Good Grief… Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, January 27, 2012, 10:41 PM
Yup. He’s a socialist alright… A hardcore committed socialist.
Barack Obama, the worst jobs president since the Great Depression, told an audience today that people don’t get rich without government investment.
And, you wonder why his economic policies are a complete disaster?
Via Breitbart TV:
From the video:
“We’re successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We’re successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet…. We’re successful because somebody built roads and bridges…. And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that’s not right. That’s not who we are.”
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gus commented:
Obama is an imbecile. Those who are wealthy have fed far more GOVERNMENT workers, than the converse.
America is about the INDIVIDUAL, not the GOVERNMENT.
Obama is a RED DIAPER baby.
MrGoodWench commented:
And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that’s not right.
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So MoochXL will now pay for her own staff , vacays and lobsters ? And what about those pricey dresses , handbags and shoes and jewellery , will she start paying for those herself , because it is not fair to pass off that bill on to somebody else .
How about those lavish parties the royal family holds on taxpayer expense every other day ? I’m sure the multimillionaire Obamas can afford them with their own money , it’s not right to pass on that cost to the poor taxpayers , right ?
Truth teller commented:
Amen #2
Freedomplow commented:
Never go full Elizabeth Warren.
dunce commented:
Eli whitney invented the cotton gin without any govt. funding, Mc Cormack invented farm machinery and increased farm productivity without govt. help, Ford did not invent the auto but he figured out how to make them at low cost. Motorola did not invent the radio but he figured out how to put them in cars. Rockafeller built his oil fortune without govt. grants, Carnegie did not invent steel but he built steel plants with his own money. The list of these capitalist fills books but these few i have cited are enough to prove him either ignorant or a liar.
gus commented:
Dunce. That was THEN, this is NOW.
Freedomplow commented:
No, I won’t apologize. Liberals are very dangerous to this world and need to be defeated.
They are all communists at heart.
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
Obama had better stop bragging about the freeways. Heck, he duped us already out of trillions, lying to us about “shovel ready jobs”. Obama never paid for the shovels. He continues to pay off his cronies and bilk the rest of us out of trillions.
Sasja commented:
I thought Al Gore invented the internet.
Tyranny's Bain commented:
Who is this we to who he is referring? The Nearly 50% of Americans that pay no income tax? The “99%”? The “middle class” as defined by Saul Alinsky? The answer of course is none of the above.
Let me attempt to translate using my Saul Alinsky to English Dictionary, what he means by we and us is you. Bluntly, he wants to finance his utopian designs with the wealth and private property of the productive.
billy sol commented:
yeah? government biz is imperative for growth . .. . .ask the Beechcraft workers in Wichita why USAF awarded $ 1 Billion in new aircraft to a Brazilian company! Betcha at least 75% of these were UNION JOBS! Won’t speak about the KEYSTONE PIPELINE! when are you rank & file union people gonna throw these bums out of office?
Freedomplow commented:
“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
donh commented:
Blessings come from GOD and the US government is not god. ” ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”… If your faith was strong…you would not be afraid to live a free and independant life from communist big brother government omnipotence. Those who bitterly cling to the failed welfare state are moral losers who lack pride and faith in God’s power to sustain you.
billy sol commented:
GUS . . ..you nailed it! good to see people with BALZ!
Justice Beaver commented:
Yeah, right Jugears. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc needed the government. But then, look how well Solyndra turned out for them.
Sorry To Live in Illinois commented:
“Those of us…”
I’m getting really tired of him saying this all the time. Like he doesn’t want anyone to forget that he has successfully gamed the system and got rich.
So how did he get rich? What did he ever do? How much did his job pay?
I guess it should read, “Those of us who have had it handed to us…..”
paz commented:
Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum couldn’t get rich without help from the sleazy government.
Sasja commented:
Bammy brought up the University of Michigan which was established before statehood, so I think Dunce can cite a few folks who were part of our country’s growth since that time. In fact, back then, the atmosphere toward private enterprise was much more positive than it is now. History is a good teacher and can show which path to prosperity is best. And it isn’t government, as we all know.
