President Obama in Chicago: Let‘s Go ’Forward‘ to a Future of ’Shared’ Prosperity
- Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:59am by
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President Obama on Sunday asked a group of enthusiastic supporters at a fundraiser in Chicago whether they’d rather “go forward” and experience a future of “shared prosperity” or backward and support the “policies that got us into this mess in the first place.”
“Too many folks still don’t have a sense that tomorrow will be better than today. And so, the question in this election is which way do we go?” President Obama asked.
“Do we go forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared? Or do we go backward to the same policies that got us in the mess in the first place?” he added.
“I believe we have to go forward,” the president said. “I believe we have to keep working to create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try.”
“That‘s what’s at stake in November. That’s what is why I am running for a second term as president of the United States of America,” he added.
Does any of this sound familiar? It should. This isn’t the first time the president has talked about “sharing the wealth.” Remember back in 2008 when President Obama was caught off guard by Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (aka. “Joe the Plumber”)?
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Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:29pmSo, the productive members of society share their hard earned wealth with the unproductive members of society. What do the unproductive members share with the productive members…other than misery?
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:43pm“Shared Prosperity” appeals to lazy and uninspired CHILDREN, children of gratuitous and permissive parents. It inspires laziness and a lack of work ethic.
Report Post »We do reap what we sow.
Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:43pmVenereal Disease?
Guest appearances on Cops and dirty wifebeaters?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:52pmOK, you have me there Roth! LOL :-)
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:04pmBefore the election: shared prosperity
Report Post »After the election: shared sacrifice
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:07pmJust don’t share the workload or the responsibility or the risk…………does anybody else have a problem with a person who weighs 350 pounds on foodstamps ??? I see it all the time, I saw it again yesterday…….unreal, massive gorillas on foodstamps………I’m damn sick and tired of it, do any ******actually pay for their own groceries at all anymore ???
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:09pmGo to downtown Detroit mr Obama…….look at what fifty years of democrat control has done to my hometown…..I dare you…..
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:12pmI wonder if obama has seen the number of MURDERS IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR… ME THINKS ITS OVER 300 ALREADY… this is bad, and yet obama touts chicago as doing well… WERE FING BROKE, sir…. we are raising taxes to try to pay bills that we cannot…. the infrastructure is about to fall apart… the bridges are made of more rust than metal….. WERE FIRING POLICE TO TRY TO MAKE ENDS MEET….. WERE CLOSING INNER CITY SCHOOLS WE CANNOT AFFORD…… ….. …… …… …. AND YOU ASS HOLES SHOOT OFF FIREWORKS TWICE A WEEK AT NAVY PEIR…. AND PLANT THOUSANDS OF FLOWERS ALL SUMMER… AND PISS AWAY SO MUCH MONEY…. what is wrong with you RAHM…. AND OBAMA….. look up this CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE….. ONCE MORE, FARRAKHAN STEPS INTO THE BREACH, tribune aug 7 2012…..
Report Post »mersey
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:37pmShared prosperity, huh? Now why would anyone think Obama is a Marxist Socialist? Beats me.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:44pmThat doesn’t sound FORWARD. That sounds like taking away “the right to pursue happiness.” If people allow this, then life and liberty will likely soon follow. The only rights would be whatever the dictators say they are at the time and even they will be ignored by the government just as every totalitarian state does. This is very, very BACKWARDS.
Report Post »Stay on the Obama bandwagon, Hollywood! Share or give up your mansions and your huge paychecks, your cars, your yachts, your private jets… Who will repair them when they need it? Why? Free stuff for everyone, why work if everyone gets the same share. Isn’t this what the pilgrims tried and they realized it was a terribly bad idea as they were starving? But… they shared the starvation too. Let’s all take a giant leap backwards for mankind, far beyond the Revolutionary War – it’s a giant leap 600 years backwards.
