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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

President Obama defended the idea of entitlements like Medicare and Social Security in his second inaugural address Monday, arguing that these programs strengthen the nation and free Americans to "take the risks that make this country great."

"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."

He continued: "We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other – 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."

(Excerpt) Read more at livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; entitlements; obama; takers
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Whatever you say there Man's County.


I am actually very happy Bath House included this line in his little rant.

It shows that the truth hurts.

1 posted on 01/21/2013 4:48:36 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Squish the church into a corner then complain it’s not there when people need help... that’s our Big Eared Boy.


2 posted on 01/21/2013 4:51:15 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: SkyPilot

Sure Barry, as long as everyone has the same entitlements and everyone pays for their entitlement programs equally.


3 posted on 01/21/2013 4:51:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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To: SkyPilot

And abortion doesn’t make us into a nation of killers and same sex marriage doesn’t make us into Sodom and Ghommorah...


4 posted on 01/21/2013 4:52:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: SkyPilot

every barry statement is a deliberate perversion


5 posted on 01/21/2013 4:53:36 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: SkyPilot

arguing that these programs strengthen the nation and free Americans to “take the risks that make this country great.”

History repeats....
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

- Gibbon

History will show that the US was yet again another country that thought that ‘this time is different’ until it wasn’t
‘The hubris of empire repeating itself’.


6 posted on 01/21/2013 4:54:27 PM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: dontreadthis

Twists everything both out of context and out of proportion (minimizing and maximizing by turns).


7 posted on 01/21/2013 4:54:45 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: SkyPilot

The skinny little mulatto queerbait can try to redefine whatever he wishes.

Doesn’t make it so. Guess he hasn’t figured that out yet.


8 posted on 01/21/2013 4:55:58 PM PST by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: SkyPilot

9 posted on 01/21/2013 4:56:18 PM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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10 posted on 01/21/2013 4:56:33 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: griswold3

I guess 16 trillion+ in debt isn’t enough risk.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:06 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

it comes naturally to him, hence the smooth delivery
that’s his “gift”


12 posted on 01/21/2013 5:00:33 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: dontreadthis

He musta french kissed the blarney stone


13 posted on 01/21/2013 5:01:54 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: dontreadthis

Almost half the US was glad to buy this kind of cr@p. How can they be so sure that the cr@pmeister won’t turn his lies on them?


14 posted on 01/21/2013 5:02:52 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: SkyPilot

"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU,ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY"

Washington,DC 1/20/1963

15 posted on 01/21/2013 5:02:58 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Red State Secession Is The Only Answer)
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To: SkyPilot
“Obama: Entitlements ‘Do Not Make Us A Nation Of Takers’.”

OK, Skippy, I'll bite. If your entitlement leeches aren't takers, are they moochers?

Do you know the difference or are you a moocher like them? You certainly do everything to look and act like a moocher.

16 posted on 01/21/2013 5:03:12 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: SkyPilot
Deliberate and premeditated fraud.. fake is the new authentic. That's the new rules of the game.

Sultan Knish ^ | January 19, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980030/posts

17 posted on 01/21/2013 5:03:13 PM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: SaxxonWoods
What you said!

PS:"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."
Obviously, minimusollini has never known someone trying to live only on social security, or anyone who's drug &/or booze habits and hard partying while pregnant awarded them with a house full of assorted disabilities and a steady income.

18 posted on 01/21/2013 5:06:17 PM PST by norton
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To: Gay State Conservative

JFK sure would have oy-veyed at the teleprompter-parroting lightweight in the White Hut now. But JFK lived in the day when some liberals still had a little sense left.


19 posted on 01/21/2013 5:07:44 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: SkyPilot

Alright then. Not takers. Freeloaders. Squatters. Leeches. Parasites. Take your pick.


20 posted on 01/21/2013 5:08:00 PM PST by crosshairs (All we are saying, is give a high cap piece a chance.)
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