A friend sent me a picture of this sign from the side of a county road in Louisiana. Similar signs are popping up on public roads all over the country to point out how ignorant President Obama is about what it takes to be successful. According to the sender, the purpose is to “sweep the nation and send a message about the audacity, arrogance, and ignorance of Obama.”
In a recent speech, Obama made the
incendiary statement (echoing Elizabeth Warren’s now famous off-the-cuff message[1])
that people become successful in life –not all on their own—but with the help,
somewhere along the way, of someone else, a teacher, a parent, a coach, a
mentor, a church leaders, or someone else perhaps.[2]
This cynical tactic is working. (Taking the low road never fails in politics. Never.)
How ignorant is Obama?
He is so ignorant that he thinks Mr. Herbert had a mother and father, or at least a mother or a foster mother, who helped him through childhood before he got into business.
He is so ignorant that he thinks that Mr. Herbert probably
went to school, at least elementary school where he had teachers working in a building, paid for by
the taxpayers, providing him with a basic education. Same thing for all his employees. And his customers.
Obama is so stupid that he actually thinks that roads and
bridges, as well as telephones and the internet, may be helpful to Mr. Herbert
in getting employees and customers to his place of business and in getting goods and
services delivered to and from the business.
Obama is such an idiot that he thinks Mr. Herbert needs local and national electric power systems and local public water systems to operate his business.
Obama is so dumb that he thinks police officers and courts
are helpful in maintaining law and order so that Mr. Herbert’s business can
operate with being robbed on a daily basis, as many businesses are in countries
that do not have functioning police and courts.
Obama is so stupid that he thinks that laws enacted by democratically elected legislators protect businesses like Herbert's from unfair competition and extortion by criminal enterprises who would
otherwise demand protection money from legitimate businesses, as they do in “failed”
nations.
Obama is so stupid that he thinks that businessmen (as well
as their employees and customers) are benefitted by government institutions such as
the Centers for Disease Control that
protect everyone from catastrophic epidemics.
Obama is such an idiot that he think businesses need strong
military and intelligence systems to protect the nation from terrorists and
enemies who would like to see our whole way of life disappear.
Obama is foolish enough to think that businessmen travelling
on business need air traffic controllers to keep aircraft from colliding into
each other in flight.
The list of Obama’s idiotic beliefs goes on and on,
endlessly it seems.
Why can’t he just
leave businesses alone?
It works in
Somalia. Why not in Louisiana?
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[1]
Warren’s off the cuff statement (now
claimed to be a communist manifesto) is as follows: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. ….You
built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your
goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the
rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police
forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry
that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire
someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now
look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great
idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social
contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes
along.”
[2]
The text of the President’s statement prior to its dismemberment by the Romney
campaign is as follows: "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There
was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this
unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody
invested in roads and bridges."
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