Obama Proves He Hasn't The Slightest Idea of How A Business Is Built
GrayRiderOn Saturday, President Obama spoke in Roanoke, VA saying this;
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give
something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’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 you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’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 don’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.
Reader Comments (50)
Considering that the average 7-year-old with a lemonade stand has more entrepreneurial experience than Obama, this is not surprising in the least. Add Obama's dogmatic socialism and his obnoxious narcissistic personality to his ignorance and complete lack of experience, and we have the perfect storm.
As I've said before; I want to see Obama's college & grad school grades. I seriously think this guy is a f**king idiot. Pushed through the system with an affirmative action wind at his back is the best answer. I'm sure there are others but this last comment by Obama seals it for me. We have an economic Forrest Gump as President.
True, Tom, but Forest Gump was bright enough to appreciate and understand free enterprise, and was able to build a business from the ground up through determination and initiative. The socialist dolt we have in the Oval Office thinks that individuality and entrepreneurship are evil, and should be replaced with the communal corn bin.
"replaced with the communal corn bin"
Red;
I'm stealing that one. LOL.
Taking away any sense of individuality is key in implementing socialism.
Ah, the old Marxist desire for the unearned. Our Community Organizer-in-Chief apparently doesn't realize that in our voluntary society there is no such thing as some undefined, unlimited debt to “society.” Those who educate workers, pave roads, or put out fires are fully remunerated for their work by their customers.
Ofcourse you have no idea whether Obama ran a lemonade stand when he was 7 years old, but hey, let's not let a little thing like facts get in the way of some good snark. And ofcourse, what percentage of our population in this country has entrapreneural experience? 1% maybe?
How much entrapreneural experience did Ronald Reagan have? How much entrapreneural experience did Dwight Eisenhower or Richard Nixon have? George Washington? Gerald Ford?
We've become the cult of the entrepreneur in this country in the past 30 years and our economy keeps going down down down. I wonder why that is? Could it be that entrepreneurs while useful and helpful to have in society aren't the know it all Gods they think they are?
What? What on God's green earth are you talking about? Really, KwAwk, this one takes the cake. What is that smelly stuff you're smoking?
I hope, KwAwk, that you really aren't trying to hold your guy Obama up against George Washington, Ike, Nixon, Reagan, and Ford. That would be a true fool's errand. Not only does Obama the Thuggish Socialist not have any entrepreneurial experience, but he has no real world experience of any kind, let alone enough to be in the same league with those other 5.
I talking about 15% capital gains rates being considered to high for our job creating superheros. I'm talking about the constant comments about how Obama has never run so much as a lemonaid stand.
Only in your odd little world does being a college professor, a community organizer, a lawyer, a best selling author, a State Senator and a US Senator count an no real world experience.
kwawk;
Obama's track record for those positions you list is pretty pathetic. When your known as State and U.S. Senator "Present" that's not a profile in courage.
Senior Lecturer, not a real professor.
Lawyer? Not much of a career there, and no law licence today, for whatever reason.
Author? Maybe, if you call someone an author who can't finish his book and has to hire Billy the Bomber Ayers to finish it for him.
Community organizer? Wow, who knew that messing around with the commies at the New Party and working with the now-disgraced ACORN gang would be good things for a resume. That's rather like applying to the neighborhood watch and using purse snatchers as references.
Illinois Senate? Yep, as Tom said, Senator Present was a sterling member of that body.
U.S. Senate? Sure, the partial term he served in that chamber, during which time he was too busy "organizing" his run for the White House to be an actual senator.
Yeah, your guy sure does have some great experience there, kwAwk. Not to mention his other great qualities, like malignant narcissism, Marxist love, delusions of grandeur, and his over-riding desire to tear down everything that has made this country great. Fine fellow.
Politifact says that Obama voted over 4,000 times in the IL Senate and voted present something like 3.5% of the time. It's amazing how you guys latch onto these canards and never let them go.
