How much should it be ?

[Guest]

This quote from our President yesterday...

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."


Sir, you made over 5 million dollars last year...Sir, who are you to cap the salaries of ANYONE in this country. What kind of person can say this ?

You might as well just shot anyone with any motivation or goals. Those folks who are raking in as federal government employees, and last I heard the AVERAGE was making well over one hundred thousand a year ($100,000.00), because when HE thinks you made enough, its over !

[Guest]

This quote from our President yesterday...

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."


Sir, you made over 5 million dollars last year...Sir, who are you to cap the salaries of ANYONE in this country. What kind of person can say this ?

You might as well just shot anyone with any motivation or goals. Those folks who are raking in as federal government employees, and last I heard the AVERAGE was making well over one hundred thousand a year ($100,000.00), because when HE thinks you made enough, its over !

This guy is an embarrassment to our free enterprise society. I am so sick of seeing him on TV. Talk about over-exposure.

[Guest]

this guy is an embarrassment to our free enterprise society. I am so sick of seeing him on tv. Talk about over-exposure.

over exposure ....

Except...

For a news conference !!!!!

[Guest]

I started a post asking why people why they think immigrants risk their lives and risk arrest to come to this country. They come here because our system is better than where they are escaping from. They come here for freedom. For liberty. To work for a better life and with hopes and dreams of a better life for their children. People complain about wages and how bad things are here for the "poor" and how bad our social services are by not offering better healthcare. Our poverty, minimum wage and government healthcare are a fortune and a dream to others. They don't come to be oppressed by government controls and told they have made enough money. Attitudes of how bad we have it here in America and what we "deserve" soon becomes generational attitudes. We are suppose to work for ourselves and to better ourselves and our children. Obama wants us to be a nation that works for the government and to be told how much we should make and give back to the government. That isn't what made this country a place that made people risk their lives to come here.

[Guest]

This person whom occupies the White House needs to be impeached for just cause. The entire country cannot be this dumb, I just cannot believe that all his lies, alibis, and excuses are allowed and swallowed up by a majority of the people. Are we really suffering at the hands of our parents now? Do the majority of young people in this country buy the b.s. this administration is selling? Are we all that dumb? Remember the book a few years ago, "The Dumbing Down Of America?" Have we reached that point? God forgive and protect us.

[Guest]

This guy is an embarrassment to our free enterprise society. I am so sick of seeing him on TV. Talk about over-exposure.

He is a danger.

Yoda

[Guest]

This quote from our President yesterday...

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."


Sir, you made over 5 million dollars last year...Sir, who are you to cap the salaries of ANYONE in this country. What kind of person can say this ?

You might as well just shot anyone with any motivation or goals. Those folks who are raking in as federal government employees, and last I heard the AVERAGE was making well over one hundred thousand a year ($100,000.00), because when HE thinks you made enough, its over !

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Want-to-get-rich_-Work-for-feds-92316619.html

[Guest]

I wonder if his buddy, George Soros, thinks he has earned enough. What about Al Bore.

[Guest]

And this is a year old....


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-white-house-wealthapr09,0,1573304.story

[Guest]

This quote from our President yesterday...

"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."


Sir, you made over 5 million dollars last year...Sir, who are you to cap the salaries of ANYONE in this country. What kind of person can say this ?

You might as well just shot anyone with any motivation or goals. Those folks who are raking in as federal government employees, and last I heard the AVERAGE was making well over one hundred thousand a year ($100,000.00), because when HE thinks you made enough, its over !

I am not sure how you go there....Has anyone proposed a salary cap or freeze?

The last time I can remember a wage freeze was under President Nixon.

[Guest]

I Googled the phrase and, so far, all I've seen is that exact line with no context around it except to say that it was during a speech in Quincy, IL.

If it's in the context of Wall Street executives paying themselves bonuses while their firms are bailed out, then I'd agree with him.

If it's in the context of people starting up businesses and making successes of themselves, the I disagree with him.

If, for example, the entire quote was "If you're taking taxpayer handouts then, I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money" - I can COMPLETELY agree with that.

I'm most anxious to see "the rest of the story". This could be very telling.

[Guest]

Ok, I found a little more:

From: http://www.educationnews.org/political/90399.html


PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Now, what we’re doing, I want to be clear, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."


So, as I suspected, he's clearly talking about Wall Street.

So go ahead. Defend the billions in bonuses for the bailed out firms. Isn't this the same forum that excoriated the President for NOT preventing the bonuses - for allowing the TARP funds to going out without enough strings attached?

[Guest]

It is not the job of a POTUS to judge what a citizen can earn. Period. This is an example of the things he really means when he goes off his teleprompter.

[Guest]

Progressive response seems to prove they are in denial about what Obama is up to. Either that or they agree with Obama and want big government along with small private sector and another Greece in America.

[Guest]

I can't remember where, but I remember posting somewhere in a thread about how bailed-out firms were defending their bonuses - saying they needed them to attract the talented..

I said words to the effect of "Oh, the talented people who ran it all into the ground? Hire someone off the street for less than 1% of that money and you can still have that kind of performance."

[Guest]

POTUS says we can earn 5million per year, he did.

I think anything more than 1 trillion per year salary is obsene. Tax anything over that at 50%

Yoda

[Guest]

Let me try and put this into perspective since I began this thread....

The President of the United states says this week "I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."

The President of the United States made over 5 million dollars last year.

I frankly do not care who he was talking to....if he is telling those on Wall St that they made enough money, when does he talk about those in Hollywood and what they make...tv stars and their salaries and athletes and their pay.

He already told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to spread around his money...A plumber !!!

I realize that those on Wall St had a hand in our financial woes, but until someone shows me that they did something illegal, what does their income have to do with it.

When does he talk about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives that earned just a bit more than the President did...about 6 million !! Oh,they dont count...oh, and he and the Dems pushed aside a Republican attempt to add to this financial reform bill a revision of those agencies.

This President has an agenda....stay tuned as he progresses on his way.

Those of you who feel it was appropriate for Wall st why is this attitude not aimed at others....and you will return to what he (the President) is telling you and ignore the rising federal payroll....the salaries earned at Freddie and Fannie...why does the Plumber need to spread his money around but just keep raising the federal payroll for one...oh, are they union...hmmmm !

[Guest]

Good perspective Bucco. Today, I was trying to explain your post to my husband and told him about some of the comments here about the post. We put it in our own perspective by putting Obama's comment to the Kentucky Derby.

We were scarastically complaining about how much the winner of the Kentucky Derby makes. We sorta role-played-argued like Progressives about how unfair it is for someone to make that much money by simply owning a horse. One race!! Do you know how much they pay that winning jockey for winning one race!! Then the money that horse can make for breeding! The Progressive rationalized pretend discussion went from the sickening wealth of the show-offs at the Derby to the how the people who make the odds are as bad as the dirty bad boys at Wall Street.
And then someone is making money by people placing beats on the Derby horses!!

See how ridiculous it gets? You can make the same pretend argument for Hollywood and any number of professions. It takes the focus off the real issue. Not how much money someone makes; but how much control someone can get of the entire free enterprise system and people's freedoms, prosperity and liberties.

When did prosperity become bad?

[Guest]

The only "bailout" that should have even been considered would have been the kind that dismantled the sick corporation in the first place. Not what we got that basically allowed then to continue on the same as always (with a merger here and there for 'show')