Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment

"We're successful because somebody started the University of Michigan. We're successful because somebody made an investment in all the federal research labs that created the internet.... We're successful because somebody built roads and bridges.... And if we all understand that we've got to pay for this stuff, it makes sense for those of us who've done best to do our fair share and to try to pass off that bill on to somebody else, that's not right. That's not who we are."

January 27, 2012 at 1:59 pm - Fox News
Dateline: Michigan
Markg55   January 27th, 2012 - 2:00 pm

Obama MUST be talking about his campaign donors. The sooner this Nitwit is gone the better.

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:01 pm

And those that agree with this statement are Stupid, Idiotic MORONS!

There would be NO Government if there is NO Private Sector !!!

Thinker822   January 27th, 2012 - 2:02 pm

OMG can this guy be any more leftist? He has absolutely no concept of economic freedom, self-reliance, or capitalism. Another shining example of how stupid voters were..and why he must not be re-elected.

DemsAreMarxists   January 27th, 2012 - 2:03 pm

No-class warfare.

Barnacle Barry   January 27th, 2012 - 2:03 pm

And where does government get that money to invest, BoiWonder? JHC!

His willingness to float crap like that is not an indicator of how stupid he wants to believe the electorate is, it's an indication of how stupid he knows it is.

IMCONSERVATIVE   January 27th, 2012 - 2:03 pm

Obama: The Great Divider

tpf0612   January 27th, 2012 - 2:04 pm

My God the depth of this mans ignorance is sometimes even stunning to me…….and I'm a cynical ba$tard.

StanH   January 27th, 2012 - 2:04 pm

Thanks comrade, always instructive.

Just listen to Barry, and Team Parasite they’ll tell you who they are.

Washington76   January 27th, 2012 - 2:04 pm

Greenspan: Battle for Capitalism 'Far From Won' Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 12:48 PM By Julie Crawshaw
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Greenspan-Bat...

Strays   January 27th, 2012 - 2:05 pm

Correction:

Communist Crony-Capitalists don't get rich without government investment …

(see Solyndra's George Kaiser, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Alex Sorokin's Ener1, etc., etc., … the list is long)

There ya go. That's more specific and to the point than just "people".

ret_cpo   January 27th, 2012 - 2:05 pm

This must be by far the stupidest statement Obummer has made.

Blue_Turf   January 27th, 2012 - 2:05 pm

People don't get rich if they sit on their ass all day and watch Oprah either Mr President

txFirehawk   January 27th, 2012 - 2:09 pm

Obama gets confused on what came first the chicken or the egg. Poor guy.

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:09 pm

FLOTUS (aka Chubaka the W00kie) did 3 fundraisers here in FL yesterday …the Jewish Community ain't buying in – and the O Camp is concerned as their contributions from them are at an all time low – what a surprise, eh? lol.

JimMcVeigh   January 27th, 2012 - 2:11 pm

"We've got a different idea of America."

Right there is every GOP candidate's ad script for the coming election. Just for good measure they might want to include his 'fundamentally transform America' riff from the last election.

MarxTards   January 27th, 2012 - 2:11 pm

Another Obama backed Commie company files for bankruptcy: LOL! http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ener1-parent-obama-...

flytiegoode   January 27th, 2012 - 2:12 pm

Two words…..BULL $H!T

HURRICANEPAUL   January 27th, 2012 - 2:12 pm

If people "got rich" simply because of all the roads and bridges that were built, how come the POOR PEOPLE aren't 'rich'?

I mean, the "rich people" didn't do any more work than the "poor" guy, did they?

lol

BMartin1776   January 27th, 2012 - 2:12 pm

Ahh there he is our great Pharaoh, the Campaigner in Chief making the case that government is the solution to all our woes. I will bet many of those things he cited got started without one cent from Uncle Sam.