You're absolutly right that Obama was never a tenured Professor, but wouldn't him having had tenure only made you hate him more?
I'm curious sometimes whether you guys actually ever even understood what ACORN did and what it was about. Seems like you just hated the organization because the right wing propaganda machine told you to.
Would you mind expounding on what exactly you think it was that made this country great and how you think Obama has torn that down? I'm curious about that also.
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lol...
"Vote for Obama... he successfully ran a lemonade stand once... Belieee daat!
Just don't ask for proof he ran a lemonade stand because we really can't back that up.
Oh, and we sealed his lemonade stand ledger as well, so don't bother asking for that either.
We will exhaust the legal system to the max if you try,"
Lemonade fans are racist... drink Kool-Aid.
Barack Obama-Solyndra=Business Experience
Almost a day later and nobody has been able to say what ACORN did? Almost a day later and nobody has been able to explain what you think made this country great and how it's been so impeeded by the Obama administration.
If one isn't careful they might start to be inclined to think you're full of shit. But we won't go there for now.
You guys care to redeem yourselves?
You might try redeeming yourself by not being such a smug smartass, kwAwk.
I suspect the reason no one has replied is two-fold. First, ACORN's misdeeds are public record, and you very well know what the organization did. You can stop pretending otherwise. Second, if you really don't know what made this country great, nor how Obama wants to reverse that, then you are totally hopeless and barely sentient. But you're not that oblivious nor are you stupid, so it's clear that you're simply stirring the crap again. It's what you do, in your more petulant periods.
Sorry to disappoint, but I'm not in any mood today to play your games.
I wasn't asking about James O'Keefe's adventures in misrepresentation. I was curious if you actually know what ACRON did, as in, what was their daily business. If you knew anything about the organization outside of what the right wing propaganda machine told you.
I know what I believe made this country great, what I'm curious about, is what you feel about the matter. What is so wrong with America?
In my world, we have it pretty good in this country. We're still the wealthiest people on earth, we have our freedoms, the rational among us don't live in fear on a daily basis. Yet, all we hear from the right wing is how the country is bankrupt and horrible and no good and not worth sacrificing for. Seems to me that the people that have the most in this country are the biggest whiners in the world but I thought I'd see what your point of view was.
Apparently Mach's world is so oppressive and upside down that he's about ready to lock himself in his house with a gun and wait for the end to come. Not exactly sure why.
Acorn=Voter Fraud (Felony)
What makes the USA great? Freedom.
Some of the dumbass crap you have to believe to be a wingnut:
The implication being—well, I don’t know what the implication is, frankly. Keeping one’s law license current costs at least several hundred dollars a year. Why anyone would do so unless they actually intended to actually practice law, only a Nooshan could say.
Seriously. Authorism; it’s the new Birtherism.
Despite having it pointed out more than once this is not possible (law school grading is double-blind; look it up), Tom just lurves him that affirmative-action-pushed-incompetent-Obama-through angle waaay too much to give it up. That’s why I liken trying to talk Nooshans out of their racist bullshit to trying to talk dogs off a meat wagon. They love these narratives far too much to let mere facts or reality get in the way.
Yeah, he said that.
Glad you stopped by, Winston. We needed some humor in this thread, even if provided unintentionally by you.
Ohh... watch out for that banana peel! Too late.
Ah, the entertainment is all mine. Nooshan meltdown in progress. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Have you ever thought about trying out some new material, Winston? I mean, we know how terribly clever you are with the 7th grade-level Nooshan thing and the juvenile HaHaHaHaHaHa deal, but you might try asking an upperclassman for some new stuff. I'd say you might want to shoot high, and ask a 10th grader for help this time.
Yeah Winston Barack is so proud of his college & grad years he wants to keep those shiny transcripts all to himself. He just stares at them and smiles and we're all told how "smart he is" we think; so that's good enough.
