“if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.”
That might be the statement that is in all the clips but this is the damning context that Obama defenders don’t want to listen to,
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. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
Obama thinks that intelligence and hard work don’t have anything to do with success in a capitalist economy.
Bingo, wodun!
Though, in all fairness, I can understand why he’d think that way. Intelligence and hard work didn’t have anything to do with his success – everything was just handed to him, including the presidency, so he thinks that’s the normal way of things.
He can’t go back to screwing up Chicago soon enough. 🙁
It could be because the people Obama went to school with might have been smart or hardworking but had their success handed to them but that is something common with children of the 1% at the ivy league schools and not the rags to riches stories of their parents.
Their success comes from gaming the system which is the opposite of hard work. They look down on hard work because that’s for suckers.
Fascism is evil. They are fascists. That is the Paradox of Hitler, who by all accounts was a charmer at parties. Barrack is also a charmer. Polls consistently show that. This doesn’t mean he’s not evil (no matter who he loves or who loves him.)
Let’s not give him the chance to make it obvious to all.
It’s the end of the world as we know it folks. Drop your socks and grab something.
While the Republicans have done quite a bit in their own right to drive us to the edge of this fiscal cliff, one advantage they have over the Democrats, generally speaking, is that they seem to be worried about killing the Golden Goose of American economic power. The Democrats don’t seem to care.
The American economy isn’t about the government–it’s about the people who make, sell, and buy goods and services. The government is just a layer on top of a civil society that has been enormously successful, despite the increasing parasitism of the government and certain constituencies. Until now, anyway.
Actually the reason that Obama doesn’t link intelligence and hard work with economic success, is because he knows so many “intellectuals” to are “smart” and “hard workers” (at community organizing, or in their civil service position, or as social workers) but don’t make as much money as some “dumb, bitter clinger” who starts his own business and does well at it.
What Obama doesn’t get is that intelligence and hard work alone aren’t enough; it’s intelligence and hard work applied to the task of creating something that people value enough to pay for.
I don’t care how smart you are; you could have a 180 IQ; you’ll still be poor if you don’t apply yourself to supplying a market demand.
But that’s what Obama doesn’t get. All his life getting good-enough grades and being the right kind of person was enough to get into the next better school or political office (Occidental -> Columbia -> Harvard -> Illinois Senate -> US Senate -> Whitehouse) and he’s offended by the notion that the market for goods and services doesn’t work the same way.
“if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen.”
That might be the statement that is in all the clips but this is the damning context that Obama defenders don’t want to listen to,
Obama thinks that intelligence and hard work don’t have anything to do with success in a capitalist economy.
Bingo, wodun!
Though, in all fairness, I can understand why he’d think that way. Intelligence and hard work didn’t have anything to do with his success – everything was just handed to him, including the presidency, so he thinks that’s the normal way of things.
He can’t go back to screwing up Chicago soon enough. 🙁
It could be because the people Obama went to school with might have been smart or hardworking but had their success handed to them but that is something common with children of the 1% at the ivy league schools and not the rags to riches stories of their parents.
Their success comes from gaming the system which is the opposite of hard work. They look down on hard work because that’s for suckers.
Fascism is evil. They are fascists. That is the Paradox of Hitler, who by all accounts was a charmer at parties. Barrack is also a charmer. Polls consistently show that. This doesn’t mean he’s not evil (no matter who he loves or who loves him.)
Let’s not give him the chance to make it obvious to all.
It’s the end of the world as we know it folks. Drop your socks and grab something.
While the Republicans have done quite a bit in their own right to drive us to the edge of this fiscal cliff, one advantage they have over the Democrats, generally speaking, is that they seem to be worried about killing the Golden Goose of American economic power. The Democrats don’t seem to care.
The American economy isn’t about the government–it’s about the people who make, sell, and buy goods and services. The government is just a layer on top of a civil society that has been enormously successful, despite the increasing parasitism of the government and certain constituencies. Until now, anyway.
Tom Smith has a good take on that.
Actually the reason that Obama doesn’t link intelligence and hard work with economic success, is because he knows so many “intellectuals” to are “smart” and “hard workers” (at community organizing, or in their civil service position, or as social workers) but don’t make as much money as some “dumb, bitter clinger” who starts his own business and does well at it.
What Obama doesn’t get is that intelligence and hard work alone aren’t enough; it’s intelligence and hard work applied to the task of creating something that people value enough to pay for.
I don’t care how smart you are; you could have a 180 IQ; you’ll still be poor if you don’t apply yourself to supplying a market demand.
But that’s what Obama doesn’t get. All his life getting good-enough grades and being the right kind of person was enough to get into the next better school or political office (Occidental -> Columbia -> Harvard -> Illinois Senate -> US Senate -> Whitehouse) and he’s offended by the notion that the market for goods and services doesn’t work the same way.