Marxist Maximus Making Moolah

Capitalism for me, not for thee.

Industrial grade demolition of the Liberal ‘You didn’t build that’ straw man

I’ve seen various rebuttals to Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama’s ridiculous ‘you didn’t built that’ talking point…. but the one proffered by Tigerhawk is by far, in my opinion, the best one to date.  Teaser:

The very argument is disingenuous.Neither mainstream Republicans nor the Tea Party activists who drove the 2010 election are against public roads, public education, police departments, firefighters (Warren) or, even, technology spin-offs from necessary spending on national defense (Obama, re the Internet). There has been a broad national consensus around each of these for between 100 and 200 years (I am sure we all remember that Eli Whitney’s invention of interchangeable parts was in the context of defense spending). To suggest otherwise is to erect and demolish a straw man — an argument your adversary never made — the last and worst tactic of a lawyer with a losing case. As any good law professor knows…

Even if, as a liberal might respond, there are many other examples of government spending that helps “successful” people (in Obama’s expression) or factory builders (in Warren’s), the argument is stilla straw man. The argument today is not between minimal government and Communism. Today government at all levels accounts for 39% of GDP, up from 33% or so during the now halcyon Clinton years. That range defines the mainstream debate — most Republicans would be thrilled to return government’s share of GDP to Clinton-era levels, and most Democrats would be outraged. The range might expand to 46% or so at the high end if one includes the 80-100 Democrats in the House who would fully nationalize health care, and falls to perhaps 30% at the bottom if one includes the most conservative Tea Partiers who would privatize Social Security. But that is the widest possible scope of the disagreement, and under no circumstances does it contemplate that we should do away with roads, police, teachers, firefighters, or national defense. To suggest otherwise, as Warren and Obama have done, is so transparently dishonest that it can only be explained as an attack on “successful” people for political advantage. They noticed.

Nobody argues that “successful” people should not pay more tax than, er, unsuccessful people.

Check it out.  Post for your Facebook liberals.  They may unfriend you.

MC ‘Bama: You didn’t Build That

*snicker*

President Nekkid will have smallest job increase #’s of any modern President

Absolutely devastating.  Share with the Obama parrots when talking about job creation.

Lies, damn lies and Obama talking points.

’94 Tape shows Obama’s hatred of the Middle Class

Revealing rhetoric from Obama during Clinton’s first term.  Juicy tidbit:

Obama argued that the talk of values was empty without social action, and without a vigorous government role: “It’s not easy to live up to your ideals, it requires sacrifice. It may require taxes on the part of the society. It may require that you go without certain luxuries that you become accustomed to.”

Go visit Sweetness & Light.

Excessive Suckcess

The Joy of Sux

Ooooh.  I love it!  The Iowans just pegged out the snark meter.

President Obama received a less than warm welcome and a warning upon arrival at the airport here on the second stop of his Iowa visit, which was aimed at recapturing some of the magic the state gave his run to the White House in 2008.

Greeting Air Force One as it touched down under sunny skies and sultry heat was a hand-painted banner draped across the top of an airplane hangar that reads, “Obama Welcome to SUX – We Did Build This.” “SUX” is the airport code for Sioux City.

The message appeared to be a response President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” remark from a July campaign rally, when he was trying to explain that government – not businesses – constructed public infrastructure on which the economy relies. Republicans have used the four words to attack Obama as out of touch with the realities of owning and operating a small business.

Lovin’ it.

Obama is Toast Marathon V3.14159

It’s Saturday morning… time to smell a little toasted Marxist.

Obama in High Seas:

Let us come to the point. Obama is reaching out to his very own special constituency. It is composed of those who believe that the Republicans would put up as their candidate for the presidency a person who in his business life would engage in fraud, tax evasion, even murder. Mr. Obama is casting his net for the moron vote. I do not believe that there are enough morons out there to reelect him.

University of Virginia declines Obama’s request to speak:

A University of Virginia spokeswoman says President Barack Obama will not be at the university when he comes to Charlottesville on Wednesday.  In a statement released Friday, it was confirmed that the university declined the president’s request to speak at UVA.

Hmmm.  Barry has lost that 2008 feeling.  4 years ago, a university would have jumped through logistical hoops of nightmares to host His Majesty.

Obama likeability declining, trails Romney by 9 in economy.

