Dear America,
just because the president's speech in Roanoke was so stunning:
Make no mistake; this is not a voice of an American who truly understands America and how she was made -- let alone a president.
Please read every single word from the official White House transcript on the day, just go here.
repeating his first point:
read it again and catch yourself up at the point where he stops himself for full effect..."they know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own."
HE even repeats it: "you didn't get there on your own."
and then the digger chimes in:
are you serious?
It's so offensive, it's hard to imagine it came out of the mouth of our president.
The real Barack Obama has been cultivating this moment for four years; the collective mentality, the socialist agenda, the progressive paradigm, has been rooted in his every move; and his followers and believers are eating out of the palm of his hand. The end justifies the means. [The end being the end of the Republic of the United States of America]
right. so you, Mr. President, Al Gore, and our incredibly gracious, smart, charitable government created the Internet and Mark Zuckerberg and his facebook owes it all to you. Every business operating on the Internet owes it all to you -- the face of the USA today.
you know what ---- you should just go ahead and plant someone at the helm of every Board of Directors from coast to coast. what's stopping you? But let's continue to digress --
k. so to carry HIS line of thought backwards -- are you taking equal credit for all the failures, too? Fair is fair, right?
I wonder just how many businesses have not made it over the last 236 years? How many have gone belly up just in the last four? so -- perhaps Mr. President, you might also say -- 'if you've got a business that has gone under -- it's not your fault -- it's ours....no, no, let me be more clear...it's my fault.'
wow. now wouldn't that be some kind of refreshing.
But in all seriousness, this president of ours has absolutely no respect for the American Free Market, the naked, now walking aimlessly in the woods, capitalists that we are and intended to be.
Being not of the business world whatsoever, leaves this president vulnerable in every way [just wish Romney could jump on this aspect a little more often, perhaps even with a little of his own business bravado showing....a girl can dream a little dream....]. did you like that? isn't Zooey just wonderful. guess she owes her success to Obama too...
But this president seems to be missing a major attribute contributing to one's success, and the ability for a company to even get to the level of turning a profit. And that being, SOMEBODY took a risk first. And from another angle.... even the greatest of actors can have stage fright.
There are no guarantees in a free market. None.
All ideas start from the individual, at the widget stage; the hope, the dream, is to multiply and expand that one widget -- whatever it may be -- to make something bigger from something small.
But this president has the audacity to say to every successful business person/company/corporation -- you didn't do it without the collective making it so. Did the collective risk anything when mr. mom and pop opened the deli with collateral saved up after ten years, a loan from family, or after mortgaging their home?
Even Ray Kroc opened up with just one store.
It's this kind of disconnect that disturbs me. But this president actually gets away with feeding his audiences ignorance and false truths on even the most basic of free market principles; and all the while, driving a wedge between the haves and the have nots solely to stir a collective uprising large enough to open the door to a second term.
I heard something surprising this morning on talk radio -- Mike Slater, on KFMB 760 San Diego, asked his audience which chain has the most stores. Most of us would automatically think Mickey D's, but nope, that wasn't it.
The answer: Subway. 25,000 stores.
So here they are, holding onto the number one spot in number of locations, and yet they rank 36th on revenue share. That's why they are constantly wrestling with the task of growing a customer base...offering special deals, bringing in professional athletes to help sell sandwiches, starting a marketing craze with the five dollar foot long, and things like that. The drive to please it's customers -- provide the service and value at a price the customer is willing to pay -- is a continuous challenge.
This pressure never sleeps.
This is what the president fails to recognize.
Somebody risked something with an idea, made the investment through begging and borrowing, and then continuously does everything in his power to stay in the game, to stay in business, with absolutely no guarantee to double the number of stores, employees, profits, let alone multiply it by 25,000 or a million.
and it doesn't stop there -- as once somebody turns a profit, they can afford to buy things, even make other investments, create a charitable foundation, maybe even go on a vacation...
America wants to grow millionaires and billionaires. That is who we are.
Not because we are all greedy bastards -- but because we have something inside us that feeds our ambitions, both charitable and in business; and ultimately, in a perfect world, we want that something to be able to support a lifestyle, our own individual pursuit of happiness -- whether living large or small. It is entirely up to the individual.
Smart, dumb - rich, poor - honest, corrupt - ambitious, lazy ---- we could go on and on -- it all boils down to the character within and how we invest in ourselves.
In America, the only thing that prevents the individual from rising out of the shadows remains inside the individual. Time and time again, the 'poor child' from 'the other side of the tracks' has transcended from their own predicament and stature in society; and time and time again, the rich kid from the upper east side can fall to pieces by simply having too much too soon. More often than not, however, most of us seem to make it or break it somewhere in the middle.
This speech performed by our president is repulsive in so many ways.
We have much more to say about all this, but this speech, THIS SPEECH -- sounds totally unamerican, really; it -- this speech -- just might be of the felonious nature against this great country and especially our free market. (and no, I'm not apologizing for that).
Make it a Good Day, G
just because the president's speech in Roanoke was so stunning:
"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."
Make no mistake; this is not a voice of an American who truly understands America and how she was made -- let alone a president.
