Posted on 09/30/2011 5:26:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Or is it only the welfare-industrial complex that runs greater and greater segments of American society?
Yes, our Spender-in-Chief, B. “Tax-the-Rich” Obama said in an interview that “this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.”
Two points: When, Barack, did you start thinking — or, more to the point, start saying — that America was “a great, great country”? It wasn’t so long ago that you were jetting around the world apologizing for America. What changed your mind? Could it be that your handlers have let you in on the fact that bad-mouthing the country is not a good re-election strategy?
They’re right about that, you know, but my chief point is the second: Who told you that America had lost its competitive edge “over the last couple of decades”? Whoever it was, you should sack him. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Like Koko in the Mikado, I have a little list, and I offer it to you, Barack, free and for nothing, without tax or levy:
Google. Yahoo. Facebook. Microsoft. Intel. Apple. Cisco. Adobe. Oracle. Wikipedia. YouTube. Twitter. Sun. Amazon. eBay.
What do these world-bestriding colossi have in common? One thing is, they’re American companies. What other country can field a tenth as many innovative tech companies? None.
No, there is nothing flaccid about American business. There’s plenty of keenness on its “competitive edge.” It’s far and away the most productive and innovative economic machine in the world.
What’s “gone soft” and lost its “competitive edge” is American government, which can’t see a pile of money it doesn’t wish to expropriate in order to feed its “spread-the-wealth-around” socialist appetite and which sees government as the adversary rather than the enabler of business. That’s the rotten softness we have to worry about.
So please, Barack, don’t tell us that America has “gone soft” or “lost its competitive edge” when it’s you and your policies that are as soft and edgeless as a freshly shucked oyster. Once again, you have demonstrated beyond cavil that you have no idea what you are talking about. If you and your army of tax-hungry, regulation-spewing bureaucrats would just get out of the way, you’d see in a matter of months what the most innovative and productive economy in the world could do with respect to jobs here at home. But job creation is yet another thing you haven’t a clue about.
Cato the Elder used to end his speeches with the exhortation “Carthago delenda est,” “Carthage must be destroyed.” A friend suggested a fitting imperative for our times: OMG, “Obama must go.” I like it and plan on using it myself. I encourage others to follow suit.
OMG!
We will see the result of soft America in the next 15 years. Our little American children are being taught to hate guns, violence, don’t be competitive, and love the guys who kill Americans. Our little love bugs will be facing children that are being taught to strap on bombs and die for their cause, how to handle assualt weapons and missiles and hate Americans with a passion our kids will never understand.
From the tone of this pablum, one might think that there’s an election coming soon....but, no, wait Gov Perdue of NC has the solution...cancel elections so the will of the People will not matter....you folks in NC beware of your Trojan Horse governor.
I found this one fascinating.
Here you got The King of the Handout's POTUS endlessly portraying American’s as victims and proposing endless waves of handouts like keeping Americans on unemployment comp for years, now sounding like one of my Mises posts or like demonized Sharon Angle. Is he schizophrenic?
Mac Daddy has blame almost everyone in the world for the problems HE has caused except HIMSELF. When everyone on this planet has been blamed for the problems HE caused he will move onto those inhabinates of the planey ZOTAR.
He’s right, and his own election is proof.
Corporate "tax" rate is always zero because end user, that's us, pays all expenses, including taxes. Otherwise, the corporation will lose money and go out of business. Taxing coporations just makes everything more expensive. A more correct statement would be...
Individuals are paying 30%. Plus on top of that we have to pay more for all the goods and services that we use since dumb liberals think corporations should be taxed on top of all the taxes we are already paying.
I just saw that on Drudge and went ballistic!
I’d appreciate it if this were posted a couple-uh times today.
I’m going to have a hard time posting off my cell phone but, if anyone can post my Patton post i’d apprecite it.
“America has gone soft” - that’s not news to Russia, China, Iran, etc...
“Americans have gotten weary” of an out-of-control Administration that thinks the way to prosperity is more regulation, rampant spending, and unsustainable deficit spending.
On the other hand, the White House says unemployment benefits stimulate the economy, while a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and receiving food stamps.
Barrack! You M%?+#Fu&%”#R!!!
America has never, ever been soft!
The softest part of America is that spot on your head that never healed.
You stoopid Bastuhd!
I didn’t like you before I read your assinine comment but, now I hate you.
You are so arrogant and delusional to think you can say whatever you want and run down my country.
Get the Effin Hell out of my White House!
I only wish I could post the greatest put down I have ever seen but, I don’t have my laptop.
You are an Annus.
You make sick with your purile existence.
Go eff yerself.
Correct. The Kenyan lizard gives his malaise speech.
He might have well said..I give up.
Barrack! You M%?+#Fu&%”#R!!!
America has never, ever been soft!
The softest part of America is that spot on your head that never healed.
You stoopid Bastuhd!
I didn’t like you before I read your assinine comment but, now I hate you.
You are so arrogant and delusional to think you can say whatever you want and run down my country.
Get the Effin Hell out of my White House!
I only wish I could post the greatest put down I have ever seen but, I don’t have my laptop.
You are an Annus.
You make sick with your purile existence.
Go eff yerself.
He's a placeholder at this point in a very bad situation.
Dismissive? Certainly. He's viewed here and in the rest of the world as impotent. He's degraded the presidency enough and that was the point.
And you think raising taxes, more regulations & corporate and political cronyism will fix things?
F U B O
omg
Good one...
“Has America “Gone Soft”?
I’m re-reading Steinbeck’s Travels With Charlie and interestingly, more than a few “old timers” he meets ask the same question .... 50 years ago.”
If you are actually re-reading that tripe, I hope you are aware that it is fiction.
I give little credit to the RINO party, but Democrats have led the way in endless handouts that in the long run are killing the recipients.
The endless unemployment comp (and employer mandates ) is like those enabler parents on A+E Intervention giving their kids money for crystal meth and crack then lementing it.
Soft ?? FUBO
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