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Title: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Chris_ on July 15, 2012, 06:43:50 PM
Obama is borrowing a page from Elizabeth Warren's playbook... if you achieved anything in your life, it's because the government was there to prop you up and hand it to you, wipe your chin, and powder your bottom.

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Obama - 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.  If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  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.  (Applause.)

     If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

     The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/)

Obamanomics in a nutshell... if we have enough government, we'll all be successful.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 15, 2012, 10:22:51 PM
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Obama - 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

I do, even if it's in a more or less maintenance state for awhile -- and I did too.  No, you fool, they didn't. 

You are an idiot, but it's not like your current burst of prattle is going to cause me to vote against you, that stone was carved awhile back.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Jasonw560 on July 15, 2012, 10:58:08 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/md11hydmec/pics/soup.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 15, 2012, 11:06:09 PM
I love listening to a man who has no idea what a business is try to tell me about business.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 15, 2012, 11:07:27 PM
He just told every business person (large & small) in America that they are nothing to him. They owe everything they are and have to the state.  I swear he will just be babbling gibberish by Sept.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Revolution on July 15, 2012, 11:32:56 PM
He Owebama, do you see a stupid son of a bitch when you look in the mirror?


You should.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Linda on July 16, 2012, 10:20:10 AM
Obama - 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/

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There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  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.  (Applause.)

         If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.  There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.  Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

         The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.  There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own.  I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service.  That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.



He must be talking about how HE got where he is...not about real life business people in the PRIVATE sector.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Gina on July 16, 2012, 10:24:42 AM
I hate him and hope something happens to him, really.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: NHSparky on July 16, 2012, 10:29:50 AM
If this class warfare rhetoric is the best he has, he's doomed.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: CG6468 on July 16, 2012, 10:29:59 AM
I hate him and hope something happens to him, really.

Yes. I agree wholeheartedly.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: thundley4 on July 16, 2012, 10:30:49 AM
I hate him and hope something happens to him, really.

I just hope the economy he has created finally affects him and puts him in the unemployment line.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 16, 2012, 11:07:01 AM
I just hope the economy he has created finally affects him and puts him in the unemployment line.

Fat chance.  The SOB will be rolling in money.  I just hope he has to wear a chicken suit to speak to the Japanese businessmen like Clinton.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ! on July 16, 2012, 11:36:59 AM
.......waiting on the mainstream media to get a comment from his buddies like Warren Buffett about this statement.  (crickets chirping)
 :censored: :censored:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 16, 2012, 11:44:53 AM
.......waiting on the mainstream media to get a comment from his buddies like Warren Buffett about this statement.  (crickets chirping)
 :censored: :censored:

Unfortunately that dirtbag will probably continue to support ABM. He, Buffet, has no soul.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Splashdown on July 16, 2012, 11:52:36 AM
How the hell can Obama say stupid crap like that and NOT be behind 20 points in the polls?

I'm starting to root for the Mayan calendar thing in December...
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 16, 2012, 11:56:05 AM
How the hell can Obama say stupid crap like that and NOT be behind 20 points in the polls?

I'm starting to root for the Mayan calendar thing in December...

Take heart.  I read a study somewhere that the Mayan Calender is much more accurate than U.S. polls.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 16, 2012, 12:13:55 PM
Take heart.  I read a study somewhere that the Mayan Calender is much more accurate than U.S. polls.

Actually, the Mayan calendar is off by 450 days. They didn't have leap year at the time it written.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 16, 2012, 12:14:40 PM
Actually, the Mayan calendar is off by 450 days. They didn't have leap year at the time it written.

Like I said.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 16, 2012, 12:15:36 PM
Like I said.

 :rotf:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Revolution on July 16, 2012, 01:41:38 PM
Ask my left wing cousin, or mother, for that matter.... :whatever:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 16, 2012, 03:01:45 PM
I hate him too, what a ****ing insult to anyone who worked their ass off to exhaustion to build and run a business.   :bird: :bird: :bird:

****ing asshole.  I heard this this morning and just about blew a gasket. 
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 16, 2012, 03:45:48 PM
You can tell he's had an easy ride in life. That's generally how government tit suckers think.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: NHSparky on July 16, 2012, 05:19:02 PM
Okay, let's take what he said at face value then.

So if I have to credit those "great teachers", does this also mean I can blame my life's failures on the far more mediocre and some outright shitty ones I had in my tenure (indoctrination) in the public school system?

Or do I get to take credit for actually, you know--USING--that knowledge I GAINED to my advantage?

Horse to water, drinking, shit like that.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: wasp69 on July 16, 2012, 10:39:43 PM
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Obama - 'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

Like you'd know, barry.   :whatever:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: thundley4 on July 16, 2012, 10:46:20 PM
You can tell he's had an easy ride in life. That's generally how government tit suckers think.

