> "Eddie Haskell" <as...@sdkh.com> wrote in message
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>> "Neal Boortz" <Boo...@WSB.com> wrote in message
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>>> Last week, Dear Ruler paraded around the country declaring that we
>>> needed to raise taxes on the evil rich people earning more than
>>> $250,000 a year. As many of you know, this means tax increases on
>>> almost one million households that report business income on their
>>> personal tax returns – or, in other words, a tax increase on over
>>> one million small American businesses. Obama claims that these
>>> people don’t need that money and it is a fallacy to believe that
>>> this will impact small businesses or job creation. The reality is
>>> that Obama has no clue how these small businesses work, and whether
>>> or not they “need” that money. It is not the government’s, and
>>> certainly not Obama’s role to determine how much of the money a
>>> small business earns that business actually “needs.” Truth is, you
>>> could shove Obama’s knowledge of small business operations and job
>>> creation up an gnats butt and it would rattle around like a marble
>>> in an empty supertanker. But anyway … after a week of batting
>>> around successful business owners, Caesar Obammus went to Roanoke,
>>> Virginia to deliver a speech. In this speech Obama finally spoke
>>> the words that left no doubt --- no doubt at all – not one
>>> infinitesimal grain of doubt – that he is an anti-free enterprise,
>>> controlled economy, big-government economic fascist and a grave
>>> threat to our style and standard of living in the United States.
>>> Yes ... I called Obama a fascist. Unlike occutards and assorted
>>> proggies,
>>> I can back up my words with fact.
>>> A brief review of the three general ways to formulate an economy:
>>> •Free Enterprise: Private ownership and control of the means of
>>> production with only necessary and limited government involvement.
>>> •Socialism: Government ownership and full control of the means of
>>> production.
>>> Hmmmmmm. That doesn’t cover everything, does it? What if the
>>> control of businesses are still in private hands, but the government
>>> is pretty much running the show with excessive rules and
>>> regulations. For instance, what if banks and financial institutions
>>> invest literally billions of dollars into the development and
>>> deployment of a bank debit card system by which consumers can pay
>>> for purchases simply by swiping a plastic card through a reader and
>>> entering a secret personal identification number --- and the
>>> government comes along and tells the banks just how much they will
>>> be allowed to charge merchants to use this system. Private
>>> ownership – government control. What do you call that?
>>> Fascism … that’s what you call that. Economic fascism. And fascism
>>> is the Barack Obama game.
>>> Now in his Roanoke speech not only did Dear Ruler show his complete
>>> disdain and outright animosity toward free enterprise. He has truly
>>> hated capitalism his entire life. He learned if from his mother and
>>> father, and from the people he chose to associate with throughout
>>> his life – people like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah
>>> Wright, and many more.
>>> I read the speech --- all 13 nauseating pages of it --- and my heart
>>> sank with every paragraph. Here is a man who, thanks to the
>>> government-educated dumb masses in this country, may very well be
>>> reelected for another four years who is completely clueless as to
>>> how our economy works. Not only does he consider the free market to
>>> be – in his own words – the “enemy;” but it is a system he simply
>>> does not understand at ANY level. There are thousands of high
>>> school Junior Achievement members across this country who know more
>>> about free enterprise than Dear Ruler.
>>> So here’s the statement Caesar Obammus made in his speech that has
>>> no small number of American businessmen virtually up in arms:
>>> : “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else
>>> : made that happen.”
>>> Huh? Did our Marxist president really just say that? Hopefully, at
>>> this point, you’re not shocked. But let me give you the context for
>>> that remark, because much of that is equally as galling.
>>> :“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.
>>> :
>>> :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.”
>>> So … small businessman! How does that sit with you? You took your
>>> money and put it at risk. You worked perhaps as many as 80 hours a
>>> week to get things running. You had your ups and downs, but you
>>> persevered. Vacations? Are you kidding? Maybe it was five years
>>> into your new business venture before you ever took a vacation.
>>> Every penny you could scrounge up … every spare minute you could
>>> find … all went into your business. While others were believing
>>> that their role was simply to do their nine-to-five bit five days a
>>> week for someone else was their life’s role, you had another game
>>> plan --- and it worked. Here you are with your successful small
>>> business. You employ perhaps a dozen people or so. You take
>>> vacations now. You might even have a vacation time-share on the
>>> coast. You just bought a new car for the first time in your life.
>>> You’re thinking that you’ve done pretty good chasing that American
>>> dream, and you’re justifiably proud of yourself. Then along comes
>>> Barack Obama to tell you that this business you sweated over for so
>>> many years? Well … you didn’t build that.
>>> Does that work for you?
