One little drone makes and attempt at a funny, and the hive giggles…
Teeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee…
Precisely.
iiandyiiii already has that covered, see posts #420 and 424.
I’m glad you find yourself so amusing, and I’m glad we can share this belly laugh together…
Mags: “…alignment with Wright…”
LHOD: “…alignment with Wright…”
Mags: “…aligned with?!? Please!..”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
But, both you and magellan01 do realize that Obama was right on that point?
In this case, rather less-than-precisely, since he was talking about infrastructure.
He was technically correct. However, the attitude expressed was one of broad government claims to private property (derived from the government’s investment in infrastructure).
[shrug] Government always has broad claims to private property, that’s part of its definition.
No, this is false. The attitude expressed was that no one builds a business in a vacuum, and that everyone has had help – if not from others (like mentors, investors, etc.), then from the very infrastructure of America itself.
That’s the best kind of correct to be.
No, it was about the wealthy recognizing that they’re a part of society. Government is merely society’s set of mechanisms for how we live together.
It’s a matter of degree. That’s why I wrote “broad claims”.
Regardless, my point was that agree or disagree with Obama, from a philophical perspective there’s not much difference between saying “the government is entitled to more of your stuff because they built your business” and saying “the government is entitled to more of your stuff because they built the infrastructure that supports your business”
He was not. Trying to take the credit away from a person who opened and grew a business just because his trucks use the roads we all pay for, etc., is asinine. That person acted. Others didn’t. The person who acted, took the risks and succeeded deserves the credit. Period.
Now you can go back and asked the questions of YOU. The ones generated by a post YOU crafted.
Or you can reinforce your reputation as the Linda Richmond of the SDMB.
What Obama said did not take the credit away from anyone who opened a business. Period.
There was nothing in what Obama said about “the government is entitled to more…” – he was stating that no one builds a business in a vacuum, and (kum-ba-ya) we’re all in this together.
:roll eyes: This may be the lamest post of your ever. And that’s saying something. You offered something up. I responded and asked you very specific questions. I wasn’t asking questions that require factual answers, like, “What’s the average rainfall in Kuala Lampur?” Where anyone supplying the info would suffice. No, I asked YOU about a POST you made.
Some come on, Linda. Answer what was asked of you. You must care about the issue, since you posted on it in the first place, complete with a cite!. Wow. So, Linda, please, do share.
Sure he did:
But in fact, he did say that someone else made it happen – can you explain how that doesn’t seek to re-direct some of the credit?
Let’s hear more dogs howling:
“In troubled neighborhoods all across this country—many of them heavily African American—too few of our citizens have role models to guide them.”
“We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households…. We know the statistics—that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.”
“We know young black men are twice as likely as young white men to be ‘disconnected’—not in school, not working.”
Using this metric, no one ever deserve the credit for anything they ever do? To make the statement un-stupid you have to expand it’s meaning to be meaningless. It’s one or the other. You choose.
Is this objectionable?
“In troubled neighborhoods all across this country—many of them heavily African American—too few of our citizens have role models to guide them.”
“We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households…. We know the statistics—that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.”
“We know young black men are twice as likely as young white men to be ‘disconnected’—not in school, not working.”