Freedomplow commented:
Tea Party hero Mark Levin needs to be listened to here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AygItmUTGFo
Election time is coming. The tea party needs to show its power again.
Ausonius commented:
I wonder if the tyrant even knows that nearly every university that is over 200 years old was founded by a church as a christian institution.
Multitude commented:
It’s amusing to watch the Communitarian parasites rationalize their blood sucking existence, though in Obama’s case, he’s remarkably not that good. For instance:
““We’re successful because somebody started the University of Michigan.”
No credible communitarian communist acknowledges “somebodies” because that reminds us that an individual entrepreneur or innovator actually takes claim for this. Furthermore, this claim is so remarkably trivial to attack, it’s pathetic. A land grant institution makes us successful? I have close connections to UMich and still we know it’s only a meager institutional approach to pedagogy; far superior models exist that are individual-centric (read Jacques Ranciere’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster for instance) but we’ve not yet figured out how to scale these.
“We’re successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet.”
No, you ignorant troll of a President. A few goofballs were joking around creating operating systems and a few others had excess grant money and decided to screw around with distributing time sharing of those game-enabling OS’s so they could expand the good times. But this would have stayed a pathetic project under NSFNET and their amazingly brain-dead imperialist PRDB (Policy Routed Database) if it wasn’t for free market individuals like Rick Adams of UUNET, Marty Schoffstall of PSI, Bill Washburn of the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) and a few others. NSFNET was the barrier to the Internet, an elite group of idealistic but non-real-world research dudes who got government money to sit around and game. The entrepreneurship of the CIX and its founding companies was what caused all of us here to be able to do this Internet thing.
Fscking parasites and their lies.
“We’re successful because somebody built roads and bridges.”
Hey Barry, Hitler had roads and bridges. In fact, he had some of the best roads (Autobahn ring a bell? Oh sorry… I was speaking… Austrian) and better yet, some damn good railways that shipped all the nasty non-human Jews off to expiration camps. What was that you were saying about success and roads and bridges?
“And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff.”
1. No crap Sherlock.
2. This pathetic line doesn’t mean we should pay 1000% for it. That we should have divisions, armies of lazy bureaucrats sitting on their fat asses in DC making up rules and obstructions to justify being paid 200% wages and defined benefit retirement plans at age 55.
“Those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share.”
Barry, you haven’t done a “fair share” for 5 minutes in your entire life. Tell you what; tell Michelle that for the next year, there’s no vacations paid by others. “That’s not right.” “That’s not who we are.” Quit being a human tapeworm. You show us that you can actually work more than 2 hours in a day and you quit wasting our money on excess, and then come talk with us.
The parasites are definitely out of control.
gus commented:
OBAMA NEEDED GOVERNMENT.
If you smell what I’m cooking! And I think you do.
Tjexcite commented:
Newt would agree.
As Newt would want Government to investment in a moon base. Dr. Evil got moon base without government, and if someone or something else wanted a moon base they can pay for it.
Sasja commented:
Multitude, excellent post. However, me thinks Zero is not about to tell Mooshill anything. She could crush him like a bug.
MrGoodWench commented:
We used to have leaders who would tell the youth that they could do anything they wanted to do and achieve anything if they worked hard and stay focussed because no one could stop a skilled and determined person.
Now we have a POS who tells doped up Art history majors with zero skills that unless the government kills successful people and confiscates their money, the youth have no chance of succeeding in this country .
Shame on those who still lick his boots just because of his skin color
tommy mc donnell commented:
is a government that pays absolutely no attention to the will of its people successful? obama thinks so.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
The list of these capitalist fills books but these few i have cited are enough to prove him either ignorant or a liar.
He’s ignorant AND a liar.
jony101 commented:
only an idiot would talk like that, need I say more?
Andreas K. commented:
Yes, we know it. We have known for years.
