Posted on 10/25/2011 8:08:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.
“The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.
“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said. “That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”
Obama and Democrats have been emphasizing what they see as the costly consequences of the Republicans’ agenda in an effort to stir up support, in part by touching on emotional nerves.
Last week, Obama supporters pounced on comments by Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney that the solution to the nation’s housing crisis is “don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.”
Today, Obama cast Republicans’ hands-off approach as harmful to middle class families, who he says deserve government help.
“I reject an argument that says we’ve got to roll back protections that ban hidden fees by credit card companies, or rules that keep our kids from being exposed to mercury, or laws that prevent the health insurance industry from exploiting people who are sick,” Obama said. “And I reject the idea that somehow if we strip away collective bargaining rights, that we’ll be somehow better off.
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how about the ownership class tell the government ‘you’re on your own?
Starve the beast.
53% of the population by nature prefers security over risk-taking. These are the ones Obama is trying to appeal to with that kind of talk.
On our own? Real Americans have always been proud to be on our own. Independence, freedom, rugged individualism and self-reliance is our national heritage.
Idiot Marxists and liberal sheeple excluded, of course.
Consider this sentence.
An ABC reporter actually wrote it.
"A painful era of self-reliance". He actually wrote that.
As opposed to "a comfortable era of reliance on the government"? And where has that gotten us?
It's a very telling phrase...
I hope I am on my own. Otherwise I am a slave.
He says like it's a bad thing.
Maybe Obamalamadingdong finally gets it. If he was investigated just a tenth of what Palin was he’d still be walking the streets of Chicago as some organizer passing out hand bills.
It is a false analogy. Government is not helping us, it is hurting us. This is like Obama saying they will no longer be dragging us along and we will have to walk on our own. However the reality is government overhead is like walking along with about an additional 40% of our weight attached to our legs.
A government that respects its own citizens? Horrors!
Good!
This may be Ubanga's best strategy to energize the bums, deadbeats and parasites who comprise the Democrat party "base", but normal, working Americans who want government out of their faces, out of their wallets, and out of their way are (hopefully!) shrugging and pissing in his general direction.
****Government Will Tell People ‘You’re on Your Own’****
Yea, like that will ever happen. They have so many rules and regs we will never be on our own, unfortunately.
Tell me the truth... this is one of John Semmens' semi-news parodies.
If you want to put some salt on your popcorn - you're on your own.
If you want to save for your own retirement - you're on your own.
If you want to drink raw milk - you're on your own.
If you to drive to work in an eight cylinder car instead of an underpowered golf cart - you're on your own.
If you want to leave the fruits of a lifetime of hard work to your children - you're on your own.
The occupy asshats think they can control government.
Don’t know if “you’re on your own” is a promise or a threat. I guess it depends on what you expect to do for yourself, and whether you view yourself as a victim or not.
The First Liar strikes again.
That’s the thing about liberals isn’t it. They are so goddamn condescending it’s unreal. It comes from their extreme arrogance and elitism; That people are mere children who cannot get through life without their masterful guidance which is exactly why the Dumbocrat party attracts so many sociopaths and psychotics.
I dare him to give me that in writing and lets notarize it just to be sure...
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Uh, no...there are thousands of churches, local charities and insurance companies that help the sick every day. And MORE will help if Gov't gets out of the way.
The First Creep is truly nauseating.
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