"If you don't want to root for your team, then you should get the hell out of the stadium." - Edit 3
Before modification by Joel at 02/09/2012 06:37:15 PM
The entire point of his statement was to diminish the contribution of entrepreneurs. Obama said, "You think you succeeded because you worked hard. Lots of people work hard. You think you succeeded because you are smart. Lots of people are smart." Of course, lots of people are NOT smart. The sad reality is that the majority of people are stupid, ignorant sheep that can be pushed to vote Democrat (if they're urban poor looking for a handout) or Republican (if they're rural poor afraid the government will regulate them).
But I digress. As I have said, the reason why entrepreneurs succeed is not because some fucking corrupt government officials build a bridge with sand-filled Mafia cement that lets people get to their business. It's because they combine a good idea with tons of hard work and are willing to bear the incredible RISK of being a small business owner.
As a small business owner, I believe that we deserve to enjoy the fruits of that labor, risk and intelligence. I don't want to hear that some fucking underperforming teacher is unhappy because the union benefits are being cut - I don't get those benefits or anything approaching it. Those public sector douchebags already get more benefits and security than I'll ever have. The reason why it makes sense for people to go out and start their own business, the reason that "government official" is not the most coveted position in this nation (as opposed to France, where it is), is because there is a reward for the risk.
So FUCK OBAMA, and fuck anyone else who can't understand that.
But I digress. As I have said, the reason why entrepreneurs succeed is not because some fucking corrupt government officials build a bridge with sand-filled Mafia cement that lets people get to their business. It's because they combine a good idea with tons of hard work and are willing to bear the incredible RISK of being a small business owner.
As a small business owner, I believe that we deserve to enjoy the fruits of that labor, risk and intelligence. I don't want to hear that some fucking underperforming teacher is unhappy because the union benefits are being cut - I don't get those benefits or anything approaching it. Those public sector douchebags already get more benefits and security than I'll ever have. The reason why it makes sense for people to go out and start their own business, the reason that "government official" is not the most coveted position in this nation (as opposed to France, where it is), is because there is a reward for the risk.
So FUCK OBAMA, and fuck anyone else who can't understand that.
And a little profane child shall lead them.
As a small business owner, without customers you would be boned. Without employees, boned. You might get by without suppliers since you are not an industrialist (though the folks who manufacture your office equipment and the reams of paper you go through weekly are,) but those employees and clients do not teleport to your office: They arrive on roads and railways mostly if not entirely built by government employees at taxpayer expense.If you dispute that, think your business can survive solely by your efforts and those of your clients, I encourage you to try, if only because your continual ungrateful sneers at everyone who contributes to your success but can afford no retainer are nauseating. You once said you support Romney because worried about your children: Do you wonder how you will feed them tonight? House them? Clothe them? Get them medical care when ill? Educate them for and then send them to college?
Tens of millions of Americans work 40, 50, 60 or more hours a day yet still rightly worry about all those things, to say nothing of those equally worried while working 20 hours a day and begging for more. They are part of "this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive" just as much as you are but, while no one denigrates your efforts, you take elitist pleasure in biting the hand that feeds you by denigrating THEIRS.
America is a team effort, not "the United States of Tom." Yes, you contribute to your own success, more than anyone else—but you are not the only contributor. Further, if you want to continue benefiting from "this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive," it would behoove you as well as the rest of us to contribute more to it than you grudgingly allow only because legally required and/or it directly benefits you.
A decade of repeated "job creator" tax cuts cost millions of jobs; that is no more Obamas fault than Nixon and Fords stagflation was Carters (yet the same people claim both.) If worried about your childrens future after Obama, recall trickle-down supply-side theory kept driving unemployment till 2% higher a year after his election: It took nearly three years just to lower to the Inauguration Day level. The one difference is a DJIA is nearly twice as high; ironically, entrepreneurs and investors are among Obamas few beneficiaries so far. The problem with Obama is not that he makes the wealthy pay their share for the first time since the '70s, but that he SAYS he will then does not. Calling two extensions of the Bush tax CUTS beyond even the authors intent a "tax hike" feeds his populist narrative without changing that.