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Obama: Entitlements ‘Do Not Make Us A Nation Of Takers’
TPM ^ | 21 Jan 13 | Pema Levy

Posted on 01/21/2013 4:48:32 PM PST by SkyPilot

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To: TurboZamboni

21 posted on 01/21/2013 5:08:58 PM PST by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: dontreadthis
every Barry statement is a deliberate perversion

The king of devils is now in charge...soon the earth will know what that means.

22 posted on 01/21/2013 5:10:27 PM PST by Rapscallion (How's that tyranny working out for you now, hmmm?)
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To: SkyPilot

People have their own issues to deal with and their own problems to solve. No mans need legitimately becomes another mans obligation. Using the law to attempt to legitimize larceny does diminish the larceny. These socialist schemers imagine themselves to be generous and caring because they are willing to give away others people’s money. With that money they bankroll a constituency to perpetuate their rule. I do not see a solution short of a massive display of armed resistance


23 posted on 01/21/2013 5:10:44 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: SkyPilot

I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.


24 posted on 01/21/2013 5:11:23 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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To: SkyPilot

About all you can do is laugh. America is being taken down in a racist revolution. Powered by illegal “immigration”, and the republicans are sitting around worrying about being called racists.


25 posted on 01/21/2013 5:11:56 PM PST by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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To: RightOnline

Just think,a few years ago the little queer would have bringing us coffee.


26 posted on 01/21/2013 5:12:21 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
And lo-fo's actually still listen to the raw sewage puking forth from the septic flange on top of this traitor's shoulders. Woe be it unto them when the pendulum starts it's inevitable downward return swing.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

27 posted on 01/21/2013 5:12:37 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: SkyPilot

Baraq is like that family in 2007 riding a wave of false prosperity based on maxxed out credit cards and helocs on a house with negative equity. Two leased luxury SUVs and a Mcmansion.

It’s all good until the bubble pops.


28 posted on 01/21/2013 5:15:51 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: muir_redwoods

We reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future,” Obama said. “For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.”

Yeah, well, that’s all well and good ...but most of the people we’re choosing to care for are neither the elderly or the disabled, but rather the able-bodied inner city dwellers, and illegals. Old people are gettin’ thrown under the BUS at warp speed.

Oh, and yeah — illegals ARE building everything ...taking construction and road jobs from Americans and pockeing the welfare cash they get, then sending it back to Mehico.


29 posted on 01/21/2013 5:15:51 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: Retired Chemist

You’re hardly alone in viewing the SS program that way, but (1) it wasn’t designed as a purely investment based plan in the first place and (2) to the extent that it might have operated like an investment based plan, they squandered what was paid in and have to make the payments to you now out of taxes of people like me, who probably won’t ever see an actual SS.


30 posted on 01/21/2013 5:18:07 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: LibsRJerks

Realize the huge value of the death panels.
They can do much to fix Baraq’s impending problem with SS and Medicare.
Slicing the average lifespan is a powerful tool.


31 posted on 01/21/2013 5:18:10 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: SkyPilot
through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great."

Somebody will have to explain to me how that works because from my experience it works just the opposite.

In my experience most people are risk adverse; they would rather not take risk if they don’t have to.

I see risk takers for the most part falling in to two categories; those who by their very nature take risk and those who feel they must take risk to escape their circumstances.

They entitlement programs essentially insulates the great multitude from falling in to the second category.

And actually entitlement program for all intents and purposes traps people in their lowly circumstances because being naturally risk adverse they will stay in the lower class because trying to rise out of the entitlement class entails risk of loosing those benefits.

32 posted on 01/21/2013 5:23:11 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: SkyPilot
Wow, how about the 47% aren't parasites, but that wouldn't be exactly true either....

Obama, America's very own "Rocket Surgeon"

33 posted on 01/21/2013 5:24:42 PM PST by SERE_DOC ( “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” TJ.)
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To: Pontiac

There is a third category, those who put risk in the context of faith in a God who wants people to do some things that they cannot necessarily calculate the results of.


34 posted on 01/21/2013 5:28:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks SkyPilot.


35 posted on 01/21/2013 5:34:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: TurboZamboni

The http://www.usdebtclock.org/ has recently been updated to show that the U.S. has exceeded it’s debt limit by over $46 Billion.

It also shows the actual employment vs. reported employment numbers.


36 posted on 01/21/2013 5:35:35 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: SkyPilot

He’s right.. It makes us a nation of people dependent on the King who buys their votes with entitlements. It was a HUGE mistake for the GOP to allow 0bama to ramp up the entitlement rolls for the past 4 years, unabated. HUGE mistake. This cannot be undone without massive civil unrest, so it will continue until America is no more and everyone becomes slaves for their pay.


37 posted on 01/21/2013 6:01:20 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: SkyPilot
Principal at school told me a parent on government assistance would come in, look him in the eye and ask "Why do you work so hard? I don't do shit and they take care of me!" Literally tell the principal that to his face. Now, how are you going to ever instill discipline, knowledge and right living in a child brought up in THAT kind of household? You're not.

Obama and the leftists who support him know that as well. They're telling the people what they want to hear as they slowly lead them to slavery. They have to get the guns in order to prevent an uprising when the pigs realize they've been pinned in and are being prepared for slaughter.

38 posted on 01/21/2013 6:01:51 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Retired Chemist; SkyPilot
I don’t consider myself a taker. I’m receiving Social Security, a program I’ve paid into for 50 years and am still paying into.

With all due respect, I believe you've missed the point. One of the most disgusting things about this President is that he wants the public to think his opponents see people like you and people like the guy with a Gucci hat and an iPhone buying steak at the checkout line with an EBT card (stole that last part from Iowahawk) as the same sort of person.

39 posted on 01/21/2013 6:03:15 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (safeandlegal.com Make it viral.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

JFK was the lightweight in the WH back then. He’d blow Obama away.


40 posted on 01/21/2013 6:10:44 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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