That's why he won't release any records from his schools.  They would all show that he was "socially promoted" with poor grades.  He's a lazy slacker that does as little as possible while taking the credit for what others do.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Lacarnut on July 16, 2012, 10:59:22 PM
Obummer knows that he is behind. So, he is going to do and say anything. The fake liberal polls will not help him from getting slaughtered in Nov. Repubs should pounce on that ignorant statement.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 17, 2012, 01:52:41 PM
I heard on the news last night that obama has been getting advice on how to run a business from GE! You know, the company that didn't pay any income tax in 2010, and has over half of it's employees in other countries!
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Lacarnut on July 17, 2012, 02:02:28 PM
I heard on the news last night that obama has been getting advice on how to run a business from GE! You know, the company that didn't pay any income tax in 2010, and has over half of it's employees in other countries!

Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, is pissed at the current CEO, Immelt, who has has ran this company into the ground. Between him and Buffett advising the President on the economy, we are screwed.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 17, 2012, 02:11:56 PM
Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, is pissed at the current CEO, Immelt, who has has ran this company into the ground. Between him and Buffett advising the President on the economy, we are screwed.

Isn't that the truth. Neither one of them know what they are doing.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 17, 2012, 02:19:52 PM
Isn't that the truth. Neither one of them know what they are doing.

They know exactly what they are doing.  They are selling out their country for personal gain.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Chris_ on July 17, 2012, 02:32:51 PM
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/ifyoubuildit.jpg)
ha ha ha ha...
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 17, 2012, 02:39:19 PM

ha ha ha ha...

Hi5 Chris. I wet myself.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Chris_ on July 17, 2012, 03:48:10 PM
The NRCC released an ad today in response to Barry's utter ignorance: Liberal Policies Don't Make Good Jobs (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/romney-knocks-it-out-of-the-park.php)


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O3rRe3KRO58[/youtube]
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 17, 2012, 03:55:12 PM
Twitchy reports that Romney gave a speech in response to this, in PA

Twitchy Link (http://twitchy.com/2012/07/17/fired-up-romney-says-you-did-build-it-scores-with-rousing-pro-freedom-speech/)

Getting quite good reviews. 
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Wineslob on July 17, 2012, 04:13:34 PM
I hate him and hope something happens to him, really.


Well, he could die in a fire.................
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: DefiantSix on July 17, 2012, 04:29:12 PM
I hate him and hope something happens to him, really.

I expect within a month after he loses the election, a mob of his disaffected supporters will overwhelm his praetorian guard, and continue another long Marxist dictator tradition: being hung from a lamp post with a hank of piano wire.

If it's good enough for il Duce, then it's darn well good enough for il DUche.

(http://www.goldismoney2.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7840&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1305049305)
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: ChuckJ on July 17, 2012, 08:16:44 PM
'If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen'

With my business he's wrong on the 'you didn't build that' line because I did indeed build it, but the 'somebody else made that happen' line may be partially correct IF he is talking about the current state of my business. Until he and his comrades took over the government my business was successful and growing every year. Since he and his comrades took over the government my business has been struggling and shrinking every year. I didn't make the struggling and shrinking happen. Somebody else made THAT happen, but I don't think he and his friends will fess up to it.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: ADsOutburst on July 17, 2012, 08:32:37 PM
Just Obama trying to fire up his base, nothing more. He can't seriously believe that he is going to win over business owners with this argument...





...can he?
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: DefiantSix on July 17, 2012, 08:52:07 PM
Just Obama trying to fire up his base, nothing more. He can't seriously believe that he is going to win over business owners with this argument...





...can he?

Akshully, he stands a good chance of driving away the "independents" who aren't double-fisted Kool-aid drinkers with rhetoric like that.

He could announce that he liked eating babies medium-rare, and the rabid moonbats which constitute his base would still be in lockstep with him.  I'm surprised nads hasn't posted an article at the DUmp on the health benefits of eating dog, by now.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: redwhit on July 17, 2012, 11:03:34 PM
And there's already a website to memorialize this toolishness:

You Didn't Build That (http://didntbuildthat.com/)
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: thundley4 on July 17, 2012, 11:04:48 PM
And there's already a website to memorialize this toolishness:

You Didn't Build That (http://didntbuildthat.com/)

Some of the pictures are already on Facebook.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 18, 2012, 09:59:08 AM
Those pics are hilarious!!  :rotf:  Spread the word around Internetville.  More being added by the minute.

Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Linda on July 18, 2012, 10:31:53 AM
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/ifyoubuildit.jpg)
ha ha ha ha...

Is that little girl going for obama's throat?????
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 18, 2012, 10:36:34 AM
With my Business, I don't ride on the roads, I don't ride in a car to commute, I don't buy gas to put in my car, I don't even have to leave the house. I just sit at my computer and work. I wonder he would say about that?
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: thundley4 on July 18, 2012, 10:42:40 AM
With my Business, I don't ride on the roads, I don't ride in a car to commute, I don't buy gas to put in my car, I don't even have to leave the house. I just sit at my computer and work. I wonder he would say about that?

