And we should care what an Opinion Piece writer in the Telegraph says why?
Well then lets read on - TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama says government invented the internet and the American Dream is a fantasy http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
EXCERPTS:The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
AND Telegraph says Obama desperate and calls his donate rather than give a wedding gift plan a SCHEME
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Well then lets read on - TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama says government invented the internet and the American Dream is a fantasy http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
EXCERPTS:The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
AND Telegraph says Obama desperate and calls his donate rather than give a wedding gift plan a SCHEME
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And we should care what an Opinion Piece writer in the Telegraph says why?
Well then lets read on - TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama says government invented the internet and the American Dream is a fantasy http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
EXCERPTS:The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
AND Telegraph says Obama desperate and calls his donate rather than give a wedding gift plan a SCHEME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
Excerpts: Telegraphs says Obama desperate Barack Obama's is raffling off a seat at his own 51st birthday party at home in Chicago in a sign of growing desperation to raise funds ahead of November's general election.
But another Obama scheme where soon-to-be-married supporters were told to tell their friends to give donations to the Obama campaign instead of wedding presents to the happy couple, was met with rather less enthusiasm.
AND Telegraph says - Obama and Will Hutton live in a world outside of economics. Successful people don't owe the state http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
Excerpts:: Will Hutton decides that President Obama is right about something: thereby proving that he must be wrong. It's one of those basic points about life: if Mr Hutton applauds you then you must be making a mistake. As I've said before, there's going to be an error in any position taken he takes, the excitement is only in working out precisely how and where.
This time it's over Mr Obama's insistence that the state enables all business success and therefore everyone who is successful owes everything to the state.
The fallacy here is simple: if the state is responsible for your success, then you must shut up and pay for every duck house and diversity adviser the government wants (even if they do not advance anyone's business success at all). For it's not really your money anyway. It is as if accepting the roads the Romans gave us, justifies all that Caesar did.
The idea also fails to understand the arguments for letting the successful keep the fruits of their labour. It's nothing to do with them deserving it. Nowt to do with natural rights or private property either. Not even moral rights: for economics does not do morality or justice. It's about encouraging the others.
AND The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
(more)Well then lets read on - TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama says government invented the internet and the American Dream is a fantasy http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
EXCERPTS:The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
AND Telegraph says Obama desperate and calls his donate rather than give a wedding gift plan a SCHEME
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
Excerpts: Telegraphs says Obama desperate Barack Obama's is raffling off a seat at his own 51st birthday party at home in Chicago in a sign of growing desperation to raise funds ahead of November's general election.
But another Obama scheme where soon-to-be-married supporters were told to tell their friends to give donations to the Obama campaign instead of wedding presents to the happy couple, was met with rather less enthusiasm.
AND Telegraph says - Obama and Will Hutton live in a world outside of economics. Successful people don't owe the state http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/...
Excerpts:: Will Hutton decides that President Obama is right about something: thereby proving that he must be wrong. It's one of those basic points about life: if Mr Hutton applauds you then you must be making a mistake. As I've said before, there's going to be an error in any position taken he takes, the excitement is only in working out precisely how and where.
This time it's over Mr Obama's insistence that the state enables all business success and therefore everyone who is successful owes everything to the state.
The fallacy here is simple: if the state is responsible for your success, then you must shut up and pay for every duck house and diversity adviser the government wants (even if they do not advance anyone's business success at all). For it's not really your money anyway. It is as if accepting the roads the Romans gave us, justifies all that Caesar did.
The idea also fails to understand the arguments for letting the successful keep the fruits of their labour. It's nothing to do with them deserving it. Nowt to do with natural rights or private property either. Not even moral rights: for economics does not do morality or justice. It's about encouraging the others.
AND The American Dream has been one of history’s most potent forces for change and improvement. It’s rooted in a myth that a man shapes his own destiny. In fact, that’s never truly been the case. From the tariff to the railroads, from the Food and Drugs Act to the Pell Grant, the US government has intervened to shape the market and help people fulfill their ambitions. But would they have remained so ambitious if they thought that it was collective rather than individual action that was ultimately responsible for their success? Maybe not. Of course, capitalism is a team sport. But the idea that an individual’s merit is the product or property of the community is the antithesis of the pioneer spirit.
On Sunday, President Obama gave us a fascinating insight into his alternative philosophy. In a speech to supporters, he said that business leaders owed the government more money in taxes because it was the state that made their success possible.
Now that is a dream ticket for the Democrats!
So lets condemn Romney for stating the truth which is a foreign concept for most politicians.
It' just bad form to go to a country and criticize it. And then to renew Britain's long-held feelings about the US being unable to "keep it's mouth shut" by boasting he'd had meetings with MI6. Romney is a "wannabe". He just wanna be loved (cos historically his own party doesn't like him and never has)
We have a gaffe machine in the White House right now who has stepped in it more then once. everyone overlook his, and the vice-Presidents constant gaffe's, and Apology tours across Europe.
BTW Romney would not be able to state the truth even if he was given a truth serum. LMAO :-)
No, the moron decided to lapse into small demeaning , authoritative babble. He is very much like Palin in that he says whatever pops into his head, and when he sinks deeper in his own sheet, he just keeps babbling more.... making the situation even worse.
How many shots do you think Boehner threw down while he watched Mitt and the pissed off Brits?
Romney 2012.
Republicans... your man made a total azz out of himself. All by himself ( again). It has nothing to do with Obama. It has nothing to do with the Brits, who saw right through him. Deal with it. He is a loser.
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extrao...
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." –mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)
"We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." —Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011
When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..." -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
And finally, Bos, I just want to say thank you for Youkilis." –joking at a fundraiser in Boston about the Red Sox trading their beloved slugger Kevin Youkilis to Chicago White Sox, Obama's hometown team. The line drew boos from the audience. (June 25, 2012)
"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
Oh, and I'm an election inspector in Michigan and when voters come to the polls here, they have to specifically declare that they are American citizens or we are not allowed to let them vote!