The guy is a compulsive liar as we all saw the other night. This speech is what he does best to gain a following from the uneducated, uninformed, unengaged zombie army.
If you're reading this you are the resistance

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:13 pm

You can still say "bastard" without being inhaled by the PC ID Police. However, you cannot say W00kie – as too many of us have referred to Michelle Obama as this name. I now refer her as "Chubaka" ….I am sure this, too, will be banned as well.

duh_swami   January 27th, 2012 - 2:13 pm

Wasn't there some woman who was spouting the exact same bilge a while back? Everything she said he said, so this looks like a she said he said kind of deal…He did have her permission to copy her speech I hope…

amanuensis   January 27th, 2012 - 2:14 pm

Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment
Obammy meant SOME people get rich from the government. Usually democrats who have no morals.
Honest people get rich when the lead hand of Obammy's government is removed from their backs.

Obammy runs a "trickle-up" economy. He steals from the poor and gives to his already rich friends, who in turn donate to his reelection and retirement funds.
Obammy is swindling our children and grandchildren out of everything so that his buddies can get very rich.
America is doomed if this continues.

LibertyWriter   January 27th, 2012 - 2:14 pm

He wants to close down the private sector. We know what he wants

SoNotShocked   January 27th, 2012 - 2:16 pm

This neophyte is preaching his rubbish because NOBODY who contributes to society believes it. Look at grades in "public" schools, look at waste in government programs, look at the cost of college education, Solyndra, General Motors, the list is simply immeasurable, the hatred secured by wallstreet collusion with the government whores. This government has effectively convinced teh entire nation to despise congress, and every last thief that suckles at it's diseased breasts. Please… we all "need to pay for it?" F. U. I would rather than liberty than anything this government could offer.

MarxTards   January 27th, 2012 - 2:16 pm

Wow, I bet the commies are pooing today!!! LOL! Gingrich would beat Obama 52% to 39%!

Rubicon   January 27th, 2012 - 2:17 pm

That has to be the most stupid statement ever made by an American President, ever. Sounds more like something Hugo Chavez would say.

Government doesn't produce anything. Government doesn't build anything, Government doesn't even exist without hard working taxpayers willfully giving government a percentage of their earnings for the common good.

Without taxpayers, there would be nothing. Not even an idiot incompetent fool like Obama!

MarxTards   January 27th, 2012 - 2:18 pm

1.7% Gross National Product growth in 2011 & expected to decline throughout 2012. BYE, BYE Obama!!!

antilibterds   January 27th, 2012 - 2:18 pm

If people do not pay their fair share, the IRS will toss their ass into prison. The fair share has been paid BUT wasted by blowhard and lying politicians like obama. Get lost loser. Take your community organizing line of crap elsewhere.

Nov 2012 goodbye barry grandstand

e_holl21   January 27th, 2012 - 2:19 pm

Can Obama actually tell us one thing the government does well? Besides spending us into oblivion, what are they actually good at? What his Royal Highness doesn't understand is that we would be far more successful and prosperous if they would just get out of our way. What an arrogant jackass.

nceeno   January 27th, 2012 - 2:19 pm

I guess if all you ever got was on account of a government handout of handup, this might make sense.
I have very little money compared to him but I'm rich beyond belief if I never have to do the things he's done for it.

Dirka_Dirka   January 27th, 2012 - 2:19 pm

That one line ends all arguments. Perfect.

tpf0612   January 27th, 2012 - 2:20 pm

I tried the W00kie thing about a week ago and they wouldnt let me post it either….we'll def steal the Chubaka thing from you though…yeah these moderators are really need to get their heads out of their 4th point of contact.

yossarian22   January 27th, 2012 - 2:20 pm

He is doubling down on idiocy, and doing it at an institution of higher learning no less. "Fairness" is now going to be mentioned in each and every speech until the cows come home.

Sarcastic   January 27th, 2012 - 2:20 pm

LOL wut

H2K   January 27th, 2012 - 2:20 pm

Right, if there were no private sector, how would the government be funded? If o'Bama had his way, we'd be in the rice fields funding the government old-school like they do in communist countries.

FrankensteinsMonster   January 27th, 2012 - 2:21 pm

Kick the commie out. You know he's lying when his lips are moving.

AngryFletch   January 27th, 2012 - 2:21 pm

Elizabeth Warren… A commie who makes enough money to be in the precious "1%"….

AngryFletch   January 27th, 2012 - 2:21 pm

Uh, are you forgetting… "57, 58 states to go.."

