for cryin out loud…what makes you think they could install communication lines or build transportation systems?
Have you never heard the expression “self made man”? What exactly do you think that means, you knothead?
People get rich in spite of the fed. Grove.
The only buisness govenment has “helping” is to keep people from looting each others stuff.
Federal government
BroadbandUser says:
January 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I paid for the DSL coming into my home. Companies pay for the phone lines, T1 lines, DSL, etc. coming into their offices. Service providers/telecommunication lines pay for lines being installed, etc. I thought the private sector laid the broadband lines. Am I missing somethin’ here?
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Yeah, all the easements, permits and right of ways that those broadband installers have to get before they start digging. Let’s not forget about all the subsidies and incentives that the Federal government supplies to make a project a financially viable. That’s on top the R&D to create the technology that comes from publicly funded schools and grants to private companies.
As usual, neither side is being honest or logical on this issue.
It is true that when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock they would have never survived with out the generous helpings of food stamps that they were given by the six figure union government employees that greeted them.
Rupuka,
All of what you mentioned are controlling elements. Each of them serve primarily to establish government CONTROL.
Headline:
Obama commits oral suicide while explaining how we got along without him.
Details @ 6:00 pm on WKRP in Havana.
Is some one keeping track od this idiocy; it is more than can comprehend.
I am confused.
i feel like the midget lost indian plains tribe the Fukowie. known for their cry as they jumped up in the high grass where the fuckowie
That’s not who we are,”
Whothefukowie?
No, you dipstick. People are sucessful in this country IN SPITE OF the government. Not because of it. All the government does is try to stifle economical growth.
What kind of substance is he smoking, that he comes to the exact opposite of how it is?
I think he meant HE is successful because of federal government.
And actually, what could be read out of this is no one is successful without stealing money from taxpayers. And giving it to someone else.
So extort your ‘winnings’ through coercion and lies… and you’re ALLLL set!
AMERICAN DREAM v2.Obama.
The guys who founded McDonalds didnt use goverment help SAM WALTON(WALMART)didnt need the goverment help WHAT A LIAR
He’s nuts.
I’m sorry…..which government entity physically laid the broadband lines? Which government entity produced the materials that go into laying those broadband lines? Which government entity produced the materials that go into building roads and bridges?
So, only people that attend state funded universities are successful?
Where he comes from, in the circles he moves in, this is quite true.
Are people so angry with the President that they can somehow justify denying what he said?
I suppose someone could become wealthy if he was isolated from all the intellectual infrastructure in place due to government spending. But that person would be an anomaly.
Why aren’t all Americans as wealthy and successful as Bill Gates? Because there’s only room for a few Bill Gates in every generation. We celebrate the wealth and success of the Bill Gates type because they are the exception, not the rule.
If one looks at life only through the narrow template provided by the stifling ideology of the modern Conservative, it would only make sense for that person observing through that template to take a good look at himself and wonder why he is posting on an internet message board and not creating the next big innovation.
But, apparently, that template only allows criticism of the President and not personal introspection.
Our country is in serious trouble if there are still idiot racists out there that think Obama is a communist but can’t provide one communist agenda he has supported.
Obama is of course stating the obvious, but apparently it’s not obvious to everyone.