Posted on 07/17/2012 5:44:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
BRIT HUME: It is fair to say that we know more tonight than we ever have about the president's view of business and the economy. His assertion over the weekend that, 'If you got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen' explains nearly everything. He wasn't talking about God, he was talking about government.
Here is a man that believes not just that the government provided framework of roads, bridges, defense and law enforcement helps the private sector. He believes these things are are the nerve center, the driving force. More important than any individual, talent, enterprise or initiative. As he put it: 'There are a lot of smart people out.' As for diligence: 'There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.' Success? 'You didn't get there on your own.'
This is a view that successful businessmen, women are merely the ones who did better at taking advantage of the benefits that government has bestowed. Therefore, he thinks they should be glad to pay an even greater share of federal taxes than they do. He (Obama) calls that, 'giving back,' as if the government conferred all that they have and they shouldn't mind returning a bit more of it where it came from.
This explains why so much stimulus money was spent to protect government and why his legislation on healthcare and financial reform involved extending the reach and power of, you guessed it, government.
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I didn't realize there was a contest!
Why doesn't anyone ever tell me about these things?
Very much calculated and being executed with perfect precision.
First the fact that America allowed a communist in the White House shows exactly how much progress was being made quietly by the communist.
Now if America allowed that, of course the next obvious step is the division of a country through class warfare. Come on this is classic Marxism.
This is a WIN/WIN situation with Obama. He moves the country forward to the ideals of Marxism regardless if he wins the election or not. Come on. You already know these people think and plan in terms of decades not a single election.
Just the fact that a sitting President is out preaching the Ideals of Marxism condones and makes plausible the concepts in a many people that will last a lifetime.
We all here think the game is election and a presidency. Wrong. Its capturing the minds and souls of a country.
Conservatives fail because they play the game in the short term.
It’s the religion and worldview of Humanism.
It’s rebellion to God; it’s anti-reality, and visciously and violently so.
Brit Hume made some cogent observations on the Creepy Kenyan Commie last night.
Brit Hume however, has more fight in his little left toe than Romney has in total.
Why Brit expects Milktoast Mitt to seriously challenge Commie Obama is beyond me.
There is NO evidence that Romney is trying to win this National Election. Just beating the other Republicans seems to have been Romney’s end goal.
What does it take for Romney to go on the OFFENSE?
Not being called a Felon!
Not being served up the Kenyan Communist “You are worthless without the village raising you!”
What does it take for “Marvelous, Milktoast Mitt-or-get-off-the-pot” Romney to prove that he DESERVES our votes?
Can Mitt shed his love for Socialism long enough to soundly beat “The Creepy Kenyan Communist?”
Wake up Milktoast Miit, give us a reason not to DUMP you in Tampa by a First Ballot ABSTAIN vote.
You write "yes one pays for services and all that" - indeed! and whatever value is created beyond what is paid for belongs to the one(s) who organized and laid claim to that new value. Risk is certainly one part, but even if there was no appreciable risk, whatever value is created belongs to the one who invoked the process.
If I buy a bucket of paint and a canvas for $20, throw them together (be "throw" akin to Pollock or Da Vinci), and sell the result for a $1,000,000 then the value created (confirmed by the truism "a thing is worth what another pays for it"); yes others were involved by creating the paint & canvas, yes they were duly compensated for their part by accepting $20 in exchange for their products, and yes the risk may have been negligible, and - my point - nobody else has any right to the $999,980 profit.
Problem is that Marxists & Leftists believe wealth merely exists in fixed quantity, is durable, and may be rearranged without limit; they do not comprehend that wealth must be created, is not durable, and must be consumed to realize its value. The Obama's comment belies this error, claiming everyone involved should get a cut of the wealth as though it is simply what they put in - not realizing that they got out value in fairness to what they put in, it's someone else who created new value for themselves.
I guess Steve Jobs gets no credit for dropping out of school to create Apple.
Our Marxist president is a true believer, not understanding that “successful” private sector taxpayers are the ones who build roads, bridges, defense and law enforcement.
He doesn’t understand BASIC economics, and flatly rejects capitalism. I really want to see his college transcripts and application forms.
>>> Conservatives fail because they play the game in the short term.
The biggest assumption for conservatives is that we are a nation of rules and laws, and automatically assumed everybody else also follows it.
Conservatives fail, because they could not fathom the other side ‘play by a completely different set of rules’.
Government builds it off of tax money taken from successful individuals. Therefore the successful individuals built the infrastructure. Government can do nothing on it’s own
So true. Many miss the point that someone takes Their money, maximizes it, and then the employees of that organization get to repeat the process through their individual decisions.
OB want us to think that this doesn’t happen, and instead someone who takes your money , does no work for it, can better manage how to maximize its return.
He wants a dependent society, thats what this is all about.
The P240 will be speechless.
'course, they could get other handles and troll huff po.
Obama is basing his comments on his personal experience. Someone had to forge his bc, someone had to pay for his private school education at Punahou, someone had to admit him into Columbia and Harvard and pay for it along with his living expenses.
Then of course when he went to Chicago someone had to finance his political ambitions. So nothing he accomplished was done without the assistance of others.
Vladimir Lenin
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin<
Lenin was a persuasive and charismatic orator. As an intellectual his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Marxism–Leninism, a pragmatic Russian application of Marxism that emphasized the critical role played by a committed and disciplined political vanguard in the revolutionary process, while defending the possibility of a socialist revolution in less advanced capitalist countries through an alliance of the proletarians with the rural peasantry.
To further the analogy: should you pay to install a driveway, then not build the house - leaving a “driveway to nowhere” - then the paving company should refund your money because you derived no value from the work.
Unless there is corruption involved, most companies survive and thrive despite the government, not because of it.
Thank you.
I know how you feel, I am always the last to know too. ;)
By chance I listened yesterday to Thomas Friedman’s “That Used to be Us.” He propounds this exact “America is great because of government” theme, and of course thinks “cut backs” in education, research, and “government investment” are what has gone wrong. (But there have been no cutbacks whatsoever...). The solution of course is more wasteful, scattergun stimulus (while reigning in spending), more “green jobs” (oops, this has totally failed), more subsidies of failed businesses (even though he recognizes that giant companies like GM are arrogant and uncompetitive), more “education spending” (though he admits that public education in America is a pathetic and wants further federalization), more “public-private partnerships” (ugh) — and especially more taxes as part of a “shared sacrifice” (that only productive people share).
Obama’s teleprompter must have enjoyed the book.
Leftists believe these fairy tales to our great harm, and actually take comfort in their superiority.
Not according to rightside pundits. Don't you just feel pathetic? We need to 'fight like a girl'. (paraphrasing Palin)
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