Barack Obama knows when you've made enough money

Speech in his hometown in Illinois on April 28, 2010. The real Barack Obama slips out and you can see his disdain and uneasiness with capitalism. So, when my boss has made enough money, he should just toss it in and I love my job? Give me a break!

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[kevcarm101]

If you've followed Obama's career, this is NOT out of context. His entire life, attitude, body language, etc., shows that he has very little understanding about how capitalism works. He believes government is best equipped to solve problems. I simply believe history has shown time and time again he's dead wrong on that.

[jovidman69]

@Top40

That's not the point. It's none of his business how much anyone makes. I've never heard a president say such things. The dems are always looking for their next demon. Chris Dodd the quitter, who is responsible for a lot of financial messes, should not even be allowed to touch this issue. He'll rob the cookie jar of all he can before he makes his getaway with Reid and Co. in November. Never in my life has a president or a party been so intrusive into so many aspects of this country.

[linkwray22]

The street thug needs to get his message to the richest man in Congress - John Kerry. B-HO's second largest contributor was Goldman-Sachs.

Barry Soetoro - A different face for every crowd.

[EGarrett01]

The second disturbing thing he says is that there are "core responsibilities of the economy," as though we owe the economy something. It frightens me how little he understands about the free market given how intelligent he is.

[happystance7able]

To understand our president's perspective, you need to understand how his wife, before becoming our Diet Commissar, held a $350k/yr job as a diversity consultant for a large university hospital, at which she provided services that were so essential that they didn't bother finding a replacement for her when she left. You see, the president thinks all wealthy people live that high on the hog. He can only speak from his own experience; about the circles he's travelled in all his life.

[happystance7able]

>>I do think at a certain point, you've made enough money<<

GIven what "making money" means--helping people enough that they willingly give you money for your efforts and using scarce resources efficiently enough in so doing that you have money left when it's all over and done with--our president is really saying either that, at a certain point, you've helped people enough and ought to stop helping them, or you ought to be more wasteful with scarce resources in helping others. Idiot Alert!

[Sony18241]

interesting that he gives this speach, yet there are few people in america that actually make more than him. obama, obama, obama, when will you learn not to sound or act like a hypocrite?

[Sony18241]

so is he saying that he has earned the nearly 350k he makes a year? cause with socialised healthcare, and his entire freedoms elimination campaine, you'd think not so much. was it not obama who said, "i believe in the second amendment" then like 3 or less years later, "hand guns are weapons of mass destruction, that must be eliminated for the safety of americans"

[Sony18241]

@happystance7able i really hope you were kidding when you said, "he's the greatest president we've ever had!" trully i hope you don't believe that. from what you said toward the end, i think that's what you were saying, but in today's world ya never know. and i'm not going to assume.

[happystance7able]

It's not that President Obama isn't good enough that has people opposing him; he's the greatest president we've ever had! It's just that we think, at a certain point, a president has been great enough that it's time for him to resign and leave the American People alone so they can get back to work cleaning up the mess. That's all we're about here. We just want President Obama to move on quickly to become the greatest former president we've ever had. We believe that would help everybody.

[redarrowhead2]

lol. John kerry just got fucked over for tax evasion. Why are ALL the democrats so excited to spread everyone's wealth around except their's?

[wildetaube]

What a hypocrite! You made 5.5 million on book sales. When is enough enough, Mr. Potato Head? How much did you give away?