[SJackson]

Perhaps he should help his relatives in Kenya, though I'd prefer he helps his illegal immigrant relatives living here off the public first.

[Farmer Dean]

How much of his own money has Obama sent to his poor struggling family members in Kenya??Does his uncle still live in a mud hut?

[ClearCase_guy]

Standard Leftist pablum:

Steve Jobs - lucky
Jerry Seinfeld - lucky
Tiger Woods - lucky
Warren Buffet - lucky

These guys don't deserve their money! The government should just take it and give it to government union pension funds that are more deserving!

[P-Marlowe]

The multi millionaire Obama as usual wants to use American taxpayers money to help his poor relatives back in his home country of Kenya.

[Lion Den Dan]

“Most of the world’s unused arable land is in Africa,” the president continued. “Fifty years ago, Africa was an exporter of food. There is no reason why Africa should not be feeding itself and exporting food again. There is no reason for that.”

Africa was exporting food when white farmers farmed. The black disposessed the whites, murdering and burning them and their posessions. Now they are hungry. Tough.

[lowflyn]

Let's see him lead in this area. How much “charity” has he dispersed over the last year. If he was serious then I would expect at least 50% donation to income ratio. I know this will not happen because liberals are much better at spending other peoples money then their own.

[oh8eleven]

economic growth can’t just be for the lucky few
Ah yes, the lucky few.
Sounds just like Tom Daschle referring to successful people as winners in life's lottery.
These morons all drink from the same well - Liberalism.

[philman_36]

Oh great, now he's done gone and elevated himself to savior of the whole world and not just America.

[Texas Fossil]

“On the other hand, we see an Africa that still faces huge hurdles, stark inequalities; most Africans still living on less than $2 a day; climate change that increases the risk of drought and famine,” Obama said. “All of which perpetuates stubborn barriers in agriculture, in the agricultural sector -- from bottlenecks in infrastructure that prevent food from getting to market, to the lack of credit, especially for small farmers, most of whom are women.”

Well, well, well. Such a collection of Agenda 21 phrases and Lib cliches. And the reason that poor Africa is poor is the Wealthy nations? Marxist leadership like Robert Mugabee deserves none of the blame? Obozo is still working on how to make the US as crippled in Agriculture as Africa. Vermin.

[Jack of all Trades]

The harder I work, the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn

[mkjessup]

Just once, I’d love to see SOMEBODY (anybody) pop up in an audience and just shout “SHUT your effin PIEHOLE, ya Kenyan douchebag!”

[philman_36]

There is no reason why Africa should not be feeding itself and exporting food again. There is no reason for that.

Yes, there is a reason. The UN have an answer for everything.
@WHY HAS AFRICA BECOME A NET FOOD IMPORTER?
And remember, boys and girls...
In this publication, agriculture is regarded as the production of food and goods through farming. Unless otherwise stated, agricultural products in this report exclude forestry, fishing, and fibres or wool. Food products in this report include semiprocessed and processed food (cheeses, butter, frozen vegetables, flour, juices, etc). More details are found in Annex 1.

[SMARTY]

The ‘lucky few’???

Really??!!

Maybe this statement would be more accurate (certainly, more honest) if he said the ‘hard working’ few!

Luck is no more a prerequisite for success in America than it is anywhere else on earth. If it WAS, everyone breaking the law, risking death and worse to get here would stay put in their homeland and cash in on their ‘luck’... THERE!

Success in any country is all about personal autonomy within the law, opportunity and very hard work!!!

What "O" and other Liberals refuse to recognize is that here in the U.S, we have MORE and GREATER personal autonomy (guaranteed) and unlimited opportunity along with ready and abundant rewards of every kind for those who are willing to work hard !!! PERIOD... If it was only about luck, we'd all be sitting at home waiting for someone to knock on the door, hand us a million bicks and say: 'Here, go have a ball!!'

[Travis McGee]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.”

Robert Heinlein

[theBuckwheat]

A radio evangelist of a bygone era, Herbert Armstrong, used to frequently say that there were, broadly speaking, two ways of life- that being the way of ‘give’ and the way of ‘get’.

