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A Further Perspective
Barack Said What???
His truest (and falsest) words.
Rather than watch Barack Obama’s speech, I contented myself with writing an article timed for the day of — saying “When he goes out this evening to address the Democratic National Convention, this is what he will see, hear, and say.”
But now that I have read the text of his speech, I must admit to finding one surprise. It wasn’t one of those off-hand remarks that provide a sudden window to the mind of the speaker (e.g. “If you have a business, you didn’t build that,” or, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody”).
To the contrary, this was a carefully crafted paragraph — unexceptional in itself but standing in sharp contradiction to everything that went before it and everything that came after. Call it Insert A. Here is the passage without the oddball paragraph:
This is the choice we now face. This is what the election comes down to. Over and over, we have been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way; that since government can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can’t afford health insurance, hope that you don’t get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that’s just the price of progress. If you can’t afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponent’s advice and “borrow money from your parents.”
You know what? That’s not who we are. That’s not what this country’s about.
We believe in something called citizenship — word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy; the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another, and to future generations.
We believe that when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build, the whole company does better.
We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they can’t afford, that family is protected, but so is the value of other people’s homes, and so is the entire economy.
We believe that a little girl who’s offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for college could become the founder of the next Google, or the scientist who cures cancer, or the President of the United States — and it’s in our power to give here that chance.
You can criticize the staleness of the prose and the banality of the sentiments in that passage. But at least everything hangs together. Here we have someone who thoroughly rejects the idea that free markets work on the basis of voluntary exchange for mutual benefit. This is a person who thinks that mean-spirited CEOs are free (even in an open and competitive marketplace) to underpay their workers and that bankers are so stupid as to want to make loans that they know they will have to write off.
Here’s the middle of the passage with the Insert A paste-in (with new words in italics):
You know what? That’s not who we are. That’s not what the country’s about.
As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights — rights that no man or government can take away. We insist on personal responsibility and we celebrate individual initiative. We’re not entitled to success. We have to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system — the greatest engine of growth and prosperity the world has ever known.
But we also believe in, etc.
Imagine that: Barack Obama as the champion of the concepts of earned success and free enterprise — of personal responsibility and individual initiative — and of inalienable rights that no government can take away!!! Even if I did not anticipate this part of the speech, I am willing to bet that you heard it here first.
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Kitty | 9.11.12 @ 6:25AM
when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build
Since when haven't autoworkers been able to afford a car? As of last year, the average U.S. autoworker made $33.77 per hour.
spike59| 9.11.12 @ 6:46AM
maybe he was talking about the Volt, which, if priced according to market forces, would retail at well above $100k
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 8:09AM
The Chicago Teachers Union that is out on strike secured an average annual salary of $74,839 for their teachers. Their medical plan is surely in $25K and they pay 3%, or $62 per month. They can retire at 50 with $40K plus health care for life. They max out at 75% of their highest salary if they work longer (plus health care). Their work schedule was 5 hr 45 min for about 180 days per year.
So if you take someone who teaches from 25 to 55 and lives to 85, they get paid an average $75K salary for thirty years and about $50K for the next thirty or $125K for the nine months a year they worked during their career. Then they get sixty years of medical for thirty years work or the equivalent of $50K.
Their argument is that they should not be held to any metrics or standards while they earn the equivalent of $175K a year and cannot be fired except perhaps for a felony.
And we should be concerned that they cannot afford a car? My neighbor that taught wood shop drives an Audi TT to his condo at the beach and hasn’t worked in years.
What's wrong with this picture?
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 10:12AM
This strike by the teachers union, you know those professionals who care about and know what is best for our children, simply puts the focus on what their priority actually is and the reason for unions themselves. If we do not learn from this event and understand why the unions choose the political positions and candidates they do, then shame on us.
Jacob McCandles| 9.11.12 @ 10:55AM
It occurs to me that we have been playing the democrats' game on their turf. When you hear a republican spouting off about education, aren't we playing by their rules (and assumptions)? Let them pay Chicago teachers 1 million a year for doing nothing. Shouldn't matter to a Virginian, right? Other than providing another example of how not to run a state. But I guess I'm making an assumption as well: that our politicians give a crap about the Constitution and how it's supposed to limit centralized authority.