H2K   January 27th, 2012 - 2:22 pm

Obama: "this ain't no class warfare? What are you talking about? All I'm saying is that rich white guys are taking advantage of you."

urinthematrix   January 27th, 2012 - 2:22 pm

It's not ignorance…it's deliberate. This clown hates this country as it was founded and convinced himself and others it needs to be taken down a notch.

tpf0612   January 27th, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Yeah, the gal running against Scott Brown in MA…..she was peddeling this tripe several weeks ago….

NotKennedy   January 27th, 2012 - 2:23 pm

See, I told you. This guy knows nothing about America or American history.

Navy Gentleman   January 27th, 2012 - 2:24 pm

Yeah, that 30% I send you guys every year pays for all that too.

That is 10% for investments and services and 20% for you all to waste.

We understand what you really mean…

nomname   January 27th, 2012 - 2:25 pm

He knows it is a lie. He also knows that these dumbed-down, public school graduates and their teachers and/ or owners will never call him on it. Their ignorance is his bliss.

oldnproud   January 27th, 2012 - 2:26 pm

The sad thing is that people really belived him.

Cowboy Logic   January 27th, 2012 - 2:26 pm


Bullshlt.

Bullonay   January 27th, 2012 - 2:27 pm

My grandparents were not Marxists like O'blunder's…

Barnacle Barry   January 27th, 2012 - 2:33 pm

Correction: "The sad thing is that people really belived still believe him."

There ya' go–fixed.

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:34 pm

"Taken down a notch" …Obama wants to make the greatest country on earth taken out completely!

While so many yearn to live the American Dream – to live in the land of (what was) the FREE – this Whitehouse, this Congress is doing everything it can to ensure Obama will achieve his Evil Dream.

antilibterds   January 27th, 2012 - 2:35 pm

leftwing numbnuts

TommyRichards   January 27th, 2012 - 2:36 pm

typical pro-commie, highly insecure so-called whitehouse occupyer who clearly demonstrates `do it my way because i order you' mentallity. a very sad case of a wondering soul of insecurity.

rockon11   January 27th, 2012 - 2:36 pm

and i didnt get here without reggie love and larry sinclair and rev wright and saul alinsky and uncle fred newman and the list is endless of my close assoc and my dad malcom x

wilmac   January 27th, 2012 - 2:40 pm

Marxist Turd….

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:42 pm

Obama, his Czars, Soros are hoping and counting on "change" – they want to implement a VAT Tax across the boards (which is in ObamaCare). This would make irrelevant the private sector and ALL would be government owned, run and regulated. Call it Socialism, Communism, Marxist, Stallnist …anything BUT FREEDOM.

ret_cpo   January 27th, 2012 - 2:43 pm

No but there are so many that are out there any of them qualify.

Libtard   January 27th, 2012 - 2:43 pm

Low-class warfare.

Libtard   January 27th, 2012 - 2:45 pm

That is frick'in good my friend.

Chubby and -baka are both accurate to the First Mooch in a multitude of ways.

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 2:46 pm

Thank you, Dirka …too bad the MSM doesn't read these blogs or research true Capitalism, not to mention truthful history. This "revioionst history" that these Leftists have shoved down everyone's throats – mind boggling that no one questions this shlt.

Libtard   January 27th, 2012 - 2:46 pm

In order to rebuild a society, that society must first be destroyed. Otherwise, people might not like your brave new world, and want to go back.

Stalin did this by killing millions who might oppose his vision. Obama does it by destroying the very fabric so there is no where to go but forward (his direction).

tiredofit2012   January 27th, 2012 - 2:49 pm

I want some of what barry's on. Obviously basic econ was NOT on his list of college courses (well at least that we know of since we've not seen it).

owleyes   January 27th, 2012 - 2:53 pm

Exactly. You don't do all those things to be successful, you do them because you are successful. If we went to any 3rd world nation today and built universities, roads and bridges all over the country they still wouldn't know how to be successful. The Soviet Union had all those things and still failed.

afreegreek   January 27th, 2012 - 2:54 pm

and look at all the pipeline that wasn't built because of government..

think of a road block with a gap wide enough for a bicycle.. then imagine an idiot pointing at a passing bike and saying "look at all the traffic I've made possible"..

ThinkFirst1   January 27th, 2012 - 2:57 pm

Why do you think he's been manipulating things to get the majority of Americans on some sort of government welfare?

