“Government is the only thing we all belong to.” – DNC Charlotte 2012
” I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.” – Number 6
It was almost as stupid as “You Didn’t Build That.” Now we can thank the party for outing itself as badly as its figurehead.
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I will get a sort of perverse pleasure as we approach November watching you make an ass of yourself. It’s a shame because you’re a gifted writer and a deep thinker and it all gets ruined by your partisan knee jerk instincts.
The only thing stupid about “You Didn’t Build That” were the idiots who misinterpreted it (innocently or with sinister intent) and then built an entire Republican convention upon a lie. For that reason alone, they deserve to lose.
The one thing we all share is being American. There was a time in this country when we had a modicum of respect and decency that our President represented that commonality. Now it’s fashionable for both sides to demonize the President, whether it’s rude liberals singing “na na na na” at the outgoing Bush or inbred ignoramus Joe Wilson shouting ‘you lie” at Obama.
The true shame is you would prefer to dive into the mud instead of being productive. Here’s an idea for your next post. Write a post advising Obama on how he should handle his next term understanding that he is not a Republican. How good an adviser can you be?
I don’t think you have it in you. 😐
1. My thinking is still FATHOMS deeper than anything I’m seeing and hearing out of Charlotte so far. They, like you are invesing EVERYTHING into his cult of personality, and NOTHING into ideas that transcend the end of his term in January.
2. Quit deluding yourself about “the context” of “You didn’t build that.” The entire remark doesn’t make it better for Lord Zero. It only makes it worse.
In addition to being epically and horribly wrong about them building it, that wasn’t the reason the internet was created. No one builds businesses but their owners. Government doesn’t take the risk. Government doesn’t put in the long hours. Government doesn’t forego paychecks to see the employees and taxes get paid. Government doesn’t have to worry not only about competitors, but about what burdens and restrictions government will place on their efforts to build their businesses and improve their lives.
3. It wouldn’t make any sense to advise him. His response was “I won.” And then he made it clear that he thinks he’s so much smarterer than everyone else, which is why he had zero meetings with his jobs council and once with his cabinet since the beginning of the year. After all, what he’s done so far is working, right?
That said, if the dead turn out in record numbers in Democommunist strongholds around the country and re-elect him, my advice to him would be to resign immediately. He’s obviously in over his head, and it would be the best thing he could do for the country.
It’s a simple battle between a sense of community and an ethos of each man for himself. Simple as that.
Clinton made a remark last night characterizing Republicans that cracked me up: I was born in a log cabin that I built myself,
It’s called alternate reality.
I’ll go out on a limb BiW. You’re a highly educated man. Did you take out any government funded student loans? Did the evil government offer you that option? How ’bout the GI Bill? Another example of an over zealous government?
Why can’t you sign up for all of us holding hands together and getting through this mess together?
Rutherford…you lose sight of an important distinction.
They are LOANS. That means I pay them back. With Interest. In addition to the higher taxes I pay because I am employed with a true professional degree.
It isn’t a grant. It isn’t a giveaway. And the fact that the government offered them at all led to the insanely inflated prices I paid to begin with…maybe the rumblings haven’t yet gotten through the bubble surrounding your neighborhood in Progtardia yet, but the next bubble to burst will be student loans. The fact is that if private lenders were allowed to loan for law school (the classes, not the extras that Fediathan used to permit them to lend on), the price of the education would almost certainly have been less, because Uncle Sugar wouldn’t have been providing the incentive to wildly inflate the cost.
As for the GI Bill, you fail to grok that what made it acceptable was the connection to a term of service that was inherently dangerous. It also had at least a tenuous connection to a valid government interest, that being defense, as it and the Defense Education Act fostered education in math and science that helped our industry to provide some of the most formidible weapons ever devised by man.
It comes back to the same thing, R. Your salvation isn’t in my pocket, and the more you take from me claiming its my “fair share”, the less I have for my family, for charity, for my employees, and ultimately, for my clients. It limits my pro bono, because I have to help those government insists I “help”, in the fashion that it sees fit, to an even greater degree than it already is forcing me and my clients to do so just by practicing my trade. I now pay an $11 surcharge on top of county fees for filing a law suit, to “help the homeless”. Or I should say, my clients do. And at the same time, these do gooders bitch about the cost of “Access to Justice” while their sticky fingers make every interaction with the county and the courts more expensive as my clients subsedize their pet projects.
It isn’t “sustainable”, and your intellectual fathers and mothers KNEW it. You’re contributing to the problem, you aren’t part of the solution, R.
You don’t advise people like that. It’s either true, and in this case it isn’t, or you fire them at the first opportunity.
Ah yes. For the sake of argument, there is of course only statism or nihilism.