archer wrote: I, for one, am proud to "own it". We made a choice....we chose to move forward, not turn back. We chose opportunity over fear. We chose the American people over special interests and corporate welfare. We chose a president for all Americans, not just the special few, we chose healthcare for more Americans, not just the well to do. We chose to honor a woman's right to choose and equal rights for all Americans to marry the person they love no matter their gender. We chose to reject holding this nation hostage to the extreme views of a small segment of our society. We chose to build our country, not tear it apart. I am proud of our choices.....yep, I will gladly own it.
Guess what LJ- 47% of us are takers and losers. 47% of us expect that the government will help us- and there is simply no evidence that this will happen, or has ever happened.
And archer- you are pretty ignorant to think that the guy you voted for will supress special interests and corporate welfare, heck Obama is the king of corporate welfare. Obama has his own list of the "special few". And as for healthcare- 85% of America had good health care before Obama and the demoncrats crammed this socialized system down our throats. All of the results are not in yet, America is now in the process of destroying what we had for healthcare, and replacing it with Obamacare.
The next 4 years will show us the results. Whatever happens now those who voted leftist do in fact own it. Don't even try to say we didn't warn you all.
I totally agree with the "you own it" sentiment. I have already adopted this as my own response when I hear the millennial generation whine about the condition of their reality. Even if they didn't vote Obama, their generation did- and they do own it.
My generation was faced with a similar economy just as I was graduating high school, an economy stuck in the mud- soaring inflation and interest rates, our teachers were telling us that we would never be able to afford to buy homes- or find the opportunity for a good career. My generation voted for Reagan, we made the total opposite choice. We voted for a pro-America agenda, one with an attitude towards a less intrusive and smaller government - more personal resonsibility, and an attitude that the welfare state was bad news. We voted for a pro-business environment.
And it paid off in spades for me personally- and for the vast majority of my friends who found opportunity and success and were able to make their dreams happen with hard work, until recently.
And this generation will have to live with the choices it makes, just as my generation had to live with their choices.
I will not find pity for the 30 year old living in his moms basement, for the single mom who can't seem to find employment making more than minimum wage, or for this new generation's inability to find opportunity and success- instead I will remind them.....
You voted for this- and you own it.
Hey- look at the bright side, you can't find a good job because your government ran off all the good employers with taxes and regulations. You own that. Your generation has bought the idology that anyone who earned their success is the enemy- thus you have resigned yourself to being a loser- anyone who has more than you must have took it away from you. You have shaped what will be your own destiny.
My generation looked at those with success and told themselves - I want what they have- if they can do it then so can we! And many of us proceded to do exactly that. The new generation looks at anyone with more than they have and they call them "clueless vulture-capitalists".
With that mentality- they will never achieve. That's a fact. As far as I'm concerned they can live in their mommies basement their entire lives and complain about how those who made it are holding them down. I'll be more than happy to watch it in real time.
And as they spend what little resources they do have on the latest iphone and video games- I'll keep working to put myself in a position to insulate myself from the new economy that their idology is most certain to create- one where lazy and non-productive is the new normal, one where the entitlement attitude prevails- where everyone expects things they didn't even come close to earning.
It's gonna be fun to watch- and I'll be there to remind them...
You own it.
