Posted on 05/10/2016 8:58:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Pres. Obama doubled down on his infamous “You didn’t build that” claim when he declared “You can’t build” that and then told college graduates they gained their degrees by being “lucky.”
In remarks about the economy on Friday, Obama chastised those who think they’re self-sufficient and don’t need government:
“You can’t build your own metro system. You can’t build your own highway. You can’t build your own airport. And so we have a specific problem with under-investing in infrastructure.”Then, on Saturday, Pres. Obama told Howard University graduates that his “pet peeve” is people like them who don’t credit luck for their success:
“And that means we have to not only question the world as it is, and stand up for those African Americans who haven’t been so lucky — because, yes, you’ve worked hard, but you’ve also been lucky. That’s a pet peeve of mine: People who have been successful and don’t realize they’ve been lucky.”The remarks are redolent of comments Obama made to business owners when he told them that, if they have a successful business, “You didn’t build that.” …
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The only thing Obama ever built was a triple-scoop cone at bask in-Robbins.
That speech was demeaning to everyone in that audience. His accent, his demeanor, the theme of his speech....it was sad that these college graduates had to sit and listen to this instead of an uplifting and intelligent message for the future.
And IIRC gave them away free to the Choom Gang. It was an endeavor he described as “brutal”.
Maybe the biggest unintentional insult I have ever received came from a family member of mine. The loving persion REALLY did not mean it as an insult.
My immediate family (wife and I) had decided that we didn’t want to live in the DC area. We wanted to move back to the Midwest. (We never wanted to live there but I had been transferred with a GREAT employer and couldn’t get RE-transferred out). I sought out new employment and accepted an offer that would pay for my family to move where I wanted, with the company I chose to work for. An In-Law commented to my wife, “Your husband is ‘so lucky’. Everythings always seems to go his way.”
My wife was completely dumbfounded at why I thought that was so insulting. I know she didn’t mean it that way. But for those of us who take charge in our lives, work hard and earn our place, LUCK plays a VERY small part. We make our luck by creating opportunities, credentials, experience, records and successes.
But this President wouldn’t have ANY experience in the type of “luck” that most Americans EARN.
The only thing Obama ever built was a triple-scoop cone at bask in-Robbins.
I’ve had people tell me how lucky hubby and I are. I explain to them that it wasn’t luck that has our house paid for, or the Mercedes and the Jag in the garage. That it isn’t luck that allows us to be able to afford to do more or less whatever we want. I tell them we both worked our azzes off while young and lived within our means so that we could be set up after the kid was gone and retire early. We worked Christmas and birthdays. We had our Christmas dinner the day before because he had to work. I was never home on any holiday but Christmas because I had to work.
And we never whined about it, not once. We just trudged on looking down the road.
That sounds like obama. Demeaning and arrogant is all he knows.
When preparation meets opportunity
A person who is not self-sufficient survives by gaining the unearned and undeserved. Social existence and the existence of a rational government arevassets to self-sufficient individuals in their struggle for survival. All self-sufficient individuals who participate in society gain knowledge and trade from a social existence and a rational government that they could not gain from a solitary existence.
Dear Hussein Obama, I was researching your claim that we did not build that, the government did first and I am shocked in how wrong you are.
Ideals by Ideals “how we got to now” on PBS
1. Winepress (invented by farmers)
2. Cheese press (invented by farmers)
3. Printing press (invented by Benjamin Franklin)
4. Need to read, then glasses (education), newspaper
5. Glasses, types of glass, then mirrors, telescope, micro scopes
6. Micro scopes, then science & medicines
7. Science & medicines, then vaccines & medicines <-beginning of government controls and regulation
8. Telescopes, then glasses for far sign and near sight
9. Cameras, then live cameras used for TV
10. NASA, advanced telescope to see stars & moon, Video used in long distance, travel
11. Fiber glass, then laser using fiber, fiber optics
I thought that Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, hence the fame of the Gutenberg Bible.
We have Franklin to thank for bifocals, the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, the notion of positive and negative atomic charges, among other things.
0bama grew up with White Privilege.
This worthless excuse for a human being is absolutely the worst president in history! Further, he’s definitely at the top of the list of the most evil despots in the history of the world!
Obama voters are now being inspired, by a pathological liar, lesbian and felon: Hillary Clinton.
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