Thanks Maren - that was funny - I'll be he wishes he could take that statement back.
Meh - I got mine in the bottom of one of these:Neither. I heard they're giving them away free now in every happy meal.
Well I think we can all agree that he didn't earn it.I think Obama has done as well as anyone could have in the given economic climate. I would count myself as a supporter of the president. But I still cannot figure out how he won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet doesn't Obama claim sole credit for the profits of General Motors?
Anyway, some people have had fun with this topic and created a website: You didn't build that.
By Neal Boortz
Dear Ruler:
First, let me say how thrilled I am that you went off-teleprompter last week. This If youve got a business, you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen thing was just wonderful. Now I know how Chris Matthews felt.
Oh .. I know. Your handlers werent all that thrilled with your amazing screw-up, and, frankly, they have been worried this day was coming for a long time. They know how you feel about the private sector. They know of your antipathy toward free enterprise and those evil small businessmen out there who are not likely to support your move to a government centrally-controlled economy. They had hoped to keep your true feelings in check with those teleprompters but nooooooooo you just had to improvise, didnt you? You just had to wander off the tightly-controlled rhetorical reservation. Well, thank you. You certainly didnt gain any significant voter support with that asinine utterance, but you most certainly did lose some.
If youre one of the millions of Americans counted as part of the eight + percent unemployed, you didnt get there on your own. Somebody else made that happen. And hes running for reelection
...and from a company that builds what, 60% of them overseas?He can claim credit for the profits at General Motors - the government bought most of the cars with our tax money.
Not bad for a company bailed out by our own government. I'm sure the union is sooo proud to be taking care of their members so well (not that I care, particularly - they brought it on themselves).According to the [GM] prospectus, 17% of GM's vehicles are manufactured in medium-cost nations like South Korea and Brazil, where wages and benefits run between $15 and $30 an hour. And remarkably, 43% of its vehicles are manufactured in low-cost locations such as China, Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, and Russia where all-in labor costs less than $15 an hour. That's about one-quarter of what UAW members in the U.S. get. Source.
...and from a company that builds what, 60% of them overseas?
GM is in fact the holder of the #1 spot in the Chinese market, #3 in Brazil, rising in Britain and Europe and exploding all over Asia.Not bad for a company bailed out by our own government. I'm sure the union is sooo proud to be taking care of their members so well (not that I care, particularly - they brought it on themselves).
AFAIK. And it wouldn't surprise me if that's why our government bailed them out, to bolster those markets.Don't they build them in those markets in order to sell them in those markets?
AFAIK. And it wouldn't surprise me if that's why our government bailed them out, to bolster those markets.
Someone else earn it for him.
He shouts we didn't build our businesses, someone else did - I wonder who he credits for the Nobel Peace Prize.
TR said:“The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.”
I know that "history" seldom means anything to anyone on the Right (except when they get to wear tricorner hats to make people think they know history), but I would like to remind people of a quote from Teddy Roosevelt back in the beginning of the 20th century:
So shocking! Imagine how Obama nearly 100 years later could say a similar thing.
Is there something in your brain that just will not let you post without insulting the right?
There is life outside of critizing the right - (I know what you are going through - I'm seeking the cure - my brain keeps yelling it's the left stupid)
I know that "history" seldom means anything to anyone on the Right (except when they get to wear tricorner hats to make people think they know history), but I would like to remind people of a quote from Teddy Roosevelt back in the beginning of the 20th century:
So shocking! Imagine how Obama nearly 100 years later could say a similar thing.
Yes. Yes there is. I'll tell you what it is:
I read what the Right says. Then it's in my brain so I have to respond.
But the Right screams all their virtues but seldom seems to even have a simple grasp of what has come before.
I hear all these complaints about Obama doing this or that, and 9 times out of 10 it is absolutely no different than what the sainted GOP has done. I read all these conspiracy theories about this or that UN treaty and how it's going to destroy America and 9 times out of 10 it's simply not true!
I see so much grabage information from the Right that I have to wonder if the Right actually observes.
Perhaps it is why the Farleigh Dickinson University study recently found that Fox News watchers were less informed on news topics than people who said they didn't watch the news at all!
So if the right doesn't want people to insult their statements, perhaps they shouldn't make the kinds of statements that deserve to be insulted.
Just sayin'.
I also find it funny that for just about every single cannard a Conservative brings up it takes about 3 minutes to find an historical explanation and precedent and even a few counterpoints or debunks.
It's just fascinating. The Right seems to use all their time just regurgitating their talking points, but never really investigating what has happened in the world before Obama came on the stage.
We can finally agree on one thing - we both see each other's party in exactly the same light.
LOL I feel exactly the same way about the left. Let's just agree to disagree
and not throw insults anymore - it's getting old. I respect your opinion (even though it is wrong. )