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Title: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: Tiger Wench on July 16, 2012, 12:33:24 PM: Holy crap. He is delusional.

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President Barack Obama addressed supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Friday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for their success:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didnâ€™t -- look, if youâ€™ve been successful, you didnâ€™t get there on your own. You didnâ€™t get there on your own. Iâ€™m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youâ€™ve got a business -- you didnâ€™t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didnâ€™t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we donâ€™t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

Someone invested in roads and bridges? Yeah, THAT BUSINESS OWNER DID WITH THE TAXES HE PAID FROM THAT BUSINESS!!! Government research? Again, TAX DOLLARS!!!

I just do NOT get how this guy is not only our president, but might get re-elected. And people were applauding him!! I WEEP for this country sometimes.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/ (http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/)
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: GH2001 on July 16, 2012, 12:38:12 PM: And what I hated most about this? If you watch the video, the condescending nature of the comments just piss me off.

All hard working business people - you did none of this. You don't really work hard. You know nothing, in fact. So screw you, you aren't special. And you don't really create jobs. Me and my gov't do. You are the enemy, not me.

That's pretty much what I heard between the lines. And seriously - what in the hell would he know about a business? The fucktard has never had a real job in the real world.
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: Saniflush on July 16, 2012, 12:54:20 PM: This shit makes me sick.
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: AWK on July 16, 2012, 01:10:31 PM: Regardless of political affiliation, how can you say with an honest face that a business owner "didn't build" his business? Then who the fuck did, the business fairies? I need to find these business fairies...
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: Ogre on July 16, 2012, 01:13:49 PM: Quote from: AWK on July 16, 2012, 01:10:31 PM
I need to find these business fairies...

Leave VandyVol out of this.
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: DnATL on July 16, 2012, 02:32:06 PM: Quote from: AWK on July 16, 2012, 01:10:31 PM
Regardless of political affiliation, how can you say with an honest face that a business owner "didn't build" his business? Then who the fuck did, the business fairies? I need to find these business fairies...
Thought you already did?
VV
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: AWK on July 16, 2012, 04:11:25 PM: I realized after what I had done after I wrote that...
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: Tarheel on July 16, 2012, 04:26:59 PM: Y'all give The Pharaoh a break...he went off teleprompter...
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: Aubie16 on July 16, 2012, 10:14:20 PM: That sounds like a paragraph straight out of Atlas Shrugged. Something James Taggart would say.

Scary.
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: AUTiger1 on July 17, 2012, 02:17:08 AM: Quote from: Aubie16 on July 16, 2012, 10:14:20 PM
That sounds like a paragraph straight out of Atlas Shrugged. Something James Taggart would say.

Scary.

Scary indeed!
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: RWS on July 17, 2012, 03:43:43 AM: I'm not one to take everything somebody says and put it under a microscope, but damn. What was he thinking when he said that? That was literally one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard a president make. And as Wench said, what's scary is that this guy is more than likely going to get re-elected.

Everybody keep your KY handy, because we're fucked.
Title: Re: You can't take credit for your own business
Post by: GH2001 on July 17, 2012, 09:46:10 AM: Quote from: RWS on July 17, 2012, 03:43:43 AM
I'm not one to take everything somebody says and put it under a microscope, but damn. What was he thinking when he said that? That was literally one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard a president make. And as Wench said, what's scary is that this guy is more than likely going to get re-elected.

Everybody keep your KY handy, because we're fucked.

And it was moreso even the way he said. He meant it. It was a direct jab. This guy hates the private sector and people who succeed on their own. He hates the "haves", even if they did it on their own.