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Old 07-20-2012, 09:07 AM
 
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I still haven't figured out the outrage over this whole statement.

How does it take away from your success to say you had a great teacher?
Are you a business owner? Have you ever built anything like that?

 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:12 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Are you a business owner? Have you ever built anything like that?
A road or a bridge? No, I have never built a road or a bridge.
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:21 AM
 
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I look at it like this.

If Obama can attack Romney for tangible things such as not releasing his tax returns and his record at Bain while Romney has to attack twisting words, Romney is in trouble.
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:22 AM
 
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It's always nice when Bill Gates can avoid estate taxes by giving most of his money to charity. He ensures his immortal legacy, can push his agenda, and avoids taxes at the same time. Kind of ironic that Buffett agrees with Gates yet does the same exact thing to skirt their tax obligation. Win-win.
You think giving money to charity rather than the government is a bad thing?
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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A road or a bridge? No, I have never built a road or a bridge.
You don't pay taxes?
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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You don't pay taxes?
Yes I do. I still have never built a road or a bridge.
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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A road or a bridge? No, I have never built a road or a bridge.
I've blown bridges up, and graded road beds prior to paving
 
Old 07-20-2012, 09:58 AM
 
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A road or a bridge? No, I have never built a road or a bridge.
Many municipalities require developers to build the infrastructure around them although it doesn't usually include bridges since most businesses or housing isn't built on a river or over a ravine. However it does include sidewalks, new roads or rebuilding the current ones, stop lights, crosswalks, stop signs, erosion control, etc.
 
Old 07-20-2012, 10:08 AM
 
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What I think he meant was that a business is useless in and of itself; it takes more than just one person starting the business to make a business thrive. Any successful business is successful because of other people not just the person who started it. Jeez people.
Then he is still wrong.

I paid for any help I got.
 
Old 07-20-2012, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Obama should stop trying to spin this since it will only make things worse for him and his party come election time.

We all know exactly what he meant, and we all have multiple examples of his downright hostility towards big and small businesses, ambition, creativity, free enterprise, as well as his asinine remarks such as 'There comes a time in your life when you've made enough money', which is total BS, and none of his bleeping business.

He's said a ton of stupid things since he became President, but his remarks in Roanoke tops the list, and stands as a 2 by 4 to the skull of every working stiff in this country.
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