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Unlike Obama Business Owners Did Do It Themselves

By now, most have heard Obama’s emphatic statement, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there…If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that–somebody else made that happen.”

This statement, perhaps more so than any other he has made, displays the raw Marxist-Leninist contempt he has for entrepreneurs. It also clearly defines his business (as well as economic) ignorance, and it unambiguously proves he has never created anything in his life. It further shows that which I have said from the beginning and that is both he and his arrogant wife are nothing more than welfare-minded trash who found a way to use hatred, racism, and Marxist-Leninism to slither up the food chain.

Many years ago I built a business, and I can tell you it was successful not only because I offered good products but also specifically because I did work hard. It was successful because I worked smart. That is the case with nearly all of the successful business owners I know today.

Obama’s entire life has been one of handouts and public welfare. He went to school on government-paid, taxpayer-funded programs. He and his wife took the advance money for his book deal and squandered it on drugs, drinks, and high-living in the islands.

His wife may have been ashamed of America and the American people before she hit the White House lottery, but that shame sure as heck didn’t prevent her from taking every handout she could get including free education and highly suspicious, favored employment placements. It also kept her out of jail pursuant to her rumored misdeeds in Chicago that led to her being forced to surrender her law license.

I started my business with nothing but a dream and the guts to pursue it. I vividly recall watching people driving home from work, stopping at the intersection in front of my office–and thinking that they were getting paid vacations, paid sick days, paid holidays, weekends off, health insurance, and retirement accounts. I, on the other hand, was concerned about making payroll.

The Obamas haven’t a clue what it is to work for something and/or run a business. Their entire lives have been those of entitlement and community-based extortion. They have been educated their entire lives to foment discord for personal gain. The majority of successful small business owners have sacrificed. Many of us worked 17-18 hours a day seven days a week. We weren’t community-extortionists. We sacrificed friends and relationships; we ate soup and frozen TV dinners. We had neither the Communist underground to provide for us nor did we have wealthy grandparents.

The Obamas are living large at taxpayer expense and Michelle flaunts it like she is, as they say in ghettoeze, “SOC,” i.e., straight outta’ Compton; or in her case straight outta’ Cabrini Green.

Obama is now doubling down on his “Grinch who condemns free enterprise” Christmas speech. December past, I wrote the following: “Speaking at Osawatomie High School, in Osawatomie, Kan., Obama said: ‘Now, it’s a simple theory. And we have to admit, it’s one that speaks to our rugged individualism and our healthy skepticism of too much government. That’s in America’s DNA. And that theory fits well on a bumper sticker. But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked. It didn’t work when it was tried in the decade before the Great Depression. It’s not what led to the incredible postwar booms of the ’50s and ’60s. And it didn’t work when we tried it during the last decade. I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.’” (Obama’s Terrorist Attack On Our Children’s Minds; WND.com; 12/13/11)

It is important to note that Obama’s socialistic message of “the rich gotta’ give back” resonates extremely well with blacks. The former football great and serial wife/woman-beater Jim Brown, maligned Michael Jordan because he believed Jordan should just fork over his money to further enable those who squandered life’s opportunities and suffered the consequences of poor decisions. Brown, and those like him, are quick to condemn any person of color who becomes successful and then doesn’t pay a tithe back to the “hood.”

Obama is using class warfare and race-based symbolism to divide America to further his maniacal agenda. It is time Conservatives, Republicans and Independents awakened to the fact that extremists like Obama are engaging in guerilla warfare (and that’s not a pun directed at his wife). It is a fact. There is no level to which he will not stoop to hold onto the reins of office.

But there is one concern that even Democrats are increasingly giving voice to and that is–Obama is displaying the increased signs of a man who is increasingly cracking under the pressure of his own lies. In December 2010, the phrase “non compos mentis” was referenced in context to Obama and his rumored dependence on medications to stabilize what are rumored to be wild mood swings.

I believe the pressure of Obama’s failed policies, the rising cacophony of public ridicule–coming from even Democrats–and his megalomanic narcissism is causing him to lash out in the only way his Alinskyian training teaches.

Obama is a threat to the economy of the United States and he is beginning to give the appearance of one who is a threat to the future of Democrats.

