Obama's Subtle "You Didn’t Build That" Rhetoric

[Meathead]

Where we're we before the evil Government protected our water supply and food supplies?

Damned government meddling in free enterprise

Yeah, remember the massive wave of deaths that occurred during the Reagan administration when he cut the EPA budget by 30%? Do you also remember the additional millions of deaths when in that same time period, environmental laws that heavily favored industry were put it place? ...........

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

I have no idea why some think that government has no role in regulation. The flash point is extent, and of course the matter of degree. We could spend billions dollars on further regulations and their enforcement to save a few human lives or some obscure species, but at some point rationality has to come into play.

Self-righteousness has its limits if it is to be beneficial to mankind.

 

[1776]

It is amazing feces eating knuckle draggers like you haven't died from choking on your own spit.

Ahhhh, Obama's people weren't ready to defend the compound from "protestors" is your claim. Man....just imagine if "real AQ t-shirt wearing terrorists" attacked the compound on "9-11."

12 times better than Bush...

January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.

June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.

October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of "Bali Bombings." No fatalities.

February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.

May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.

July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.

December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.

March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name "David Foy." This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what's considered American soil.)

September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar" storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.

January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.

March 18, 2008. Sana'a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.

July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.

September 17, 2008. Sana'a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.

I love the smell of pure left wing desperation in the morning......

How many of those did the Bush administration blame on a you tube video?

When something like that happens on an American military base during Obama's administration, faggots like you call it "workplace violence".........

Can you prove that video had nothing to do with the attack? Can you EVEN name the attackers?? Have they told us what their motivation was???

Actually months long investigations and extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context said that the attack “was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam”

 

[driveby]

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

Where's your evidence that deaths and cancer exposure went up significantly when the Reagan administration made massive cuts? ......

These things take time...

No doubt Reagan set us back, but we set things straight

Right, good thing Jimmuh left the country in such good shape....

 

[bripat9643]

Buisiness does not exist without the government

That's like saying dogs don't exist without fleas.

 

[bripat9643]

No, I'd probably get sick and die while they make additional profit

Thank You Alan Grayson......

Where were we before the evil Government protected our water supply and food supplies?

Damned government meddling in free enterprise

Let's see:

People were dying because of contaminated meat or lettuce?

Hey, that happens today!

BTW, since government owns the water supply, then government is responsible for what happens to it. Most water is public property. If water was private property, then businesses wouldn't be able to dump anything into it without being sued.

Government is the cause of water pollution.

 

[1776]

A liberal claiming "Reagan" set things back says it all.

He only reversed the "misery factor" under Jimmy Carter by creating wealth and jobs across the country making it the so-called lavish 80s now highlighted in many Hollywood movies.

I don't recall many movies made about the Carter era....oh ,The Shining counts.

 

[bripat9643]

Why not admit that you want America to have no government outside of defense? A free for all for the businesses within the borders and the rules of the jungle for the people.

I'll admit that I want no government whatsoever. However, your scenario of how that would work is pure fiction. Towns existed long before the state existed, and it wasn't a "free for all" with the law of the jungle.

 

[bripat9643]

Yeah, remember the massive wave of deaths that occurred during the Reagan administration when he cut the EPA budget by 30%? Do you also remember the additional millions of deaths when in that same time period, environmental laws that heavily favored industry were put it place? ...........

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

Where's your evidence that deaths and cancer exposure went up significantly when the Reagan administration made massive cuts? ......

Airline safety has improved since they were deregulated.

 

[rightwinger]

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

Where's your evidence that deaths and cancer exposure went up significantly when the Reagan administration made massive cuts? ......

Airline safety has improved since they were deregulated.

They were not deregulated for safety

 

[rightwinger]

Thank You Alan Grayson......

Where were we before the evil Government protected our water supply and food supplies?

Damned government meddling in free enterprise

Let's see:

People were dying because of contaminated meat or lettuce?

Hey, that happens today!

