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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on August 01, 2012, 01:35:47 PM
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One of you Georgia boys needs to buy this guy a couple beers for me! Send me the bill...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/01/georgia-businessman-posts-sign-after-didnt-build-that-debate/
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I approve that message as well ! ;D
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From BHO's speach
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," the president said at a campaign stop last month in Roanoke, Va.. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life," he continued. "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
The fact that he seems to be missing is that EVERYONE has all that help available. Not everyone can put it to the same advantage as someone who builds a successful business...the difference is what those individuals do put into it.
And just because they are able to make it a success doesn't obligate them to give extra help anyone who is not able.
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The whole mess about his "you didn't build that!" statement is that he actually stole the idea from the dumbocrat running against Brown here in MA. It was a speech Warren gave somewhere in Boston recently. Obama stole it and then proceeded to f..k up the delivery so badly because he was speaking without his magic teleprompters.
The message was the same from Warren though just more eloquently (albeit incorrectly) stated in her speech. Her version ended with "you folks that build businesses need to pay it forward!" and send a big chunk of your profits to the treasury!
Further investigations revealed that Warren stole the speech from a liberal, progressive, Berkley prof named George Lakoff!
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You didn't write that speech....someone else did ;D
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You didn't write that speech....someone else did ;D
;D
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Cool. :D
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Think it through.
Even his later claim that he was talking about infrastructure is BS.
The only Govt. entity that builds anything is the Corps of Engineers, and if you listen to the pissing and moaning from New Orleans, they usually screw it up.
Every single one of those things BO mentioned, roads, bridges, railroads, were originally built by private parties.
Even later when Govt. assistance played a role as with the highway system, the work was done by private companies and govt interference proved to be more hindrance than help.
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Some years back, a news station put some hidden cameras near a highway work site on the Mass pike somewhere. During the week long surveillance, they determined that the crew worked for about 45 minutes of a 10 hour shift on average.
Government assistance is an oxymoron...
Another instance when an overpass in Fall River was dropping huge chunks of concrete onto I195 they determined that the bridge hadn't been inspected in nearly 40 years. The city thought it was the counties responsibility, the county thought it was the states and the state thought it was the cities. It prompted the governor to order the immediate inspection of every bridge over every road, river, train track, etc..in the entire state! A project that cost the state a billion dollars.
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I remember that.
I don't remember what year it was, but I remember hearing about it.
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I remember that.
As I remember it, that part of the highway is directly below the city hall complex of Fall River. It's a 1/4 mile long tunnel through the center of the city just south of the Braga where the USS Massachusetts is docked!
Fitting and ironic that it was directly below the asses of the boneheads in charge!
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This thing still ticks me off. ok so yes, I had people teach me stuff, but I learned alot of it in the school of hard knocks. Now to the pay it forward deal, I don't know a small biz owner that is not more then willing to help up a start up or some one that wants to start up. Even if they are in direct compotion. we are always more then happy to offer advice or help you jump thru the hoops. ( assuming we have the time and you are not a dick) just don't expect us to open our wallets and dump start up money in your lap.
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I've seen the same thing, mechanics, construction, hardware stores, you name it, "I can't help you with that, but Joe Smith may be able to"
Around here the roads BO is taking credit for were cut by the people moving into new areas, that includes the highways that up here at least were laid along the general course of existing roads.
All those "Scenic covered bridges" were built by the people who wanted to be able to cross the stream dry.
Concord Bridge was built by the citizens of Concord Mass.
Govt. didn't have crap to do with it.
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Tom don't forget about the golden gate. the bond was thousands of homes put up by the owners. that would never happen now.
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Tom don't forget about the golden gate. the bond was thousands of homes put up by the owners. that would never happen now.
The mentality of the population has changed from "We've got to", to "The Govt. has to".
And then they complain about Govt intrusion in their lives.
They invited it.
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You guys might remember my 1911 micarta grips thread. It was a pure moment of inspiration that made me come up with the idea and the process to make them:
(http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/gryphon1994/7539a896.jpg)
granted everything is still very much in the prototype stages, but...
The goverment didn't help me with that.
I had to make a mould. I welded one up. Now, somebody had taught me how to stick weld years ago, because they got paid to. But I bought a wire welder and taught myself how to mig.
Government didn't help me with that either.
I have to revert back to my Gordon Gekko "greed is good! " speech. Money is an excellent motivator.
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This thing still ticks me off. ok so yes, I had people teach me stuff, but I learned alot of it in the school of hard knocks. Now to the pay it forward deal, I don't know a small biz owner that is not more then willing to help up a start up or some one that wants to start up. Even if they are in direct compotion. we are always more then happy to offer advice or help you jump thru the hoops. ( assuming we have the time and you are not a dick) just don't expect us to open our wallets and dump start up money in your lap.
I really don't tihnk the gov. intends to use any of the money "payed forward" to assist a single business get started. I suspect it will be use to continue to support those who aren't near interested in starting any business of their own.
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I really don't tihnk the gov. intends to use any of the money "payed forward" to assist a single business get started. I suspect it will be use to continue to support those who aren't near interested in starting any business of their own.
Or working for any one else's either.
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I'm up in North GA but I know guys that are headed his way to give him some business.