Posted on 01/21/2015 12:15:44 PM PST by dobbyman
In the State of Union speech last night, Obama introduces the idea -
- "we should choose who do we want to be in the next 15 years..."
Shortly followed by Obama's Important Question to us all:
- "Do we accept an economy where only a FEW will do SPECTACULARLY WELL?"
But haven't most of us bought a LOTTERY Ticket and enjoy when there is a $100,000,000 Lottery Winner - hoping we win next time?
Haven't we always accepted:
- Professional Star Sport Players like Michael Jordan making $10,000,000 a year and more
- Movie Stars being Multi-millionaires
- Movie producers like Steven Spielberg - making 10s of millions of dollars
- Musical groups like the Beatles and Rolling Stones making 10s of millions of Dollars
- Lottery Winners - winning 100 Million Dollar lotteries
- Great Inventors like Steve Job, founder of Apple Corporation, rewarded with billion of dollars as we benefit from the Apple iPhone, iPads & iPods
- And like Bill Gates of Microsoft having billions as we benefit from the PC Microsoft Operating System
- Great Creators like Elon Musk, a multi-millionaire, as he created Pay Pal, Space X Corporation, Tesla Motors, & a Solar Power Company
- etc?.
- We in America and much of the western world HAS ALWAYS ACCEPTED that a FEW will do Spectacularly Well!
To President Obama - "YES WE DO ACCEPT!"
OBAMA seems to be one of the Few who could make such a "Spectacular" statement as that so carefully crafted for a State of the Union Address to the Nation ! - LOL
so·cial·ism
noun
1. a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
The question should be, “Do you accept a country whose government received $3 TRILLION in taxes last year, a new record, and it still isn’t enough for that greedy, oppressive cancer that is consuming far too much of our resources?”
Jim Kramer on CNBC said this morning that with Obama’s new tax hike, he will be paying 58% of his income in taxes. That is obscene. We are no longer a free country when government seizes that much of what people have worked for…particularly when hundreds of billions of tax dollars are wasted, unaccounted for, or go to cronies of government officials.
Half of the people are above average.
gee. only a few doing well..that’s exactly the kind of economy Obama has been imposing on us for 6 years already...fewer and fewer employment and business opportunities for any of us
!×÷ck head has zero idea just how much creativity is required to come up with great ideas and hire the right people to implement them.
That part of owning a business is so damned hard and requires more worked hours than most people are willing to put in.
Then....And Then, reality constantly confronts us and proves our ideas are unworkable or just plain wrong, requiring us to reevaluate and adjust to reality or completely abandon an idea.
All I do is try to make better decisions and I’m okay with the mistakes I make, particular as I have so many people telling I’m doing this, that and everything wrong.
“Why if I doing this, things would be so much better” is a constant refrain.
Thing is, I’m doing it and yer not....
Bite me.
“Do We Accept an Economy Where Only the Few will do Spectacularly Well?”
Well...yes.
They didnt steal the money, so they did something that made lots of people happy enough to exchange their money for whatever product they offered.
Not everyone will be able to do that, but everyone is free to have their shot at it. And should without your sorry ass trying to pilfer their earnings.
And I can assume that he isn’t going to target all of his buddies in Hollywood or in professional sports.
Quite right. This raises the fundamental flaw in the Robin Hood mentality: no matter how much wealth people have, there will always be a top and a bottom. Someone will always have the most and someone else will have the least. Taking from the top and giving to the bottom redistributes that wealth, but you have to constantly do that, because the wealth is still unequally distributed. So no matter how good we have it in the US, there will always be people whom we call “poor” because they simply have the least. Try comparing a “poor” family in Chicago or Detroit to a truly poor family in Bangladesh or Congo.
I am reminded of what ZORBA THE GREEK said when asked...”What work do you do?”
“I have hands, THEY do the work! Who the hell am I to choose?”-Zorba
I can live with those who can get rich by honest work!
Unless they’re working for the government and have all their wealth through theft and cronyism.
If everyone does as well as everyone else it wouldn’t be spectacular.
Only an idiotic socialist/communist would equate ‘doing well with a handout vs doing well in the free market.
Handouts are limiting in scope, while free markets are liberating and unfettered in the limitations of success.
That’a all? Shame on us. We’ve got to keep fighting poverty until at least three-quarters of us are above average.
The only “few” who have done well in Obama’s disaster of an economy are his crony capitalist buddies and government workers.
And the other half are below average.
he will be paying 58% of his income in taxes
In the medievil times the Serfs had to give their masters 50% of their daily output, they were considered SLAVES!
America is the best place in the world where EVERYONE has the OPPORTUNITY to do very well.
But not to him, America is greedy, racist & unfair.
He also doesn't get that average Americans as well as their retirement funds are also sharing with the very well off through company stock.
Oh, if only the people in all 57 states did spectacular, that would be unexpected.
Spraying his rank socialism/communism all over America hoping to hook as many fools and losers as he can. And appeasing his radical left, America-hating benefactors.
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