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8 Shocking, Funny and Revealing Things Obama Told the Chamber of Commerce
fox ^ | 2/7/11 | staff

Posted on 02/07/2011 10:42:47 AM PST by Nachum

I'm here in the interest of being more neighborly. Maybe we would have gotten off on a better foot if I had brought over a fruitcake when we first moved in.

I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders. I get it. But as we work with you to make America a better place to do business, ask yourselves what you can do for America.

I want to put more people to work rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges.

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KEYWORDS: business; funny; obamanomics; revealing; shocking; taxes
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1 posted on 02/07/2011 10:42:50 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

He didn’t really say this did he? If so enough with the road building already - didn’t we have all kinds of that in the original stimulus bill? Do we really need more. Obama has no solutions. He keeps pulling out the same garbage over and over.


2 posted on 02/07/2011 10:45:56 AM PST by MissH
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To: Nachum
I want to put more people to work rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges. Tolls.
3 posted on 02/07/2011 10:46:56 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: Nachum

On my way home every night I stop at a stop sign. Right across from it is the big giant (couple thousand dollars worth?) of sign that announces the road improvement that is going to happen any day now. Two years later, all I can see was generated was the sign.


4 posted on 02/07/2011 10:50:14 AM PST by jessduntno ("That 3 a.m. phone call from Egypt to Obama went right to the answering machine." - Sarah Palin)
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To: Nachum

He’s lucky no one told him that he IS a fruitcake.


5 posted on 02/07/2011 10:50:17 AM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: Nachum

He looked like he had spent the night on the business end of a crack pipe with depression setting in during the comedown.


6 posted on 02/07/2011 10:52:48 AM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: Nachum

The only thing that matters is what Obama means by his comments to the Chamber of Commerce.

And that can be boiled down in just three words: GO **** YOURSELF.


7 posted on 02/07/2011 10:52:59 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Nachum
merge, consolidate, and reorganize the federal government

Do away with these pesky constitutional restraints, he means.

8 posted on 02/07/2011 10:53:02 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: kbennkc

I want to put more people to work rebuilding crumbling roads and bridges.

So, if we’re building crumbling roads and bridges, do you need a shovel or a sledgehammer? And if they are already crumbling, why do they need to be rebuilt? Kind of like his efforts to rebuild our crumbling economy. Freudian slip.


9 posted on 02/07/2011 10:53:32 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: MissH

I’m sure he said...and meant...every word you see here. He absolutely believes it because it was written on TOTUS.


10 posted on 02/07/2011 10:56:06 AM PST by henkster (Before we make any more "investments" we ought to be shown the prospectus.)
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To: Nachum
We can create a virtuous cycle.

It will be just as virtuous as MY administration is transparent.

11 posted on 02/07/2011 10:58:17 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 748 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Nachum
"I understand the significance of your obligations to your shareholders..."

He says this in a dismissive manner, implying that somehow generating gains for shareholders is a selfish endeavor and that these profits should instead be "shared." I've heard the same line many times over from other liberals.

What they conveniently forget is that this nebulous group of "shareholders" is in reality populated by pension funds, retirees with independent investments, employees with stock ownership plans, etc. In other words, the very group of regular people that Obama so imperiously demands that the Chamber of Commerce devote more profits to is the very group that would actually be hurt by redistribution of corporate profits. Aside from the direct negative effect upon employee and retiree (and other) shareholders, there would be the indirect effect of reduced hiring due to the double whammy of reduced overall financial viability coupled with an increased cost of hiring each employee.

Stupid beyond words.

12 posted on 02/07/2011 11:01:17 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Nachum

“The business of America is business” - President Calvin Coolidge


13 posted on 02/07/2011 11:03:11 AM PST by JPG (Work for conservative change like your country depended on it.)
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To: jessduntno
The way it works in Pennsylvania is this: Sometime just before the peak travel season, they will close the road. A month or so later, they will come and tear just enough of the front sections up to keep people from driving around the barriers in frustration. Eventually, they will get around to tearing up the rest of the road in piecemeal fashion.

Then after if sits idle for most of a year and people forget a road was ever there, they will get around to rebuilding it in reverse piecemeal fashion.

Then, usually sometime in September or October, maybe 18-24 months later, they will have a big opening ceremony to show off what they've done. The union cronies, of course, will pocket pay for the entire time when the road was out of operation, including the 80% of that time when nothing was being done.

14 posted on 02/07/2011 11:04:23 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: DLfromthedesert

L O L

L O L

L O L !!!


15 posted on 02/07/2011 11:05:49 AM PST by USARightSide (At last! I'm actually here, after reading FR for 6 years! Pardon any fumbles - -)
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To: Vigilanteman

0bama hates bidnesses and bidnessmen. I can no longer continya listenen to his jive talk.


16 posted on 02/07/2011 11:07:35 AM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Nachum

FDR put an excess profits tax on American corporations.

This is where O is heading.


17 posted on 02/07/2011 11:09:01 AM PST by Carley (ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)
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To: Nachum

I think his virtuous cycle has a flat tire.


18 posted on 02/07/2011 11:11:47 AM PST by Walmartian
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To: kbennkc

I keep hearing about “crumbling raods and bridges.” Why is everything suddenly crumbling around us? Meanwhile, here in Phoenix, some of our roads are pretty darned nice. The 10 is in great shape. Take it out to California all the time... Weird.


19 posted on 02/07/2011 11:14:37 AM PST by cld51860
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To: noiseman

“In other words, the very group of regular people that Obama so imperiously demands that the Chamber of Commerce devote more profits to is the very group that would actually be hurt by redistribution of corporate profits.”

Actually, I think the people he has in mind are idle enough to be “community organizers.”


20 posted on 02/07/2011 11:16:23 AM PST by jessduntno ("That 3 a.m. phone call from Egypt to Obama went right to the answering machine." - Sarah Palin)
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