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 11:47AM
Whenever the opposition is allowed to set the terms of the debate; to define the terms, it is likely a losing move. What we seek is not better management of the social-welfare state (keep parts of obamacare) but those dedicated to rolling back the overreach of the paternalistic despotism. Is Romney that man? To borrow from your namesake, "Not hardly".
BTW, Virginia is critical along with FL and Ohio. Without those electoral votes No Hope.
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 12:10PM
New Mexico is up for grabs. Don't buy the MSM bullshit. It is going to be a landslide defeat.
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 1:20PM
Five votes from NM only mean something if the GOP runs VA, NC, FL and Ohio. Akin may have cost MO but Ryan may bring WI. That would be a wash which leaves IA and something like NM or NH to squeek up to 270 or 271. It is a tall mountain to climb.
Von Mises Jr| 9.11.12 @ 3:34PM
Akin is down by 1 with a MSM and pollsters that slant the sample half dozen points in the opposite direction. The TEA Party will get Akin financed even if McConnell has his head up his posterior. Mitch and "marbles" Boehner can come along for the ride or get left behind at the train station. Don't listen to the horse hockey; it is what they want you to do to get discouraged and their morons to get confident. They need all the $3 donations they can get with Obumer.
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 4:40PM
All I can say JR is, "I hope you are right".
Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.11.12 @ 5:51PM
Corruption is trickle-down, and you've done a great deal of trickling.
Darin| 9.11.12 @ 6:53AM
The few times Obama says something worthwhile, it quickly becomes clear his words do not match his actions. Talk is cheap. A girl who stays with a guy who talks nice to her but cheats on her is a dumb girl. Obama is cheating on us (as a country), and quite frankly we deserve better.
John Navratil| 9.11.12 @ 9:08AM
Darin,
While I agree with your sentiment, I challenge your use of "deserve". We collectively voted this on ourselves. I lament that we have come so far down that this man has a credible shot at winning despite his record. It shows that half of Americans believe in the tooth fairy. No, we don't deserve better. We will have to vote for better. Then we'll have to hold Romney's feet to the fire. Whatever the outcome, this does not end on November 6.
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 9:25AM
What about the Hundreds of Thousands of "Little Girls" who are Murdered each year on the Alter of Abortion?
How many of THEM might have grown up to be the Founder of the next Google, or the Scientist that discovers a Cure for Cancer?
We will never be a good Country, as long as this Mass Murder of our Children continues on, unabated.
It's as simple as that.
Even though almost half of you people make me wanna Puke, with your Dumb*ss, Stupid Sh*t, 3rd Grade Level Blather, I would never wish an Abortion on any one of you.
As Bugs Bunny once said: "We were all somebody's Baby, once." (I'm paraphrasing)
That we, as a Nation, Sanction their Murders, makes us no better than any other Monsterously Evil Conglomeration of Human Beings, that has come before us.
How is it possible, that some of you don't understand this?
Stephie| 9.11.12 @ 11:15AM
Abortion is their hold grail. Sandra givememyfreepills Fluke is now their spokesman. This coupled with the platform being uncovered showing the world that they don't believe in the creator and their hatred for Israel shows us all who they are and what they stand for.
I tell you now, it's only a matter of time before forced abortions are a reality. Or as obama and his ilk like to say, "mandated". The godless are running the nation.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 5:45PM
They were already a reality, once, in a manner of speaking. Eugenics were popular the last time a wave of philosophical liberalism transformed the country.
They won't be mandated, though. You'll just have to pay a "tax" for not getting one!
TLP| 9.11.12 @ 6:39PM
Indeed.
Unicorn| 9.13.12 @ 5:48PM
The democrat party has become the "sick vigina party"! Pretty sad state of affairs when "women" think more of their personal parts than they do of their country...and the liberal men go along with them..Perhaps they have "sick penis'"...hmmm?
The Avenger| 9.11.12 @ 7:42AM
Obama's words ring hollow when you compare them to his actions. The same words, in general, were heard in 2008. The difference now is that we have 4 years of his actions to compare them to. The actions do not stack up well.
