| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/ge-s-imm elt-to-head-obama-s-new-jobs-and-competitiveness-b oard-20110121 I almost wish I hadn't read that book. Immelt, Wandell, the CEO of GM, ... who else can we add to the LAME list (looter and moocher executives)? | ||
| Blake |
Another one right out of Atlas Shrugged...
"But how will you pay for it?" "It'll work out." "How will it work out?" "Don't you care about the retired government employees?" "Yes, but where will you get the money to give them a raise in their pensions?" "You're heartless and cold; all you think about is money."  The world is going insane. | ||
| Glitch |
I read Atlas Shrugged back in High School and re-read it recently. Amazing forethought and insight. | ||
| Blake |
Somewhat recollection too. She grew up Russia during the Lenin era. Or maybe it was Ukraine. | ||
| Froggy |
What did Dan Akerson do to earn LAME status? | ||
| Blake |
Allowing the lie about the Chevy Volt "equivalent MPG" for one. Agreeing to take the job for two. But maybe you have a point, the lion's share of the castigation belongs to whoever was responsible for running the place into the ground. The prior CEO and the union bosses for instance. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
wasn't GE one of Obama's biggest contributors? | ||
| Cataract2 |
Yes, yes they were. All I can think is wow, he's not even afraid to show that he's scratching their backs for scratching his. Sigh... | ||
| Johnnymceldoo |
Doesnt GE own msnbc? | ||
| Blake |
All of NBC. Big merger recently approved by the Obama admin with another concern, was it "Viacom"? | ||
| Johnnymceldoo |
Comcast and it looks like keith olberman will have to start looking for another job. Hopefully his buddy fred savage is next. | ||
| Blake |
Tom no see topic. Me bump. | ||
| Blake |
Good quote from Mrs. Palin in response to the POTUS SOTU speech... Perhaps the most nonsensical bit of double-speak we heard last night was when the President said that hitting job-creators with a tax increase isn’t “punishing their success. It’s about promoting America’s success.” But government taking more money from the small business entrepreneurs who create up to 70% of all jobs in this country is not “promoting America’s success.” It’s a disincentive that will result in less job creation. It is, in fact, punishing the success of the very people who created the innovation that the President has supposedly been praising. Remind you of anything? | ||
| Blake |
source... Mrs. Palin's Commentary on POTUS SOTU Speech | ||
| Buellinmke |
Lolin at Blake once again. Rand was an atheist, abortion-loving and anti-Christian sexual deviant. You know - everything you were railing against in that thread titled Truth, Got Any? Her ideas and beliefs are the exact opposite of Christian beliefs. Also - if you did read the book, then you would know that the name is spelled Taggart (it's printed in there at least 20,000 times). Listen to the woman yourself and please stop believing in mythology. | ||
| Blake |
Mike, You are telling me nothing new. I disagree with Ms. Rand's view on God and thus religion. That has no bearing on my agreement with her view, largely from her own experience, in dealing with socialist scum. | ||
| Blake |
>>> Also - if you did read the book, then you would know that the name is spelled Taggart. I guess not. Apparently I just suck as spelling. You got me Mike! Spelling has never been my strong point. You should be so very proud of your accomplishment in pointing that out. Good for you! Ms. Rand and her husband were happily married for a long time. Not sure what you are talking about wrt "sexual deviant". Not sure about her views on abortion. Not germane to the topic. She died some time ago. What mythology do you imagine I believe Mike? It appears as though you are most interested in discussing me personally. I'm not much interested in that, but if you are, then by all means knock yourself out and create a new topic to do so. | ||
| Blake |
Mike, Per wikipedia... Ayn Rand did, as you state, support abortion rights. However she called homosexuality "immoral" and "disgusting. She also endorsed several Republican candidates for President of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964, whose candidacy she promoted in several articles for The Objectivist Newsletter. | ||
| Blake |
On her atheism, her philosophy and logic are faulty and have been refuted soundly. She simply isn't honest about her faith, and also confuses religion/faith with God. If you are interested in that, here's a link to some excellent discussion on the issue. | ||
| Reindog |
* "But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made - before it can be looted or mooched - made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced." o Francisco D'Anconia "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed." * Francisco D'Anconia "...There's no such thing as a lousy job—only lousy men who don't care to do it." * Ellis Wyatt "You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live." * John Galt "You propose to establish a social order based on the following tenets: that you're incompetent to run your own life, but competent to run the lives of others -- that you're unfit to exist in freedom, but fit to become an omnipotent ruler -- that you're unable to earn your living by use of your own intelligence, but able to judge politicians and vote them into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no knowledge, over the gigantic industries where you, by your own definition of capacity, would be unable successfully to fill the job of assistant greaser." * John Galt * You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value - you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion for extortion. Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good. You had said that you saw no difference between economic power and political power, between the power of money and the power of guns - no difference between reward and punishment, between purchase and plunder, between pleasure and fear, between life and death. You are learning the difference now." o John Galt * "The evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction you give it." o John Galt * "I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." o John Galt | ||