About Mychal Massie

Mychal S. Massie is the former National Chairman of the conservative black think tank, Project 21-The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives; and a member of its’ parent think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research. In his official capacity with this free market public policy think tank he has spoken at the U.S. Capitol, CPAC, participated in numerous press conferences on Capitol Hill, the National Press Club and has testified concerning property rights pursuant to the “Endangered Species Act” before the Chairman of the House Committee on Resources. He has been a keynote speaker at colleges and universities nationwide, at Tea Party Rallies, at rallies supporting our troops and conservative presidents; and rally’s supporting conservative causes across the country. He is an unapologetic supporter of our right to own and carry firearms.

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47 Responses to Unlike Obama Business Owners Did Do It Themselves

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  2. Jeff Spangler October 16, 2012 at 3:14 pm #

    Wow, this author is rough. Makes you think…

  3. sunshineIQ July 24, 2012 at 1:35 am #

    According to President Obama: “…If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that–somebody else made that happen.” Well, if you got a business and the IRS comes a callin’, you can always say, “Somebody else is going to pay the taxes.”

  4. Dr. Aubie Baltin July 20, 2012 at 5:10 pm #

    PROFIT

    The most important factor of Profit is that Profit is the Traffic Lights of every Business and every economy. It tell every body Producers and counsumers exactly what to make, how much to make and in what colors and sizes. Without profit to guide us we become like Russia: They are technologically as advanced was we are But they ended up with warehoudes full mof stuff that nobody wanted, because either they did not fit, were the wrong coulors and wrong styles. Profit and competition automatically takes care of all that. But it requires a free market tro do that. The Biggest government with the biggest computers and buildings full of Phd’s can’t
    Long Live Freedom and the Free Market

    • Mychal July 23, 2012 at 4:40 pm #

      dr. aubie baltin: kinda like electric matchbook cars obama wants…you made excellent points…

  5. Mentious July 20, 2012 at 2:36 am #

    Wow. Mr. Massie. Just discovered you. You are an excellent writer and I am astounded at your views. I am White. But I would have happily voted for you for president over any of the presidents we’ve had in the past 45 years.

    • Mychal July 23, 2012 at 5:50 pm #

      mentious: trust me the color of your skin has no meaning here…not that I will ever run for office (I wouldn’t for dinner)…but let your agreement be 100% based on my positions…

  6. Marilyn July 18, 2012 at 8:27 pm #

    I really enjoyed your comments, Mychal. I, too, started a business from scratch. Put my home in hawk and went for it. The only thing the governments,Local-State-Federal, did for me was raise and collect taxes. Goods were broght to the door and goods were sent out the door. Bridges and Highways were used at times. Let it be clear that “Politicians in Government” did NOT pay for those bridges and highways, they were created with our tax dollars. And, it was businesses that built the bridges and highways. I never saw a “Politician or President in a Suit” paving any highway or building a bridge! Also, everytime we pump gasoline into our vehicles, we pay for the maintenance of highways (TAX). Owning property that the business sits on is still another tax circus. Sidewalks and streets in front of my business were also maintained by me through taxes! But, I had to sweep the sidewalks and keep them free of debris for beauty sake and cleanliness. Obama has no clue about businesses and how they are created or operated. He doesn’t know because he never built a business from a dream or with the sweat and tears that goes into owning a business. Yes, he used our tax dollars to bail out a few companies, including GM. Where is GM now? Look in foreign lands including Communist China. The Commies love the Caddy! And, dumb arzz me held bonds in GM so you know I lost my shirt on that one. Those who held shares, lost a lot more. I think Obama showed his true colors when he made the comment about business owners, etc. His Socialism (worse) was totally on display. If people didn’t see through his malarkey, they are really ignorant. If the sycophant is having some nightmares during the daylight hours, maybe he should stop sucking on those electric cigars..whatever they are called.

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:49 pm #

      marilyn: i know exactly of what you speak…had similar experience…started w/ nothing but a dream…that I had to fight government to achieve…

  7. Stormrider900 July 18, 2012 at 3:29 pm #

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
    - Sun Tzu

    Does anyone really know Barry? Do Conservatives know themselves?
    I am beginning to think the answer to both questions is NO! The battle for the Republic does not look promising.

    Your voice, Mychal, is “one crying in the wilderness” and I pray it is never silenced by the enemy.