Once they become used to dependency upon mamma government they will dutifully vote for those who will continue to empower them to leech-off those who work for a living – selfishness is a natural primitive instinct.

Even bankruptcy means that you have dumped your obligations on to your neighbors.

Liberalism is the culture of greed and selfishness merged with the culture of entitlement and laziness – it is the worst of all possible combinations.

Barak and Michele epitomize each of these elements – they are role models for a decaying civilization.

snailmailtrucker   January 27th, 2012 - 2:57 pm

OBAMA: "PEOPLE DON’T GET RICH WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS "

OK….. Barack Hussein Einstein….Just where does this "Government" get the funds to make that investment…..
(you F-ing moron !)

Czynik   January 27th, 2012 - 2:58 pm

I think first comrade MaoBama needs to clean up his own house – 36 0bama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes according to the IRS.
"The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes."
"The Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million." from WND.

Grace656   January 27th, 2012 - 2:58 pm

I'd be a lot richer if I didn't have to send in money to the government – who then takes responsibility for creating that wealth?

What total nonsense.

jdg614   January 27th, 2012 - 2:59 pm

Obama's arguments make as much sense as pushing a rope…

…completely "bass ackwards".

AussieDon   January 27th, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment. For once a true statement from Obama.

It is now virtually impossible to get rich in an existing market without government/croney capitalism. Of course you can stay rich with the governments help too, bailouts.

American's have the ability hit the reset button by voting for Ron Paul.

You will get Constitutional government (a level playing field) and start again. It maybe something you don't want to do but it is the best medicine and easier to treat if you act now.

If you wait and allow the continuation of monetary and foregin policy there maybe no treatment.

Man bear pig   January 27th, 2012 - 3:01 pm

4 more and no one will get rich without gubmnt investment.

snailmailtrucker   January 27th, 2012 - 3:02 pm

Unless they are democraps !

Man bear pig   January 27th, 2012 - 3:02 pm

And he can not help but to tell us the exciting news, as he daydreams about the 08 Obama demi god love fest.

AussieDon   January 27th, 2012 - 3:02 pm

Gingrich, Romney or Santorum plays into Obama hands. It gives him the class war he wants and with his $1 billion campaign of lies he will win.

This can't be another Republican vs Democart fight.

It has to be Liberty, Freedom and the Constitution vs Socialism.

It is a discussion America has to have, but it is a fight 95% of us on here and unite behind and win.

Thinker822   January 27th, 2012 - 3:03 pm

You really do reveal way more than you think about your views of the world…still got your hood?

vegasdomar   January 27th, 2012 - 3:09 pm

One way to invest in government is more confiscation of taxpayer monies. That's what he means folks.
Green Energy==President Obama leaves event promoting clean energy in a motorcade of 22 fossil-fueled vehicles.

Wigglesworth   January 27th, 2012 - 3:09 pm

That moonbat Elizabeth Warren made the same idiotic statement.

ArchonPrime   January 27th, 2012 - 3:10 pm

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BARRY THINKS THAT ALL AMERICANS SCAM THEIR STUDENT LOANS, AND COLLEGE DORMS FEES, AND JOB PLACEMENTS THE WAY THAT HE AND MICHELLE HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE.

sammybull   January 27th, 2012 - 3:14 pm

"Obama: People Don’t Get Rich Without Government Investment"

Wonder no more why his college transcripts will never see the light of day.

BBReggie   January 27th, 2012 - 3:15 pm

He has to be the dumbest smart person I've ever heard of.

Whats_Up   January 27th, 2012 - 3:16 pm

Stalin actually destroyed 2 generations of the young and sent boatloads of others to Siberia.

Why? John Dewey. This @sswipe was allowed in to Russia to re-fab their education system. He destroyed it with the same shlt that has destroyed the USA education system. Stalin thew Dewey out of the country and ensued with his euthanasia. Dewey returned to the USA and with the help of Chomsky and a few other EVIL critters, got his same epic, evil education tactics implemented into the public education system ….and it has been downhill ever since.

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:20 pm

There is only one place this cretin belongs. In a jail cell at Guantanamo.
Military ! Honor Your Oath.
Defend Our Constitution, Not corrupt, on the take Government,
Politicians & The Elite Ruling Criminal Class.

