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D'Oh-bama!: If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that.

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by basso, Jul 14, 2012.

  1. mfastx

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    LOL, what a horrible comparison.
     
  2. bigtexxx

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    No, that's Daily's Kos' explanation.

    If Oblamer were referring to the roads and bridges, he would have said "you didn't build THOSE"

    good grief that's pitiful trying to dig Obama out of his ditch.
     
  3. RedRedemption

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    OK. Were we a superpower three hundred years ago? No. We were a backwards religiously zealous society where rugged individualism and isolationism dominated the landscape.
    Coincidentally we became the world's #1 superpower AFTER government became more involved. Hmmmmm.
     
  4. Kyrodis

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    I'm sure Daily Kos and I weren't the only ones that came to such a conclusion upon reading the quote.

    Yeah. It's almost as pitiful as not knowing the difference between money and reserves. Or claiming the dollar has devalued against other currencies when the USD index is higher today than it was 4 years ago.

    ...oh right, that was you.
     
  5. bigtexxx

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    ok, so now you're going off topic

    Europe had to implode for you to make that statement. a silly comparison
     
  6. SamFisher

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    Answer: it was 55%.
     
  7. Kyrodis

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    That still doesn't change the fact that the USD has gained against many of the world's major currencies the past couple years...despite those so-called "dollar-devaluing" operations.

    If you don't want me to point out the way you constantly fail at facts, maybe you ought to stop calling disagreeing opinions "pitiful."

    TIA brah.
     
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    Had to wipe out those pesky indians tho. Government action.

    Just sayin ;)
     
  9. gifford1967

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    So you mean Obama managed our economy better than the leaders of the other most economically advanced countries in the world.

    Thanks for acknowledging that broheme.
     
  10. False

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    Private companies could have wiped them out even faster!
     
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    Another weak post by Tyrone-a-Saurustexxx.
     
  12. GladiatoRowdy

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    You're such a liar.

    If you own a business, you didn't build the roads, schools, and other infrastructure that the President was referring to in the VERY SAME SENTENCE.
     
  13. GladiatoRowdy

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    "Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that."

    -Barack Obama

    The problem, texxy, is that you have to have read the six words before the quote. Any idiot can see it, why can't you and basso?
     
  14. basso

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  15. bigtexxx

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    watch the video. I did.

    It's clear what he said -- you're the one trying to manipulate the context. Lay off Daily Kos brah -- you're more biased than you've ever been
     
  16. GladiatoRowdy

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    I provided MORE of the quote than you did, who is the one manipulating the context?

    I can't remember the last time I went to Kos (I pulled the quote DIRECTLY from the speech transcript), but that statement is hilarious coming from someone who has their head so far up Rupert Murdoch's ass that they can lick his esophagus.
     
  17. GladiatoRowdy

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    LIAR

    Obama never said anything of the like. Why do you have to lie to score political points?
     
  18. JD88

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    Care to explain why. My father in law is a small business owner and he hasn't used the government for ****, except somewhere to dump his extra cash (aka taxes).

    But if the Obama lovers want to defend his stupid statement that you owe the government because someone drove on a road to get to your business, that's essentially saying the same stupid thing as a fisherman in Alaska didn't catch his fish without the help of whoever made his hook, therefore he should go share the fish with him.

    See how dumb that argument is...
     
  19. basso

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    iowahawk, via twitter:

    Next time you're in a grocery checkout behind a guy paying for steaks with an EBT card, make sure to thank him for building the roads.
     
  20. GladiatoRowdy

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    If he loads it into his Escalade, he pays more gas tax than most of us and therefore, helped pay for the roads.
     

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