Dummie who doesn't read DU

[Vagabond]

DUmmie crawls out from beneath rock

bertman  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-25-09 10:18 PM
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No DEMONIZING OF PROFITEERS Allowed, says President Obama. 
 Yesterday, our President made the comment during his press conference that "we can't afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit."

Somebody please tell me who the hell has been demonizing investors and entrepeneurs who have been trying to make an HONEST profit. No one, that's who. But, hell yes, we have been demonizing those greedy, rapacious, bastards and bastardesses who have been profiteering their companies straight into the ground and who are now asking US taxpayers to give them even more money.

The President's comment really stuck in my craw because it is a ****ing trivialization of the massive fraud and thievery that has been going on and is STILL going on with these infusions of TAXPAYER DOLLARS into these Wall Street firms and banks that DEMANDED deregulation so they could operate IN THE FREE MARKET. Now the profiteers are profiting off of the public. Disgusting. Wake up, President Obama.

I counted at least three threads in GD and GD:P Demonizing the rich at this time.

Schema Thing  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-25-09 10:24 PM
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2. Obama didn't get where he is (POTUS, if I recall) by 
 milking his own or anyone else' rage.


Nor is he above using people he doesn't like or agree with in order to achieve the greater good. 

 

Undercurrent  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-25-09 10:30 PM
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6. Sheesh!
 You are putting words in our President's mouth.

What he said was, "we can't afford to demonize every investor or entrepreneur who seeks to make a profit."

This is FAR different than what you claim he said, "No DEMONIZING OF PROFITEERS Allowed, says President Obama."

A profiteer is a bad thing. A profit is not.

I'm a silversmith with a micro business. I make a profit. That's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. I'm NOT a profiteer. Totally different.



profiteer

: one who makes what is considered an unreasonable profit especially on the sale of essential goods during times of emergency



profit

1: a valuable return : gain2: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions ; especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost3: net income usually for a given period of time4: the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales5: the compensation accruing to entrepreneurs for the assumption of risk in business enterprise as distinguished from wages or rent

Okay DUmmie, define unreasonable profit.

Uzybone  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-25-09 10:53 PM
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10. I must be outraged
 I have to be.

You're a rage-a-holic.  You're beating the cat right now. /Marge Simpson

Funny thread...

[Carl]

The collective and constant "outrage" at the DUmp isn`t because they want to right wrongs in the world.
It is because they know what complete and miserable failures their lives are and that is the diversion they need to avoid facing that fact.

[Sam Adams]

Well, we are never going to outlaw greed. If we tried, enforcement would be a bear.

I agree with the DU poster in one respect: Business people should not be getting taxpayer money. That's just retarded. On the other hand, if you offer to give people money, even if it has a few strings attached, don't be surprised if they take it.

[The Village Idiot]

They favor profit now??

I thought they wanted to destroy all wealth building industries in America and move us into socialism??

BTW George Soros has made a killing on the crisis, over a billion I think.... think lefties are touring his homes in protest buses??? Nope.

[ScubaGuy]

They favor profit now??

I thought they wanted to destroy all wealth building industries in America and move us into socialism??

BTW George Soros has made a killing on the crisis, over a billion I think.... think lefties are touring his homes in protest buses??? Nope.

Actually they favor "Honest" profit.

For the DUmp honest profit is any money left over after the owner pays for the cost of producing a product and then giving everything else to taxes and the employees