Sic Semper Tyrannis !

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:23 pm

The one problem with Greenspan's' comments is that he never admits to his contributions to the Socialist cause as Federal Reserve Chairman..

Iamwitheileen   January 27th, 2012 - 3:24 pm

"Sound bites" and 'photo ops' for the deaf, dumb and blind…and the inner city plantation slaves.

SO WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS TO COUNTER HIS LIES?

STATES PRESSING THE BIRTH ISSUE FOR 2012 AND BEYOND; GOD BLESS THEM!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...

IS SHERIFF ARPAIO (AZ) FINALLY GETTING TO THE TRUTH…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oLIUT16ko0

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:26 pm

Obama is not ignorant. His commentary is intentional. He is preaching to the lowest percentile and their handlers.
He is the enemy of your freedom and you better do everything in your power to make sure he does not get reelected. To give him short shrift is to make a very serious error.

EricArthurBlair   January 27th, 2012 - 3:28 pm

I guess this incorrigible, un-American Marxist believes that Jan Schakowski's and Elizabeth Warren's socialist claptrap is a winner.

Good luck with that in the general election campaign, Hugo.

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:29 pm

Know This. The University of Michigan would not exist if it were not for Capitalism and individual effort. That is also true of Yale and Harvard and all other universities and colleges . In fact all schools in this nation.
Capitalism Produces all measurable value.
Government produces none.
And Obama produces a net negative,.
Death to Tyrants !

Washington76   January 27th, 2012 - 3:30 pm

Actually, the Federal Reserve was hatched, and the brain child of Progressives. Read about the creature from jekyll island. It is very eye opening.

EricArthurBlair   January 27th, 2012 - 3:31 pm

No, everybody understands what he's saying.

It's just that, unlike useful idiots like you, they just recognize that it's absolute un-American drivel. And the only braindead freaks who swallow it are people like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and losers like you.

Founding_Dad   January 27th, 2012 - 3:31 pm

President Zero talks out of the both sides of his mouth and his ass.

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Are you prepared to defend your foolishness with force of arms? You will need to, if ObamaUberFuhrer is reelected.
Heil Hitler! You little Commie cesspool dweller.
Death to Tyrants !

Leaning_Right   January 27th, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Obamba's and Holder's people had the same access to public education as people who eventually got rich too.

The difference is some people worked hard in school and in their jobs afterward to earn what they have achieved. Obama thinks you should sit on the porch of your government housing and spit the seeds of your government bought watermelon while he takes from those that earned their wealth to give to those that didn't.

45coltauto   January 27th, 2012 - 3:36 pm

When all Socialists swing from a telephone pole by their necks the nation will be saved.

LizardLips   January 27th, 2012 - 3:37 pm

No, moron, people get rich in spite of the government. More proof affirmative action breeds stupidity.

EricArthurBlair   January 27th, 2012 - 3:39 pm

Conservatives don't embrace the world's terrorists and history's worst tyrants, celebrate them on their t-shirts and posters, look to Mao for inspiration, march in the streets demanding the release of cop killers, launch political careers in the homes of terrorists and use the force of government to silence political opposition.

Un-American leftist freaks do that.

Cali4niaPatriot   January 27th, 2012 - 3:42 pm

This is a person that cannot be trusted. Do not applaud this person. Students, get educated.

EricArthurBlair   January 27th, 2012 - 3:43 pm

You're confusing the racist, violent, filthy, un-American, good-for-nothing, parasitic Fleabaggers with the peaceful, patriotic hard-working Tea Partiers.

tiredofdemslies   January 27th, 2012 - 3:44 pm

Notice that he mostly campaigns at colleges or high schools. Says alot doesn't it?

fullmetaltexan   January 27th, 2012 - 3:44 pm

Jimmy Carter is the last democrat president whose mother was not a whore.

tiredofdemslies   January 27th, 2012 - 3:47 pm

These colleges sure do "dumb" people down.

zaire67   January 27th, 2012 - 3:51 pm

Wow, which came first the tax or the income.

Libtard   January 27th, 2012 - 3:52 pm

A ignorant population is far easier to control than an educated one.

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