Steve Jobs...a fitting last name.

Steve Jobs was one of the single greatest job creators of our time....think about it. We were lucky to have him in this country, OUR country where he was able to take a vision and run with it. How many other countries have the type of environment needed for such a huge success story to happen? This man was a shining example of how any one individual can create wealth for so many people here and around the world.

I hope this country never gets to the point where our government makes it too difficult for men like Steve Jobs to turn a great vision into not just a great product line, but a perpetual job creating machine as well. Of all the jobs he helped to create, how much did they cost the taxpayer? Think about it.

I find it fascinating that he was adopted. This from:

Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died
By JORDAN ROBERTSON - AP Technology Writer | AP – 13 hrs ago

Steven Paul Jobs was born Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson, then an unmarried graduate student, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria. Simpson gave Jobs up for adoption, though she married Jandali and a few years later had a second child with him, Mona Simpson, who became a novelist. ..... He was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs of Los Altos, California, a working-class couple who nurtured his early interest in electronics.

"All of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it," he said at a Stanford University commencement address in 2005. "I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out." He found out later.

CriticalBill wrote: Steve Jobs was one of the single greatest job creators of our time....think about it. We were lucky to have him in this country, OUR country where he was able to take a vision and run with it. How many other countries have the type of environment needed for such a huge success story to happen? This man was a shining example of how any one individual can create wealth for so many people here and around the world.

I hope this country never gets to the point where our government makes it too difficult for men like Steve Jobs to turn a great vision into not just a great product line, but a perpetual job creating machine as well. Of all the jobs he helped to create, how much did they cost the taxpayer? Think about it.

Does that mean we should change Obama's last name to Barack Unemployment? Or Barack Welfareking?

Guess it's a good thing for all of us that Ms. Simpson didn't get pregnant out of wedlock in an era where aborting the pregnancy was an acceptable alternative to the course she took. Ever wonder how many Jobs' never got the chance to bless our society with their abilities as a result of that fundamental transformation?

PrintSmith wrote: Guess it's a good thing for all of us that Ms. Simpson didn't get pregnant out of wedlock in an era where aborting the pregnancy was an acceptable alternative to the course she took. Ever wonder how many Jobs' never got the chance to bless our society with their abilities as a result of that fundamental transformation?

Way to turn a eulogy of a great business leader into a nasty partisan/religious attack.

What an idiot, this thread is an on line eulogy? Carry on with your Right wing hating rant dumba$$.

HEARTLESS wrote: What an idiot, this thread is an on line eulogy? Carry on with your Right wing hating rant dumba$$.

typical brilliant dialog from a conservative.

And the usual stupid hate filled rant of the Demagouge Party.

Something the Dog Said wrote:

PrintSmith wrote: Guess it's a good thing for all of us that Ms. Simpson didn't get pregnant out of wedlock in an era where aborting the pregnancy was an acceptable alternative to the course she took. Ever wonder how many Jobs' never got the chance to bless our society with their abilities as a result of that fundamental transformation?

Way to turn a eulogy of a great business leader into a nasty partisan/religious attack.

I guess the truth is a bit much for you to bear most days, huh Dog. The people of this nation benefited greatly from both the products and the mind of Steven Jobs, neither of which would have been possible if his mother had decided that it just wasn't a convenient time for her to have a child, she was the victim of an unintended pregnancy, or she simply wasn't interested in being a mom yet and aborting her pregnancy.

I think it a proper time, when contemplating and celebrating the life of a man who gave us so much, to stop and consider how many others like him we will never have the pleasure of meeting, never have the benefit of their creativity, never realize the benefit of their humanity or their philanthropy.

Sorry Dog, only someone with their heart filled with hate could possibly attempt to twist such philosophical contemplations into something ugly and nasty. For the rest of us it is simply a part of the special gift that Jobs' life represented and how much ending that life before he was born would have cost us all in the end.

HEARTLESS wrote: .... the Demagogue Party.

I like that name, can I start using it?