BTW, since government owns the water supply, then government is responsible for what happens to it. Most water is public property. If water was private property, then businesses wouldn't be able to dump anything into it without being sued.

Government is the cause of water pollution.

Not even worthy of a response....too damned idiotic

 

[bripat9643]

Where we're we before the evil Government protected our water supply and food supplies?

Damned government meddling in free enterprise

Yeah, remember the massive wave of deaths that occurred during the Reagan administration when he cut the EPA budget by 30%? Do you also remember the additional millions of deaths when in that same time period, environmental laws that heavily favored industry were put it place? ...........

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

OSHA wasn't created until 1970. Workplace deaths were declining every year long before that. You see, it's just not profitable for corporations to kill their workers because multimillion dollar lawsuits are not good for the bottom line. When I worked construction, it was generally the insurance companies the enforced worker safety measures, not OSHA. They also made sure that the proper fireproofing was installed in the building. I never saw anyone from OSHA in the entire 5 years of my construction career.


OSHA is almost entirely superfluous. It serves no useful function.

 

[bripat9643]

It is true...

Unlike your extremist antigovernment rhetoric

Gubment does a lot of good, a lot of bad but blind followers like you go along with any nonsense that want to do. Followers like you think anyone who doesn't fully support the gubment FORCING you to buy a product you may not want is extremist, for example. But to each their own, your gubment blankey makes you feel good at night......

Don't like what the government is doing?

Vote for someone who better represents you

Or better yet, bitch about it on the internet

If you're outvoted, you still aren't represented. So then what do you do?

 

[rightwinger]

Yeah, remember the massive wave of deaths that occurred during the Reagan administration when he cut the EPA budget by 30%? Do you also remember the additional millions of deaths when in that same time period, environmental laws that heavily favored industry were put it place? ...........

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

OSHA wasn't created until 1970. Workplace deaths were declining every year long before that. You see, it's just not profitable for corporations to kill their workers because multimillion dollar lawsuits are not good for the bottom line. When I worked construction, it was generally the insurance companies the enforced worker safety measures, not OSHA. They also made sure that the proper fireproofing was installed in the building. I never saw anyone from OSHA in the entire 5 years of my construction career.


OSHA is almost entirely superfluous. It serves no useful function.

Workplace deaths decreased because a meddlesome government demanded it be so

 

[bripat9643]

The government does these things at only 10 times the amount it should cost, yay gubment!

Without the gubment taking half their money, the rich could hire a private security force that would work better than the gubment at a much lower cost. Many have to have private security already even with the big bad gubment "protecting" them.

Your post is stupid.

The reason Apple and Dell are able to make $400 IPODs and $2,000 computers in Singapore and ship them over here is because the US Navy keeps those shipping lanes open. It also keeps the shipping lanes open for our exports as well.

If you think the "rich" could fund that, I'm sorry but you're IQ is approximately you shoe size.

Who does the goverment rely on for the money to do those things?

Furthermore, the Navy accounts for about 6% of government expenditures. So fine, let's cut government by 93%. Then the rich can pay for all of it.

 

[driveby]

Since OSHA, workplace deaths are increasingly rare
EPA regulation has decreased cancer exposure as well as contaminated air and water

Damned Government meddling......think of the profit that has been lost?

OSHA wasn't created until 1970. Workplace deaths were declining every year long before that. You see, it's just not profitable for corporations to kill their workers because multimillion dollar lawsuits are not good for the bottom line. When I worked construction, it was generally the insurance companies the enforced worker safety measures, not OSHA. They also made sure that the proper fireproofing was installed in the building. I never saw anyone from OSHA in the entire 5 years of my construction career.


OSHA is almost entirely superfluous. It serves no useful function.

Workplace deaths decreased because a meddlesome government demanded it be so

Bullshit, if you had any brains you might say the gubment forcing companies to carry workers comp. insurance, that would be a slightly better argument. However, you have your head so far up gumbments ass to think of such a thing.......

