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74novaman wrote:Mike, if you'd like to think the guy is pro business or free enterprise, well, good luck to you.

The man is an ivory tower, theoretical Marxist who has no understanding of how an economy works in the real world.

But if you've enjoyed high unemployment, demonization of those who could turn our sagging economic prospects around, and even more deficit spending and foreign policy blunders than we experienced under bush, by all means enjoy your view on the world.

If you didn't see the mans absolute disdain for freedom and capitalism in that one minute video, there's nothing I can [abbreviated profanity deleted] for you.

That was George Bushes fault... just ask Odumbell in between his golf rounds.

Heartland Patriot wrote: And I'll just finish with a great quote.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Winston Churchill

This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, also conveniently from Churchill, and applies just as well to Obama now as it did to Roosevelt then:

"A second danger to President Roosevelt’s valiant and heroic experiments seems to arise from the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts. It is a very attractive sport, and once it gets started quite a lot of people everywhere are found ready to join in the chase. Moreover, the quarry is at once swift and crafty, and therefore elusive. The pursuit is long and exciting, and everyone’s blood is infected with its ardour. The question arises whether the general well-being of the masses of the community will be advanced by an excessive indulgence in this amusement. The millionaire or multi-millionaire is a highly economic animal. He sucks up with sponge-like efficiency money from all quarters. In this process, far from depriving ordinary people of their earnings, he launches enterprise and carries it through, raises values, and he expands that credit without which on a vast scale no fuller economic life can be opened to the millions. To hunt wealth is not to capture commonwealth."

When a president says we should kill the geese that lay golden eggs, I pity him. When he has entire crowds cheering and nodding in assent, I fear for my country.

74novaman wrote:I truly, truly wish I was making it up. Here is our Dear Leader, in his own words on the "theory of capitalism".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qmj4trja7w

Wow... Just wow... I need to find the rest of that speech to confirm that snippet was not taken out of context... Wow.

Full text: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks for that Old Cannon. Reading it made me nauseous! Especially the part on the 5th page when he was talking about public schools and people who have college degrees making twice the money! Hello, Mr. President but throw a stick in any direction in this country and you will find a college graduate who is working for 8-12 bucks an hour with the high school kids at Wal Mart or Kroger. Don't get me wrong an education is very important but being educated doesn't mean that you can get a job that pays a livable wage these days for many college grads. It just means the high school kids have to wait in line to work! We are becoming like Europe in the sense that we have all these educated young adults and nothing for them to do but sack groceries and wait tables so they can pay off all that college loan debt! NOTE: Having a lot of highly educated poor people is usually not a good thing!

See how it works is you need a place to work before they call it a job! Ridiculous!