Hey, Obama, your idea of moving forward to progress is our idea of going backwards and regressing. So, Obama, LET’S NOT!
starman70
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:44pmObama’s version of “Shared Prosperity” is the save as expounded by Carl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot and the lovely and prosperous land of North Korea.
The trouble is that he and his blind idiots have yet to figure out that SOCIALISM DOESN’T WORK!!! Why did the Soviet Union fail? Remember the old saying of the workers in the old USSR:
Report Post »THE GOVERNMENT PRETENDS TO PAY US AND WE PRETEND TO WORK!
mersey
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:45pmMr. Obama, shouldn’t you be leading by example? Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars in lying campaign ads, wouldn’t that money be better used by feeding the poor and helping us poor souls in the middle class? Me thinks you speak with a forked tongue.
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:17pmsluggish as that experienced during the President George W. Bush years used in this analysis, even before the recession set in, was Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Note that Mr. Burtless did not compare the growth during the terms of George H.W. Bush or Jimmy Carter as each served but one term.) Each and every one of these two-timers, except Eisenhower, had double digit job growth compared to either 4.5 percent or 7 percent for George W. Bush, depending on which measuring tool you prefer to use.
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So what does this data tell us?
For starters, given that all of these two-term presidents experienced better job growth without the assistance of the massive tax cuts for the wealthy provided by President George W. Bush, it certainly seems fair to note that a certain amount of job growth would have come during the years George W. was president—whether he had given us the tax cuts or not.
And if one feels the need to argue that tax cuts are the great driver of employment, the comparative numbers presented make it shockingly clear that these tax benefits to the wealthy do little to nothing to even keep up with the employment increases under all of the other two term presidents of the modern era, with the exception of poor old Ike.
Nobody likes to pay taxes. We can—and will—have more endless debates over whether we should r
Report Post »EspaldaMojada
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:31pmTake us back to the good ole days.
If it was a choice, I‘d say let’s go back and regain my lost personal wealth, get rehired, see unemployment drop 3-5%, remove 5 trillion in debt. Yah. Let’s go back
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:07pmSo Obama… can see Possible Futures… and Weave a Path to the Best? That is why he is the Richest Man on Earth!
Report Post »designbyinspiration
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:08pmNo thank you, Marxist-in-chief. I’ll not participate in stealing from people because they were successful. I’d rather OWN my prosperity and meet it out on my own convictions and compassion.
Tempting… But no.
Thanks again for a great ‘hands-on’ lesson on the dangers to our Constitution. I believe you have been recompensed for your tenure teaching from the White house. Enjoy your retirement after Nov.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:54pmSharing the prosperity is wonderful………….if you are a welfare grubbin,crack smokin FOODSTAMPER…..he’ll yeah, lemme sleep til noon,drink some malt liquor , put on my air Jordan’s and walk to the mail box to see if the welfare check has arrived on time…..”.. Hey Barack, who is really the group NOT paying their FAIR SHARE ??????? Welfare FOODSTAMPERS…”….THAT’S WHO…..
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:59pm“Shared prosperity” sounds like something Goebbels would have said. This president we have now is getting more scary nearly every time he shows up anywhere and makes any kind of statement. Shared prosperity is not possible, only the opportunity for prosperity is. Obama shows his socialist roots ones again.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:21pmSharing prosperity with crack head FOODSTAMPERS …..yeah that’s the ticket……I say drug test them and force them to show up at 8 am every day, to dig ditches to NOWHERE for 8 hours a day, that alone would drop the rolls by 75%………I’m done sharing the prosperity with lazy worthless democrats…..
Report Post »Ramrod64
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:16pmWonder how much of that stim. and bailout went into a swiss account for barry and pork chop just incase he kick out by the people of this country in Nov 6?????
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:41amWHAT GONZO SAID. How about let’s go forward with SHARED RESPONSIBLITY? SHARED WORK?
Report Post »SHARED ACHIEVEMENT? SHARED RISK-TAKING, SHARED GUTS… before there is any sharing.
