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Obama: ‘Nobody Wants to Get Something for Nothing'
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Posted on 05/29/2012 10:16:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: ‘Nobody Wants to Get Something for Nothing' By Terence P. Jeffrey May 29, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking Thursday afternoon in Newton, Iowa, President Barack Obama pitched his idea for $5 billion in new tax credits for companies that manufacture equipment—such as windmill blades and solar panels—for “clean energy” companies.

“Nobody wants a handout,” Obama said. “Nobody wants to get something for nothing.”

Obama was visiting TPI Composites, a company that manufactures blades for windmills, to pitch the fourth item on the five-item “To-Do” list of legislative actions he says he would like Congress to take this year. This particular item is: “Create Jobs By Investing In Affordable Clean Energy”

A statement put out by the White House on Thursday explained the substance of Obama’s request.

“Congress needs to help put America in control of its energy future by passing legislation that will extend the Production Tax Credit to support American jobs and manufacturing in the wind industry alongside an expansion of the 48C Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit that supports American-made clean energy manufacturing,” the White House said.

“The Production Tax Credit, which expires at the end of 2012, provides a 2.2 cent per kilowatt hour credit for utility scale wind producers,” said the White House.

“In the Recovery Act, $2.3bn in 48C credits were offered, and the program was over-subscribed by more than 3-to-1, meaning that over $5 billion projects with merit did not get funding,” said the White House. “The President’s plan calls for an additional $5 billion in credits, which would support at least $17 billion in direct investment in clean energy manufacturing facilities.”

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KEYWORDS: obamalies; onetermobama; somethingfornothing
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To: noexcuses

When the truth comes out we will find out Obama wanted something for nothing by claiming to be a foreign student when in college.


21 posted on 05/29/2012 10:35:36 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: Sub-Driver

Here the dipwit goes again, investing taxpayer’s money in Obama Capital, killing jobs and wealth. Once an idiot, always an idiot, looking for more ways to waste America.


22 posted on 05/29/2012 10:36:05 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Sub-Driver

Has nobama forgotten most of the morons who vote for him? Ingrate.


23 posted on 05/29/2012 10:37:35 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Sub-Driver

The DNC is building a styrofoam Colosseum for their convention this year so that Dooshus Maximus can orate his proclamations to the Empire in the style he has become accustomed to.


24 posted on 05/29/2012 10:37:41 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What about lotteries?


25 posted on 05/29/2012 10:40:35 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Sub-Driver

I had to look for John Semmens name...again..


26 posted on 05/29/2012 10:40:55 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Do I really need a /s tag?)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nobody wants to get something for nothing.

The riddle has been solved: Julia's last name is Nobody.

Julia's cousin is Peggy Joseph.

27 posted on 05/29/2012 10:41:00 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Nobody wants to get something for nothing.

The riddle has been solved: Julia's last name is Nobody.

Julia's cousin is Peggy Joseph.

28 posted on 05/29/2012 10:41:12 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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To: IamConservative

Exactly! So, if the Won is correct, then cut off welfare tomorrow and nobody will riot. I’ll not hold my breath waiting for it to happen because the only sure part in there is that riots will immediately follow cutoff of welfare. But they don’t want something for nothing. Right....


29 posted on 05/29/2012 10:41:44 AM PDT by RonInNaples
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To: Sub-Driver

Somebody got a half-billion dollars. In return...?

30 posted on 05/29/2012 10:42:16 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: Night Hides Not

Shazam...a double post. Hasn’t happened since Ms. Joseph burst on the scene.


31 posted on 05/29/2012 10:43:14 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
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"We have come too far to abandon the change we fought for these past few years.
We have to move forward to the future we imagined in 2008 where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.
That’s the choice in this election and that’s why I’m running for a second term as President of the United States.”

~Barack Obama




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32 posted on 05/29/2012 10:43:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Production Tax Credit ...

That's what the Libs call them going in. Later, they call them "Corporate Tax Loopholes" that cost "The Government" $Billions.

33 posted on 05/29/2012 10:50:02 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (TIN)
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To: Sub-Driver

so....he is planning to lose the election 100-0?


34 posted on 05/29/2012 10:54:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

ROFL

EVERYONE wants to get something for nothing!

This guy doesn’t know diddly about human nature.


35 posted on 05/29/2012 10:54:50 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. and the economy died.)
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To: Nachum; LucyT; azishot; MestaMachine
Who in the @%*& does this fundraiser fanatic think he's kidding? Is expecting "anything" from him (and getting nothing after voter's pockets are emptied except for larger costs, higher taxes and less jobs) the message he's making? If so, it's an epic "fail."

The welfare state of the union

Snip: In fact, the Department of Agriculture has just reported that 43.6 million Americans are now receiving food stamps.

Significantly, in 2006, near the height of the historic Bush economic expansion, the number of Americans receiving food stamps was just over 20 million. Since then, the number of (food stamp) recipients has more than doubled, with nearly all of the increase coming under the presidency of Barack Obama.

Study shows largest population of welfare recipients are immigrants

Snip: Fifty seven percent of households in which immigrants live are collecting at least one welfare check. This number refers to both legal and illegal aliens living in the United States. The report found that the majority of people on welfare are not even residents or citizens of the country. Only 39 percent of Americans are receiving welfare compared to the totals for immigrants.

36 posted on 05/29/2012 10:56:21 AM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: Sub-Driver

If this guy tries to run in a 3rd rated stand up comic routine, he would be laughed out the room.

Unfortunately, he’s the “Most Powerful Man(child) On Earth”.

Thanks, Obamabots.


37 posted on 05/29/2012 10:56:25 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s an economic axiom that everybody wants to buy as cheaply as he can, and sell as dearly as he can.


38 posted on 05/29/2012 11:01:50 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Maybe he didn’t know Aunt Zetuni?


39 posted on 05/29/2012 11:10:36 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama said. “Nobody wants to get something for nothing.”

I do.

40 posted on 05/29/2012 11:13:51 AM PDT by carenot (We'd rather hold on to the myth than fight for the reality)
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