Indy| 9.11.12 @ 7:48AM
There's an App for that, Obama in his own words, currently available for iOS and Windows, soon will be Android, he also has Romney quotes
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....ingertips/
LindaF | 9.11.12 @ 8:28AM
You're right - that part was a late insert - designed to "pander" to those bitter clingers.
It wasn't heartfelt; it wasn't in sync with the rest of the speech.
It was stuck in there, because they fear that if their contempt for most Americans openly showed, they wouldn't be elected.
Stephie| 9.11.12 @ 11:16AM
They openly showed in their disdain for most but especially middle America with their party platform.
Louis Jenkins| 9.11.12 @ 8:42AM
Sorry Obama, you lied in '08 and you're still lying. Didn't vote for you then and I certainly won't now. But it sure sounds good doesn't it!
Al Adab| 9.11.12 @ 10:17AM
We knew it was a rattlesnake when we picked it up. Why be surprised that it bit?
We wanted a change from Bush and the GOP. We wanted new stratergies in the war. We wanted to give the kid a chance and to prove to ourselves we were not racist. Well, we did it and fortunately we can correct the error. We now understand what "fundamentally transform America" actually meant. Time to reverse course and return to as government which does its job and one that lets us get on with ours.
ElGordo| 9.11.12 @ 9:10AM
As Romney's TV ads attack Obama's failed economy , superPACS such as Rove's Crossroads should attack Obama's character, statements, associations, etc. ;
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e.g. Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Acorn, Marxist Professors, Rezko, Blago, Frank Davis, etc.
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"electric prices will skyrocket"," you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen", " I visited 57 states, one more to go", "America only has 5% of the world's energy and it uses 25% ", "I don't have all the facts but the Cambridge police acted stupidly", "the private sector is doing just fine", "when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody", "I think at a certain point you made enough money", "in Pennsylvania they cling to their guns and bibles", etc.
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Allowing surviving babies of botched abortions to die, attempting to stop Boeing from building a plant in So. Car., In favor of Same Sex marriages, Stopped the Keystone pipeline from being built, bowing to the Saudi King, sending money to Brazil to help off shore drilling , banning off shore drilling in the Gulf, wants Israel to go back to 1967 borders, lost Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood, did not back an uprising in Iran to overthrow the mullahs, shipping guns to Mexican criminals, etc.
Bill8472| 9.11.12 @ 9:25AM
It's good that this commentary is so short, because it doesn't make a lick of sense. I agree with the sentiments in italics, but Barack Obama has given no indication that such principles are even on his radar.
How much do you want to bet that President Obama reads over the speeches that others prepare for him maybe once right before he's due to deliver them? I bet he doesn't give more than a moment's thought to what the speeches say. He is just the mouthpiece, not the author.
francisdesales| 9.11.12 @ 9:27AM
Mr. Wilson has misconstrued Obama's remarks. We'd like to think that the last paragraph of Wilson's column would be the interpretation of Obama's speech, but we know it is not, because Obama's mentality is that the government replaces the idea of "citizenship". To Americans, citizenship is not the overarching government, it is my neighbors, my friends, my co-religionists and people I know at PTA.
Obama said nothing different, just tried using nice words like "citizenship" but with a different definition. Look at the context of Obama's paragraph.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 9:35AM
Your snarky comment aside, Democrats have always believed in these values - they truly are AMERICAN values, not right or left, red or blue values - some people just don't wear them on their sleeves and have to trumpet them as you seem to need to.
You see, when you know Karate, you don't have to prove it to the world. Those that yell the loudest about something are usually the ones that don't really believe it themselves.
Remember, most people on welfare are white and working people, 80% of this country is religious and there are plenty of successful millionaires and billionaires on the left as well.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 10:16AM
Your words and actions prove that you do not believe in these values, and you're a fool if you think you can convince us otherwise with mere say-so.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 10:36AM
On the anniversary of 9/11 it's appalling to try to divide Americans ... we are Americans first.
You sir, have no decency.
Drunken Sailor| 9.11.12 @ 11:14AM
And you sir have no consistency. Is this the only day you do not try to divide Americans? 9/11 should have been and was a catalyst to unite us. However the left quickly tossed that aside in their war on Bush. Then later their war on the Tea Party and now their war on conservatives.
You are a Hypocrite.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 4:05PM
Not at all ... I usually just take issue with the sanctimonious issues that are discussed here, as if the right-wing has all the answers and are correct all the time.
Name calling sometimes ensues, but that's not what I prefer.
If you recall, 9/11 DID bring us together - that is until Republicans decided to use 9/11 and terrorism as a route to further political gain and put on a grand show of force invading 2 countries, putting the Twin Towers in their campaign literature and subsequently dividing us again. So blame yourselves, enjoying the win at the expense of the unity of the country.
In this, our country, it is no game of winners and losers, it's simply US losing or winning. But both sides have to come to the table - not just one.
The President has paid dearly with his own base trying to reach across the aisle, but they would have none of it - and in fact that was the plan all along on the Republican side. Until that changes, you cannot unite.
Won't you help by being nice to me now?
JD| 9.11.12 @ 5:38PM
Actually, the country was quite together in all of that, for a time. Then the anti-Bush vitriol took off. Who did that?
I have no problem with being "divided" if the cost of being "united" is embracing stupidity. However, what Obama does is a different from simply separating yourself from that which is wrong. He separates other people from each other in order to make them fight each other, to his profit.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 6:26PM
Bush and Rove divided America to take over the Senate and House in 2002... you were born then, right?
Your playbook for Obama is exactly what the Bushies did - divide with Guns, God and Gays and whatever else they could muster.
Your side did it first and if your premise is true of Obama, your side showed how to do it.
But, of course, you need someone better than Romney to sell it. He's not and he isn't able to close the deal. So you will lose.
Nick| 9.11.12 @ 6:53PM
"If you recall, 9/11 DID bring us together [...]."
WRONG!, yet again, Burp.
Paul Begala was already bringing up My Pet Goat, in reference to President Bush, by the weekend following September 11th, 2001.
He, and other lefty scum, were already trying to start the meme that the president spent the day hiding in bunkers, instead of leading the country. Which is absurd.
You stinking liberals were NEVER "united" with the rest of America. You were all wondering how this was going to affect your side politically, before the setting of the sun that terrible day.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 10:43PM
Also, Google Biden and "high tech bullies" from the winter of 2001, to see another example of how united the Democrats were.
Nick| 9.11.12 @ 11:34PM
Also, Mr. Constantine, Chris "Tingles" Matthews, a week before Kabul fell, was doing his best "Bagdad Bob" impression, claiming that we were losing to the Taliban and that President Bush was using the attacks of September 11th to push war, in order to help him in the '02 elections.
Sound familiar? They would dust this canard off, 10 months later, making the bogus assertion that this was why the Bush administration was demanding that the WMD inspections resume.
Matth-Spews, like most lefties, was projecting. He was showing everyone what he would do, since he sees everything through political eyes, when he falsely claimed Republicans were playing politics with their war decisions.
By the way, thank you for the compliments, from yesterday's thread, Mr. Constantine. I really appreciate it.
Take care.
Nina in MA| 9.12.12 @ 3:23PM
We have an apologist as a President, he is so pro-muslum he actually apologized to Syria for the bombing and murder of our ambassador and staff. He sympathizes with those who want us to dead. A bunch of ex hippies who want everyone to get along and will do anything to bring it about even if we die...! He has ruined any strength we had in foreign countries so much so that it has emboldened those that will kill us and bomb our embassies! May I suggest a very good read? Canadian Free Press, Daniel Greenfield...Better Than They Are....? I'm tired of being such a good guy all the time, not sure about the rest of you. I'm tired of feeling like the bad guy because I want criminals and murderers punished. I'm tired of being such a good guy that I don't want to hurt a muslum's feelings because I don't want a mosque in my town. I'm tired of giving in to every sick tom dick and harry who has a grudge against Christianity, anti abortion, anti homosexual and being called a racist for it. I'm tired of not getting the same consideration that they expect from me!
Unicorn| 9.13.12 @ 6:18PM
The President has paid dearly with his own base trying to reach across the aisle, but they would have none of it - and in fact that was the plan all along on the Republican side. Until that changes, you cannot unite.
