Which Came First: the Taxpaying Chicken or the Government Egg?

Just the latest window into President Barack Obama’s warped worldview presented itself yesterday during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Brace yourself, Save Jerseyans.

An unedited excerpt from his speech taken directly from the White House’s official website; I’ve “bolded” the key lines:

But you know what, I’m not going to see us gut the investments that grow our economy to give tax breaks to me or Mr. Romney or folks who don’t need them.  So I’m going to reduce the deficit in a balanced way.  We’ve already made a trillion dollars’ worth of cuts.  We can make another trillion or trillion-two, and what we then do is ask for the wealthy to pay a little bit more.  (Applause.)  And, by the way, we’ve tried that before — a guy named Bill Clinton did it.  We created 23 million new jobs, turned a deficit into a surplus, and rich people did just fine.  We created a lot of millionaires.

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back.  They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.  You didn’t get there on your own.  I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart.  There are a lot of smart people out there.  It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.  Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.  (Applause.)

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.  If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

I’d have Swiss investments like Debbie Wasserman Schultz if I had a nickel for every lie in the President’s speech. Isn’t it common knowledge that the Internet began as a military project? Obama might’ve skipped that elective in community organizer school.

But in all seriousness, Save Jerseyans, I hope you can see what makes this dude tick.

He really, truly believes that GOVERNMENT is what makes America great. Without government, he thinks there would be no “us.” Of course Obama’s argument is completely counterintuitive. No one was there when God created “chickens” so we have no clue as to whether the poultry or the egg came first. We do know, however, that the U.S. Constitution wasn’t ratified until March 4, 1789. The statesmen, lawyers, diplomats, inventors, religious, entrepreneurs, merchants, tradesmen, dreamers, soldiers and adventurers who sacrificed to birth this nation in 1776 obviously preceded it! The Constitution didn’t write them, no more than a child could give birth to his or her own mother.

WE THE PEOPLE subsequently built the roads, the rails, the cities, populated cyberspace and made this American Experiment succeed beyond any 18th Century visionary’s wildest expectations, Save Jerseyans. The government isn’t the country; we are the country! Our form of government is purely the mechanism developed by our founding generation to protect the citizenry’s rights from… government. The Framers saw first-hand how the British Crown’s excesses were holding back the 13 Colonies’ prosperity; consequently, they designed a government that existed to serve the people and not the other way around. A limited government whose endeavors (yes, including roads) are paid for by our tax dollars, Mr. President.

So government can’t really “create” anything. Government can spend our money and, when it doesn’t spend it wisely, it can destroy jobs and businesses. Sound familiar? Best of luck trying to explain any of it to this utterly clueless Chicagoan who, with every passing day, reinforces the truth that he isn’t fit to hold the highest office int he land.

 

Matt Rooney
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3 Comments

  1. "Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." — Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

  2. "The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet." -Obama.

    This man is a liar. That's NOT why the internet was created; not at all. According to Wikipedia, the origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. That was decades before the personal computer was created by private entrepreneurs like Gates, Wozniak and Jobs, so how on earth could the gov't have created the internet so companies "could make money?"

    Further, the funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. Again, private funding of development. Obama lies!

    Obama hates private industry, hates entrepreneurs and hates capitalism. His solution for everything is big gov't; which has failed spectacularly in every attempt. Please, America, throw this bum OUT in November.

    Funny thing is, I poke fun at his gaffs – you know when he goes off-prompter and proves he cannot speak on his own – and says things like "speaking Austrian," "57 states," "don't worry, there are paralegals here," etc. and so forth; but when he makes statements like the one above about the internet, he is purposely lying because he knows the media is his lapdog and will not call him on it. He also knows that so long as a majority of people choose to live life in complete ignorance and listen to him while nodding in agreement, he can get away with these absolute lies.

    Wake up, people!

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