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‘And what do you know?’: Business leaders hit back at Obama
‘And what do you know?’: Business leaders hit back at Obama after he says the wealthy AREN’T responsible for their own success
- National Federation of Independent Business slams Obama for remarks challenging significance of U.S. entrepreneurs
- Obama told supporters over the weekend that it was governments – not individuals – who create jobs
- Romney camp adds that his view shows how unqualified he is to lead the country into economic recovery
- Radio host Rush Limbaugh accuses the president of ‘destroying the American dream’
America’s leading small business association has slammed Barack Obama for showing ‘an utter lack of understanding’ of the country’s entrepreneurs when he told them: ‘If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.’
In a hard-hitting statement to Mail Online, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) president Dan Danne said: ‘What a disappointment to hear President Obama’s revealing comments challenging the significance of America’s entrepreneurs.
Mr Danne added: ‘His unfortunate remarks over the weekend show an utter lack of understanding and appreciation for the people who take a huge personal risk and work endless hours to start a business and create jobs.’
An NFIB spokesman added: ’I'm sure every small-business owner who took a second mortgage on their home, maxed out their credit cards or borrowed money from their own retirement savings to start their business disagrees strongly with President Obama’s claim. They know that hard work does matter.
‘Every small business is not indebted to the government or some other benefactor. If anything, small businesses are historically an economic and job-creating powerhouse in spite of the government.’
The NFIB was founded in 1943 and has some 350,000 members. It is officially a non-partisan organisation but tends to contribute heavily to Republican candidates. In 2010, 25 of its members, all republicans, were elected to Congress.
David Chavern, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that the basic idea behind Obama’s comments, and other similar sentiments expressed by allies, ‘is really objectionable and offensive.
Johnny Freedom
July 17th, 2012
“It is officially a non-partisan organization but tends to contribute heavily to Republican candidates.”
I think they’re getting that backward, just the way they do with the NRA. Because most Republicans have had jobs, they tend to reflect the NFIB’s ideology and are therefore more endorsed and funded than their neo-fascist, statist, and communist Democrat counterparts.
Unneutral
July 17th, 2012
I can’t help but smile when Obama openly displays his ignorance of reality. Which is often.
Moe Tom
July 17th, 2012
If the Daily Mail U.K. had not printed this, It didn’t happen. Our media is the cause of our uninformed public.
Johnny Pickleduster
July 17th, 2012
Never ceases to amaze me that when preezy Obuttma let’s slip his phony mask and reveals to the nation who he really is, namely a hard core communist, so many people are so suprised. All anyone who cared about vetting this buttplug had to do when he was running (stealing?) for president during the 2008 election was to do a minimal search of the available information on candidate Obuttma to understand that he was a hard core communist hell bent on destroying the country. Why the shock and surprise now?
Billy Fuster
July 17th, 2012
We are witnessing the last gasp of socialism.
Moe Tom
July 17th, 2012
Just watched John Sununu of Fox. He’s making the connection between obama, blogowich, sarko(?), and ayers. Way to go John. Sununu for VP.It’s called the Felon connection, chitcago style politics .
norman einstein
July 17th, 2012
I just caught the end of Sununu on Fox, with McCallum.
He said that while O’s comments might have been shocking to MANY people, they came as no surprise to him, because they reflect O’s profound ignorance of how the economy works.
He then described how O went from living in Indonesia to Hawaii, then college, then went on to become a “community organizer”, after which he went into politics.
IOW, O has never earned a paycheck from private enterprise in his life.
As the Won’s gaffes go, I think this one was HUGE.
norman einstein
July 17th, 2012
I just stumbled across this article by David Limbaugh, on the same topic:
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2012/07/17/the_most_antibusiness_president_ever
Kool Aid
July 17th, 2012
I admit I hate Obummer but this comment made my BLOOD BOIL! Who is this asshole who has never worked a real job a day in his life even to comment? He is an expert on socialism, goverment hand outs, cronyism, fraud, fat wives and all but I work my butt off to get where I got and the only constant obstacle was the stupid government. WHAT AN UTTER IDIOT!
Horrorman18
July 17th, 2012
No Obumbles , we are not all ants working for the collective whole…Please go off prompter more and let everyone continue to see who you really are…if Obumbles were alone in the Oval office, he still wouldn’t be the smartest guy in the room!!
Stirrin the B.S.
July 17th, 2012
It’s his desperate tactic to gin up support for bigger government – and votes from said government employees.
He’s counting on an equally ignorant public who don’t have a clue as to how jobs and wealth are created. And also, who don’t care how the government funds itself, as long as they get a gubbmint paycheck or a gubbmint welfare check.
Every business owner ought to be outraged at his disrespect of their hard work and sacrifice, and should understand just who this Communist-in-Chief really is. And then ask themselves – is this really the direction that I want my country to go?
Blink
July 17th, 2012
It’s so much fun when Obama accuses others of the things that apply more to him than to the ones he is targeting.
Someone else is responsible for Obama’s success. He didn’t earn his way into the WH someone else made that happen. He’s not that smart. Well, Maybe this one is correct.
I can’t believe our luck that he keeps opening these doorways to look more into his background, actions and associations.
conservative cowgirl
July 17th, 2012
Besides being a total leftist ideologue, I think he sounds jealous of the people he disparaged. He certainly doesn’t mind raking in money for the books he had someone else write for him. A little envious of smart, ambitious, successful people, are you little Barracky?
Annie
July 17th, 2012
Perhaps the president was addressing Oprah.
Nordic
July 17th, 2012
It seems to me that Obama has just handed the Romney team the theme for the rest of their campaign. In one fell swoop Obama displayed his socialist inner core, he disparaged business owners (the engine of the country) everywhere, and in doing so he personally attacked the very people who are going to create the jobs that Americans (and Obama) so desperately need.
Romney has been pretty consistent in trying to keep this campaign focused on jobs – he couldn’t have asked for a better gift from Obama.
If he wasn’t constantly taking from the productive, I’d say Obama is the gift that keeps giving.