Are you going to use this against him? No, of course not. Heck, you have a handbook how to fight him (Alinsky’s little crap thing), are you using it? No, of course not. Because you have to be on the moral high ground or some other ridiculous nonsense. Instead the “conservatives” focus on his birth certificate and other non-issues that won’t remove him.
It’s not about morals. It’s about winning. It always is.
You deserve four more years of him. Maybe then you’ll wake up for real. Though I doubt it. Hitler said best “the large mass of people is blind and stupid.”
gus commented:
Andreas. I’m always glad to see you and your input.
kato commented:
Yeah, thanks to government, the most parasitical people in American history is getting their Obama Money.
Opaobie commented:
Some of you have already touched on the fallacy of Obama’s government-credit for the origin of everything from colleges to mega-manufacturers, but he probably forgot or never learned about the history of the establishment of educational institutions in America.
From Wallbuilders:
In 1635 the Puritans established America’s first public school, and in 1647 passed America’ first public education law (“The Old Deluder Satan Act”). And Harvard University was founded through the direction of Puritan minister John Harvard; Yale was founded by ten congregational ministers; Princeton by Presbyterian ministers Jonathan Dickinson, John Pierson, and Ebenezer Pemberton; William and Mary by Episcopal minister James Blair; Dartmouth by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock; etc.
This trend of Gospel ministers founding and leading American educational institutions continued for the next two-and-a-half centuries, and by 1860, ninety-one percent of all college presidents were ministers of the Gospel – as were more than a third of all university faculty members. Of the 246 colleges founded by the close of that year, only seventeen were not affiliated with some denomination; and by 1884, eighty-three percent of America’s 370 colleges still remained denominational colleges. As Founding Father Noah Webster (the “Schoolmaster to America”) affirmed, “to them [the clergy] is popular education in this country more indebted than to any other class of men.”
onbe commented:
“And if we all understand that we’ve got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who’ve done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else”
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As he passes off even more debt to the future. What a Moron.
Hedgehog commented:
Once again, Comrade Obama is talking to a bunch of empty heads at a liberal university. They don’t yet realize that Comrade Obama has done to them exactly what he pretends to decry. He has squandered trillions of dollars in borrowed money. Who will foot the bill? His audience and millions more like them. That’s who. They may not understand it yet, but “the rich” can’t make a dent in the mess that Comrade Obama has done to them. And they fall for this twisted Elizabeth Warren crap?
squeaky commented:
i never consider the “we” and “shared sacrifice” terms coming out of obama’s mouth to be directed at any other group than the productives. when you make one group out to be the enemy it makes it easier to steal from them and call it justice – an equal sharing of the wealth without the equal sweat that achieved it. the you tube below is old and rehashed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ojd13kZlCA
squeaky commented:
“…don’t get rich without government investment.” and God knows our representatives don’t get rich without our investment.
Greg commented:
Any body note the the big lie at the end of this clip where he says something to the effect that the hard work and success of our grandparent should not be squandered….Since his father is was and always will be indisputably Kenyan, that makes half of his grandparents having never contributed a thing for the American people except WTF. That side of his family is indisputably illegal welfare auntie and uncle only taking from society.
Anybody note how thrilled the college folks were in his background
Ponderosa commented:
Pretty sure all that stuff has already been paid for…
and the the other trillions for what exactly?
Typical BS – cut our budget and the first thing we’ll have to cut is the FD.
wanumba commented:
Apart from the eloquence we’ve come to expect from Harvard Law School graduates “all that stuff,” getting rich by government is the norm for all Third World countries and is the reason they are Third World. Land the presidential palace prize and it’s straight to billionaire status while your fellow citizens lose jobs, investment flees, factories close and children starve to death.
They all try to stop it by seizing the industrial physical assets and handing them to their kids, cousins and cronies to mismanage into irreparable bankrupcy. Then more investment flees and more people lose jobs and more children start starving.
Obama is a tribal president – his tribe is an arranged political and racial marriage of Chicago White and Chicago Black power structures, a metaphor for his person, which at some point will turn on each other, but by then the rest of us will be too destitute to enjoy the cage match kharma of it.