Please read every single word from the official White House transcript on the day, just go here.
repeating his first point:
"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."
read it again and catch yourself up at the point where he stops himself for full effect..."they know they didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own."
HE even repeats it: "you didn't get there on your own."
and then the digger chimes in:
"I’m always struck by people who think,
well, it must be because I was just so smart."
are you serious?
HE doubles down on the individual not getting there "on your own" and takes it two steps further, saying "if you've got a business -- you didn't build that.""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."
It's so offensive, it's hard to imagine it came out of the mouth of our president.
"So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together. (Applause.)"
The real Barack Obama has been cultivating this moment for four years; the collective mentality, the socialist agenda, the progressive paradigm, has been rooted in his every move; and his followers and believers are eating out of the palm of his hand. The end justifies the means. [The end being the end of the Republic of the United States of America]
right. so you, Mr. President, Al Gore, and our incredibly gracious, smart, charitable government created the Internet and Mark Zuckerberg and his facebook owes it all to you. Every business operating on the Internet owes it all to you -- the face of the USA today.
you know what ---- you should just go ahead and plant someone at the helm of every Board of Directors from coast to coast. what's stopping you? But let's continue to digress --
"if you've got a business -- you didn't build that."
k. so to carry HIS line of thought backwards -- are you taking equal credit for all the failures, too? Fair is fair, right?
I wonder just how many businesses have not made it over the last 236 years? How many have gone belly up just in the last four? so -- perhaps Mr. President, you might also say -- 'if you've got a business that has gone under -- it's not your fault -- it's ours....no, no, let me be more clear...it's my fault.'
wow. now wouldn't that be some kind of refreshing.
But in all seriousness, this president of ours has absolutely no respect for the American Free Market, the naked, now walking aimlessly in the woods, capitalists that we are and intended to be.
Being not of the business world whatsoever, leaves this president vulnerable in every way [just wish Romney could jump on this aspect a little more often, perhaps even with a little of his own business bravado showing....a girl can dream a little dream....]. did you like that? isn't Zooey just wonderful. guess she owes her success to Obama too...
But this president seems to be missing a major attribute contributing to one's success, and the ability for a company to even get to the level of turning a profit. And that being, SOMEBODY took a risk first. And from another angle.... even the greatest of actors can have stage fright.
There are no guarantees in a free market. None.
All ideas start from the individual, at the widget stage; the hope, the dream, is to multiply and expand that one widget -- whatever it may be -- to make something bigger from something small.
But this president has the audacity to say to every successful business person/company/corporation -- you didn't do it without the collective making it so. Did the collective risk anything when mr. mom and pop opened the deli with collateral saved up after ten years, a loan from family, or after mortgaging their home?
Even Ray Kroc opened up with just one store.
It's this kind of disconnect that disturbs me. But this president actually gets away with feeding his audiences ignorance and false truths on even the most basic of free market principles; and all the while, driving a wedge between the haves and the have nots solely to stir a collective uprising large enough to open the door to a second term.
I heard something surprising this morning on talk radio -- Mike Slater, on KFMB 760 San Diego, asked his audience which chain has the most stores. Most of us would automatically think Mickey D's, but nope, that wasn't it.
The answer: Subway. 25,000 stores.
So here they are, holding onto the number one spot in number of locations, and yet they rank 36th on revenue share. That's why they are constantly wrestling with the task of growing a customer base...offering special deals, bringing in professional athletes to help sell sandwiches, starting a marketing craze with the five dollar foot long, and things like that. The drive to please it's customers -- provide the service and value at a price the customer is willing to pay -- is a continuous challenge.
This pressure never sleeps.
This is what the president fails to recognize.
Somebody risked something with an idea, made the investment through begging and borrowing, and then continuously does everything in his power to stay in the game, to stay in business, with absolutely no guarantee to double the number of stores, employees, profits, let alone multiply it by 25,000 or a million.
and it doesn't stop there -- as once somebody turns a profit, they can afford to buy things, even make other investments, create a charitable foundation, maybe even go on a vacation...
America wants to grow millionaires and billionaires. That is who we are.
Not because we are all greedy bastards -- but because we have something inside us that feeds our ambitions, both charitable and in business; and ultimately, in a perfect world, we want that something to be able to support a lifestyle, our own individual pursuit of happiness -- whether living large or small. It is entirely up to the individual.
Smart, dumb - rich, poor - honest, corrupt - ambitious, lazy ---- we could go on and on -- it all boils down to the character within and how we invest in ourselves.
In America, the only thing that prevents the individual from rising out of the shadows remains inside the individual. Time and time again, the 'poor child' from 'the other side of the tracks' has transcended from their own predicament and stature in society; and time and time again, the rich kid from the upper east side can fall to pieces by simply having too much too soon. More often than not, however, most of us seem to make it or break it somewhere in the middle.
This speech performed by our president is repulsive in so many ways.
We have much more to say about all this, but this speech, THIS SPEECH -- sounds totally unamerican, really; it -- this speech -- just might be of the felonious nature against this great country and especially our free market. (and no, I'm not apologizing for that).
Make it a Good Day, G
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