Posted on 09/24/2007 12:08:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There's no need to ask Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, why his agency created the Defending the American Dream Summit. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. -- who actually could be president one day -- can tell you.
At the NASDAQ stock market last week, Mr. Obama said the "'what's-good-enough-for-me-is-good-enough' mentality has crept into parts of the business world, while working men and women toil longer hours and still struggle to pay for health care, tuition and taxes," according to The Associated Press.
"If we are honest, I think we must admit that those who have benefited from the new global marketplace -- and that includes almost everyone in this room -- have not always concerned themselves with the losers in this new economy... . The danger with this mentality isn't just that it offends our morals, it's that it endangers our markets," he said.
The mere fact that Obama and his fellow liberals can openly demonize enlightened self-interest, hard work to be self-sufficient and individualism -- without being ridiculed by everyone with the ability to reason -- is frightening.
This republic is the most glorious example of what the individual can achieve. Given the centuries of experimentation with this economic system or that, can anyone name one -- just one -- nation that has excelled because of collectivism? Even the communists who still control China freely admit that the free market works. Perhaps Obama is unaware of the stunning success of Hong Kong once humans were free to do as they wish in the marketplace. Are liberals and their hopelessly misguided constituents in that much denial?
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In todays global marketplace, the income of the lowest 1/5 of wage earners earns as much as the median income of 35 years ago. That is in inflation adjusted dollars.
The two biggest causes of poverty according to the U.S. Census is fathers not living in the same household as their children and illegal immigration. B. Hussein Obama's party is complicit in the destruction of the family and blames the consequences on the free markets.
No attack on the producers and distributors of food ever fed a hungry child.And If we are honest, we must admit that criticizing the people who actually do things instead of merely condemning and complaining has been a highly profitable gig for so-called "objective" journalists, and their so-called "liberal" fellow travelers, for generations.
Cut taxes and regulations, and I will take care of my own health care. If we did not have such high taxes, so much regulation, and so many trial attorneys, we would not need government health care.
BS! US corporations funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to various social causes.
Ex: "April 25, 2005--ExxonMobil announced today its donation of more than $26 million to 932 colleges and universities across the United States through the ExxonMobil Foundation's 2004 Educational Matching Gift Program."
"...Business Roundtable member companies contributed more than $362 million to Gulf Coast relief following Hurricane Katrina"
"Wal-Mart to Contribute $25,000 To the Hispanic Women's Organization of Arkansas"
The list goes on and on...
No, just willful disbelief....they call it $oro$ Disorder.
Given the centuries of experimentation with this economic system or that, can anyone name one -- just one -- nation that has excelled because of collectivism?Sparta.
Obama's words sound like something James Taggart or Phil Reardon would say.
I wonder if the leftists know that Ayn Rand wrote the lines they perform every day...
Mark
Socialism=theft
I saw a great bumper sticker the other day, It said..”PISS OFF A LIBERAL...WORK HARD,BE HAPPY”. I thought that was great!
Sparta excelled because of militarism, not collectivism. There’s a huge difference.
A perfect summation of Leftist “activist” thinking. They never bother themselves with asking questions about HOW any of those “losers” became losers or, more importantly, how to help the losers become winners under their own power.
That is because doing so would remove much of the power from the Leftists hands, and because they have no interest in what is really best for those people. Their whole focus is on presenting THEMSELVES as heroes and saviors and thereby amplify and enhance their own personal power and prestige and, most importantly, STAYING IN POWER.
I would make an analogy between gangsters who run protection rackets and the doctrine and actions of the Leftists in government. The biggest difference between the ordinary gangsters and the gangster Leftists is that the ordinary gangsters admit what they are, while the Leftist gangsters try and hide their criminal activities with the flowery rhetoric of class, race and general “group” warfare, which keeps members of those groups too busy to closely examine the activities of the Leftist gangsters.
There has to be audio recordings of Barack Obama’s Constitutional law class.
I remember from law school, the professors were legal rejects from the real world.
Students record classes for their notes. Obama’s left wing views have to be on tape.
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