Posted on 07/18/2012 4:54:20 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
In Obama’s world, success does come from government because he’s too lazy and stupid to make it on his own.
Government is not the solution; it’s the problem — R Reagan
Powerful
I agree. But unfortunately God needs a little help sometimes to keep them secured from evil.
Much of what has been emerging from Obama’s piehole recently borders on the politically insane. His latest screed was almost incoherent in its “logic” that because some other people built a road or a bridge, you should pay higher taxes. So much for The Greatest Genius Of Our Generation as the Obmamatons would have us believe. Obama can’t think his way out of his Marxist bag.
That’s Obamatons...not Obmamatons
And wherever there is TOTAL government control there is wealth and abundance!
Look at Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea, China, East Germany, and all those other place where the Glorious People's revolution has taken control!
Garden Paradises, all of them (WITH free health care!)
Elite Leftists of course always exclude artists & athletes from the “rich” whose wealth must be redistributed. Now why is that?
To those driven by emotions, who view the world in a qualitative instead of quantitative way, artists & athletes have _talent_. They’ve earned their millions because they can do something with great skill/talent. They’ve _earned_ it.
These Leftists look at high-paid white- and blue-collar workers (from CEOs to consultants to big-dollar construction workers etc) as overpaid because they’re not doing anything of particular talent. They have, according to the Left, acquired an unfair income because what they do isn’t appreciably different from what anyone else could step in and do. They’re _lucky_ to have landed a big paycheck for nigh unto menial work. Leftists don’t recognize, much less acknowledge, great talent in occupations which they do not understand.
They’re like children who look at an adult doing a complex task and declare “I can do that!” and are frustrated unto “that’s not fair!” when the adult refuses to let the child perform the dangerous/delicate/risky action and, in consequence, denies the child the reward derived from performing it.
They don’t comprehend that a CEO takes huge responsibility for decisions having great effect on large numbers of people. One simple mistake can destroy millions of dollars and many jobs. The pressure on making such decisions is enormous. The less talented would make such mistakes very soon, if not have a mental breakdown first.
...or that a lawyer who must be able to navigate and understand the bewildering complexity of law, knowing one mistake can cost huge sums or destroy lives. (Odd how most Leftists demanding new laws & regulations have never read any.) A lawyer without talent makes little.
...or an engineer who understands how to convert the surrealism of science into performing complex tasks. Again, one mistake can be very expensive. As a software engineer I must manipulate millions of 1s and 0s, arranging them with abstract tools into intricate incantations to extract medical information from biological samples via exotic measurement processes. As a cyborg my very life depends on a heart-controlling computer running perfectly for decades.
...or an entrepreneur who expends great personal effort, time, money, etc. to organize existing parts (products & services) to create some new whole which is worth much more than the sum of the parts, and has substantial risk of the whole endeavor becoming a huge waste which nobody will share in the failure of - but everyone wants part of the profits if it succeeds. Takes _talent_ to pull all those disparate factors into a self-perpetuating business.
...but for some reason, Leftists do not see these examples as worthy of profit. If a great artist puts cheap paint on a cheap canvas and sells it for millions, they think that’s fair ... but if a great programmer arranges cheap bits on a cheap computer and sells the program for millions, they think his profit is “unfair” and must be distributed among anyone who had any conceivable involvement no matter how paltry or fairly paid.
Naturally, many business owners will be angered at Obama’s words.
Perhaps the real tragedy here is that the hundreds of thousands of young people who would desire to one day own their own businesses are no doubt thinking “why bother?”
Why bother indeed when you’ll just be maligned, insulted, and targeted as the declared enemy of the state.
This guy is attempting to kill the American dream.
He doesn’t have the brainpower to follow anything to its logical conclusion.
Your post is one of the reasons I love freerepublic. You are worthy of my great respect as a rational, and well educated thinker. I am also a software engineer, and have code running on many medical instruments.
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