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Truly, I was trying to understand and empathize with you until I read the above that you wrote. BO has NEVER, NEVER tried to get along with OR REACH ACROSS TO the Republicans. I dare say you and others who think as you, are deluding yourselves...In other words, you, sirm have had a good dose of the OBAMA KOOL AID!
Stephie| 9.11.12 @ 11:19AM
Your boy obama is the divider and you're to blind to see it. Go away Purp. Please.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 4:09PM
Talk like that means it won't change.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 11:59AM
So if it's the fourth of July, can I not criticize the KKK?
Bill8472| 9.11.12 @ 12:11PM
Some Democrats believe in the American values you mention. Unfortunately, the Democrats who are most public, and who seem to be quite vocal in the Democrat Party, are getting very close to being in charge. If that vote on God and Jerusalem is any indicator, the numbers seem to be close to 50-50
Bill8472| 9.11.12 @ 12:11PM
Those public and vocal Democrats don't seem to adhere to those American values.
Drunken Sailor| 9.11.12 @ 3:51PM
Sadly Bill many Democrats still have not waken up to the fact that it isn't their grand daddies party anymore. They have been taken over by the far left in most if not all leadership positions.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 4:11PM
Well, we're not a Christian or a Jewish nation, why the rancor? God can take care of himself, and US Diplomacy supports Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ...
If you wanna talk about platforms - wanna talk about the Republican platform ?
JD| 9.11.12 @ 11:29PM
You've never done so in your life, and you won't know. You will invent straw men as you always do.
RJ| 9.11.12 @ 9:38AM
Obama's on-going use of arguing against strawman characterizations of his opponents' ideas reminds me of what Professor Epstein said of him as a lecturer at the University of Chicago - that he was ideologically inflexible and unwilling to discuss issues with knowledgeable people who disagreed with his views. Obama's "brilliance" exists only in his own mind and in the minds of his supporters. He is never willing to test himself or his ideas. He lives in an mental closet. He is much more spoiled child than leader or intellect.
RJ| 9.11.12 @ 9:42AM
Let's not forget another recent Obama statement:
“The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government” - June 2012
Americans who live in the real world know that the private sector is not doing fine.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 11:16AM
Compared to the public sector, which has negative job growth (-600,000 since 2009), whereas the private sector has positive job growth (+4.6 Million jobs since 2009) they are doing better.
"Better" would have been a better word to use than "Fine" ... but there it is.
PolishKnight| 9.11.12 @ 12:34PM
During the Bush era, the media coined a term 'jobless recover', remember Purp? What that was code for was "McJobs": Low paying or part-time jobs. Obama's private sector "growth" are summer jobs watching swimming pools or cleaning hotel rooms (which go for low wages to illegals, which is ok when private sector labor is exploiting the poor who will ultimately vote for him.) The problem with the public sector "middle class" jobs is that they are like Soviet cronies with a limited number of slots to go shopping at the GUM store. He can't give enough people such goodies to vote for him so he needs poor illiterates and anti-white racists. That's the future "Sweden" that comet chasing cool aid drinkers are chasing after...
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 3:45PM
You're right, Reagan's policies have destroyed the middle class and Papa and Baby Bush continued the decline. Clinton reversed it briefly but "W" gave it all back in spades.
It's all traceable back to "Trickle Down (shhh, it's for the millionaires and billionaires but don't tell anybody) economic theory. Even David Stockman, Reagan's OWN BUDGET DIRECTOR explains what damage Reagan's policies have done.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 5:42PM
You are one despicable person, you know that? I've explained countless times on these pages why "trickle down" is a straw man argument, and you've never once had anything to say in response. You just clam up, wait a while, and repeat the lie, hoping I won't be around to debunk you next time. You also know full well that Stockman was a full-on liberal by the time he made that statement.
The middle class was destroyed by those who made American business so uncompetitive that we lost all our jobs to foreigners (only yesterday you spoke of such loss of business as inevitable and not worth fighting - if the business in question is oil). It was destroyed by those whose redistribution has lead to the poor having more spending money than the middle. Mostly, it was destroyed by liars like you, who continually convince people to vote against their interests by telling them that everyone but your party is controlling politics when things go bad, when in fact your ideas have dominated for generations.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 6:37PM
I have explained this over and over, but you completely ignore truth and want to believe what the Corporate World wants you to believe. Against your own interests, I might add.
The middle class has been destroyed by the signature moment when Ronald Reagan showed the Corporate world that a union could be broken by firing the PATCO Air Traffic Controllers.
By breaking that strike, CEOs everywhere were shown that the power of the unions could be broken and high salaries and benefits for their workers were not something they were stuck with.
Unions, and the Middle Class, have been in decline ever since. Globalization and offshoring just added more tools for the CEOs to increase their bottom line at the expense of the labor force.
Unions have been demonized for so long, y'all believe they are the enemy. But they brought you vacation pay, sick days, health, life insurance and so many other benefits we take for granted.
No employer simply was benevolent and "gave" goodies to workers - they had to fight for them.
Unions have had some problems, but who doesn't have a problem with their boss not providing good pay, time off, and other benefits that unions fought for.
You don't understand it, or you don't accept the truth, so you go ahead and believe Ayn Rand's philosophy of winner take all and you live that dream.
IF you are a 1% winner, great - if not, you're delusional.
Nick| 9.11.12 @ 7:18PM
Ah, yes, the PATCO firings. One of my fondest memories of my early teens. Almost makes me tear-up, a little, just thinking about it.
You might be right, for once in your life, Burp. In the mid-1990s, here in Detroit, the Detroit News broke their local union.
It was GREAT!
A friend of mine was hired as a replacement worker. We used to drive by one of the the News' distribution facilities, where the union thugs were out picketing, and shout really nasty things at them. Well, I was younger then.
Funny, whenever it was raining, or really cold, there were hardly any picketers out there. Losers!
JD| 9.11.12 @ 11:39PM
I work in software development. My profession has never had a union and is the healthiest profession in America today, with the possible exception of whatever we're subsidizing most at a given moment. People do well in these non-union professions because of concepts your brain can't process - employers competing over workers.
I don't need or want an employer to be "benevolent". Like a Randian character, I look with disgust on anyone who would give me what I do not deserve. I know what such people are - liberals, giving out favors with the intent of demanding tenfold payback later!
I don't want to owe anyone anything. I want to be the person who is respected for taking care of himself, and others, by my own free will! THAT is charity, not the abomination that is your liberal mandates.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 11:40PM
You cannot comprehend the most fundamental building block of society - the trade. Trades operate on a very simple principle. A principle that eludes your mind completely. That principle is the "win-win".
To a liberal, every transaction has a winner and a loser, with no net change. You see someone doing well, and it must be because someone else suffered, and vice versa. You cannot imagine a worker being well paid unless he joins a union and is hostile to his employer. You cannot imagine an employer doing well unless he is cruel to his employees!
No one owes you squat. If you want to be paid, convince your employer that paying you will be more than worth it to him. That's what successful people do. You don't have a clue.
Nick| 9.12.12 @ 12:23AM
Hear hear, JD!
Say it loud and say it proud, my brother!
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 6:38PM
Btw - " when in fact your ideas have dominated for generations." - if you're over 30, the world you grew up in, the world that made you Love America, was created by FDR, JFK and LBJ - if you don't love it, then you are un-American, aren't you?
JD| 9.11.12 @ 11:40PM
I love the good parts of America, and as a natural consequence, I despise what you stand for.
PolishKnight| 9.12.12 @ 1:37AM
Nice try Purp. Blabbing on the typical talking points while ignoring my point that makes you so uncomfortable: The McJobs anemic Soviet recovery where the vast majority of Democrat welfare recipients living in squalor along with any poor suckers (literally) left in the "middle class" that voted for Obama or FDR in the past. There aren't enough government union jobs to slush around nor to make GM cars that the left aren't going to want to buy (leftists buy Toyotas, Hondas, or European cars.)
You're not cheerleading a Swedish republic but rather a banana republic. And Clinton? Yeah, he passed that great welfare reform law that required welfare recipients to work. Oh, wait, Obama dismantled that! Oh, he didn't! Nevermind! Hahahaha! Yeah, facts are ugly things! Hahaha!
