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Obama's right, Americans can't succeed without government (barfffff alert)
foxnews.com ^ | 7/17/12 | Sally Kohn

Posted on 07/17/2012 4:38:37 PM PDT by onlylewis

"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."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: opinion
SOMEBODY!!!

That SOMEBODY Sally was the American people not the government! The government has created nothing but problems.

1 posted on 07/17/2012 4:38:46 PM PDT by onlylewis
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To: onlylewis

On Fox, no less.

Ya know. Just thinking about the Saudi connection of Fox (they have minority ownership). It’s an Islamist government with some truly execrable public policies. You could lose your head over it (pun intended). But it sure doesn’t pretend to be the be-all and end-all of Saudi Arabia’s economic life. Now if Saudi Arabia is that smart why can’t Obama be.


2 posted on 07/17/2012 4:42:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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To: onlylewis

I’m so sick of government “investing”. Who invests in bridges and roads?


3 posted on 07/17/2012 4:42:54 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: onlylewis

What was the title of Hillary’s book? “It Takes a Village Idiot”?


4 posted on 07/17/2012 4:45:27 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: onlylewis
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.

That's such a painfully stoopid statement that my brain will scream into my skull if I attempt a reply.
5 posted on 07/17/2012 4:47:14 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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To: onlylewis

Kohn met her partner, Sarah Hansen, at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2003. Hansen works as an activist and consultant, and is the former Executive Director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. They have a 3 year old girl, Willa Eliza Hansen-Kohn.


6 posted on 07/17/2012 4:49:51 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: onlylewis

I listened to an old short video— Paul Harvey: If I Were the Devil.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/H3Az0okaHig?rel=0


7 posted on 07/17/2012 4:56:19 PM PDT by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: onlylewis

How the heck did our founding fathers survive without all that government help - paved roads, damns, taxes (well, maybe without those at that time).

I guess we could not have survived without all of today’s overbearing government control or maybe we would be enormously successful with them...like the old days!


8 posted on 07/17/2012 5:00:14 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: onlylewis

Sally you ignorant slut.

Maybe you should have paid more attention to your grandfather. He didn’t have government build his business. Truth be told government was probably an impediment. But if his business and others did not succeed THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY NEED FOR THOSE ROADS AND BRIDGES! WE paid for those...we told governments to build them. Not sure how you miss that.
Government doesn’t exist to pick winners and losers, to make investments...it exists only by our consent to do our bidding. Zero is dead wrong. He is not a leader...he is a servant.

Not that any of them think they are any more... Thats why we have lost control of our government..and dumbazzes like you making excuses for it don’t help.


9 posted on 07/17/2012 5:01:02 PM PDT by Adder (Da bro has GOT to go!)
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To: RandallFlagg

What is it that Ron White says, “You can’t fix STUPID!!


10 posted on 07/17/2012 5:03:47 PM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: onlylewis

>> “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.”

Presumably, from the great, selfless union of Public Education. /s

They’re paid to teach, moron. And if the students are lucky, only the most fundamental aspects of the primary disciplines are taught.

Take this template, and shove it. PE does NOT teach entrepreneurship, nor does it inspire greatness. I don’t give a # what anecdotes are thrown out.


12 posted on 07/17/2012 5:10:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Deagle
The more the government grows the less the country thrives. The people who agree with Marxist obama come from areas that create nothing. Academics, media people and government bureaucrats know nothing about creating a profitable business.
13 posted on 07/17/2012 5:16:53 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: onlylewis

I can see her point. It took many Commie teachers and acquaintances to make Obama the man he is today. We shouldn’t forget a shout out to various dopers and American hating Muslims and Christians too.


14 posted on 07/17/2012 6:04:19 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obamaid has to go.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Sally is FOX’s token lesbian. She’s the Rachel Maddow of FOX.


15 posted on 07/17/2012 6:07:26 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: HiTech RedNeck

My wife said “Fox doesn’t cover the news. They cover for obama.”


16 posted on 07/17/2012 6:21:48 PM PDT by Terry Mross ( To kin and former friends: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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To: onlylewis

I wonder if Silly Sally realizes the government builds all the country’s infrastructure with tax payer money. The reality then becomes the government can’t do anything without private individuals “helping” them.


17 posted on 07/17/2012 6:30:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: onlylewis
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.."

He's referring to himself. He couldn't make it on his own.
18 posted on 07/18/2012 12:42:39 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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