| Whisperstealth |
Watch out Mike, Blake wants a truthie  lol! Truthie = a cookie Blake style | ||
| Reindog |
This sums up the 1200 pages. Looters and moochers are now on notice. "In the name of all the producers who had kept you alive and received your death ultimatums in payment, I now answer you with a single ultimatum of our own: Our work or your guns. You can choose either; you can't have both. We do not initiate the use of force against others or submit to force at their hands. If you desire ever again to live in an industrial society, it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours. ATLAS SHRUGGED is more relevant in 2011 than when it was written in 1957. | ||
| Reindog |
Blake, thanks for your postings. In a larger sense, this shows why our Founding Fathers possessed unbridled genius. They knew that there are Men who will sell their souls to subjugate their Brothers. These grifters walk amongst us and will philosophically argue that it is moral to loot and mooch from our society. They now have a Leader who has risen from a long, long history of anti-American attitudes and a hatred of exactly what has made America the Greatest Nation in the history of nations. | ||
| Blake |
Sure seems that way to me too. Eric Cantor's response to Obama's State of the Union address contained a real gem as follows:
Compare that to Obama's address where he stated:
"Sustaining the American Dream has never been about standing pat. It has required each generation to sacrifice, and struggle, and meet the demands of a new age."  "Each generation"??? Pardon me Mr. Collectivist, it was each individual who earned his/her prosperity largely as a result of their own efforts and skills. Bill Gates didn't need help from his "generation" to succeed. He did so through his own efforts and those of his business associates. "It's not always profitable for companies to invest in basic research"??? Can I get an example of that please? The man has no clue whatsoever how business actually works. He goes on to reference NASA and the moon shot effort. Well, most of that was private industry given a mission and a contract to complete it. Obama KILLED the new NASA moon mission, KILLLED the new heavy lift, moon-capable vehicle, KILLED the space shuttle, so now we have ZERO manned space-flight/return capability. MORON! The only new technology he seems to care about is that which aims to address an artificial market of so-called "green" technology. It's ludicrous. Kill off deep water oil exploration, oil prices skyrocket, spend trillions on artificial market for green technology. Waste of time, money, resources; jobs lost, enemies emboldened and better funded. Idiocy. If cap and trade had passed, I was fixin' to join a militia. | ||
| Blake |
We'll all end up living in grass @#!$%ing huts with pedal-powered ceiling fans. That idea, properly proposed would probably win a multi-million dollar government looter grant for "green innovation." "sustainable" Coal mining is sustainable for a LONGGGGG time as is petroleum and natural gas production. | ||
| Court |
Perhaps the most accurate statement I've read here in a while. I tried, really tried, to watch the State of the Nation. He is so far removed from reality that it takes on a component of comedy. If you'd make some of those statements in a crowd of intelligent folks they'd respond with laughter, knowing you must surely be joking . . he wasn't. He's lived his life on the public tit, never created a job nor held one that was the result of personal merit. And when, pray tell, did the President become a comedian interjecting intermittent jokes into the State of the Union. There are a lot of folks in deep doo-doo in this country and the jokes really eroded the "Presidential" feel of the speech. He is truly an idiot. I miss the $1.63/gal gas and low employment we had the day he assumed office. | ||
| Reindog |
This Thing Who Occupies the White House (TWOTH)doesn't need to know how business works. TWOTH only needs to divide and conquer to further his Socialist agenda of dismantling the very fabric of what makes America strong and great. We are headed towards what happened at the conclusion of Atlas Shrugged. Off topic: How do you like the Illinois Supreme Court reinstating Rahm Emmanuel? What a crooked place Chicago is where the judges are nothing but politicians appointed by politicians. The funniest part is Obama won his Senatorial election by disqualifying his opponents because he successfully claimed they were not residents. On second thought, this is completely apropos to Atlas Shrugged. How do you like TWOTH praising the overthrow in Tunisia? Is it a coincidence that Egypt explodes the same week and Lebanon shifts to Iran? Wonder how the Leftists here can rationalize this TWOTH and his cronies? TWOTH is better than a cup of coffee in the morning to get my juices flowing. | ||
| Blake |
Tom, your acronym is faulty. Of course you realize, this casts doubt on everything you've ever said, and vindicates President Obama in entirety. Thanks a lot bub.  | ||
| Slaughter |
Dagny Taggart - female lead character. Jimmy Swaggart - now THAT's a HERO Jimmy Taggart - science fiction, unrelated |
