Posted on 07/21/2012 4:57:46 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
PING!
It WOULD be funny if it weren’t so tragic!
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I paid for the road.
I have a right to use the road.
Now give me your car!
I feel compelled to (very partially) come to his defense.
I have known successful people who were, IMO, excessively arrogant as to the extent to which they had “earned” their success, with the implicit statement that anybody who hadn’t been as successful equally deserved their lack of success.
Inborn talents and abilities have a great deal to do with success, as does one’s upbringing. None of this is in and of itself something a person is personally responsible for. The extent to which they take advantage of their opportunities, but seldom the opportunities themselves.
There is also a massive amount of luck involved in the degree of success. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would have in 1800 or 1900 in all likelihood been modestly successful. World-bestriding accomplishments had much to do with their particular abilities being those that fit the times. In earlier centuries, not so much.
We have also all known those who have gained “success” by lying, cheating and backstabbing. That’s not really something to be proud of.
I’m sure I don’t mean by this what Obama and his ilk do, but I still think those who are successful should try to retain some element of humility, not succumbing to what the Greeks called hubris. And at the same time not despising those who have not achieved the same degree of success. There may be very good reasons, and in their shoes the successful guy might not have done any better.
First rule of holes...
Hussein was just trying to keep the class warfare ginned up for the election. Or maybe he wants to make sure the rioters target pleanty of businesses when he goes down in flames.
Preaching to the parasites that they somehow contributed something meaningful to society and commerce is just another way of confirming to the takers that they’re entitled, by virtue of the fact that they draw breath, to the fruits of another’s labor.
It’s always the same message, just served with different “nuances” and trimmings.
Top 10!?
I know very few business people who would dare to say that they had no help; however, that help came from family and friends or private entities such as banks. Dear Reader’s argument is that success is permitted by the state and that all you have is the result of the state allowing you to obtain it.
Well done! Thanks for the ping.
[OK, DUmmie hfojvt, with over 29,000 posts, maybe you aren't an LFT. You could just be a DUmmie having a Brief Moment of Mental Clarity, in which case I must award you . . . a Kewpie Doll! . . . which, by the way, you did not build, somebody else made that.]
There!
ISN’T THAT WHAT THE FLASH MOBS SAY THAT RAID THE STORES?
That's one that's been bouncing around in my head for days, unformed. It took your genius to bring it to light!
LOL! Mr DUH himself!
Even his body language tells you he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
He looks at the camera and suddenly realizes he has that “deer in the headlight” look and shifts to a more thoughtful, then bored posture.
What an asshat.
Yes -- first by the blood of Revolution and through the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, whom his ilk are so ready to dismiss .... Then, via the enterprise, ingenuity & hard work of countless Americans in our history seeking to improve their lives, and in so doing providing opportunity for their fellow citizens and the following generations.
If Obama made an absurd statement, he didn’t write it. The Hahvahd Fauxahontas wrote it for him.
What Obumbo said REALLY DOES APPLY.....in a COMMUNIST country.
You get only what the state allows you to have.
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