Obama, you are a totally brainwashed punk kid trying to pretend he’s something bigger than a community organizer. THIS IS ONE COMMUNITY YOU will NEVER organize.
PS What happened to your LAW LICENSE? And MICHELLE’S? I don‘t know of any people who’ve been forced to give up their law licenses except Billy Clinton. WHAT DID YOU AND MICHELLE to that made the Illinois Bar force you to give up your licenses??? Start at the beginning. We want to know.
Randbo
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 11:18pmRun for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Report Post »James
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:22pmmarxist
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:53pmAt the very least he is a marxist, I believe that a very strong argument can be made that the man is a communist. His comments and actions over and over again reflect his true beliefs. Whether its his comment about business owners not being responsible for creating their own businesses or his belief that it is the responsibility of the federal government to fund the businesses he deems fit like solyndra and lightsquared and to try and bankrupt those that he doesn’t, like the coal and oil industry, he reveals his true beliefs and they are not in line with our constitution. He preaches about SHARED prosperity but when was the last time you heard him talk about INDIVIDUAL liberty and responsibility? You haven‘t because he doesn’t believe in those things, what he believes in is COLLECTIVE salvation and spreading the wealth around. So if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…..
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:16pmIt’s not prosperity that Obama wants to share, It’s poverty that Obama wnats to shares. You don’t bring the bottom earners and slackers up by stealing from the middle and upper earners. This only serves to bring society down. Of course a society becoming more depended on the government has always been the true goal of the progressives. They somehow thinbk society will give up all rights if it totally depended on government.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:12pmGOD help America if he gets another term! We will all be required to learn and sing, “President Obama, MMM – MMM – MMM. That will become the National Anthem.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:22pm…
Report Post »Future of “shared prosperity”? Mr. Obama, what you really mean is, steal from the hard workers and give to the lazy bums.
Obama’s new campaign slogan should be “Bend Forward”.
Tigress1
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:04pmLol! :)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:22pmForward to shared prosparity: COMMUNISM across the board under Obama
Report Post »redhen
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:14pmThe Titanic was moving forward. Then it sank.
Report Post »Sometimes a course correction is the smart thing to do.
Obama Been Lauding
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 6:56am“Forward” is a code-word for Progressing. He is a “Progressive”!!!
Report Post »His first code-word was “Change”!!!
Obama wants to change the USA, to a Progressive—Socialist state.
Look at where he came from, how he was brought up, who his friends are and were, what he says, what he does, etc. There is only one conclusion—-he is not in favor of the Constitution of the USA!!!
thechristianrepublic.com
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:21pmSomeone needs to create the Marxist dictionary so people can understand exactly what he means by “Shared Prosperity” because remember if you have a business “You didn’t build that”. Remarkable how people can’t see through the face of Obama into the soul of Obama. He is a man who thinks it’s his purpose to make America average! I WANT TO KEEP MAKING AMERICA THE EXCEPTION! Who’s with me!!!
Report Post »Edohiguma
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:19pm“Shared prosperity” works so well in Europe. It totally does! Just look at it. Every country there is effectively bankrupt. Yes, even the rich ones like Germany and Austria. The German national debt is way above 2 trillion Euro (that’s the official debt, the real one is way above 7). The Austrian national debt went from 70% of the GDP to 80% within just one year. In Germany the completely out of control welfare state eats up 50% of the annual budget (and adds even more debt.) There are people in those countries, an ever growing number, who say openly “Why work?”
You can get more money from the government in Germany and Austria with not working than by actually going to work 40 hours a week.
Meanwhile taxes there are through the roof. Income tax up to 50% of your salary in Austria (49% in Germany), VAT up to 20% in AUT (19% in GER). Fuel prices are through the roof as well, thanks to more than 50% of the price being actual taxes and that’s not counting the VAT (which for fuel is 20% in Austria.) And this isn’t even counting all the other taxes and fees one has to pay.
Today the Germans don’t even know whether their gold reserves (which are not stored in Germany, of course) still exist or not. The last time anyone has seen those was in 2007.
