Barack Obama in Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump
On Corporations:
At a certain point, you've made enough money
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama made his intentions crystal clear: "I believe that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." So we knew where this was heading all along, because it's not government's job to spread your money
around. You spread it around yourself when you decide how you want to spend it, invest it, or donate it. Obama supports taxes because he believes government should decide more and you should decide less.
The Obamas telegraphed their anti-wealth message. As President Obama confessed, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money," as if it's
his or the government's place to decide how hard you work and how much wealth and opportunity you create."
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 59-60
Dec 5, 2011
On Corporations:
Michelle Obama: Work for community, not corporate America
Based on their words and policies, Michelle and Barack Obama apparently believe that capitalism and entrepreneurship are bad. The way they see it, raising taxes is a way to punish people for having the audacity to work hard and get rich.
As First Lady Michelle Obama put it in a speech in Ohio to a woman's group: "Don't go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse.
Make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry." Teachers and nurses are great, but to tell people that being in business is somehow illegitimate
and not part of the "helping industry" is a horrible message to send to people. Especially young people interested in business and entrepreneurship.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 60
Dec 5, 2011
On Energy & Oil:
Cap-and-trade will cause electricity rates to skyrocket
The Obama administration wants higher energy prices because they believe that will force America to drive less and businesses to slow down on production and transportation.Remember Cap-and-Tax (or as they called it Cap and Trade)? When he was
campaigning to become president, Obama outright admitted that his plan to tax businesses on carbon emissions that exceeded his arbitrary cap would drive energy prices sky high. Here's exactly what he said:
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system,
electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants, natural gas, you name it. Whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 15
Dec 5, 2011
On Energy & Oil:
OpEd: $525M to Solyndra solar panels, a big Obama donor
Obama promised he was going to create millions of so-called "green collar" jobs. He used that promise to justify his massive government giveaway of billions of taxpayers' dollars to green energy companies. We're now seeing the results of Obama's promise
big government scheme. Solyndra, a US solar panel company, turned out to be a total bust. They were selling $6 solar panels for $3. It doesn't take a genius to realize that's a loser of a business model. But Solyndra's owner, billionaire George Kaiser,
had an inside connection with Obama: Kaiser was a big Obama donor and one of the president's campaign fundraiser "bundlers." So the Obama administration fast-tracked a $535 million federally guaranteed loan. Obama believed so much in Kaiser and
Solyndra that the made a big public relations event singing the praises of Solyndra & green jobs. Predictably, the company went bankrupt, its 1,100 workers lost their jobs, & the American taxpayer got the shaft, to the tune of over half a billion dollars
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 16-18
Dec 5, 2011
On Foreign Policy:
Deal with Russia: no new missile defense in Eastern Europe
Within weeks of being sworn in as president of the United States, Obama sent a top official to Moscow to hand deliver a secret letter to Russia's then-President Dmitry Medvedev. The secret letter said that Obama "would back off deploying a new missile
defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would stop Iran from developing long-range weapons."Not surprisingly, Putin was ecstatic: "The latest decision by President Obama has positive implications," said Putin. "I very much hope that this very right
and brave decision will be followed by others."
The Obama administration made the decision to throw our friends Poland and the Czech
Republic under the bus and leave them naked to missile attacks "despite having no public guarantees" that Moscow would help crack down on Iran's missile programs.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p. 94-95
Dec 5, 2011
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