>>> I’ve told you for a while now, and Barack Obama told us himself just
>>> a few months ago: That Obama believes America’s greatness comes from
>>> government. This “unbelievable American system” that Obama mentions
>>> used to be a system based on individual responsibility, freedom,
>>> economic liberty, the free market, the rule of law … Obama has done
>>> his fair share of dismantling that system. That’s what he meant by
>>> “fundamental transformation.”
>>> But let’s get into Obama’s “somebody else made that happen”
>>> proposition. Here, of course, Obama was trying to portray the
>>> government as the enabler of every entrepreneur who ever started a
>>> business enterprise.
>>> Dear Ruler tells us “There was a great teacher in your life.” Right
>>> – there very well may have been. But that teacher is, in her own
>>> right, a businesswoman. Like most every other college student, that
>>> teacher went to college in order to develop a skill. That skill
>>> would then be put to use in a business. A business of one employee
>>> perhaps, but a business nonetheless. The teacher is a businesswoman
>>> with a product to sell; her knowledge and her teaching skills. She
>>> then takes that product to the marketplace to find a buyer. The
>>> buyer may be a government school system, or a private school. She
>>> might even begin a tutoring service operating out of an office in a
>>> business complex. The businesswoman/teacher is then free to sell her
>>> product to whomever she wishes. Perhaps income will be her
>>> motivation; perhaps location. Whatever the motivation, she decides
>>> when and to who she, as a businesswoman, will sell her product; and
>>> when she will withdraw that product from the market to seek greener
>>> pastures. She’s not there solely to make something happen for
>>> someone else. She’s there to earn a living, just as is the
>>> businessman.
>>> But let’s move past the teacher thing … and look at that “somebody
>>> else made that happen” line? Who? Just who is Obama referring to?
>>> Just who helps someone build a business. Well, first you might have
>>> the bank that provides the business loan. There, again, you have a
>>> private entity with a product to sell. That product is cash. The
>>> budding businessman needs the cash, the bank has the cash. So the
>>> bank sells the cash to the businessman – at a markup. The markup is
>>> interest. The businessman then agrees to pay for the product – the
>>> cash – over a period of time. Two businesses working together in
>>> the free market. One needs the cash; the other has the cash. An
>>> agreement is made to buy and to sell. Businessmen engaging in free
>>> enterprise. That’s what made that happen. The bank didn’t just come
>>> along to make the successful business happen.
>>> Maybe Obama is talking about the workers the businessman will hire
>>> to manufacture or create the product he wishes to sell. Yes ..
>>> those people helped to build the business as well. But once again,
>>> we’re talking about businessmen engaging in commerce. The worker
>>> has a skill; perhaps in information technology, or marketing. Maybe
>>> its just good old hard labor. Whatever it is, the employee is a
>>> businessman with a skill that he has bargained and sold to the other
>>> businessman to be used in growing a business. The government didn’t
>>> assign that worker to the businessman .. it was all a free and
>>> voluntary association in a free market economy. This is not a
>>> situation where the worker made the business happen for the
>>> businessman. The relationship between an employer and an employee
>>> is that of two people engaged in commerce. One with a product to
>>> sell, the other with a need for that product. Supply and demand.
>>> Commerce happens. The government’s role? In relation to the
>>> agreement between employer and employee the government’s principal
>>> role is to enforce contracts and adjudicate contracts disputes.
>>> And what of the Internet? Did the government develop the Internet?
>>> Well, as I understand it we have a collaborative effort here between
>>> universities and the Defense Department. But the government
>>> certainly didn’t come along and develop the private-sector
>>> applications for the Internet. In the development of the Internet
>>> it was never the government’s role to develop a tool for business.
>>> That happened when the private marketplace entered the picture.
>>> Look at Google! That was started by two young men in a rented
>>> garage … who helped them make that happen? The government certainly
>>> wasn’t paying the rent on that garage. In fact, the government was
>>> taxing these young men and their landlord from the very beginning!
>>> The government’s involvement was to stand there with its hand out.
>>> Obama – again – grew up hating capitalism. He was taught by his
>>> father and mother, and by his mother’s subsequent companions, that
>>> people became successful in free enterprise environments only by
>>> exploiting others. Obama sees every successful and wealthy
>>> businessman as someone living off of the spoils of an exploitive
>>> system that has victimized those at the lower end of the income
>>> scale --- and he sees it as his job to make things right by taking
>>> money from the evil rich – who, after all, don’t need it – and
>>> giving it to the poor. Pure absolute Marxism.
>> I like the part about Hussein being a fascist.
>> That's exactly right.
>> Fascism: a system of government characterized by strong, often
>> dictatorial control of political and economic affairs
>> http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?