    • Mischa July 18, 2012 at 7:18 pm #

      Stormrider 900 said it very well. I’d like to ad, that all liars will get caught up in his lies when they get desperate. All liars will be caught in their lies, such as Obamacare NOT BEING A TAX, as he said, but it is a TAX, based on that we should be able to get rid of it as well. But his latest speech is about as obvious marxist as you can get but also it shows a sick mind, very sick mind.
      I am unable to surpass Mychals writings but am happy he speaks out for all of us and our country. Thank you Mychal.

      • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:52 pm #

        mischa: thk you very much…

    • Annie July 19, 2012 at 6:14 pm #

      Stormrider,

      It’s nice to see another Sun Tzu reader. I have to think that no one in the Republican/Conservative camp who is influential in decision-making has spent much time with Sun Tzu — for the past several years.

      I believe we are about half-a-century too late to turn back the Ship of State. At least that. Only God’s hand can turn it–at any time– but we don’t know how to collectively show up should He call upon us.

      “When the enemy is near–make him think you are far. When you are far–make the enemy think you are near.” (a loose translation from the Chinese.) Going over my notes from the War College my assessment is that the Right can’t organize a one-car funeral procession so near-or-far all depends upon running out of gas or having a break down. Once we determine our location we’ll send smoke-signals that we’re in the opposite location. What kind of victory plan is that?

      A quick look toward the Left and what we see is a highly organized and massive army of warriors–filled with Marxist vigor and paid determination. What an embarrassment to realize that much of that “pay” is provided by our tax dollars. Unions from coast-to-coast (not all, of course) are hoisting the battle flags.

      “We have been bamboozled” would make a pathetic white flag.

      • Mychal July 23, 2012 at 9:26 pm #

        annie: the republican flag would be yellow…

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:53 pm #

      stormrider900: my God is greater than little “o”…

  8. Jocelyn Anderson July 18, 2012 at 3:16 pm #

    Heard a great joke on this: What is the difference between Obama and Romney? Romney signs the front of the check and Obama signs the back. :-)

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:53 pm #

      jocelyn anderson: heard it before…it is true…

  9. Jim Holmes July 18, 2012 at 2:56 pm #

    But Obama was a Community Organizer, he would know better than any!!! /sarc off

    Unlike the socialist mantra of, ‘the rich gotta give back’ … many people believe the rich gotta give to the poor so the poor doesn’t have to do anything. They can still hang in the hood, sell crack, and smoke dope. The rich needs to give more and more … it don’t work quite that way.

    However, the rich DO give back … every day. The small and large business men/women take the risk on their own and build businesses that provide jobs for those wanting to work for the American dream of making a better place for their family. Bigger does not necessarily equate to a better product, however the example is the same. Businesses goal is to produce profit. Profit provides more jobs. Whether the business man/woman answers to the board or the stockholders, or the wife/husband … profits are necessary to build jobs.

    Government does not build businesses. Government does not know how to build profitable business! Under our system however, Government may create an atmosphere that is conducive to building businesses. They do this by giving tax breaks and incentives to business which equates to more profit, which in turn opens more jobs. For the Government to attempt to build/own private sector business is unconstitutional.

    The Government should look at the private sector for guidance in how to run a business at a profit. With the current deficit it doesn’t look like the Government is doing a very good job at their business!!!

    • Mischa July 18, 2012 at 7:25 pm #

      Jim Hokness: Obama got rich off of the poor, while a community organizer and coming up the ladder, plus all of his education was paid for by the government and other sources. He thinks this is the way one can leach on our country. His wife is a first class hypocrite, saying that kids still dream about the white picket fence and think they can get it. And all of this whining about it as well. I shut her off. But then the Hospital which pays her a hefty sum every year from money of poor people being over charged for treatment in that Chicago Hospital, is another way of Hypocritical statement. Now that the Obama’s have reached the “RICH” status, let them give their fortune to the poor. Lead by example.

      • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:50 pm #

        mischa: you are spot on…well said…

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 9:54 pm #

      jim holmes: my friend you nailed it well…

  10. spark July 18, 2012 at 2:40 pm #

    Mychal;
    Another excellent rant you and Dan have both been on a roll for the last month or so, thank you both so much for the work y’all do. However you seem to have left out the facts that a year or so ago the “O” made the statement that Americans were lazy and had lost there edge. Mychal I really want credit for all that this individual thinks I am or as he would put am not. Sixty year old Viet Nam (U.S. Navy) veteran, sole proprietor, and have always thought that having never seen a welfare, or unemployment check, let alone a food stamp where things to be proud of I stand corrected.
    And as Sue put it so well he can bite me also.
    Thank you Mychal GOD speed, GOD bless, stay safe.

