I could've sworn those guys built that...

[sjfcontrol]

I Predict...

You didn't build that!

will go down in history alongside...

Read my Lips!

[74novaman]

I Predict...

You didn't build that!

will go down in history alongside...

Read my Lips!

I don't know, Obama has said some stupid things before and they didn't stick. I hope it does, but we will see.

[sjfcontrol]

I Predict...

You didn't build that!

will go down in history alongside...

Read my Lips!

I don't know, Obama has said some stupid things before and they didn't stick. I hope it does, but we will see.

Most of the stupid things he says are stupid mistakes. (57 states, repeatedly mispronouncing "corpsman", etc.) This is not only stupid, but insulting to the extreme, and it wasn't a mistake, he really meant it, and meant to say it.

[74novaman]

Most of the stupid things he says are stupid mistakes. (57 states, repeatedly mispronouncing "corpsman", etc.) This is not only stupid, but insulting to the extreme, and it wasn't a mistake, he really meant it, and meant to say it.

True.

Here's another fun one:

[74novaman]

[VMI77]

I Predict...

You didn't build that!

will go down in history alongside...

Read my Lips!

I don't know, Obama has said some stupid things before and they didn't stick. I hope it does, but we will see.

Most of the stupid things he says are stupid mistakes. (57 states, repeatedly mispronouncing "corpsman", etc.) This is not only stupid, but insulting to the extreme, and it wasn't a mistake, he really meant it, and meant to say it.

The ones that stick tend to be the ones that are amplified by the MSM.....it's virtually impossible to get any play in the MSM for anything that puts The Obamanation in a negative light. I used to think the Obama hates American stuff was over the top, but I've slowly come to realize that this narcissist in chief really does hate this country and what it supposed to stand for. A second term for this lying narcissist will be catastrophic for this country.

[The Annoyed Man]

I wonder if TAM appreciates all the "help" that the gov't has given him in getting his web-development business going...

I've been boiling over ever since he opened his yap. I'd like to tell him a thing or three:

1. The government didn't give us roads, it charged us for them through our taxes.
2. 1% of the taxpayers pay 95% of the taxes that paid for those roads.
3. 47% of all taxpayers pay no federal taxes at all.
4. THEREFORE, Mr. Obama, by your own logic, those 47% of taxpayers—who use the roads but did not pay for them—ought to fall down on their knees in gratitude to the 1% of the taxpayers (i.e. business owners and captains of industry) who did pay for them.
5. And yet, that 1% has never EVER asked for a toll to be collected from the 47% THAT THOSE 47% DIDN'T APPROVE OF THEMSELVES!!!

Go put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Obama; 'cause that bong you've apparently been hitting since high school has got the wrong dope in it. The dope is all hanging off the end of it. The mouthpiece end.

You know, I understood the argument he was trying to make.......disagreed with it, but understood the point he was trying to make........until HE chose to go to the dark place.

The guy is a through and through marxist, right down to the bone. He promised us change. He has nearly killed us. If he is reelected, he'll give us the coup de grace. We simply cannot afford another four years of Obama.

And the thing about refusing to apologize for suggesting that Romney is a felon..............Mr. Obama, you're the dang president. YOU control the Justice Department. If you think that this true, then I flat DARE you to tell Eric 'What Guns' Holder to file federal charges against Romney for this allegedly serious violation of SEC law. That's what any RIGHT thinking executive would do. File the charges and arrest the man. If you're not willing to do that, THEN SHUT THE HECK UP!!!

The president is a commie moron, a thief, a liar, and an incipient dictator. I will be hanged if I'll keep quiet about his fecklessness.

You want to know what is coming down the pike if Obama gets reelected?

Organizations like the NRA will be in violation of federal law for collectively expressing the free speech rights of its membership: http://freespeechforpeople.org/McGovern. 4 states have already passed resolutions to support this amendment to the Constitution—Hawaii, New Mexico, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Massachusetts is about to become the 5th.

Here are some replies to that amendment which explain why it is so dangerous.......not just unwise, but downright dangerous:
http://news.yahoo.com/peoples-rights-am ... 00237.html
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/prof ... dment.html
This post by Eugene Volokh delves into the complications: http://www.volokh.com/2012/04/20/congre ... al-rights/
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/peoples- ... es-rights/
http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-mem ... w-j-franck

THIS will become a high priority for Obama if he gets reelected. You can count on it. But the stupid moron doesn't realize that turnabout is fair play. So if a republican got elected, he could use this law to suppress Moveon.org. He could use it to suppress Mediamatters.org, etc., etc., etc. In other words, this IS NOT about perserving the free speech of individuals. It is about SUPPRESSING individuals from leveraging one another's resources to collectively express political speech. And that, my friends, is overt suppression of the first amendment. You will be able to stand on a corner by yourself and hand out pamphlets, but you will be in violation of federal law if you and three of your friends buy a larger number of pamphlets together to hand out on 4 different street corners.

I believe, with all my heart and mind, that if Obama is reelected, he will so completely change the face of the United States and so completely neuter our freedoms that the country will become indistinguishable from western Europe. He is vile. He is morally compromised. He is a liar and a cheat. He is a criminal.....he just hasn't been caught yet.