Working as planned, if the plan is complete destruction. And Obama wants exactly such a system.
Nobama 2012.
PS the EU is “saving” the Euro with money that nobody has, creating more debt for everyone & destroying
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:29pmThis is just a classic demonstration of exactly why we do NOT want to give these crooks any more of our money. We must force them to cut government and their spending. Even if we must get real nasty about it and vote them out!
Report Post »Actually I have a far better idea about what we should do, but it would seriously upset the Blaze editors not to mention the Trolls.
Edohiguma
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:31pmAnd btw, income tax at 50% in Austria starts at making 60,000 Euro per year. That’s 60,000 over 14 salaries (different, very unique, system.) People on welfare also get their main payments 14 times a year.
Also, I know some local small business owners. They have massive problems finding apprentices to learn their trades. The reasons? Well, more and more kids coming out of school say “Why work?” And then there’s the issue that kids coming out of school are simply too stupid to be useful. I wish I was kidding. Proper German skills? Basically zero. Basic math skills? None. What good is a carpenter apprentice who can’t even calculate the area of a square, who can’t even write one coherent sentence and who has zero working spirit?
None, of course.
The dumbing down of schools and the out of control welfare state is part of the plan of our dear left wing. Schools of higher education in Germany, for example (just like in Austria) -there’s a different system than in the US or UK-, no longer educate, but rather indoctrinate. School books are openly anti-capitalistic and support left wing ideology. School kids are useful idiots who march through the streets protesting against “evil” Israel and moan about “evil” capitalism while cussing out “the system”.
Report Post »Edohiguma
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:33pm& destroying billions of currency.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:41pmGreat post…”Working as planned, if the plan is complete destruction. And Obama wants exactly such a system. ”
In the dictionary of Socialist.Marxist/Communism, the entry for ‘SYSTEM,’ will be a —Period of time just prior to— Despair//De-volution//Chaos
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:19pmDid you ever share with a spoiled brat? How about sharing with a bully? Tell me how that works..
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:31pm“Shared Prosperity” appeals to the lazy and uninspired children of gratuitous and permissive parents.
Report Post »iblvingd
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:12pmYeah give them and inch they will take a mile…and its all down hill from there.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:19pmEh, nah… No thanks, not interested….
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:44pmHa ha, too bad. Opting out is not an option. Welcome to the land of the free. Welcome to Amerika….serf.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:18pmShared prosperity??? I about spewed coffee on my computer reading that bull. I don’t want to “share” my money with someone who won’t work for their own. People who work hard to make ends meet are paying into those not working, and this is “sharing prosperity” ugh no it is letting the government rule and we just sit there and let them. We must get together and vote for Romney and while he is in office pray and look for a real American who loves this country.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:17pmDid you see Obama tell the world today that Chicago is what makes AMERICA GREAT. That is right he praised Chicago Values… the same values that killed 20 people in Chicago this weekend.
Chicago Values Speech: http://url2it.com/orld
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:16pmChicago embraces mediocrity and failure. Look at the Cubs. Miserable year in and year out and every game is packed with fans.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:17pmThis site is great for people who get their information primarily from the MSM and talk radio…but it doesn‘t offer much for those who don’t.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:17pm…
Report Post »The community organizer is back in Chicago with his fellow union thugs.
Bet he’s speaking Ebonics and walking with a swagger.
Obama is such a phony.
watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:16pmThat “Shared Prosperity” is no more than take from those who have earned, and give to those who are awaiting a FREE RIDE!
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:15pm“You can make it here if you try.” This is the key sentence in this speech.
Report Post »Welfare has gone generational and there are those on the federalstate dole that look at welfare as their job and they are trying hard to keep it that way.
NOBAMA 2012
Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:55pmIt does sound like his speech writers have been watching too many Mary Tyler Moore Show reruns.
Report Post »AVERAGE-WORKING-MAN
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:11pm“I believe we have to go forward,” the president said. “I believe we have to keep working to create an America where no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter what your last name is, no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try.”
