Posted on 06/29/2011 7:53:56 AM PDT by Asok Asus
"I Have Enough Money"
In David Mamet’s recent book, “The Secret Knowledge”, he quotes President Obama as saying,
“The individual at some point must be able to say:
‘I have enough money. [Therefore, I no longer need to work, toil, or sweat; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to earn and pay taxes; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to plant or harvest; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to build or produce; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to use my skills, my cleverness, or my muscles; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to use my education (achieved at great public expense; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to apply my vast knowledge and experience; after all, I have enough money.
I invented electricity, the light bulb, the telephone, the automobile, the television, the PC, the Internet, and GPS, but I no longer need to invent nor innovate; after all, I have enough money. I discovered cures for infection and disease, but I need discover no more; after all, I have enough money.
I no longer need to tend the lame, the ill, or set broken bones; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to defend my country from its enemies; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to protect my fellows from evil lawbreakers; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to extinguish the fires which may burn my fellows and their homes; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to teach my fellows and her babies; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to study or learn; after all, I have enough money.
I no longer need to sing or dance; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to create art, music, or stories; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to build, operate, or repair power, gas, water, waste-water, telephone, Internet, or highway systems; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to mine coal, oil, metals, or minerals; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to make steel, cement, lumber, gasoline, or electricity; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to operate trucks, trains, airplanes, or ships; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to clean things or collect refuse; after all, I have enough money.
I no longer need to work in factories to manufacture useful and delightful things; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to raise cows, pigs, or chickens; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to milk the cows or gather the eggs; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to fish the seas and lakes; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to tend orchards or harvest their fruits; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to make bread, butter, cheese, beer, or wine; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to prepare wonderful meals for my fellows; after all, I have enough money.
I no longer need to build new homes, buildings, or factories; after all, I have enough money. I no longer need to repair leaking roofs, cracked foundations, clogged plumbing, shorted wiring, failing computers, faulty appliances, or broken glass; after all, I have enough money.
I no longer need Obama to be President. After all, I have enough money.]’”
‘I have enough money.
Life is a process of gaining the values necessary to preserve life.If one wishes to continue living, he never has enough of these values. Money is just a means of obtaining these values. So, one never has enough money.
Damn, it made a good story! :-)
Another lovely story brutally murdered by a gang of facts.
“When the producers have enough money, they go Galt.”
That’s exactly right. And that is exactly the point of his ode.
That’s the real reason our economy is in the crapper.
Everyone is Going Galt in every which way they can figure out how to do it.
No one in their right mind is going to invest in U.S. economic growth as long as Marxists are in charge of the economy.
It makes no sense to take additional risks to try to increase profits if those profits are going to be stolen by Obama and “redistributed”, whether such redistribution occurs via Obamacare, increased taxes, increased regulation, deliberately increased increasing energy prices, deliberate destruction of the currency via insane inflationary policies, or deliberate destruction of the Constitution by ignoring it.
U.S. economic growth will explode as soon as Obama is gone and his successor abolishes all of the job-killing programs, taxes, and regulations he promulgated.
Dammit, this carnage HAS to stop! :-) What will the Democrats base their platform on?
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