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:02 pm #

      spark: thk you my friend…

  11. pblee July 18, 2012 at 1:22 pm #

    So wait a second, Barry. Let me get this straight. All those years of 10, 12, 18, 20 hour workdays perfecting my product, promoting it, producing it, and delivering it on time without fail to my clients- that wasn’t really me? It was somebody else making it happen? Even when it was 1am on a week-end and my kids were in bed and my husband was watching the late movie alone because I was making my business a success- that wasn’t really me? Funny, I think it was me. I certainly don’t recall anyone else doing it.

    When I get home tonight, rather than thank God for the imagination smarts, talent, strength, stubborn willpower and brass balls that it took to make it happen, I think I’ll write a thank you note to you.

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:05 pm #

      pblee: hahaha…that’s a thought…

  12. JoAnn July 18, 2012 at 11:50 am #

    I want them gone too. They are destroying this country. Never have I seen any one person create such divisiveness, and class warfare so quickly as he has. It is truly incredible that we have so many people in this country that are blind to who he really is. Although I suppose it’s easier to believe his rhetoric than to look hard at yourself and realize that you are buying into a lie. Some people just never want to see the truth…. it’s too hard to face.

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:08 pm #

      joann: I wnat them gone from the country not just the office…let them go where they’ll be happy…

  13. Sue July 18, 2012 at 11:48 am #

    I was totally insulted by these comments from him. How dare he say that about successful small business owners?

    While his statement is true that there are alot of smart people out there, just because someone is smart doesn’t mean they have what it takes to go out on the limb and start a small business let alone be successful at it.

    Funny I don’t see anyone sending me back any of my quarterly tax payments that I make.

    Two words Mr President “BITE ME”

    • ellen July 18, 2012 at 12:24 pm #

      Totally agree. My husband is a sole proprietor and works 6 sometimes 7 days a week with 14 hour days. We pay our taxes and nothing is free. BO and wife are like the Nero of Rome. If we don’t get rid of him we are on our way to extinction as a great free nation. So I’ll say it too. “BITE ME OBAMA”

      • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:07 pm #

        ellen: bite me obama should be a collective shout from the people…

    • MILLIE July 19, 2012 at 9:35 am #

      (wild applause) My very favorite saying…

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:12 pm #

      sue: the very air he breathes is an insult…

  14. Chris July 18, 2012 at 11:45 am #

    Oh Mychal-your venomous insults directed toward Michelle just make my day! Watching the Obamas behavior of late calls to mind W Cleon Skousens book ‘The Naked Communist.’ Those two are wearing their Communism on their sleeves & shouting it thru bullhorns! Now if only the American people WAKE UP & sink this mistake of a presidency to the bottom of the ocean ASAP. I have friends who are small business owners & make it a point to frequent them as they keep the jobs local
    -there’s nothing like personal service w/ people you know.

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:13 pm #

      chris: they’re not venomous insults they’re the truth…

  15. dave b July 18, 2012 at 11:34 am #

    what people don’t realize is that it’s not obama, it’s just another government lackie trying to steal money and control from the people.

    • Sue July 18, 2012 at 12:02 pm #

      HUH?

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:14 pm #

      dave b: that’s true except that he is a marxist-leninist…

  16. Deb July 18, 2012 at 10:39 am #

    RIGHT ON, MYCHAL!!As always. And as a further note to business owners working 18 hour days and often not making enough money for themselves to live reasonably for long periods of time, there is also the risk factor. There is every chance that you will put your all into a business and it fails. This has happened to many! Not like getting a job and having a modicum of security…..