A system based on the voluntary and peaceful free exchange the economic analogy of the way of ‘give’. In this case that each party to an exchange must give sufficient value to the counter-parties that they freely agree to a mutually satisfying exchange.

Economist Franz_Oppenheimer observed that, broadly speaking, two ways to gain the wealth of other- that being what he called the ‘economic means’ and the other the ‘political means’. [1]

“There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one’s own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others.”

Free people who are committed to live at peace with their neighbors and within the rule of law can only gain the things they need to sustain their lives by creating value to exchange with others. This is work. States on the other hand, must expropriate wealth. As George Washington warned, the State is only power. The State simply uses its power and monopoly on the use of deadly force to take what it needs from those within its grasp.

Having said that, to assert that ‘Economic Growth Can’t Just Be for the Lucky Few’ defies the reality of human abilities. Some people are just born with more economically valuable skills than others are. That doesn’t make them any less human. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love them any less. That doesn’t justify treating them differently. The simple truth is that I cannot tell a joke as well as (pick your favorite here), or I cannot act as well as (pick your favorite here) and I cannot dream up as valuable a business idea as (pick your favorite here).

But what I can do, what value I can create, what things I can make and build are mine, and I have just as much an unalienable right to the fruit of my labor as some famous rock group who fight enforce their copyrights or some famous actor who fights to stop pirating of their movies.

When government adopts the idea that ‘Economic Growth Can’t Just Be for the Lucky Few’, then government gets to decide who wins and who loses. WE DID NOT GIVE OUR GOVERNMENT THAT ENUMERATED POWER! And if our government assumes it has that power, then the several States must convene a convention to make it clear they don’t.

The Apostle Paul stated that people cannot be godly and live at the expense of others. He also said that a person cannot be godly if he does not take care of his own family. Government has interposed itself as the arbiter of economic values. Allowing government to do that results in an economy that is base on the ‘political means’ instead of the ‘economic means’, on the way of get rather on the way of give.

[1] http://files.libertyfund.org/pll/quotes/150.html

[Safetgiver]

There is no reason why Africa should not be feeding itself and exporting food again. There is no reason for that.”...Yes, there is o stupid one. It’s called communism and tribalism. Something you want introduced to US.

[broken_arrow1]

“From each according to his ability to each according to his need” - (Karl Marx)

[ThunderSleeps]

No, no class warfare here. The "great uniter" my lily white backside. That lying POS is trying to instil a desire for more than you have/need. That sounds like greed to me. He's pushing to punish people for their success. That sounds like envy to me.

Hey America, wake up. You want a "leader" around that tries to make you feel greedy and envious? Greed and envy, hmm, seems I've seen those two on a list somewhere before...

[Tigerized]

If you took what Moochelle spent on her 17 faboo vacations, and invested it in the sub-Saharan hell hole of your choice, you’d be in a better position to lecture at us, Skippy.

What’s next? A remake of “The Naked Prey”? Set in Chicago?

[aruanan]

President Barack Obama invoked his poor family members in Kenya as a reason why “economic growth can’t just be for the lucky few at the top, it’s got to be broad-based, for everybody.”

Barry, friggin moron, if it was all a matter of "luck" then it means it wasn't of their doing. If it wasn't of their doing, then the outcome is nothing they can be blamed for. If it's nothing of their doing and this is the way it usually is, then how do you propose to force it to be any other way? State-control? Oh, gee, we've seen the fruits of that in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, the UK, Canada, the U.S. labor unions, Nixon's wage and price controls. Oh, I know, it's never really been tried before and that's why it hasn't worked, but if you have enough control then you and your little clique can make things go the way you want them to. Hey, isn't that pretty much just like what you have been criticizing the rich few for when you're not referring to them as merely lucky?

Go back to Hawaii and do something you were really good at in high school: being in a daze, smoking a lot of dope, snorting coke, and going back to the dorm rooms of "brothers" you met at the local gym (all mentioned by him in Dreams from My Father).

[skeeter]

Obama thinks everyone with money got their’s the same way he got his.