It was a great paragraph till the last sentence:
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.I am not big on the art of oratory, but the word "government" in that sentence is really a spoiler. Should have kept it for the next paragraph, at least.
Er... what else? Well, just a notion: in Brezhnev's times a slip like that would have cost the speech writer his/her job. At least.
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I wonder how many inventions were made with government help?
Light Bulb? No
Radio? No
Television? No
Computer? No
So far no luck government.
Maybe the stick-it notes?
Stick-it-notes were invented by 3-M. No government funds or involvement.
Still looking.
Well, that's the one I could think of. Let me think more then...
What a doofus Obozo is. He really should cut back on the weed he's smoking. It's lingering in his brain.
The feds don't even build the highways he talked about. The states do, with money raised from taxes paid by people in the states. Government creates no money on its own. They create little more than trouble---including wars.
And whenever they foul up, Congress passes more laws to hire more bureaucrats so they can screw up bigger next time.
He probably wanted to say something else. Slip of the tongue or something.
He's had a lot of those lately. Beginning to be chronic. It's the weed, for sure.
;-)
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