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Chicago street gangs exhort protection money from neighborhood businesses. The businesses cannot be successful on their own, Gangster Disciples provide a “peaceful” environment.

bayview on July 17, 2012 at 2:46 PM

It’s called “The Chicago Way”.

GarandFan on July 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM

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This pretty well covers the topic of the thinly veiled, shakedown threat aspect of this particular remark by the SCOAMF.

And this piece by Brit Hume says everthing else:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/16/brit_hume_on_obamas_view_of_business_explains_nearly_everything.html

BRIT HUME: It is fair to say that we know more tonight than we ever have about the president’s view of business and the economy. His assertion over the weekend that, ‘If you got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen’ explains nearly everything. He wasn’t talking about God, he was talking about government.

Here is a man that believes not just that the government provided framework of roads, bridges, defense and law enforcement helps the private sector. He believes these things are are the nerve center, the driving force. More important than any individual, talent, enterprise or initiative. As he put it: ‘There are a lot of smart people out.’ As for diligence: ‘There are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.’ Success? ‘You didn’t get there on your own.’

This is a view that successful businessmen, women are merely the ones who did better at taking advantage of the benefits that government has bestowed. Therefore, he thinks they should be glad to pay an even greater share of federal taxes than they do. He calls that, ‘giving back,’ as if the government conferred all that they have and they shouldn’t mind returning a bit more of it where it came from.

This explains why so much stimulus money was spent to protect government and why his legislation on healthcare and financial reform involved extending the reach and power of, you guessed it, government.

By far the best speech I’ve heard from Mitt Romney. Hope he keeps it up.

“I could really care less about Obama,” Donnie Box says of President Obama, according to In These Times. “I think Obama is a jerk, a pantywaist, a lightweight, a blowhard. He hasn’t done a g^ddamn thing that he said he would do. When he had a Democratic Senate and Democratic Congress, he didn’t do a damn thing. He doesn’t have the guts to say what’s on his mind.”

Box, In These Times reports, won’t be voting for Obama.

Here’s the pro-Obama, anti-Bain Capital ad Box appeared in:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/star-pro-obama-super-pac-ad-unleashed-obama-jerk-pantywaist-lightweight-blowhard_648688.html

Plain and simple – Businesses succeed DESPITE government, not BECAUSE of government.

dentarthurdent on July 17, 2012 at 3:43 PM

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” -Ronald Reagan

http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/07/obama-you-are-nothing-without.html

M2RB: Olive

we’re all using the same infrastructure, no?

g2825m on July 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Haven’t seen a transcript of it yet, but here’s some tweets about it.

Flora Duh on July 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM

taken away for a minute. Thanks for those tweets!

Flora Duh on July 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM”

Certainly looks like Mitt is hitting his stride with this speech, hope he keeps it up.

I quote:

Because at that moment, when someone who took a high risk and failed asks for others to share the loss, liberals have a sudden moment of piercing clarity about whose decision to go into risky business it was, and who actually fully owns the failure. Funny, that.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/331057.php

people will follow a VISION!

Obama WANTS to win!!

ROMNEY wants a Vacay!!!!

MCCAIN 2!!!!!

American Conservatives………disaster is waiting…..if MITT doesn’t SHOW HE WANTS TO WIN and will do what it takes.

God help us!!!!

I’m planning to get myself a gun,something I have no knowledge about .
But I will get it before Barack Hussein Odinga Obama burns this country down

burrata on July 17, 2012 at 3:50 PM

Go to the next gun show in your area. Gun dealers and the crowds at the shows are the nicest people, and they can help you out. Even if you don’t buy anything, it’s a unique slice of America that everyone should see.

Speaking of Bain and Little Debbie’s incessant remarks about Romney’s “secrets,” lookie what the Shark Tank discovered:

Wasserman Schultz Has Unreported Second Home in NH

Flora Duh on July 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM

Is little Debbie a felon?

I’m not sayin’ anything–just sayin’.