You have help from Al Gore.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d0eyQ2wh1rbxfido1_1280.jpg)

 :rofl:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 18, 2012, 10:44:32 AM
You have help from Al Gore.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7d0eyQ2wh1rbxfido1_1280.jpg)

 :rofl:

 :thatsright: That is right. How could I forget that it was Al Gore who invented the internet.  :lmao:

The real truth behind that, is actually pretty interesting...
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2012, 10:53:41 AM
Well, as someone who was in business for well over 30 years, I want to know where that bastard assigned to help me has been...  :argh: :hammer: :mad::rant:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: thundley4 on July 18, 2012, 10:55:50 AM
Well, as someone who was in business for well over 30 years, I want to know where that bastard assigned to help me has been...  :argh: :hammer: :mad::rant:

Obama has been helping...



















to destroy small businesses.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 18, 2012, 10:56:06 AM
Well, as someone who was in business for well over 30 years, I want to know where that bastard assigned to help me has been...  :argh: :hammer: :mad::rant:

You might want to rethink that request.  The govt. is full of bastards that want to "help" you.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2012, 11:02:33 AM
You might want to rethink that request.  The govt. is full of bastards that want to "help" you.

Oh, I was fighting those all the time, I want the one that was supposed to actually "help" me.....IOW, get his hands dirty, do some actual work.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 18, 2012, 11:37:10 AM
Oh, I was fighting those all the time, I want the one that was supposed to actually "help" me.....IOW, get his hands dirty, do some actual work.

Oh, that guy, He's busy right now.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Eupher on July 18, 2012, 12:11:40 PM
Oh, that guy, He's busy right now.

They've still got those on the payroll?

Who woulda thunk?  :???:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Wineslob on July 18, 2012, 12:33:28 PM
This is blowing up in Oblahma's face quite nicely.    :rofl:
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 18, 2012, 01:30:41 PM
I like this one:

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ccp4J4Lm1rbxfido1_r1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 18, 2012, 01:32:03 PM
Not even God built that:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7cz1ftQGT1rbxfido1_r1_500.jpg)

Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 18, 2012, 01:34:19 PM
Not even God built that:

Ya know, I am starting to think that obama thinks that he is God. The man's ego is that huge.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 18, 2012, 02:38:34 PM
This subject is also covered at the Obamateurism of The Day thread, page 8.  The comments at Hotair are excellent!
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Karin on July 18, 2012, 02:55:05 PM
I perused the DUmp for what they had to say.  There was nothing entertaining enough to craft a thread for the DUmpster, though.  They would nervously start with something like "I have a facebook friend who posted this rant" followed by the rant of a small businessperson.  "How should I respond?"

And they all come back, just like the talking point heads on TV, screaming "ROADS AND BRIDGES! ROADS AND BRIDGES!!!"  

They do recognize it's gaining traction.  

ETA:  Here's a howler that the libs are using as well:  "It's quite clear that what he means is the actual building."
 :rotf: :rofl:

DUmbasses, all of em. 
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2012, 03:00:12 PM
I perused the DUmp for what they had to say.  There was nothing entertaining enough to craft a thread for the DUmpster, though.  They would nervously start with something like "I have a facebook friend who posted this rant" followed by the rant of a small businessperson.  "How should I respond?"

And they all come back, just like the talking point heads on TV, screaming "ROADS AND BRIDGES! ROADS AND BRIDGES!!!" 
They do recognize it's gaining traction. 

The roads are full of potholes and the bridges are falling apart but the democrat voting poor are dying from overweight issues/diseases.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Chris_ on July 18, 2012, 03:07:29 PM
Democrat mayors and governors are too busy spending infrastructure money on greenways, paved bicycle trails, and high-speed rail to be bothered with roads and bridges.

When they need the money for the roads and the bridges is when they start eyeing your wallet and talking about property tax increases.  Because it's for the children.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 18, 2012, 03:13:58 PM
(http://i50.tinypic.com/k149ag.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: rich_t on July 18, 2012, 04:53:00 PM
The sad part is that liberal business owners are still going to vote for the asshole.
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 18, 2012, 04:55:40 PM
The sad part is that liberal business owners are still going to vote for the asshole.

liberal/socialist/communist/marxist/fascist/racist they are all one in the same, so why wouldn't they vote for the asshole?
Title: Re: Obama - 'If you’ve got a business, somebody else made that happen.'
Post by: Bad Dog on July 18, 2012, 11:07:31 PM
The sad part is that liberal business owners are still going to vote for the asshole.

When you're watching your business go down the tubes & wondering how you are going to feed your kids maybe not.