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 !

Originally Posted by Bucco

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.

Originally Posted by donna2

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 !!!!!

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Donna2

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

Originally Posted by Bucco

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/op...-92316619.html

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

And this is a year old....


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/p...,1573304.story

Originally Posted by Bucco

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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."