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EDITORIAL: Mind your own business, Obama
The Washington Times ^ | July 16, 2012 | Editorial

Posted on 07/16/2012 8:07:33 PM PDT by jazusamo

Left-wing president favors the collective over individual initiative

President Obama thinks business owners don’t actually do anything. This is the most convincing proof yet that he has no concept of how the economy works.

At a rally in Roanoke, Va., last week, Mr. Obama was trying to justify new tax increases on upper-income Americans by saying that no one in this country makes it alone. “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” he said. It is true that people’s lives are influenced by others — most importantly parents, then teachers, friends and professional colleagues. But in Mr. Obama’s mind, individuals owe a collective debt to people they have never met, those who built the political system, those who created the economy and — most fundamentally — to an all-wise, beneficent government.

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that,” Mr. Obama continued. “Somebody else made that happen.” This claim would come as a surprise to the small-business owners who have invested their lives and life savings in making a go of it. It would be a shock to inventors and innovators who have been the drivers of America’s technological edge. It does make sense, however, coming from someone who has never had a job that didn’t depend on patronage and has spent his entire career getting ahead on identity and charisma instead of creativity and achievement.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bhofascism; business; democrats; idiot; obama; obamatruthfile
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Obama doesn't have a clue and is a complete idiot.
1 posted on 07/16/2012 8:07:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Obama thinks he is Locutus of Borg.


2 posted on 07/16/2012 8:10:48 PM PDT by Florida native
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“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”
3 posted on 07/16/2012 8:11:16 PM PDT by grundle
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No he's not an idiot. He's a THIEF!

What ever anyone else has is his for the taking because they don't deserve it and he does.

Infantile? You bet. Intentional? Oh yeah!

I hope Sheriff Joe sends him packing tomorrow!

4 posted on 07/16/2012 8:14:07 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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5 posted on 07/16/2012 8:16:25 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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No he's not an idiot. He's a THIEF!

I believe he's both...Big time.

6 posted on 07/16/2012 8:16:37 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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Hey Barry, where did the first dollar ever taken in by the government come from?

ANS: Taxpayers.

Where has it come from ever since?

ANS: Same answer.

How much money has the government ever created?

ANS: Zero


7 posted on 07/16/2012 8:17:41 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: Florida native



8 posted on 07/16/2012 8:25:47 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: jazusamo

9 posted on 07/16/2012 8:30:53 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: grundle

Amen to that...It’s evil!


10 posted on 07/16/2012 8:31:57 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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11 posted on 07/16/2012 8:33:19 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,”

His only point of reference is his own relationship with Bill Ayers.
12 posted on 07/16/2012 8:35:13 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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He’s worse than Carter and I never thought that could be possible.


13 posted on 07/16/2012 8:37:00 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Hey—Obama:

I have been doing bookkeeping & accounting since 4 years BEFORE you were born. I worked for major companies before I went out on my own as a self-employed bookkeeper.

Show me the records from ANY business that YOU have run.

Show me the PROFITS & how you made such profits.

Show me the list of EMPLOYEES you interviewed & hired when you ran such a business.

Show me ALL the proper records of the payroll reports on such employees, along with all the year end W-2’s and 1099’s.

Show me the properly filled out I-9’s for all those employees.

Show me the benefits YOU offered your employees.

Show me the amount of premiums YOU paid for their health benefits.

Show me the turnover you encountered from your employees. The higher the turnover===the less desirable the job usually is.

While you are at it, show me the proof of what qualifications your wide load ‘wife’ had which entitled her to an annual paycheck of over $100,000 in a ‘hospital’ in Chicago.

Both of you are no more than shakedown artists, following in the footsteps of Jesse Jackson Sr.

NOTHING either of you says holds any water with most of us anymore.


14 posted on 07/16/2012 8:51:37 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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So that income I made, was really earned by someone else. That means they should tax someone else.


15 posted on 07/16/2012 8:55:20 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: ridesthemiles

You’re dead on the money, about both.


16 posted on 07/16/2012 8:56:45 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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First Bitch Michelle, and her Creepy Kenyan Commie Husband have shown their deep contempt for America.

Her with her verbal disrespect for our Flag, and him with his Kenyan Mud Hut idea “That It Takes A Village to help you be an independent Entrepreneur.”

BTW, Didn’t Hilly write a book about some kooky commie idea like that?


17 posted on 07/16/2012 9:15:00 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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Good point. He is “successful’ without real effort


18 posted on 07/16/2012 9:18:55 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (ENVY IS JUST PASSIVE, LAZY GREED)
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Yep, I believe Hilly’s thing was it takes a villiage to raise a kid or some such nonsense, she forgot about the family thing. They’re all clueless.


19 posted on 07/16/2012 9:21:53 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: isthisnickcool
How much money has the government ever created? ANS: Zero

They made 30 Billion dollars disappear when they went into business with GM.

It took GM 75 years to lose that much, but Barry managed to do it in just 3 years.

He has the Roto-Rooter Touch. Everything he touches turns to $#!+

20 posted on 07/16/2012 9:22:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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