A Gryphon commented:
Øbama 2Ø12 GO NEWT
RedBeard commented:
Obama is lying, again, as usual. He knows full well that he is using an old trick to fool a room full of ignorant people. The same tired old infrastructure argument is a classic leftist dodge every time the subject of public spending comes up. It’s a completely phony tactic, and unfortunately it works well on many in today’s younger population, the ones who have been co-opted by the leftist education industry.
Granny commented:
Between the years 1883 and 1929 1,689 public libraries were built in the United States of America by Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. Those libraries still stand today and are still in use. New England is littered with them. Virtually every town has a Carnegie Library. In the year 1929 my mother and father were children frequenting Carnegie libraries. It was those Carnegie libraries that gave generations of young people the knowledge to build bridges, dam rivers, invent a million and one things, cure disease and yes, invent the internet.
Government had not a single thing to do with that. Thank you, Andrew Carnegie, for helping to put man on the moon!
Shawn commented:
This is laughable.
pink tie Republican commented:
What a stupid circular argument. Where does the government get the money to invest, Barry? From the rich folk, moron. The ones that own your sorry ass.
Well, we all knew what Barry is, this is no surprise.
bigL commented:
Arnold B eckman of Beckman instuments designed and made metering instuments in his garage.
Did govt pay for that garage, Obama the Dope?
valerie commented:
They did this with HIV research: substituted government funds in a number of countries for private investment, and let the politically-well-connected choose what “research” was funded. That’s how America ended up paying for huge, expensive clinical trials that those on the cutting edge knew would fail.
The private investment market is SO MUCH bigger than what the federal government can support, even in this country. Further, private investment decisions are made faster, and can be made based on confidential information. If the government intrudes beyond the level of basic research, the investment monies flee.
The gold digger commented:
Eli whitney invented the cotton gin without any govt. funding, Mc Cormack invented farm machinery and increased farm productivity without govt. help, Ford did not invent the auto but he figured out how to make them at low cost. Motorola did not invent the radio but he figured out how to put them in cars
But – but – what if they hadn’t gone to public school? What if they hadn’t had public roads? What if they hadn’t had the post office for sending letters and sharing information and applying for a patent? What if they hadn’t had the library for research? NONE OF THIS IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT!
WillofLa commented:
Don’t you remember what he said just before and right after he was elected? He said that “The government is the only thing that can solve America’s problems.” With that single statement we can see that he did not believe in the self determined will of the American people to solve their own problems if given the opportunity to work their way out of any situation they are presented with, or that they find themselves in. Work is the way out of any financial problem America finds itself in, but the people must be given the opportunity to be the ones who solve America’s problems.
But the Socialist want the people of this nation to owe THEM, and not have the right to be able to solve our economic problems. But then again we didn’t cause these problems, Obama and everyone before him, most of everyone in the Congress and Senate are the ones who caused the problems. I look at it this way, if a state doesn’t have anyone who would follow the Constitution to the letter in order to undo what the Socialist and Communists have done to this country, then that state just won’t have a representative to send to Washington. It’s not that they won’t have representation, it’s that those who are in government understand that what is needed for all American’s is to have all their money, remove all the destructive regulations that are prohibiting American’s from being able to build their own wealth by being able to start their own businesses and prosper from it.
A state wouldn’t need a representative if they can’t find anyone who is honest enough and honorable enough to obey the Constitution and not just do what the Party says do. There is nothing in the Constitution that says you have to have a representative. It says that this is the way to come up with one and what they are to do. It doesn’t say you have to have representation in order to have the right things that will make it as prosperous as any other state.
The number one requirement for elections from now on. DON’T ELECT ANY DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICAN’S WHO HAVE A HISTORY OF BEING A DEMOCRAT OR SOCIALIST IN NATURE. In other words don’t elect Democrats of any type, and no Republican’s who are like Romney!
Cowboy commented:
And it was ALL paid for by private tax dollars. Or by debt that will some day need to be paid with private tax dollars from our children and grandchildren.