Who you calling lazy?

New York Daily News ^ | 11-17-11 | Andrea Tanteros

[afraidfortherepublic]

It is arguably the job of any U.S. President to be our cheerleader-in-chief. That’s why President Obama’s recent comments blasting the business community for being asleep at the switch have the rest of the country reeling.

“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — ‘Well, people would want to come here’ — and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America,” he told the corporate chiefs who gathered at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

But with millions of Americans out of work, maybe it’s the President who needs to do a better job of making America more attractive. Instead, Obama has reverted to his old playbook as he campaigns across the country on a platform of doom and gloom meant to deflect blame from himself to the Republicans.

Back in September, Obama said in Florida, “We are a great, great country that has gotten a little soft, and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades.” Then in California, “We have lost our ambition, our imagination and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam.”

If we’re so pathetic, why would Obama want to preside over such a despondent dump of unimaginative, directionless losers?

The answer is simple: Obama needs a down-and-out America to win a second term. His strategy is to paint a picture of a sad, slothful, ailing America that is in need of rescue. Salvation that only he — the one we had been waiting for — can deliver. How else can he make the case that he can save us, much like he did in 2008?

[bert]

Every morning, the President must look in the drawer for the slip of paper, and read it.......This is my ass, this is a hole in the ground

[Common Sense 101]

Funny. Because of ignorant, socialist “shit for brains” like the current pResident,”innovation” has been reduced to finding ways around the stifling regulation, highest corporate tax rates in the world, and other governmental “barriers to entry” to provide products and services. As always, dumba$$ anti-capitalist demonrats create the problem, then point the finger of blame at the private sector. I absolutely loathe these scumbags...

[frogjerk]

I’m not defending the eurotrash but scheduling meetings at 8:30 am is dunb. The vast majority of meetings are time wasters used by people in love with their own voice

[Melchior]

True. Leisure, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Second in line is war.

[Melchior]

True. Leisure, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Second in line is war.

[auntyfemenist]

Wish we had a like button for that cartoon, I’d click it twice.

[opentalk]

(today at Lucianne)

[LomanBill]

“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. “

Translation - 51% “need” can not be fed by 49% “ability”.

Work Harder, Comrades, for the good of the Collective.

[Pollster1]

“We’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — ‘Well, people would want to come here’ — and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new businesses into America,”

If we were more like Obama instead of being so lazy, all our problems would disappear? I have no problem with a man spending time with his children, in fact, I wish Obama would spend a lot more time with his family instead of destroying our country, but he has no business claiming that we're "lazy". Few of us spend as much time on vacation as he does. Most of us have to produce results to keep our jobs. This communist knows nothing about real people in the real world, those of us who work for a living.

[onehipdad]

Good one! I’m waiting to board a flight to Chicago from Singapore after spending a week in Batam, Indonesia at a company that makes commercial aircraft engine components. The department I was observing is staffed by three hardworking individuals working 12 hour shifts seven days a week, and the organization, management, and maintenance of that facility would put a lot of the companies I visit in the US to shame.
The fact of the matter is, naivete on the part of the American Worker is unavoidable, given the fact that very few Americans have any exposure whatsoever to the way of the world outside of their own limited sphere of influence. The good news is, most folks I meet in my considerable travels (i.e. 175k miles flown each year) still have a great deal of admiration for all things American, but my cynical side is whispering their object of affection has become an illusion if not a caricature of its former self.
Those jobs that people whine about having gone overseas are being done a lot more efficiently by hardworking people who take pride in what they produce because of a tradition that abhors shame above all else. That’s a rare commodity to find in these United States these days.

Oh, and if you’d like to know why I despise unions, take a listen to the podcast “Petty Tyrant” which aired on This American Life a couple of weeks ago.

[rlmorel]

Sigh. I can’t disagree, and will listen to that podcast, but I expect it will be like preaching to the choir...