Yes, rather like the way Clueless Plutocrat feels about his tax returns. Oh, wait—Obama is already President; Clueless Plutocrat only WANTS to be.
But seriously, Tom. I spoze I could spin some speculate yarns about the why CP won’t release his returns—he made nineteen trillion dollars in 2009, or paid zero taxes, or tithed to a white supremacist organization—or all the above. But the fact is, you can get admitted to Harvard Law on a basis of affirmative action but you can’t earn a magna cum laude that way. What makes you keep pretending otherwise? Do you not understand it makes you sound like a racist crackpot?
RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! RACIST!
Thus spake Winston, our very own racially obsessed and socially maladjusted juvenile crackpot.
No, I think you're confused about what "racially obsessed" means. I think it means somethnig more like "insisting the President's magna cum laude came from affirmative action even after it being conclusively demonstrated that's not possible."
How many "magna cum laude" grads do you know that are Howard Hughes sensitive to releasing information beneficial to them; especially during an election?
So you DO understand ths makes you sound like a bit of a crackpot?
How many "wingnuts" do you know who are David Duke insistent no black student could earn Harvard Law School honors legitimately?
Tom, you know how the Winston Rules work. You're not allowed to bring up anything regarding affirmative action, because to even mention such a thing means you're a RACIST!
It's the same as the Winston Rules about not mentioning the idiotic statements of a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, because any reference to that racially restricted group means that you're a RACIST!
This is how the leftist brain works. Or I should say, how it doesn't work.
Sounds like you BOTH understand your ravings ("Harvard Law threw out their usual procedures to award Barack Obama an affirmative-action magna cum laude!") make you sound like racist crackpots, and that's the way--uh huh, uh-huh--you like it. One thing, though, Redbeard, you forgot to insert all the extra "A"s.
How long you gonna keep pretending you're being persecuted every time someone criticizes you for behaving like profoundly offensive bigoted jackasses? I mean, you're free to stop. Any time. Who's forcing you to act this way?
We can't see President Choom's records because there's far too great a chance that Democrats reading them will randomly start passing out from what can only be defined as an overdose of awesomeness.
If he does ever decide to make his records public WE NEED to be sure there's plenty of water to go around. I recommend calling in FEMA just to be safe. Send free mobile homes to lower poverty areas... they'll stand a higher risk of being affected by this whole new level of epic kickass beating down their consciousness (also known simply as Obamaness).
Can we get a water over here, please?
Just talking about it makes me dizzy.
Word is that CP (Congenital Prevaricator/Clueless Plutocrat) is pissed to be called a securities felon and promises he’ll “take the gloves off.” Will go after President’s youthful drug habit. Will try to tie him to disgraced Chicago politicians. Will call him a liar [no, seriously]. Will give us all the finger on those tax returns.
More popcorn, please! I just love me the smell of Republican panic and meltdown in the morning. This is some kinda wunnerful I tells ya.
Winston, have you heard that the president is half white? It's true. A fact, actually. Not debatable. But is it racist to say that, or only when mentioning the fact that he's half black? It sure is difficult to keep up with all the Winston Rules on Racist Behavior.
So what?
Redbeard, do you think Harvard Law threw out their usual procedures to award Barack Obama an affirmative-action magna cum laude? A simple yes or no will sufffice.
Perhaps Mitt will even help highlight and begin to chip away at that communist core covered by a thin candy shell of phony capitalism.
The bottom has only begun to fall out for Obama. When you have a Top 10 list of unreleased documents going against you, it's rather difficult to run on the talking point of transparency like he did back in 2008. If he even tries he'll be jumped all over for it, and after pissing off Romney he's going to be hit hard on it in the debates either way. Obama's best option is to stay on offense, but even his offense comes off as weak defense fueled by class warfare... primarily because he's such a fucking amateur who's in way over his head (what more did you expect from a career community organizer... I mean, seriously?).