“IF YOU TRY” the problem is some don’t but still want a fair share.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:20pmWant and are being given, sadly.
Report Post »kalli
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:11pmYour vision of a future America is to change the great USA to your communist USSA, stealing freedoms, rights, and livelihoods from the citizens to feed your corrupt greed and power. You have nothing in your vision I want to be a part of, and I feel, a great majority of Americans agree with me and will show you and your communist ilk how unwelcomed you are in our nation. Pray God will bless America that we can remove the evil and corruption from our gov’t.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:10pm“shared prosperity” = stealing from those who produce.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:09pmIs this where BHO spoke where all the seats were cheep and over half empty??
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:08pm“…you can make it here if you try.“ ”And if you don’t, it will not be your fault. We will make sure that those who are responsible for you not making it are held accountable. And if you do make it, don’t make it too far. Because if you make it too far, we‘ll come after you because you didn’t do it yourself. So in the end, we will all make it exactly the same. Everyone will make the same and have the same wage and same living quarters and same prospects and same public opinion and same uniforms and same mode of transportation. Everyone except those of us who look over the system. We will have more but that is only because we need those resources to ensure fairness for everyone. THIS is why I’m running for a second term.”
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:23pmThat‘s Obama’s speech in a nutshell.
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RANGER1965
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:33pmWell said Rothbardian.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:56pmPretty good, Rothbardian.
Report Post »IOWAGIR
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:39pmSameness…that is what is like in the book “The Giver”. It’s a short book and a quick read. As I read it I thought to mysell…just how many years are we away from this type of life because it seems like we are going in that direction. Right down to the way your final years of life are planned out. Check it out. My friend’s daughter had to read it for school and I borrowed it whe I spent the weekend at their place. I finished it by the time I had to go home. And I am not a speed reader!
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:08pmYes, Obama-Mao, we do have to go “Forward” and get away from your Policies from the past. You really need to run again on “Hope” and “Change” from you – because god knows we cannot stand another four years with you and your lying arse.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:07pmIf you don’t make anything or produce anything, how are you going to have prosperity? Spoken like a true liberal, “ya ows me bro”.
Report Post »bsnrn98
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:06pmWhat’s at stake, you bozo, is the American way. If you want socialism, go live in a country that already is socialist/marxist. Leave ours alone!!!!!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 3:13amA nwcwssaet ingewsient in the success of every worker‘s paradce has been the secret police and a rurgless dictator W’ve got our very own Castroall we’re missing is our own Che and his firing squads.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:06pm“no matter who you love, you can make it here if you try.” Considering we already elected a POTUS who loves Lennin and Marx, mission accomplished Barry.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:33pm“Shared Prosperity” means I work my arse off. Then come home and split my paycheck evenly with the two 26 year olds, who do not want to work, across the street. When voting time comes around again, the two 26 year olds will vote for Obama to keep stealing two thirds of my paycheck and giving it to them. I have no chance in changing that policy of theft since I am at TWO votes to ONE.
Report Post »T-2
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:33pmshould be more like “you’ll make it here if you lie”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:45pmBen, I’m hoping the 26 year olds will be busy watching American Idol this November. The attention span of that generation is limited to about 1 hour. I think most of them have forgotten their Obama love affair.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:04pmForward must be the direction to the next welfare line
Report Post »hi
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:14pmGood one!
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:03pmIt will make no differene who mit picked..
Report Post »I highly doubt that what ever it is that currently resided in the wh..will be leaving anytime soon.
maxedout
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:11pmIf that’s the case…..goodbye America.
Report Post »CONAN THE CONSERVATIVE
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:55pmDude! Now you’re just trying to make this grown man cry.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:53pmOnly if B.O.Plenty walks a Chitown street at night in disguise with a pocket full of cash. btw…I can’t help but wonder if the Ca. refinery fire was arson. It seems a little too convienient to me.
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