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:17 pm #

      deb: you are spot on…we risk everything and can still fail…does obama give government credit for that…

  17. Bill Sr. July 18, 2012 at 10:17 am #

    We will no longer be silent as our faith and our Republic are being put to the test.
    Unfortunately the 2012 election and the hoopla that goes with it is somewhat of a distraction from the undeniable fact that we are truly and quite possibly in a final battle for the soul of America.
    The rhetoric and repercussions of past elections have been childs play compared to the consequences of our current terms of political engagement inherently involved in and the ultimate outcome of this battle.
    We simply must begin to grasp the magnitude of this pivotal struggle. A concerted war against individual freedom of conscience and personal development within the moral society of our nation is and has been underway for several decades.
    The Judea-Christian society born in the 18th century here on American soil which established a Republic that forged a gentle giant of a nation offering its inhabitants hope and freedom and a beacon to the poor or oppressed around the globe drawing millions of them to us is being challenged by the political descendants of despots from past tyrannical governments.
    Our heritage would not allow these masters of deceit to ever capture the hearts of men here in the land of the free with the God they openly acknowledged and sought guidance from UNTIL the minds of the young were out of the hands of their parents and into the arms of a far reaching government bureaucracy skillfully crafted and always disguised as a benevolent care giver.
    The first step was public schools, originally designed for the poor or disadvantaged, were covertly recognized as the primary target to begin the eventual transformation of our nation. By the middle of the last century the progressives virtually owned and for the most part operated both elementary and secondary (government run and funded) education in America.
    The educational dumbing down of Americans involved more than the rewriting of history. It had to include a diabolical reformation of conscience and destruction of Judeo-Christian morality to accomplish the evil intent of those wanting to break the back of Bible totting flag waving patriotic citizens who cling to their right to own guns and provide prosperity for themselves and their posterity.
    Unlike the sudden and brutal Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which awakened a sleeping giant, this sneak attack was a long silent but deadly poisoning of the minds and morals of a nation until we began to compromise our values in the name of tolerance or fairness or social justice weakening our will to staunchly defend the principles on which the Republic was founded.
    These enemies of liberty with their newly established politically correct language defining our values and legislative agendas are now not only simply within our society they are in political control of our lives at present. Politics is being used as the tool or weapon of the real enemy. We must understand the real enemy is EVIL in all the forms of misinformation, suggestive entertainment, or corrupt political theory it can deceitfully use to conceal its character and the only remaining obstacle to its complete success is the waning moral fiber left in the values held by Judeo-Christian patriots of this country.
    Thus, it is all together fitting that we not hesitate to use the words and tone of our founders which gave birth to our nation to demand our leaders and the candidates for government office, especially the presidency in particular, to profess those precious values and vow to govern justly by them and to boldly face the critics who dare suggest they are not relevant in todays political arena.
    We can pray our hearts out but we need also to willingly stand and step forward to express publicly our defense of freedom as well as humble ourselves before God to assure the Father that we do cherish our faith and freedom and deserve His help.
    Time is running out. It is now or never. As students of history and/or an ardent believer in the word of God as given to us in the Gospels, who among us can deny or naively ignore the ramped Evil that is staring us in the face today

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:17 pm #

      bill sr: your last ppg says it all…well put…

  18. Betrayed July 18, 2012 at 9:40 am #

    I just want both of them gone…….they are bad for this country.

    • Anniesdad July 18, 2012 at 2:10 pm #

      On one hand we have Mychal Massie and Allen West and others just like them and on the other hand we have the Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jessie Jackson and their ilk. Can you imagine how much better off the black community would be if they listened to and followed the words, morals and actions of Mr Massie and Mr. west? These two people need to make them selves heard by a much wider audience. Great Americans.

      • Taqiyyotomist July 18, 2012 at 9:23 pm #

        And the villified “ultra-conservative” FOX News gives a microphone, and the much lucre, to the likes of Sharpton.

        We need a new network. That 1/3-Saudi-owned station has been co-opted and is just playing the foil.

        Where are Alfonzo Rachel, Bill Whittle, Walter Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Barnhardt, Andrew Klavan, Thomas Sowell, Kevin Jackson, Michelle Malkin, Mychal Massie, Jim Hoft, Allen West, and many more who, if they made a television network right the heck now, would be perhaps the most successful television entrepreneurs in American history?

        We need a new network, and the staff is just waiting.

        • rjnvpn July 19, 2012 at 7:08 pm #

          Taqiyyotomist, What a brilliant thought!!! Somebody out there, please make this happen.

      • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:04 pm #

        anniesdad: there should be no black community only an american community…racial assignations do nothing but divide…

    • Mychal July 24, 2012 at 10:20 pm #

      betrayed: so do I my friend…i want them out of office and out of the country…

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