Obama still leads Romney on most of the personal-quality questions, but those leads have shrunk during the summer.  Most importantly, on the two issues of most import to voters — as found by Gallup in July — Romney has significant leads over Obama.  On the economy, voters trust Romney more than Obama by a nine-point margin, 52/43.  On the federal budget deficit, Romney leads by 15 points, 54/39.  Those two issues came in first and third in July, with the second-place issue of corruption not polled for today’s release.

Hollywood bailing on Obama and Democratic convention.

And it seems the majority of Clooney’s high-powered Hollywood counterparts are also passing on the 2012 convention – a far cry from 2008’s showdown in Denver, Colorado which attracted dozens of A-listers including Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Silverman, Fallout Boy, John Legend, Cyndi Lauper, Ashanti, Fran Drescher, Ashley Judd, Rage Against the Machine, Aisha Tyler, Anne Hathaway, Susan Sarandon, Jon Hamm, Cash Warren, Jessica Alba, Fergie, Will.i.am, Kanye West, Matthew Modine, Kerry Washington, Stevie Wonder, Rosario Dawson, Jennifer Hudson, Shawn Johnson, Forest Whitaker, Star Jones, Wilmer Valderama, Daniel Dae Kim, Kelly Hu, Jamie Foxx, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Chevy Chase,  Richard Dreyfuss, Melissa Etheridge and Pharrell Williams.

Just to name a few.

We reached out to reps for all of the above in an attempt to find out if these stars would be attending the DNC again this year. A majority did not respond, but of those who did, few will be making a return trip.

Looks like Obama’s box office numbers put him in the flop category with Hollywood.

Romney on the rise.

First, and unpredictably, the pick strengthened Romney’s support among seniors. It was thought Ryan’s budgetary plans for Medicare would frighten seniors, but Romney spent a week hammering home that under his plan Medicare would not change for anyone over 55 — whereas Obama had already stripped $716 billion from Medicare to pay for other aspects of ObamaCare.In Florida, to take the most potent example, Romney’s support among the elderly has boomed.Then there’s the effect of the pick on Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. There has been a surge toward Romney since the Ryan pick, and the state is now generally considered a toss-up. On June 11, Obama was up by 4.4 points in the RCP average; as of today, that’s 1.4 points.

In a very close race, Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes — votes that electoral-college fanatics playing with all kinds of scenarios to get Romney to the 270 he needs to win have consistently assigned to Obama — could be decisive.

Even more telling is what Wisconsin polls suggest about Obama’s standing nationwide. If things go badly for him in the fall, Wisconsin will have been the great harbinger, beginning in 2010.

Economic Model Predicts Romney Landslide?

The forecast was made by two professors at the University of Colorado who used economic data and unemployment figures from each state to predict a Republican win come November.Political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry’s study predicts 218 electoral votes for President Barack Obama and 320 for Republican Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence.

WE are building it, Mr. President.

Mr. President, you owe my family and every small business person in this country an apology. It’s time to wipe that wise ass smirk off your face and stop insulting us and begin to work to get this country going again. I’ve even got a suggestion for you that might help you get our economy going again. Hire some people who have actually started and run a small business successfully. Now I realize you don’t know any people like that so just give me a call. I can provide the names of hundreds of folks who know what it takes to make a profit. Okay, I know you are thinking “profit”, what is this guy talking about? Mr. President, that’s the left-over part of our sales that you and your friends tax so you can get your paycheck. Okay, I know that’s a little complicated. Let’s try this one: think of the relationship of a parasite to a host. Business people are the hosts.

Good one, go read all of it.

Oklahoma:

Texas:

The Amazon Election Heat Map…. is red hot!

57% of books sold are ‘red’ books…. 43% are blue…like poor sad Barry.

Hundred’s of Ohio Coal Miners stand in line to see Romney:

Just like the Chik-Fil-A entrance poll on National Chil-Fil-A-Palooza, this long line doesn’t bode well for Sir Lies-A-Lot.

Not the Behavior of a Winning Campaign.

Hysteria creeps into campaigns when the campaigns know they are losing. When George H. W. Bush saw the election slipping away in 1992, he took to referring to Bill Clinton and Al Gore as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. The invective went up as his poll numbers went down.Barack Obama and the Democrats are going to throw in the towel on the tradition of sitting on the sidelines during their opponent’s political convention. In the past, the parties did this with each other. Not now. The Obama campaign cannot afford to. It is too close and polling is about to shift from registered voters to likely voters, which will generate negative numbers for him. He must surrender another tradition to engage in more hyper partisan mudslinging because he is losing.More and more polls are showing Mitt Romney trending upwards in swing states. More and more polls are showing Americans growing more pessimistic about the economy. More and more economists are starting to worry about the economy. Gas prices and milk prices are going up while take home pay is going down.

>snip<

And that gets us back to the media. At what point will they finally start asking if Barack Obama needs a campaign shake up? Because if it was Mitt Romney in the same boat, they sure as hell would. In fact, there have already been two different media cycles about Romney needing a campaign shake up and not one about Barack Obama.Why? The simple truth remains the vast majority of the media is more sympathetic to and friendly with Team Obama and would hate to ruffle the feathers of friends. It’s one of the greatest thing Mitt Romney has going for him right now.

One comment about Eric’s last sentence: BINGO!  I’ve had numerous discussions with people on the right fretting about the MSM bias and I’ve repeatedly had to remind them that we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in media power.   2008 was the last election where the MSM could cover for the Democrats.  In 2010, it shifted and now it has become a liability for the Dems.

Don’t believe me?  Ask Debbie Wasserman-Shultz how her last couple of outings with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper went.  On CNN.  Alternate media has attained a critical mass and the Dems are going to learn how to play defense on a national level now.

Small Biz Owner Punches Twices As Hard. Two Times!

Sign seen in Boca Raton, Fl:

Yes, Barry, you built this backlash!

Boiling down ‘You didn’t build that’ to its bare essence: John Galt nods approval.

Rant of the Month courtesy of Ace via Doug Ross. Rant on, brother:

As a small business owner all I can say is that I think the current sentiment in the small business community is that we didn’t sign up for this ****. Y’all can vote for whatever the hell you want but we are not going to be a part of it.

I have seen more owners get out of the business or retire in the past couple of years than ever before and with the ACA on the horizon the jobs these businesses produced will not be replaced. The economics no longer work. This is why unemployment is always so high in socialist countries. What you have to go through to have employees is just brutal.

But here’s the thing about what Obama said — he has it exactly backwards. The government didn’t build any of that **** he is talking about — we built it. We are the ones who paid for it. Not only did we build our businesses we built the schools and the roads and everything else he thinks was generated out of thin air. If you want to get technical about it the businesses and taxpayers that came along before we did built it all and now we are building what comes next.

And not only that, but we did it with the albatross of a predatory, corrupt and overbearing government hanging around our necks at every juncture.

And now we have had enough.

I haven’t made more than $50k from my business but one or two years of the past 15. But now that it is time to cash out after providing literally hundreds of jobs I get the stink eye and get castigated for being a member of the 1%. Even though I can remember sitting on the edge of the bed and holding my head in my hands wondering what I had done risking everything I had to create a business and wondering how it would all work out when I had just finished working several days in a row with no sleep… I am the enemy. Even though I didn’t take a paycheck for the first year of the business and later skipped other paychecks to meet payroll or to pay taxes I am somehow at fault for the fact that all of these people sitting on their asses or working their cushy government jobs with the large pensions funded by armies of tax collectors and regulators may have to go without.

Well, I already went without so they can bloody well shut the **** up and take their turn in the barrel! If they want to risk everything they have or work their asses off with no guarantee of success only to be told at the end that they were not responsible for their own success and don’t deserve their rewards then they are welcome to go down that path and see what it is like. But the number of people who will pursue the American dream and build the economy from the roots up will be greatly decreased in the current atmosphere and all of these self-entitled idiots will sit around wondering why the government is still going broke and why no one is hiring.

No country can survive socialism. It just doesn’t happen. Sooner or later the bill comes due. But before it does you always get demagogic idiots like Obama, or Chavez who try to blame their failures on the only people who are keeping everything afloat. It is not enough they sank the damn ship… they have to come after the people in the life boats too.

That is the sort of mentality we are dealing with.

Couldn’t add anything to that if my life depended upon it.  Excellent rant.  Sheer coincidence that my preceding post is about George McGovern getting mugged by business reality.  Karma, it is.