Posted on 07/22/2012 1:14:00 PM PDT by Shery
Please excuse the vanity, but it’s about time someone wrote an open letter to president Obama and let him take some of the same rhetoric he’s been dishing out.
Okay, Mr. Obama, you say that if we started our own business, invested our own funds or got a business loan that obviously WE alone have to repay, that we did not do this alone. The government, or someone else, did something for us along the way. Tell me this. Since you seem to make such a big deal about this...no one going it alone, let’s ponder why you insist so strongly in this. If you are taking this opinion from your life experiences, and that is where many of our life’s opinions come from, I’d say that the reason you have sealed your real life from us is that this applies to your college transcripts and most of your life in general. You may not have even earned a college degree of any kind, let alone advanced degrees. You certainly did not get into college based on your own testimony that you were stoned much, if not most, of the time in HS and college. Few colleges accept students on the potential factor, especially Ivy League schools with a name to preserve. You might’ve been admitted to meet a racial quota, but it is my impression that grades still have SOME consideration.
Conservatives trying to run on a record as sparse as yours would be shown the door in short order, and laughed out of any consideration. You did play it smart by seeming to be able to open state-sealed documents on your opponents, something that would not be allowed to happen if you’d have been a Republican. You were handed a BUNCH of sweetheart deals that never seem to touch you in any way like they have your Chicago pals Rezko and Blagovitch. You seem to have a protector, someone who makes sure that NOTHING touches you beyond a few remarks made in public.
So, if this is what you base your opinion about entrepreneurs and business on, this being coddled and protected and moved on up the chain, we can sort of get that picture now. But it still does not apply to our lives. The rest of us not born into wealth have had to work hard to get what we have today. Americans have been a very idea-oriented culture, much of it stemming from having to overcome the odds to make a go of it. Not everyone is successful, and many who are wealthy today had many attempts at different ideas before they found their niche. Most of us openly give credit to those who helped us, but the way you said it implied that we owed the government something (big) for being successful, and if anything, the government regulations have been a stranglehold on the rest of our lives. So, your opinions ring hollow and unwelcome to those of us who work hard to make a life in this ever-challenging jungle of the workforce.
Respectfully submitted,
Shery
Very Good.
Good for you.
I'm not bipolar, but I endorse your reply.
“Few colleges accept students on the potential factor, especially Ivy League schools with a name to preserve.”
While this was may not have been as completely untrue in his time period, it is no longer true at all. Heavily left “Brag Sheets” (internships with Dem State pols, House building with JC, etc.) can get average students into top schools. Potential goes a long way in lefty schools...especially with race preferences unspoken.
Well said, Shery!
Today, yes, but when Obama was going to school? Not as much. Today there are a lot of ways to game the system.
As I said;
“While this was may not have been as completely untrue in his time period,...”
Thank you.
As a former business owner I know the challenges we face when bringing a vision to the market.
As someone that barely finished HS, I found myself in a position that suited my passion. Completely self-taught, I put together a business that grossed a few million per year.
There was “NO ONE” I could say helped me in any way on this road. Not a teacher,a friend or family member, mentor and certainly not the Gov’t that made it happen. It was me, it was my vision, my hard work and sleepless nights that pushed me to success.
This President, is not only attacking business, he is attacking hard work and intelligence.
“While this was may not have been as completely untrue in his time period,...”
Easy for you to say.
Good reply. And yet...
I believe we have a breakthrough with the “you didn’t do it” speech.
The nagging, seemingly intractable problem “we” have had overcoming the bumper-sticker nature of the whole 0bamenon has been the neural disconnection of explaining fairly simple-but-not-as-simple-as-a-bumper-sticker thought constructs to wide segments of the electorate who have never weighed the implied and embedded disjuncts.
How do you fight an eight second attention span?
How do you fight the idea that virtually any idea based upon self-reliance can be construed as taking away from people brought up to be takers?
How do you at once appeal to a sense of American exceptionalism when the aforementioned segments have never been exposed to those ideas and indeed, might well consider themselves victims of same?
How do you make people understand that when “the government” pays for something, there is no such thing as “the government” without the productive class paying the taxes to fund same?
And do this within an 8-second attention span and the sense of being taken from by a system that, to them, has already set them up for failure?
Ironies of ironies, I believe 0bama himself has managed to finally figure out the way to do this. Because even the most fervent takers know someone who escaped the entitlement pusher-addict construct. Yes, there may be no particular desire on the part of a given taker to seek that narrow path of self-reliance or self-elevation up and out. There is always going to be a considerable segment of the electorate that only sees viability in taking. That segment is lost, irretrievable.
But among the disparate and motley groups 0bama and the Dems always seem to be able to stitch together as a voting bloc, there are sure to be modest numbers who realize that even those scant few who escaped are now targets. Even a crappy little one-man business (of which I have had several nicely successful ones, so please overlook the “crappy” descriptor)
is now a target. We’re being told to give that up. To forget that spark of an idea, the cross it off the list of consideration so that gov handouts and/or gov control are the only way.
The tipping point is that for 0bama to widen and solidify the uptake of his message, he has to destroy the independence and self-reliance of incrementally more and more people. Regardless of what anyone says, I absolutely believe there is a tremendous and innate admiration for business owners who figure out how to put something together for themselves. Maybe not those evil giant multinationals, but for the neighborhood guy or gal who opens a store or creates some kind of something. And I think this speech carves off some number of those who would like nothing more than to free themselves of ordinary pointless employment or welfareism. And I think 0bama just poked his lying conniving little nose into that/those groups and maybe got them to thinking in a way that Conservative-base arguments never could. This is a message to hammer relentlessly and mercilessly.
So returning to the original post, I say this is a tipping point because the objection isn’t coming from our side. 0bama just constructed his own. As such, it could be lots more effective in terms of turning voters away from him.
News blog item: both BO and Romney are visiting San Francisco today.
Blog item: Local San Francisco blacksmith.
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityexposed/2012/07/21/san-franciscos-last-working-blacksmith-forges-on/
Please note the comments following the blacksmith article: support for this gutsy, independent, old-school businessman.
“Easy for you to say.”
Too easily, apparently.
Do you speak English ?
Walking through forests of palm tree apartments -—
scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents
down by the waterhole -— drunk every Friday -—
eating their nuts -— saving their raisins for Sunday.
Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows -—
they’re fast but they’re lazy, and sleep in green meadows.
Let’s bungle in the jungle -— well, that’s all right by me.
I’m a tiger when I want love,
but I’m a snake if we disagree.
Just say a word and the boys will be right there:
with claws at your back to send a chill through the night air.
Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn’t be bolder.
I’ll write on your tombstone, ``I thank you for dinner.’’
This game that we animals play is a winner.
Let’s bungle in the jungle -— well, that’s all right by me.
I’m a tiger when I want love,
but I’m a snake if we disagree.
The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
and He who made kittens put snakes in the grass.
He’s a lover of life but a player of pawns -—
yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
to light up His Jungle
as play is resumed.
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.
While reading books on the Hitler era, I was surprised by the number of people who wrote him, trying to correct him on some issue. Didn't do much good.
“Do you speak English ?”
Sometimes. You?
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