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Obama struggles with debt talk at Ford plant: ‘If we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we’re deadbeats’
The Washington Times ^ | September 20, 2013 | By Dave Boyer

Posted on 09/21/2013 6:16:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Speaking at a Ford auto plant in Missouri, the president compared the debt-ceiling debate to a consumer loan on a new Ford F150 truck.

“This is important,” Mr. Obama said. “Raising the debt ceiling is not the same as approving more spending.

Plowing ahead, Mr. Obama said, “I — you don’t say, well, I’m not going — I’m not going to pay my — my — my bill, my note for my truck because I’m going to save money. No, you’re not saving money. You already bought the truck, right? You have to pay the bills. You — you are not — you’re not saving money.”

“You — you might have decided at the front end not to buy the truck,” Mr. Obama said. “But once you bought the truck, you can’t say you’re saving money just by not paying the bills. Does that make sense?”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: defund; failure; obamacare; socialism
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To: autumnraine

I have come to realize the old picture of a “Turtle on the Fencepost” is tragically real in Obama’s case. Somebody, somewhere, some organization, group or cabal has meticulously engineered this zealot’s entire life, maybe even before he was born.

We won’t ever know because the proof is hidden and will never come out. The media will not allow it, the Democrats will not allow it and those who did this will not allow it.

The only thing I can say at this point, particularly reflecting back on that movie long ago, and whose choice of a lead actress was so horribly distasteful to me personally, is that ‘art must surely imitate true life’....

[Mia Farrow & “Rosemary’s Baby” for those too young to remember]


21 posted on 09/21/2013 6:33:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Moorings

OK, to follow the logic of his analogy, if my family is wildly overspending our income we need to get higher spending limits on our credit cards otherwise we’re deadbeats. What an ignorant jackass.


22 posted on 09/21/2013 6:34:00 AM PDT by brewer1516
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To: griswold3

When Obama did that, I personally buried GM as an option forever. Since then, I got rid of two Hondas and a BMW. I replaced them with a 2010 F-150 SPX and a 2012 Explorer Limited. My only comment is that I should have gone Ford much sooner. GM and any company that colludes with Obama are dead to me forever.


23 posted on 09/21/2013 6:36:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: abclily

I think you’re horribly mistaken.....the amoeba IS his brain.....:^)


24 posted on 09/21/2013 6:37:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: brewer1516

Barry is not the brightest bulb on the dimly-lit Democrat tree. That is why they have the oaf Biden, to make Barry look like a genius.


25 posted on 09/21/2013 6:38:06 AM PDT by Moorings
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To: Gaffer

26 posted on 09/21/2013 6:38:10 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mr. Obama said. “But once you bought the truck, you can’t say you’re saving money just by not paying the bills. Does that make sense?”

No Mister Dumbass it doesn’t make sense. Borrowing money to pay back a loan while buying something else with it as well, is precisely how you and others got us to where we are. I’d love to be in one of your audiences to call you out and spend some time in prison for showing the crowd how stupid you are off the teleprompter. Oh I forgot that the rest of the crowd is just as stupid as you are. I’ll just put my time into more productive endeavors.


27 posted on 09/21/2013 6:42:15 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

What a stupid thing to say. I mean, that’s just moronic. It’s not even up to his usual standards, or rather, down to his usual standards of demagoguery, because the false analogy makes no effin’ sense. What a jackass.

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.


28 posted on 09/21/2013 6:42:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: All

I’m not a deadbeat you azzhole. I don’t willingly spend more than I have the ability to repay. I don’t go around spending other people’s money like it grew on trees. I don’t ignore my obligations in order to lavish taxpayer dollars on idiotic and reckless schemes.

Øbozo’s analogy is every bit as dishonest as its author.


29 posted on 09/21/2013 6:51:35 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If you don't make the payments on the truck it gets repossesd.

When do we get to reposses OUR property, numbnuts?

30 posted on 09/21/2013 6:57:15 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: abclily
Obama now sounds like a stark-raving, crazy man. Does he have an amoeba eating at his brain?

Obama is actually a factory second cyborg, rejected from the Stepford factory.

They have been trying to perfect their new "Homosexual "Stepford Wife" model
and sold off all their early developemental failures to the democrat party.


31 posted on 09/21/2013 6:57:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you donÂ’t need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: maddog55

My new business plan is to make a fortune recycling aluminum cans. First thing I’m going to do is get a business loan to buy the beer......


32 posted on 09/21/2013 6:57:55 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Mycroft Holmes

We don’t often see actual live size graphics posted.


33 posted on 09/21/2013 6:59:28 AM PDT by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you donÂ’t need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama and the dems sold a truck to the American people.

What they delivered wasn’t a truck, it was 20,000 parts that no matter how hard you try to put the parts together to make a truck, you can never make a truck out of the parts.


34 posted on 09/21/2013 7:02:06 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Moorings

That’s right 0bama, you maxed out your credit card. You can no longer buy more stuff on credit.

No you have to stop buying stuff, and figure out how to pay off your loans


35 posted on 09/21/2013 7:04:10 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: maddog55
Unfortunately, anything this moron says makes sense to liberals.

Aw crap, now I am going to need more duct tape to wrap around my head to keep it from exploding.

36 posted on 09/21/2013 7:15:07 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Producing Talk Show Prep since 1998.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
This sticker:


37 posted on 09/21/2013 7:24:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: maddog55
Yes, Obama is usually pretty good at finding audiences who will believe anything he says.

Maybe he should say that if you have a credit card and borrow up to your credit limit, it is the credit card company's duty to raise your credit limit.

38 posted on 09/21/2013 7:29:01 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m so sick of this rhetoric. They’ve completely reversed the social order. We are supposed to have our representatives voting on spending priorities and producing a budget that is reviewable by we the people... the ones paying the bills. Instead, the executive and the Fed are running amok with the credit card and demanding we pay the bill!


39 posted on 09/21/2013 7:30:18 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did the maggot forget his teleprompter?


40 posted on 09/21/2013 7:30:58 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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