Posted on 02/06/2014 5:19:07 AM PST by dennisw
In an effort to find common ground, President Obama suggested that he and Bill O'Reilly both received a little help to make it through college. But Obama didn't realize he was talking to a rugged, bootstrap-pulling individualist who subsidized his education through his own blood, sweat and tears.
During the unedited portion of O'Reilly's Super Bowl Sunday interview, Obama explained that he has "not massively expanded the welfare state." The government's current support structure, Obama said, isn't all that different from "thirty years ago, forty years ago, fifty years ago."
"You and I took advantage of certain things. I don’t know about you, but I got some loans to go to college," Obama said.
But a self-described "self-reliance guy" like O'Reilly didn't need any government largess, thank you very much.
"Nah, I painted houses, I didn’t get any," O'Reilly responded. "See, that's who I am."
Obama was quick to say that he painted houses in the summer, too.
"It still wasn’t enough," he told O'Reilly.
(Excerpt) Read more at talkingpointsmemo.com ...
Obama and Michelle never owned a home prior to the mansion they bought in Chicago. The one he never lived in or even visits.
He and the mooch lived in a condo prior to his theft of the Senate seat in Illinois. You don’t paint a Chicago condo, at least not the exterior.
When he says “loans” he means “Khalid Al Mansour”
This is true with medical care through Medicaid and Medicare , education in both the primary , secondary and college levels and even in the real estate markets where housing vouchers (Section 8) causes and increase in the cost of rent and where government backed mortgages caused a massive bubble that crashed the economy once the poorly educated inner city people who didn't pay for their own medical costs decided to never pay for their own homes.
Even up to 15 years ago when I was doing SAT prep you'd be surprised how often good research found deals. The thing is that it may not be the college of ones original dreams.
I took out a total of $10K for my first degree obtained in the mid 80’s. I paid the rest through working full and part time jobs. Didn’t do any painting, but worked a few fast food jobs (all done by illegals now) and for Kelly Girl.
It was achievable back then. I paid it off about 5 years after college with a payment of $84 a month. I’m sure Obama the pampered prince took out loans so he could spend more funds on illegal substances, fancy duds, and jaunts to the bath houses.
Now it’s not, thanks to government intervention, overpaid/tenured faculty, their retirement packages, and every university thinking it has to offer resort-style living quarters and amenities to attract students.
Yeah, Cocaine is kind of expensive.
the tw)s!
Two of a kind!
Semper Trvth!
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With what? Graffiti?
I was joking around .... Just saying that it was more likely that Moochelle would be doing plumbing or painting in the house than the jug eared sissy. That she has used a toilet snake maybe....but highly unlikely Obama ever got his hands dirty this way
I have a cousin who went to BU in the 60s (approximately when BO'R was in college, I think) -- tuition was $1,600 a hear. Boston College at the time was $1,000 a year. I think the state colleges were about $400 IIRC. Granted, salaries were lower then too (I think $15,000 was considered pretty good), but these still weren't amounts you had to start saving for at the child's birth. It was possible to earn those tuitions at a good summer job, and at least a good chunk of them at a mediocre summer job. Didn't Ron Paul say he worked his way through college and medical school?
Of course, that was (slightly) before the gov't got into the business of making college available for all and poured money into them -- enough for them to hire vastly more administrators, build dorms and stadiums, hire professors like -- oh, for example, Elizabeth Warren -- at $400,000 a year to teach one course. College professors then didn't make much -- I've read that the classic professorial jacket with patches on the elbows really came about in the days when profs had to scrounge!
I know you where joking. The fact is that this dipshit hasn’t done anything close to hard work beyond a pick up game of basketball. Everything he says is a flat out lie!
Slick Willie pioneered that technique of brazen lying, at least on a national level. It’s only possible when you have the national press in your pocket, of course.
A couple of years ago, our mayor looked me in the ye and told me a whopper. I knew he was lying, and he had to know that I knew he was lying. But, he also knew that nobody else at that neighborhood meeting knew he was lying, and that I was too polite to call him on it. I should have been rude.
That’s what I was thinking.
“pimped some whores and ran drugs” ... see how quickly Obama picks that up.
He was just being modest, actually he painted portraits for a hundred grand each and that was just to fill in between brain surgeries he did on a part time basis.
I need to interview him and I wouldn’t have to make up anything, just tell the truth. As a teenager I shoveled bull shiite and when he says, “I did that too”, I could say, “I can tell you’re experienced at it.”
I took out a total of $10K for my first degree obtained in the mid 80’s.
I paid it off about 5 years after college with a payment of $84 a month.
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I must be missing something, $84. a month for 60 months comes to $5040.
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