In a recent speech before the US Chamber of Commerce the President missed a perfect opportunity to apologize for accusing them of taking foreign money for questionable purposes. Apparently at the time of his insinuation he had gotten their ledgers confused with his with own.
He did not, however, miss the opportunity to claim that he’d hold the economy hostage (through an insane tax code and inhibiting American exports) until companies agreed to share the benefits of a healthy economy with workers. In the words of the President:
“If we’re fighting to reform the tax code and increase exports, the benefits cannot just translate into greater profits and bonuses for those at the top. They have to be shared by American workers, who need to know that opening markets will lift their standard of living as well as your bottom line,”
Do yourself a favor and go straight to the 7:00 minute mark. Forcing yourself to watch the speech in its entirety comes perilously close to self-inflicted cruel and unusual punishment.
With unemployment hovering around ten percent, cost of living outpacing salaries by lengths, collateralizing the labor of unborn generations and the proposed destruction of the U.S. dollar through “quantitative easing,” it appeared that Obama had every intention of being uncharacteristically true to his word.
Of course, we can’t completely disagree with the President. At least not in this instance. We want the working and middle classes to have a higher standard of living and more money in their bank accounts as well.
That is why we are so sincerely imploring the man to greatly increase the wages of nearly every American worker by taking one very simple step: Stop confiscateing their money.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
H/T RealClearPolitics.com
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/07/obama_corporate_profits_have_to_be_shared_by_american_workers.html
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Who is this buffoon to lecture any business person? He has not, and could not, manage a pay toilet. Same for 100% of his administration and czars and asskissers.
In his speech to the Chamber of Commerce Obama came across like a combination of Eugene Debs and Vito Corleone: "Nice little business you got here, you wouldn't want anything bad happenin' to it, would you?"
"Obama came across like a combination of Eugene Debs and Vito Corleone"
LOL, AWESOME! It's funny . . . deranged morons like Debs can feel free to express any opinion they like so long as those hateful, vitriolic Constitution lovers are at the reigns of government . . . but let enlightened, intellectual, reasonable progressives like Woodrow Wilson get control and all of a sudden those that disagree with the current truth are being sent of to jail for "sedition".
Wow. He is coming after everyone's money. This is part of his collective salvation mentality. I agree that we are in this together and that we should all have enough to live on and what not but not at the expense of the liberties and hard work of others.
If I had been there, I would have made a very obvious point of leaving during Heusein's tirade of lies.
Didn't the Idiot-In-Chief just recently excoriate the Chamber of Commerce...he's schizoid!
F-cking Socialist!
I watched all I could bear.
If you will excuse me now, I have to go vomit.
I don't believe it. This clown cannot be the President of our country, the United States of America.
The Chamber of Commerce is an organization of SMALL BUSINESSES, little Mom and Pop businesses like the corner deli or restaurant. The guy that owns the local shop where you get your oil changed or a flat tire fixed. The lady that owns your local drug store where you can get prescriptions filled and buy condoms for your lucky night on the town! We are not talking about huge international companies! We are not talking about Intel or Microsoft! We are not talking about Ford or Gooberment Motors! We are talking about the small business owner, the backbone of our economic system, the employer of over 70% of all working Americans!
I cannot believe the American people have gotten so stupid. To elect someone to the highest office in our land because he has a pretty smile or can "talk real good" is just that, stupid. The man don't have a clue, anymore than Jimmy "The Peanut Farmer" Carter had and this video proves it.
"Obama is going to pay for my mortgage and put gas in my car!"
The even-worse problem than someone saying something like that, is that it then actually happened. Or, he's at least been trying.
The American people elected the current occupant due to the fact that most where not smart enough to figure out what he was selling. With the help of the MSM Barry was able to snake oil sale everything. Now that he is in there and people have seen what he is about slowly people have realized that he is an empty suit and full fledge communist.
Barry wants to destroy every aspect of what has made this country great. He has chosen to ignore the mandates from the people and the rulings of the courts.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
This man has taken the "Peter principle" to a whole new level. Lord help us.