"You didn't build that!" Quote of the year?

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  1. violadude

    violadude New Member

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    I just posted this video. Great minds think alike :D
     
  2. Badmutha

    Badmutha New Member

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    Well I also hired the staff and provided the merchandise/service.......

    ....all before your ignorance walked through the front door.

    That has also been established.....you dont think--you recite.......whatever a community organizer, who never ran so much as a lemonade stand, tells you.......
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  3. Badmutha

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    Absolutely......100% funded by the Fruits of my Labor.....
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    :)

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  5. Krypt

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    So you...by yourself survey and excavated the entire lot. You by yourself erected all the steel and layed the brick and mortar? You by yourself ran all the electric components and you by yourself hung all the drywall by yourself as well as all other services needed to construct a store. You did that all by yourself and didn't hire anybody to do that for you?
     
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    Badmutha New Member

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    Yes I paid for all of that.......with the Fruits of my Labor.

    The Surveyor, Excavator, Steel Worker, Brick Layer, Electrician, Drywaller, and two bit Chitcago Parasite didnt do it for free......I paid top dollar.
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  8. Krypt

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    So you agree that you didn't make your business happen all by yourself. You had people help you along the way...thanks for clearing that up.
     
  9. Dave1mo

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    Ah, so if I lease a building and toss some goods in it, I have a business? Even without customers?

    Also, you may have "contributed" money towards the infrastructure and school system (though how you got that money without a business or job that uses the infrastructure is beyond me), but so did everyone else in your community. You used their money to make yours; you didn't build it by yourself, you had help along the way.
     
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    Well if you could point to the Fruits of anyone else's labor being involved...perhaps you would have something approaching a point.
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  11. skeptic-f

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    President Obama definitely had his words come out wrong, but his basic point is being overlooked. The success of American business is based on the social, political and economic health of the USA. If you don't have policing, crime is high and that adds costs to doing business. If the roads are awful and crowded and the bridges fall down, that adds costs to business. If you have a poor education system, the pool of skilled workers shrinks and that adds costs to business. If the market is not fairly free and open, that adds costs to business. And if the military can't defend America, that REALLY affects business in the USA.

    So every business owner is (hopefully) an entrepeneur, but he is also a citizen participating in the social contract of this country which basically says that the benefits don't come for free - not in cash, not in participation in civic affairs, and not even in blood.
     
  12. Badmutha

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    You may or may not have customers.....that is uncertain.

    .....what is certain....is an Individual first has to build a business to find out.

    Residential Property is taxed at a 30% roll here.....Commercial Property is taxed at the full 100%......

    Democrats rape business owners at work....and then rape them again when they get home......

    .......so we paid our Fair Share, the Lion's Share, and a King's Ransom.......MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE COMMUNITY.
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    I had no one helping me carry sacks of cement or roofing shingles up a ladder.
     
  14. JonathanBlu

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    Are you guys really this naive as to think that without one pesron's direction, money and labor, any of that work would have been done? A contractor doesn't just up and decide to build a building, run electrical wires and supply materials because he wants to help somebody build a business. A person has to take the initiative and have the capital to contract these services out. Maybe if you would get off your computers where you can safely rant and rave about every subject under the sun that you know nothing about and actually try to build a business. Then you can see what it takes, because you've shown me that you clearly do not.
     
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    Don't worry, you can pay next to nothing on your capital gains and call it a wash if you'd like. Also, I see you're no longer denying that others have paid for your infrastructure and schooling. Glad you're finally starting to acknowledge what Obama was saying.
     
  16. Lee S

    Lee S Moderator Staff Member Past Donor

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    Perhaps that is the exact point. If this statement was just run of the mill stupidity that we expect day to day from politicians, then we would have forgotten about it on Monday, July 16th. But this is special out of category stupidity in line with the 'Heckuva job, Brownie!' stupidity which has a longer shelf life like so much radioactive sludge. The fact that you are still here defending a statement that everybody knows that Obama wishes he never said tells me that you are not ready to drop the subject just yet.

    The point being, if we continue to see new original 'You didn't build that..' jokes a week from now, then that proves to me that this may be the quote of the year.
     
  17. kk8

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    Very easily actually...he wasn't talking about private businesses, he was talking about an athlete...he was talking about support (meaning encouragement) from family & friends, not support from the government. What else you got?
     
  18. violadude

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    Obama was talking about working together in general.
     
  19. violadude

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    It was just a run of the mill speech until conservatives turned a molehill into a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing mountain.
     
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    I would say something here....but I will refrain.
     
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    No he wasn't...change the channel and have someone else explain it to you. You are not getting it clearly....and Jon Stewart is a comedian, remember that.
     
  22. violadude

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    He said businesses succeed because individual initiative and because we work together. What aren't you getting about that?
     
  23. Lee S

    Lee S Moderator Staff Member Past Donor

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    Forgive me. I am just a little bit confused. Isn't the official policy that Barack Obama's quote was taken pout of context? After two weeks of trying to defend the undefendable, seeing the President's poll numbers drop, having 72% of likely voters agree that the 'you didn't build that' statement was wrong according to Rasmussen Polls, hasn't the Democratic spin apparatus now taken the tactic of saying the phrase was taken out of context like Violadude claims?

    It cannot be both. You are going to have to pick one. Was the President correct, and if it costs him the election, you are fine with that, or was the statement taken out of context (it wasn't and only hard core leftists believe it was)?
     
  24. Dan40

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    No, not 2 weeks late. That incredibly stupid gaffe by the incompetent fool dumb ass obama has long, long legs.
     
  25. violadude

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    It shouldn't, if republicans weren't so desperate it wouldn't.
     

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