[The Annoyed Man]

Most of the stupid things he says are stupid mistakes. (57 states, repeatedly mispronouncing "corpsman", etc.) This is not only stupid, but insulting to the extreme, and it wasn't a mistake, he really meant it, and meant to say it.

It was entirely consistent with his view of flyover state voters who "cling to their guns and their religion."

The man is beneath contempt.

[Texas Dan Mosby]

"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen....."
- Barack Obama

This, coming from a sitting American President.......

/sigh

Had a friend growing up who did construction work after high school. He saved his money and bought all of his own tools, and after a few years, he and a friend decided to go out on their own doing custom carpentry and home improvement. They slowly built up a clientele base, mostly from word of mouth. This dude worked 6 days a week, as long as it took to get the job done, and get it done RIGHT. To this day, he is one of THE hardest working individuals I have EVER met, and I haven't met anybody that was as adamant about attention to detail and perfection as he was on the job. The muldoon was a true craftsmen in every sense of the word.

He, and thousands out there like him, are what our country are all about. Hard working individuals willing to do what it takes to provide goods or services in demand by their fellow citizens.

And our sitting President just dumped all over these people.

And the media will support him, and people will STILL vote for him....

[VMI77]

"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen....."
- Barack Obama

This, coming from a sitting American President.......

/sigh

Had a friend growing up who did construction work after high school. He saved his money and bought all of his own tools, and after a few years, he and a friend decided to go out on their own doing custom carpentry and home improvement. They slowly built up a clientele base, mostly from word of mouth. This dude worked 6 days a week, as long as it took to get the job done, and get it done RIGHT. To this day, he is one of THE hardest working individuals I have EVER met, and I haven't met anybody that was as adamant about attention to detail and perfection as he was on the job. The muldoon was a true craftsmen in every sense of the word.

He, and thousands out there like him, are what our country are all about. Hard working individuals willing to do what it takes to provide goods or services in demand by their fellow citizens.

And our sitting President just dumped all over these people.

And the media will support him, and people will STILL vote for him....

I'd say yes, those coming from the least productive elements of society, or non-productive elements --but that wouldn't be correct, because the mainstream media isn't really non-productive, it is actually the most destructive influence in the country and the world entire. They don't just lie, they're degenerate and anti-American --truly a 5th column.

[The Annoyed Man]

And related:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201 ... -americans
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
By MEG HANDLEY

While Americans might enjoy throwing politically-charged barbs at their neighbors to the north, Canadians now have at least one reason to be smug.

For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a report cited in Toronto's Globe and Mail.

And not just by a little. Currently, the average Canadian household is more than $40,000 richer than the average American household. The net worth of the average Canadian household in 2011 was $363,202, compared to around $320,000 for Americans.

If you're thinking the Canadian advantage must be due to exchange rates, think again. The Canadian dollar has actually caught up to the U.S. dollar in recent years.

"These are not 60-cent dollars, but Canadian dollars more or less at par with the U.S. greenback," Globe and Mail's Michael Adams writes.

To add insult to injury, not only are Canadians comparatively better-off than Americans, they're also more likely to be employed. The unemployment rate is 7.2 percent—and dropping—in Canada, while the U.S. is stuck with a stubbornly high rate of 8.2 percent.

Small business owners didn't build that (systemic financial failure). Obama built it.

[Purplehood]

The whole point eludes BHO...taxes are generated from the revenues created by the people that are building things/ideas/services. They don't pop out of thin air as a generous largesse of the government.

[Dave2]

Arthur Herman (no clue who he is) has an interesting take on this over at foxnews.com: In small business remarks, Obama targets property rights, too

[tallmike]

The sound bite makes it sound like he is taking away all credit for individual accomplishment, but the entire statement is far from that and his point is valid.

What we achieve is not in a vacuum. We all benefit from the society we live in, including the infrastructure and security our government provides.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

Yes, some of his words could have been chosen better when you put it all in context and give it some rational thought you can see that it is true.

[74novaman]

The sound bite makes it sound like he is taking away all credit for individual accomplishment, but the entire statement is far from that and his point is valid.

What we achieve is not in a vacuum. We all benefit from the society we live in, including the infrastructure and security our government provides.

Yes, some of his words could have been chosen better when you put it all in context and give it some rational thought you can see that it is true.

Here is what he said:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me —because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

If those wealthy Americans want to give something back....nothing is stopping them from doing so. They can donate more to the IRS, provide to a charity, start an initiative to help people out. Penn Jillette sums up my problem with this idea of "taxing people is good because it helps others" idea.




Regarding rationally looking at what he's trying to say: That's easy. What he's saying is that because we don't live in a vacuum, people who have more money need to give some of that money back to the govt. I reject the idea of that as a positive thing in its entirety.

Let me ask you a question: What action of the Wright Brothers helped society more: The taxes they paid, or powered flight?

As far as I can tell, successful people are "doing their fair share" and giving back. Its the leaches on the other end who produce nothing, do nothing, and expect everything that are the problem.