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Obama Calls on Nation to ‘Invent Stuff’ ("We Need to Build Stuff and Invent Stuff”)
The Blaze ^ | January 22, 2011 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 01/22/2011 9:33:22 AM PST by RobinMasters

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To: Pontiac
"In Obama’s America there is no incentive to create."

Freemen will climb mighty mountains without complaint and build monuments to life. Slaves take a pebble at a time until the mightiest plan of the ruler declines to nothingness.

We've been in decline for sometime now. Obama thinks he is going to stop the bleeding with a few fake moves to the right. Ain't gonna happen.

41 posted on 01/22/2011 10:16:00 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: RobinMasters

The reason entrepreneurs take the risk in developing new products or innovations is to make a profit. However, if whatever they make from taking these risks is highly taxed and government regulations hamstring and block almost anything you want to do why bother?


42 posted on 01/22/2011 10:16:02 AM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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To: RobinMasters

Why should we do “useful stuff” at your request when you take the fruits of our labor (which you’ve done nothing to earn or deserve) by very credible threat of force?


43 posted on 01/22/2011 10:16:45 AM PST by sourcery (If true=false, then there would be no constraints on what is possible. Hence, the world exists.)
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To: RobinMasters
I've invented an acid that will eat through anything. I just haven't found a container for it.
44 posted on 01/22/2011 10:17:30 AM PST by Walmartian
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To: EternalVigilance

Build it, then the EPA etc. can ban o
it.


45 posted on 01/22/2011 10:19:46 AM PST by Waco (From Seward to Sarah.)
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To: RobinMasters
Yeah, invent "Stuff" so he can take over the world.....


46 posted on 01/22/2011 10:24:09 AM PST by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Jim Robinson

BOOOO!

The only “tax incentive” government should give is LOW TAX RATES for everyone.


47 posted on 01/22/2011 10:24:53 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: RobinMasters

Wow. The Greatest Orator of All Times really is a dunce.


48 posted on 01/22/2011 10:26:31 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: RobinMasters

Obama, the government needs to cut stuff and de-regulate stuff and make it worth while to build stuff and invent stuff in America instead of sending jobs and stuff overseas for stuff to be made.


49 posted on 01/22/2011 10:27:54 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: RobinMasters

Mr. President, inventing “stuff” requires capital, capital you and your cronies keep confiscating for your own ends. Or if you don’t confiscate it outright, your policies inflate away the value of existing capital or your regulators tie up in knots in a futile effort to avoid taking risks because you don’t like the possibility of failure. But it is exactly failure that allows invention to take place - not “smart” investments by government. It is people who are willing to take risks and seek some sort of reward from that risk-taking who drive economies forward not decrees from the head of state.


50 posted on 01/22/2011 10:30:05 AM PST by garbanzo (You better hold on; This one's about to get bumpy.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Great observation. I’m perpetually amazed that American blacks, who are usually so quick to perceive phoniness in all its forms, continue to buy his line.


51 posted on 01/22/2011 10:30:33 AM PST by giotto
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To: RobinMasters
What Zero (and Brown, and Pelosi, and Feinstein, and Kerry, and all the other RAT idiots) doesn't realize is that in order to invent/produce/refine something, there has to be an amount of energy there to do it. You can't invent some kind of energy source out of nowhere. That means that guys who "invent stuff" will need energy from oil, coal, and nukes before the "magic warp core Mr. Fusion thingee" will ever be made. Too much regulation? Not green enough? Too bad.

I think that the next major technological jump will be in secret, lest the gvt. regulate it out of existence.

52 posted on 01/22/2011 10:30:55 AM PST by Othniel (There is no god named Allah, and Mohammed is its false prophet.)
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To: RobinMasters

I am here walking my dog waiting patiently for him to invent stuff.I will pick it up, bag it and throw it on the trash. See anyone, even your dog can invent stuff! The idiocy amazes me still


53 posted on 01/22/2011 10:31:05 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V.........................................FOR VOMIT)
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To: RobinMasters
“build stuff and invent stuff”

The alleged president is not able to deal with details; however, I wonder if there might be more to it.

I'm not an expert (so corrections invited); but could this qualify as a grandiose fantasy that is typical of the malignant narcissist ?

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54 posted on 01/22/2011 10:33:27 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: RobinMasters

Why? The government will just steal all the profits.


55 posted on 01/22/2011 10:35:53 AM PST by tiki
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To: RobinMasters

Excerpt from the speech he gave:

“Since early in my term, our efforts to invent stuff have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Invent Stuff Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides-time for a great new American enterprise-time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in the inventing of stuff, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.”

Oh, my, how far we have fallen in 50 years.


56 posted on 01/22/2011 10:36:02 AM PST by radioone (Proud to be an enemy of Obama)
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To: RobinMasters

He’s functionally illiterate.


57 posted on 01/22/2011 10:38:09 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Well, if you want to get real, there shouldn’t be any tax rates at all based on income, production, or investments, etc. Just an excise tax on consumption. But, until we get back to constitutional reality, I will take all the reductions and incentives I can get.


58 posted on 01/22/2011 10:39:12 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: ronnie raygun
"I am here walking my dog waiting patiently for him to invent stuff. I will pick it up, bag it and throw it on the trash."

Dude...Market your stuff as dude. I'll bet you can sell it on Ebay.

59 posted on 01/22/2011 10:39:16 AM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: EternalVigilance

That’s why I say all hell will break loose if he is re-elected in 2012. People will tell them to go to hell and begin to fight back. The “takers” vs the “producers”. Going Galt will intensify.


60 posted on 01/22/2011 10:39:46 AM PST by unkus
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