1. "Why is it that the Democrats cant stop telling us that If youve got a business you didnt build that is not what the president meant to say? Could it be that theyre afraid this clumsy attempt at an ad lib by Teleprompter Man could be dooming their chances this November?
2. Rarely does a day go by without some Democratic Party house newsletter New York magazine, The New York Times screechingly informing us how unfair Republicans are being in quoting President Obamas infamous speech at the Roanoke Fire Department on July 13. If Mitt Romney wins, there will be a plaque there, kinda like the one near the Chicago Baskin-Robbins where Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson had their first kiss.
3. Theres just nothing to it, and they hit it over and over, Times Mark Halperin whined on CNN Thursday.
4. But there was something to it, a lot to it. And far from being taken out of context, the speech, when you reverse the zoom lens from a single phrase to the general theme, becomes even more disturbing.
5. You didnt build that is indeed a fair summary of the overarching message.
The full quotation that liberals find perfectly reasonable is this: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help, Obama said. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.
6. Obama is painting a frankly Marxist picture in which through sheer luck (say, inheriting a factory), rich layabouts, whom he calls the top 2%, are making fortunes while others toil. Somebody else is responsible for the success of successful entrepreneurs.
7. ...46% of Americans pay no federal income tax at all.
The top 1 percent pay 37% of all federal income taxes. So each of those horrible selfish plutocrats, along with the burden of their monocles and top hats, is carrying 36 other Americans on his back. They are their brothers keeper, and their sisters, and their cousins, and about five other families. Why does Obama hate these saints?
8. The 1 percenters arent choking traffic with 37% of the cars or crowding classrooms with 37% of the pupils. (Which have been so ruined by Obama-type thinking that the rich often choose private education in the first place and owe nothing to the public schools, whose costs they dont even get a refund for.) The rich and small business owners (there is much overlap) are the ones who, to a hugely disproportionate degree, pay for the things Obama suggests they dont pay for at all because somebody else did it for them.
9. A more honest speech would have been directed at the underclass and informed them: Look, somebody else built those roads you use. Somebody else is paying for that welfare check youre getting every month. Respect those who stayed in school, worked hard and delayed gratification. Try to learn something from them.
10. ... graduate high school, get married and delay having children until your 20s the poverty rate virtually vanishes. Only 8% of those who play by these basic American rules turn out poor.
It turns out that if youre stuck in the poverty trap, yes, you probably did build that."
‘You didn’t build that’ - NYPOST.com
My buddy Boo made me post this....maybe he'll stop denying that that's what Obama said.....
2. Rarely does a day go by without some Democratic Party house newsletter New York magazine, The New York Times screechingly informing us how unfair Republicans are being in quoting President Obamas infamous speech at the Roanoke Fire Department on July 13. If Mitt Romney wins, there will be a plaque there, kinda like the one near the Chicago Baskin-Robbins where Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson had their first kiss.
3. Theres just nothing to it, and they hit it over and over, Times Mark Halperin whined on CNN Thursday.
4. But there was something to it, a lot to it. And far from being taken out of context, the speech, when you reverse the zoom lens from a single phrase to the general theme, becomes even more disturbing.
5. You didnt build that is indeed a fair summary of the overarching message.
The full quotation that liberals find perfectly reasonable is this: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help, Obama said. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen.
6. Obama is painting a frankly Marxist picture in which through sheer luck (say, inheriting a factory), rich layabouts, whom he calls the top 2%, are making fortunes while others toil. Somebody else is responsible for the success of successful entrepreneurs.
7. ...46% of Americans pay no federal income tax at all.
The top 1 percent pay 37% of all federal income taxes. So each of those horrible selfish plutocrats, along with the burden of their monocles and top hats, is carrying 36 other Americans on his back. They are their brothers keeper, and their sisters, and their cousins, and about five other families. Why does Obama hate these saints?
8. The 1 percenters arent choking traffic with 37% of the cars or crowding classrooms with 37% of the pupils. (Which have been so ruined by Obama-type thinking that the rich often choose private education in the first place and owe nothing to the public schools, whose costs they dont even get a refund for.) The rich and small business owners (there is much overlap) are the ones who, to a hugely disproportionate degree, pay for the things Obama suggests they dont pay for at all because somebody else did it for them.
9. A more honest speech would have been directed at the underclass and informed them: Look, somebody else built those roads you use. Somebody else is paying for that welfare check youre getting every month. Respect those who stayed in school, worked hard and delayed gratification. Try to learn something from them.
10. ... graduate high school, get married and delay having children until your 20s the poverty rate virtually vanishes. Only 8% of those who play by these basic American rules turn out poor.
It turns out that if youre stuck in the poverty trap, yes, you probably did build that."
‘You didn’t build that’ - NYPOST.com
My buddy Boo made me post this....maybe he'll stop denying that that's what Obama said.....