Obama believes success is a gift from government

Examiner ^ | 7-17-12 | Michael Barone

[Mikey_1962]

Maybe he is just a plain old Marxist.

[Travis McGee]

Course he is.

He's a 3rd generation communist, weaned on Marx and Lenin.

[chainsaw]

Obama believes success is a gift from government.

In his case he is correct.

[libertarian27]

For some...Government is the ‘Gift’ that keeps on Giving

For others....Government is the ‘Gift’ that keeps on Taking

[Safetgiver]

“If you are broke, you didn’t do it. Somebody else made it happen. Me. And the Democrat party.” Good excuse, huh?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Dear Mr. Obama: Please complete this syllogism:

The government built the roads that allowed workers to drive to Apple headquarters.

The government built the roads that allowed workers to drive to Solyndra headquarters.

Therefore, ___________________________________________.

[Mouton]

I believe it is because he does not have any belief in the Devine.

[MrB]

That’s the “joy” of fascism.

If you’re Government, you get to take credit for success, and blame the private business owner for any hardships.

[P.O.E.]

Obama says you got help from the grace of God and the intercession of saints.

Oh, that’s right, if he said that he’d have been vilified.

Never mind.

[Oratam]

Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.

I'd love to hear Obama's definition of the American system. I'm sure it would make my toenails curl.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

"that if you're successful someone else made that happen"

Well, of course that is what Obama believes, why shouldn't he? For that has been his only experience his entire life. HE never had to actually earn anything. He had handlers and facilitators and affirmation action who set it all up for him and paid for it.... all the way to the white house. He just had to be a "good boy" and believe in uncle Frank, shake the right hands (ie: Ayers) and give them the nod of approval, pose eloquently and read from the teleprompter what the handlers wrote for him.... and all that he dreamed of appeared.

[JudyinCanada]

If roads and teachers made businesses successful, why doesn’t everyone own a business? Infrastructure is available to all.

[SMARTY]

‘Success’ is a habit and the sooner you learn it the better off you will be... spiritually, psychologically and practically.

That's why in kindergarten you got a gold star on your paper, if you did well.

Reinforcing effort and industry are BASIC to everything in the education of children and that lesson carries over into adulthood.

For so long, Liberals have been trying to diminish and demonize the concept of personal achievement, so ‘success’ both as a habit and an ultimate goal have become anathema.

Rewarding indolence and failure will NOT cultivate good citizens or productive members of society!! THAT is so obvious that I wonder anyone needs to be reminded of it!

For what it is worth: I remember in grade school, some ‘boys’ beat up my brother outside the school on the way home, because he won a gold star on his paper.

There is you ‘anti-success’ mentality!

[Portcall24]

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. The gift the government has given to each of us is the opportunity to succeed. Predominantly through the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of men and women who’ve gone before us.

[SERKIT]

Mister President PLEASE stay off the ‘prompter. It is revealing the “true you”. Don’t let Axelrod and Gibbs load up TOTUS with their propaganda. Stay on your Marxist, central management, totalitarian regime message....PLEASE!

[Future Snake Eater]

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. The gift the government has given to each of us is the opportunity to succeed.

Those are rights that come from God, not gifts from the government. The government has no right to interfere with any of them.

[Cincinatus]

he does not have any belief in the Devine.

He should -- Andy was a great character actor.

[SERE_DOC]

Or perchance, just an old fashion f’en moron.

[Eye of Unk]

If Stalin, Mussolini had the internet and MSM in their day they would have said the same thing.

This is history being made, this is socialism being raised in a fertile country like America.

Does anyone really wonder why its been kicked out of the Soviet Union?

[CSM]

“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. They bare their teeth at you from out of their rat holes,t...hinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them - while you'd give a year of my life to see a flicker of talent anywhere among them. They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. They have no way of knowing what he feels when surrounded by inferiors - hatred? no, not hatred, but boredom - the terrible, hopeless, draining, paralyzing boredom. Of what account are praise and adulation from men whom you don't respect? Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?" "I've felt it all my life," she said.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged