To all the conservatives out there who keep posting your
idiotic comments on my FB page:
You’re taking everything out of context and running with
them and at the same time complaining that the Democrats are doing the
same. Obama’s recent statement about entrepeneurs
not getting where they are by themselves was from the middle of a campaign
speech about how we all have to rely on one another. In other words, in case you missed the rest
of the speech (or didn't understand it), a business owner wouldn’t have any goods to sell unless someone
made them or grew them. They wouldn’t be
delivered without a truck. The truck
wouldn’t exist without someone to build it, the truck wouldn’t go anywhere if
there wasn’t someone to drive it, and he couldn’t drive it unless there was
someone to build the road. So they
weren’t successful all by themselves, they relied on a lot of other people to
get them where they are.
And for all you conservatives who think that government
stimulus or “hand outs” as you call them, are so bad, let me tell you a true
story, a personal American history story.
My grandfather owned a warehouse in the 1920’s, storing personal
belongings of the wealthy and overstock from companies. When the stock market crashed in ’29 many
people pulled their storage or just left it there and didn’t pay their
bills. He eventually went broke and was
unemployed for years. The week that my
aunt Germaine was born in 1939 he made $5 doing odd jobs. But he took advantage of FDR’s work programs
and took a free course in sheet metal working which led him to a job at
Bethlehem Steel, and then eventually to the Staten Island shipyards. Stimulus works, and it always has. Get off your damn high horses. If YOU were in that position you wouldn't be complaining about those "hand outs".
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