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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's a pretty broad statement.
There are still a few actual individualistic people left in this world.
My grandfather for instance.
He never knew his parents and went to work for the railroad at age 15. Married my grandmother at 17. Built his own house by Peace River in central Florida and fished and hunted to feed them.
Then through his own intelligence and work ethic became friends and business partners with other hard working smart men. One turned out to be the local bank president a few years later. The other became the biggest real estate agent in central florida.
Together the three of them formed a loose partnership and all became millionaires in the citrus and cattle industry.
My grandfather was like a mathematical genius. Any figures put in front of him he calculated damn near instantly....
Not "Each and every one of us" are dependent on the govt.
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Not to downplay his tremendous efforts or anything, but isn't this exactly the point President Obama was getting at? He never once has mentioned anything about people needing to depend on the government for anything, and I've listened to / read all of his speeches since even prior to his election.
There are certain media channels, radio spokespersons, etc... that wish for millions of people to feel a certain way about this President, because, well, isn't the reason obvious? Rather than just coming out and saying it, people tend to beat around the bush, twist his words, plant words in his mouth, and play soundbytes that are just long enough for the listeners/viewers to be fooled into thinking he is this bad person.
I'm not saying he's the perfect person or anything, but President Obama makes a lot of valid points. Nobody that has truly become successful, has gotten there on their own. He never says or implies that it's the government's fault that people become successful, but he persistent with the idea of other people in general -- helping others to become successful.
Your store wouldn't be a success without customers. But then again, your customers wouldn't purchase your products unless you were selling them... Did you make them? Did you create all your products to sell by yourself? Even if you did, again... You needed customers to actually buy the product, otherwise, you would not have achieved success, right? You own a massive company? Do you complete all the work yourself? Does Mr. Best Buy or Mr. Target single-handedly run each and every store by himself? Probably not. What does he have to do? Hire employees? Sure, they get paid, so why should he worry about their health insurance? I mean, if they're earning $9/hr, that should be enough to cover $200/month for themselves to be insured, right? It's not like they have a family or anything to provide for... These people don't matter, anyway, right? All they do all day is eat, sleep, shit, and take care of your business at the ground level... That's not important... Fire them all. Do everything by yourself, after all, that is why you're successful, right? President Obama feels this way, but since Mr. Radio-personality says these things are bad, and because President Obama feels that people that can afford to do more, should be willing to do more to help out those that help them, then he must clearly be evil. Let's call him by his middle name, as a scare tactic, because we don't have anything else both true and bad to say about the man. Let's talk about how badly he hates rich people, because we know that pisses people off.
Basically, whether you like President Obama or not, if you really listen to him, you'd understand that the man clearly is intelligent, and clearly has the best intentions in the world for bringing a positive change to the USA. The problem is that people can't get over their prejudices and racisms enough to even consider acknowledging the truth. Let the man do his fucking job! You don't like it? Why don't you run in the next campaign, Mr. Internet User, Mr. News Reporter, Mr. Radio Personality, Mr. Pussy behind a fucking microphone. Why don't you run, since you know everything. Surely you'd win, right? No? Then STFU and GTFO.