we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see
human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims. We don't see people we
want to exploit. What we see -- what we see is potential. We do not look out
across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this
country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don't think that
person doesn't have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or
she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous
taxes, regulations and too much government." This attitude ignores other barriers to success, like substandard wages, debt, and lack of suitable training/education. Also under our current socio-economic system, buisness and labour alike receive welfare, in order to subsidise there earnings. So the government does give grants to people, rich and poor alike. And the biggest "welfare queens" are corporations. "We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. Liberty, Freedom. And the pursuit of happiness. Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault." We non-conservatives also love and revere the Constitution, plus life, liberty, and the "pursuit of happiness", which I like to identify as being livelihood. Ironicly enough we feel that these have been undermined by the supposedly conservative Bush administration. Because of the PATRIOT act, and deficit spending.
"President Obama has the ability -- he has the ability to inspire excellence in
people's pursuits. He has the ability to do all this, yet he pursues a path,
seeks a path that punishes achievement, that punishes earners and punishes --
and he speaks negatively of the country. Ronald Reagan used to speak of a
shining city on a hill. Barack Obama portrays America as a soup kitchen in some
dark night in a corner of America that's very obscure. He's constantly telling
the American people that bad times are ahead, worst times are ahead. And it's
troubling, because this is the United States of America. Anybody ever ask -- I'm
in awe of our country and I ask this question a lot as I've gotten older. We're
less than 300 years old. We are younger than nations that have been on this
planet for thousands of years. We, nevertheless, in less than 300 years -- by
the way, we're no different than any other human beings around the world. Our
DNA is no different. We're not better just because we're born in America.
There's nothing that sets us apart. How did this happen? How did the United
States of America become the world's lone super power, the world's economic
engine, the most prosperous opportunity for an advanced lifestyle that humanity
has ever known? How did this happen? And why pray tell does the President of the
United States want to destroy it? It saddens me. The freedom we spoke of earlier
is the freedom, it's the ambition, it's the desire, the wherewithal, the
passions that people have that gave us the great entrepreneurial advances, the
great inventions, the greatest food production, the human lifestyle advances in
this country. Why shouldn't that be rewarded? Why is that now the focus of
punishment? Why is that now the focus of blame? Why doesn't -- Mayor Bloomberg
the other day, ladies and gentlemen, resisting his Governor's call for an
increased tax on the rich in New York had some astounding numbers. Eight million
people live in New York. 40,000 of those eight million pay roughly 60 to 70% of
New York's operating budget. He was afraid that if he raised taxes on those
people some of them might leave. Mayor, one already has, by the way." As a result of the financial crisis, we are in bad times. The Obama administration is trying to stimilate the economy. While you may not like how he plans on accomplishing this, fiscally, he is being realistic. "President Obama is so busy trying to foment and create anger in a created atmosphere of crisis, he is so busy fueling the emotions of class envy that he's forgotten it's not his money that he's spending. [Applause] In fact, the money he's spending is not ours. He's spending wealth that has yet to be created. And that is not sustainable. It will not work. This has been tried around the world. And every time it's been tried, it's a failed disaster. What's the longest war in American history? Did somebody say the war on poverty? Smart group. War on poverty. The war on poverty essentially started in the '30s as part of the New Deal, but it really ramped up in the '60s with Lyndon Johnson, part of the Great Society war on poverty. We have transferred something like 10 trillion, maybe close to 11 trillion, from producers and earners to nonproducers and nonearners since 1965. Yet, as I listen to the Democratic Party campaign, why, America is still a soup kitchen, the poor is still poor and they have no hope and they're poor for what reason? They're poor because of us, because we don't care, and because we've gotten rich by taking from them, that's what kids in school are taught today. That's what others have said to the media. You know why they're poor, you know why they remain poor? Because their lives have been destroyed by the never-ending government hay that's designed to help them, but it destroys ambition. It destroys the education they might get to learn to be self-fulfilling." Actually it is not your money. The federal government prints, and mints it. So if the government can be in charge of it's production, why can't it also be allowed to control it's distribution? The rest of his remarks are just negative slander that I will not even dignify with a response, except to say that it's not true of me, or of other Democrats as a whole.
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