Unicorn| 9.13.12 @ 6:26PM
MAM O MAN..you surely are drunk on that kool aid by now. When over 360,000 people are first time unemployed every week for over 49 months...WHERE ARE THE 4.6 JOBS? Do the math! 4 x 360,000 = 1,040,000 each month that have gone UNEMPLOYED!
JD| 9.11.12 @ 10:18AM
The whole Obama quote proves just what a terrible liar he is. Every word implies that Republicans support terrible things, and he's the only one who can save America from them. He is truly a despicable person for making such claims.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 11:18AM
OMG, he's a politician too? I'm shocked, just shocked.
PolishKnight| 9.11.12 @ 12:39PM
Indeed, Purp, leftism is a mix of cynicism and starry eyed idealism kind of like violent religious radicals. They "care" about the big picture so they needn't "care" about the consequences of their immediate actions and even ultimately about the reasonableness of their long term agenda. So the left celebrates their "heroes" lying to everyone, including them, while pulling their beards that evil "capitalists" exploit them even as they buy ipads, use electricity from coal and nuclear plants, and drive their hypocrite-mobiles back and forth to the mono-colored suburbs. It's sublime religious hypocrisy. This applies only to the (few) remaining European style marxists since the average Democrat voter are racial entitlement seekers or welfare recipients who don't care about ideology whatsoever.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 3:24PM
You are so off base - no wonder your side is losing - Romney's already gone, the Senate is almost a Democratic victory and even the House is in danger. You have bad candidates, a bad message and you hate America and Americans ... your rage is palpable and America is turning against you and your empty chair.
Have a nice day.
JD| 9.11.12 @ 5:43PM
Yet again, the liberal feels his best weapon is to accuse his enemies of exactly his own flaws.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 6:28PM
If you believe that, then you aren't listening to the TeaPublicans and your commentators and pundits.
Wake up, your beliefs are warped.
Unicorn| 9.13.12 @ 6:54PM
If one has ever lived with a "dysfunctional" person, or had close contact with one, then that person would know and understand that LIBTARDS ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL. Sadly, many American families are living that nightmare. It runs in families. MARXIST OBAMA CAME FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL. His childhood was not an ideal one! It shows in everything he does and the lies he tells. The truth is not in the man in any degree. TRULY DYSFUNCTIONAL!
PolishKnight| 9.12.12 @ 1:41AM
It's not just my "side" that has to pay $4 for a gallon of gasoline in the Obamaconomy. That's Obama's (and the former USSR's) greatest flaw: Even after your side "wins" and puts the "middle class" on the trains to Siberia, what's left? A bunch of poor welfare recipients that Obama doesn't want to embrace in his own ads. You probably live in a purple suburb, hypocrite.
cicero| 9.11.12 @ 2:15PM
Over the weekend, Book TV broadcast a lecture Ramesh D'Souza gave to a group in Mid August of this year. He spoke of Obama's agenda, and why it was as it was. Probably the best analasys I have ever heard. He asserted that, contrary to popular belief, Obama was not a failure as president. In fact, he was succeeding brilliantly in achieving his goals. These goals was the diminishment of the United States, so that we wouldd be forced to pay the third world for our "ill gotten gains". We are spending money that we don't have, and selling bonds that we will have to repay at interest, with the bonds being held by those he believes we exploited. He draws his conclusions from Obama's books, speaches, and actions. I believe the lecture was given on Aug.11, 2012, so it may be findable.
Purp| 9.11.12 @ 3:25PM
And yet, all the spending that HAD to occur was setup by the Bush Administration's failures - Sorry Ramesh's Dog don't Hunt. ...
Dave Williams| 9.11.12 @ 8:04PM
Purp the Twerp....the reason the scroll feature was invented....
merlin| 9.11.12 @ 10:39PM
Dave Williams,
So right. LOL
I usually skip purp and brooks but I look for Von Meses Jr and a few other. My thanks to all thoughtful commentors for your POV, knowledge and wisdom.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 9.11.12 @ 10:47PM
DW;
I would say God bless you for that remark, but I know that means nothing to you, so allow me to substitute "Good one".