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There was a spider on the ceiling of my closet that disappeared when I went to get a towel to kill it. So now I have to burn my house down.
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Lesson one: Only trust people who like big buts... They cannot lie.
Praying that people think I'm walking back from church during my walk of shame down Tennessee.
Every single time I choose the wrong key, or fail to unlock a door quickly,
I think to myself, "Man, you WOULD NOT survive a Zombie Apocalypse!"
Time to get out of bed. The world is not going to dominate itself!
What if Zeus has always been trying to hit my car with his lightning but none of the other gods have the heart to tell him he needs glasses?
Java Break now regulates how long you can use their internet based on how much you spend. At least Perkins knows their place.
Just went on an Everglades boat tour. Not the first time I've thought this: could have used a Pokedex.
Jeopardyl is the best game show but Family Feud is pretty fun to watch because you get to shout at the TV.
Pro-tip: If you want your car to smell terrible, just leave your window down all night during a thunderstorm.
I'm jealous of people who aren't born yet as they will b able to just marathon Breaking Bad season 5 while I wait each week lake a chump.
Obama needs economics course
With the fall semester only a month away, KU professors will hope that students don't take President Obama's recent remarks to heart. During a rally in Roanoke, Virginia on July 13, the President commented how people had achieved their success.
"If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. ... I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart," the president said. "If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
KU students certainly shouldn't listen to President Obama, because it isn't that easy to achieve success.
Although Obama did also say that we succeed because of our individual initiative, his other words highlight a fundamental problem: his disdain for giving individual business owners their due credit.
Anyone who has done well in college or in business will be the first to tell you that in order to achieve success, you have to put in long hours, great amounts of effort and rely on a little bit of luck. But the president wants you to recognize that you didn't build
that life for yourself; you owe most of that success to those that helped you. Using my Obama-translator, I can safely say that he's highlighting the influence of the state. While I am far too knowledgeable of what a socialist is to call President Obama a socialist, I know a statist when I see one.
These remarks aren't anything new from President Obama, they highlight his disdain for America's business owners, the people that he believes are hurting working-class Americans. According to his warped idea of how entrepreneurship should work, business owners are taking food out of the workers' mouths. What the President doesn't seem to grasp is that these are the people who helped make America great. Where would we be without the
likes of Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Bill Gates or any of the other millions of American business owners; both big and small? This is why our President hasn't been able to grow jobs; he's completely unaware of how long-term jobs are created. We need to increase the growth of sustained jobs. In order to create jobs, we need to understand that these private employers that our president loves to demonize, are the ones that employ hardworking Americans.
The horrifying thought is that there are many voters who either believe this demonization or will give the president a pass on remarks like this. As our unemployment rate remains to sit above 8 percent, it's laughable that the president would find now the best time to criticize business owners.
Barack Obama confuses me. We've spent so much time talking about how Mitt Romney is a "flip-florper" but wasn't it President Obama who lambasted Romney as someone who readily sends American jobs offshore? Just in case he doesn't know the very first thing about creating jobs—which, given the unemployment numbers, would suggest he doesn't—the president would benefit from a few economics courses in international business and trade. Sending those parts of production that would be produced more efficiently offshore, create a higher level of trade and more jobs here. So the president doesn't like American business owners or foreign business owners. Can we finally ask the president if he actually knows how real jobs are created?
People make these sort of remarks because of what they're used to; their experiences shape their world views. Our president has never achieved anything truly on his own; he's always been given a helping hand. And his inability to create jobs should come as no surprise; he's never had a real job. These foolhardy words emulate a gross disregard for the risks of entrepreneurship, business owners must risk the livelihood of both themselves and all of those they employ. We should be rewarding the millions of American employers, not chastising them for political gain. At some point, the President of the United States should get out of campaign-mode.
McCroy is a senior in economics from Des Moines, Iowa.
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