If you honestly think that the GOP is "losing it" right now, you're only fooling yourself. It's actually become quite solidified because of the situation it is in right now. They've been infighting all year, but when it comes to defeating Obama and the leftist movement they come together quite well. You seem to think that just kicking a sleeping giant will keep it down until November, then when it wakes up and smashes you senseless you lefties are gonna cry about how unfair it was you got squished (just like in Wisconsin).
Welcome to reality. Keep on desperately searching for that October surprise.
(or whatever lie / smear / distortion you think will stick next)
Just be still and wait for the paralegals.
I’m sure you believe that, Skinnyman. However, the President’s a known quantity to the electorate. Arguments about his youthful drug use or continuing to trumpet revelations that as a student he was photographed hugging blah people aren’t really going to get much traction. Right now the President’s re-election team is very effectively defining Clueless Plutocrat for the low-information voters, and everything Clueless Plutocrat does and says reinforces that portrait, from “Corporations are people, my friend,” “I like being able to fire people,” “I’m running for office for Pete’s sake,” and refusing to release his tax returns to whining that the business experiences he claims form the basis for his candidacy are a distraction and no one’s else’s business (and that goes double for any wingnuts whining about Stericycle).
At this point you’ve got your candidate and he’s a pretty unlikeable jerk, evasive, horrendously dishonest, oily, unprincipled, entitled. Good luck with him. You’ll need it.
Do I think the Retardicans are losing their s**t? Yeah, I do. Between the Supreme Court ruling and the slow realization dawning that they’ve got one godawfully craptastic candidate, there is one meltdown-extinction-level-temper-tantrum underway.
See, when a guy who’s said black men are criminally inclined says
such sentiments have “racial crackpot” written all over them. And just to give you the opportunity to avoid being unfairly smeared with the same brush, Redbeard, why don’t you clarify for us: do YOU think Harvard Law circumvented their usual grading procedures, just to award Barack Obama an affirmative-action magna cum laude?
If so, why do you think they’d do that? Because he’s half-white? Or because he’s half-black?
I have no idea what happened at Harvard, nor at Columbia, nor at Occidental, nor anywhere else, and much more to the point, neither do you. Why is that, do you suppose? Might just possibly have something to do with President Transparency hiding all his records. And why is that, do you suppose?
But then, suggesting that President Barry is hiding things is no doubt due to my ardent racism. I just don't trust his white half.
I know he graduated Harvard Law magna cum laude. I know law school grading is double-blind. I know, therefore, that it takes a real racially obsessed jackass to walk around suggesting Harvard Law could nevertheless figure out some way to give someone a free pass because of their color. The conspiracy would have to be vast.
Ha ha ha. How tiresome, both your continual bait-n-switch and the juvenile, snickering amusement you take in it. Racial to suggest the President could be hiding something? No. Racial to speculate that he coasted to a high honors Harvard Law JD on some sort of affirmative-action-grading basis—uh, yeah.
People grading papers don’t know whose papers they’re grading. It takes a real racially obsessed jackass to walk around suggesting Harvard Law could nevertheless figure out some way to give someone a free pass because of their color. I’m glad you seem to acknowledge that.
Let’s review.
Suggesting he’s hiding something? Not racial.
Suggesting he’s hiding an impossibly vast conspiracy to award him a race-based affirmative-action magna cum laude? Racial. See how it works? It’s a distinction most non-bigots can readily see.
Obama's paper will be the one written in Austrian.
And if he got faint while writing it, I hope he called the paralegals.
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I'm looking for a sign to put out by our front gate, saying "Galt's Gulch."
I do enjoy the hissy fits that the mere mention of Galt or Rand causes in leftists. Very entertaining.
"Hissy fits"?
You do love flattering yourself, don't you?
I'm just dying for one of these meatheads to actually "Go Galt" on our ass. They seem to be all talk and no action.
Thanks for being so oblivious and proving my point.
By the way, your next retort should be along the lines of, "OH, YEAH????!!!!"