Weekly Address: Out-Innovating, Out-Educating & Out-Building Our Competitors

[cal04]

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Weekly Address: "America Will Win the Future by Out-Innovating, Out-Educating, and Out-Building Our Competitors"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/29/weekly-address-america-will-win-future-out-innovating-out-educating-and-

[snappyturtle]

1. Why don't I feel enthused after reading this? The problem is we don't

out innovate, out educate or out build our competitors. The dumbing down of America has been going on for decades and thus will lead to less innovation as does the widening disparity between the rich and poor. We may have a chance at out building our competitors though. By working more hours for lower wages the rich will be able to afford us. :sarcasm: imho

[Can of Whoop-ass]

2. Go back to work!

I get the message Obama's sending: "Get off your ass, lazy, f*ckoffs and stop whining, Americans"! He's scolding us and we need it, especially the crybabies on the right who want Saint Ronnie cheese and other handouts!

[swilton]

3. That capitalism promotes the best and the brightest

is a myth - it protects the status quo and stifles innovation and free thinking.

[dotymed]

4. Thank you swilton.

You are exactly correct. Look at Egypt, they are revolting because of (mainly) economic disparity. The very same disparity we have in America. The "haves and the have-nots" is mainly what it is about.
This is spreading. It is time (not too late I hope) that the world citizens demand their rights. We are all tired of the serfdom that has been forced upon us as the result of capitalism replacing Democracy. The world has become a Corptocracy and we can see the brave citizens of other countries standing up to this global machine. Americans must realize (most do) their plight and act. The big thing in America is that our MSM is a part of the Corptocracy and misleads us as to the cause of our repression.

[gtar100]

5. That says it in a nutshell !

People have gotten used to hearing criticism about many things - politics, religion, philosophy, education - but critisizing capitalism in public really sets some people off like nothing else. It's held sacrosanct by the mainstream public. Yet they fail to see that what they say are it's greatest features - competition, the rise of the best and brightest, freedom - are destroyed when left unregulated and unchecked.

[JJW]

6. He forgot the big one

Outsourcing!

Tied with Bush as most pathetic corporate shill.

[taught_me_patience]

7. This sounds like a bullshit corporate retreat

where senior execs spout bullshit corporate platitudes.

I wish Obama would tell me why I should do any of this... when it's the corporations getting rich off my "innovation".

[PADemD]

10. bullshit corporate platitudes

You got that right!

[Raoul]

8. Mr. President

What exactly are you smoking and can I have some? 2035? Good jobs? Many of us will be fucking dead by then.

I'm beginning to think this guy is as deluded or maybe even more deluded than bush ever was.

[Enthusiast]

9. He's got some Panamanian Thai Red.

Dangerous shit, man. :yoiks:

[swilton]

11. Making the world a better place is not zero sum

If the US improves its technology and use of renewables, and lightens its CO2 footprint, the entire world will benefit and not just US corporations. The US doesn't have to out compete other countries.

[RBInMaine]

12. Excellent ! And anyone who is crapping on what he is doing has no sense of political reality.

People want OPTIMISM and good PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS. Get real if you can't see that what he is doing is correct, resonating well with the vast majority of the nation who support him on this, and that we do not need the endless WHINING from the non-reality wing of the ultra-liberal left.

[Raoul]

13. Oh pulleeezze

give me a fucking break! Non-reality from the left (such as me)?? The only non reality I see is from this guy spouting bs about the vague future along with his sock puppet, Biden, who tells people who are losing homes and everything else to just "hang in there".

People who blindly support this guy are NO different than the right wing religionist necons who blindly supported the war criminals bush/cheney et. al.

This guy is FANTASTIC at what bush would call 'speechifying' ie: talking pretty words. But the reality is that we are in a fucking depression that he and the rest of them refuse to face. They and their blind followers are the ones living in fantasy land.