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I find this line particularly frightening/revealing
“It’s not that I want to punish your success,” Obama told him. “I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too.”
Obama’s definition of success = ?????
I submit that his definition of success is a person with all of their needs met even if it is a result of no effort on their part and totally the result of government handout.
Their was a story several months ago about families in England which had been on the “dole” for 3 generations, kids whose parents,uncles aunts and grandparents had never had a job(these were not immigrants but ethnic white anglo-saxon British. I read Obama as saying that the only thing standing between these people and “success” is a larger monthly government check.
You and I and the American population in general understands the term success as implying that a person accomplished something by their own efforts.
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The big lie that Obama and the left push constantly is the idea of “the less fortunate” the “dis-enfranchised” denying the reality that virtually anyone who makes a real effort can succeed in this country.
South East Asian refugees can arrive in America without a dime, not speaking a word of English and 3 years later they own their own dry cleaning business, 5 years later a chain of dry cleaners.
George Will pointed out long ago that the number of families in poverty, who waited until marriage to have children and waited to marry until they had finished their education is a very tiny percentage.