Oops! Obama Goes Off TelePrompter, Tells Audience: If You’re “Lucky Enough” You Make It to the Top 2% (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, August 13, 2012, 8:54 PM
Oops!… Obama goes off Teleprompter again.
Obama tells a Council Bluffs, Iowa crowd, “If you’re lucky enough… You make it to the upper 2%.”
This was after Obama pushed his vision for America where “prosperity is shared.”
The Washington Examiner reported:
One month to the day after his infamous ‘you didn’t build that’ speech, President Obama’s description of wealthy people did not include “smart” or “hardworking,” as he instead ascribed their success to good luck.
“If you’re lucky enough, and fortunate enough, and been blessed enough to be in the other two percent, the top two percent, you still get a tax cut for your first $250,000 of income,” Obama said during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “All we’re saying is after that, maybe you can do a little bit more to help pay down this deficit and invest in things like education that help our economy grow.”
Obama avoided the cringe-inducing soundbite, but his remarks echoed the sense of his “you didn’t build that” speech in Virginia.
Obama also repeated his “brother’s keeper” line.
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gastorgrab commented:
“If you’re lucky enough, and fortunate enough, and been blessed enough…..”
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(If you have friends in government, like Solyndra, and a dozen other other fake ‘Green’ companies….)
Jack commented:
The gift that keeps on giving.
MrGoodWench commented:
So , according to Barack Insane Obama Hussein Odinga a k a Barri the X1 Sotero Soerbarakh ,
if you have a successful business, the union thugs who build the roads and your luck build that business, right ?
Redwine commented:
And when you hit the jackpot, you just need to give it to the government so they can spread it around. Never mind the hard work you put in to build a business and hire others, giving them a chance to build their own. “You didn’t build that.” Forget investing, saving, making your wealth grow. Life’s just a lottery and a windfall for the State to this Marxist.
Jim – Please fix your grammar: If you’re lucky enough…
MrGoodWench commented:
invest in things like education that help our economy grow.”
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How does giving free stuff to illegals, anchor babies, welfare moms and unions help the economy grow ?
gobnait commented:
He’s not even trying to hide the fact that he’s a Marxist anymore and his ovine supporters don’t even bat an eyelash.
donh commented:
Its never lottery ticket millions that Obama wants to confiscate. Unions like gambling ponzi schemes that enable Government to steal from the poor….and the welfare scammers like to toss away money they didn’t earn on lottery tickets ….hoping to leverage ill gotten gain into easy riches….Its only the people who WORK they want to beat down.
kathteach commented:
#2 Jack – you are right on target. The gift that keeps on giving.
Let’s have more and more of this and we are golden in November :- )
Tom in CA commented:
Unfortunately I agree with #6. They just don’t give crap what he says. It’s other people’s money.
George commented:
If you’re a lazy crackhead parasite, under my plan, the workers work for you and you get money. They are the new slaves; you are the slaveholders.
Granny commented:
Well SHOOT! Why don’t we just tax the “2%” every dime they make over $250,000 and all the rest of us can just sit back and pay nothing. That way we would all be “equal” and everything would be “fair.”
Opaobie commented:
He never worked for a thing in his life, it was all given to him, so what else would you expect his idea of “success” to be but “luck”?
His idea of “spreading the wealth” is, “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too.”
Sam Stone commented:
What a false premise Obama spews. How many here ever thought you would be “in the other two percent, the top two percent”?
I always wanted to do well, seems that that goal keeps moving many times but I never had any illusion of being in the top 2% or even 10%.
And YES Obama I DID build my businesses.
Sam Stone commented:
Could he be projecting? HE was lucky to get where he is.
jrterrier5 commented:
It’s as if they forget that a tax cut just means that you get to keep your money. DEMS refer to taxcuts as if it was govt money that was being wrongly appropriated by the taxpayer.
As Ryan so aptly put it, the question is whether the govt works for us or whether we work for the govt.
Granny commented:
And Obama really has NO place to talk about “The Rich” – particularly are regards to all those making over $250,000 a year. Leaving aside all of his millions, HE is part of “The Rich” by hid own $250,000 standard, since we pay him >$400,000 a year.
Granny commented:
And BTW, that presidential $400,000 salary does NOT include:
$50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment
Or the cost of his Secret Service detail, any transportation he uses or the 26 staff members that we currently provide to the First “Lady”, who has NO official role or legitimate portfolio, at an annual cost of >$1 MILLION a year.
Granny commented:
#16 August 13, 2012 at 9:29 pm
jrterrier5 commented:
It’s as if they forget that a tax cut just means that you get to keep your money. DEMS refer to taxcuts as if it was govt money that was being wrongly appropriated by the taxpayer.
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They also keep referring to the refusal by the Republicans to INCREASE taxes as a “tax cut.” When Bush asked for and received the tax cuts initially, they were a “cut” from previous levels. However, those “cuts” have now been in place for an entire decade. That seems plenty long enough to me to be the current tax rate. Any upward revisions, through whatever means, are at this point a tax increase.
Diane Harvey commented:
Barry, baby, you’re not listening to us. Remember us, the PR guys. The guys that will get you thru the day.
Barry, baby. Just read what’s on the teleprompter. What’s on the screen. Ya got that. Ya wanna go over it again? What’s on the screen.
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