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Obama's Newest Excuse: Lazy Americans
Townhall ^ | 11-14-11 | John Ransom

Posted on 11/14/2011 6:37:36 AM PST by Driftwood1

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“We’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades,” said Obama to leaders at the APEC Leaders Summit in Honolulu. “We’ve kind of taken for granted -- well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America.”<\i>

Saying Obama is calling Americans lazy seems like a mischaracterizaton. What's lazy is Obama's theory as to why business doesn't come here. I'd say it has more to do with the tax, regulatory environment along with the cost advantage of using third world labor. But Obama is too lazy to bother thinking about it much. So he just says something offensive because it suits his character.

21 posted on 11/14/2011 7:03:08 AM PST by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Westbrook

Just who is this moron-president calling lazy? Isn’t he the one who starts his day about 10 am or so in the office. Isn’t he the one who parties the night away? Isn’t he the one who is mostly on vacation? Isn’t he the one who has played golf 90+ time since being elected? Isn’t he the one who has never held a “real” job in his worthless life? Pot meet Kettle.


22 posted on 11/14/2011 7:09:33 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: jpl

Play golf, plan vacation. Play golf, plan vacation. I belive he should look in the damn mirror.


23 posted on 11/14/2011 7:16:00 AM PST by elephant
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To: Driftwood1

Punish hard work by taking more profits away and redistribute it to the irresponsibile (minus a 50% government overhead cut) and the producers will get lazy quick. It’s the reason socialism destroys prosperity. For the envious left that’s a feature not a bug.


24 posted on 11/14/2011 7:16:33 AM PST by Reeses (Have you mocked a Democrat today?)
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To: Reeses

“Work will set you free”- Obama 2012!


25 posted on 11/14/2011 7:22:04 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Driftwood1
obama lazy americans
26 posted on 11/14/2011 7:25:48 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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F U B O
27 posted on 11/14/2011 7:26:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Driftwood1

Coming from a guy who has never put in a 40 hour week, that’s laughable. The man spent his entire life on vacation.


28 posted on 11/14/2011 7:28:57 AM PST by Jaidyn
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Lazy Americans are Obama's foot soldiers

"Take off you house slippers and put on your marching shoes"...which leads one to ponder what demographic was Obama talking to?

29 posted on 11/14/2011 7:29:35 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: hal ogen

Oh, c’mon, now.

Real hard work that requires real time and real effort and constant education is for the proletariat like you and me.

The commissariat get to live large and take it easy, because, after all, they are the anointed elite.


30 posted on 11/14/2011 7:30:05 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: Westbrook

I’m sorry. I must get back to work now to pay my taxes. What was I thinking???


31 posted on 11/14/2011 7:36:27 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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> I must get back to work now to pay my taxes.
> What was I thinking??

Good to know that you’ve rediscovered “your place” in the cogworks.

Your rededication to the hive will make Big Brother and the commissariat very happy. Now they won’t have to waste time and money to reeducate or execute you. After all, that’s time and money they could be spending on golf courses and with (pre-)pubescent consorts in exotic places.


32 posted on 11/14/2011 7:42:18 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: hal ogen

This coming out of the mouth of a clown who never held a real job all his adult life. Does nothing but pay lip service to the union thugs and social elites. slams this country every chance he gets. Once again, while we were serving in the military he was serving a drug dealer for drugs.


33 posted on 11/14/2011 7:42:48 AM PST by Busko
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To: Driftwood1

What an assclown ! Just like Jimmy Carter, he mentions indirectly it is our fault for the malaise that we are in !


34 posted on 11/14/2011 7:52:23 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: Driftwood1

Bttt


35 posted on 11/14/2011 7:55:36 AM PST by aberaussie
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To: CORedneck

Stopped clock alert. Americans, especially their children, are indeed very lazy. Read the headlines. Heck in Alabama they have proved incapable of replacing the illegals in agricultural work.


36 posted on 11/14/2011 8:15:03 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Westbrook

I experience great relief now. Once again, I love the Collective.


37 posted on 11/14/2011 9:28:19 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Not at the wages the farms are paying.

That and you can’t legally hire kids to do what I used to do anymore.


38 posted on 11/14/2011 9:33:45 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: hal ogen

> I experience great relief now. Once again, I love the Collective.

That’s the spirit, tovarish (comrade).


39 posted on 11/14/2011 9:58:11 AM PST by Westbrook
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To: Driftwood1

Lazy socialist drones. Conservatives work.


40 posted on 11/14/2011 10:04:19 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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