 

[rightwinger]

OSHA wasn't created until 1970. Workplace deaths were declining every year long before that. You see, it's just not profitable for corporations to kill their workers because multimillion dollar lawsuits are not good for the bottom line. When I worked construction, it was generally the insurance companies the enforced worker safety measures, not OSHA. They also made sure that the proper fireproofing was installed in the building. I never saw anyone from OSHA in the entire 5 years of my construction career.


OSHA is almost entirely superfluous. It serves no useful function.

Workplace deaths decreased because a meddlesome government demanded it be so

Bullshit, if you had any brains you might say the gubment forcing companies to carry workers comp. insurance, that would be a slightly better argument. However, you have your head so far up gumbments ass to think of such a thing.......

Workplace safety would not have been an issue if the government didn't demand it be so

Otherwise, accidents were the cost of doing business

 

[driveby]

Workplace deaths decreased because a meddlesome government demanded it be so

Bullshit, if you had any brains you might say the gubment forcing companies to carry workers comp. insurance, that would be a slightly better argument. However, you have your head so far up gumbments ass to think of such a thing.......

Workplace safety would not have been an issue if the government didn't demand it be so

Otherwise, accidents were the cost of doing business

This was already 'splained to you, lost time accidents are not an efficient and profitable way to run a business. Your Marxist hyperbole of "businesses don't care if they kill their employees" is total nonsense......

 

[Dragonlady]

Why not admit that you want America to have no government outside of defense? A free for all for the businesses within the borders and the rules of the jungle for the people.

I'll admit that I want no government whatsoever. However, your scenario of how that would work is pure fiction. Towns existed long before the state existed, and it wasn't a "free for all" with the law of the jungle.

Well, actually, that's exactly what it was. They called it The Wild West for good reason. Towns brought in government and law and order because families wouldn't settle in areas without some promise of law and order. Businesses couldn't be profitable unless the investment was safe from robbery or misappropriation.

There are still countries in the world which have little to no government. They are among the poorest nations on earth because wealth cannot be protected, and businesses have no regulatory framework.

It's no accident that countries with the most wealth have the most government, because government builds and maintains infrastructure and regulates commerce. It educates and trains the workforce and provides medical care for the population. It regulates businesses providing patent and trade mark protections so that intellectual property cannot be stolen. Banking is regulated so that the banking system doesn't squander other people's money on unsafe investments. All of this assists businesses and helps preserve wealth.

When the US intervenes in a foreign country, it's always to protect "US interests" which is to say the property of US multi-national corporations. Absent "US interests", countries are left to destroy themselves at will.

The idea that the US would be more successful with less government is laughable and shows a complete lack of understanding of what it is that business needs in order to prosper.

 

[rightwinger]

Bullshit, if you had any brains you might say the gubment forcing companies to carry workers comp. insurance, that would be a slightly better argument. However, you have your head so far up gumbments ass to think of such a thing.......

Workplace safety would not have been an issue if the government didn't demand it be so

Otherwise, accidents were the cost of doing business

This was already 'splained to you, lost time accidents are not an efficient and profitable way to run a business. Your Marxist hyperbole of "businesses don't care if they kill their employees" is total nonsense......

Total bullshit

Businesses were willing to take their chances until the government enforced safety regulations

Evil Government

 

[Bfgrn]

A liberal claiming "Reagan" set things back says it all.

He only reversed the "misery factor" under Jimmy Carter by creating wealth and jobs across the country making it the so-called lavish 80s now highlighted in many Hollywood movies.

I don't recall many movies made about the Carter era....oh ,The Shining counts.

Lets see, what did Reagan bring us?

DEBT...

Reagan switched the federal government from what he critically called, a “tax and spend” policy, to a “borrow and spend” policy, where the government continued its heavy spending, but used borrowed money instead of tax revenue to pay the bills. The results were catastrophic. Although it had taken the United States more than 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion of national debt, it took only five years under Reagan to add the second one trillion dollars to the debt. By the end of the 12 years of the Reagan-Bush administrations, the national debt had quadrupled to $4 trillion!