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stephanie
01-18-2009, 02:47 PM
I've been laid of from work, I think I will go down and apply for welfare, and let those responsible Liberals who voted for the little Marxist and this Socialist party, pay for me...woohoo:dance:

"Responsibility" is the catchword in President-elect Obama's speech -- for government, business and the American people.

FOXNews.com

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Obama's inauguration address will stress "responsibility" by calling on Americans in government and business to embrace a new era of proper behavior.

"Getting our country back on track," is the core theme of the speech, said Obama Press Secretary Rob Gibbs, adding that the president-elect wrote the bulk of it as it is now.

"We need more responsibility and accountability certainly in the way our government acts. We have to have it certainly in many of our financial institutions that sort of have gotten us to where we are in this economic crisis today," he said.

"Obviously the American people are all going to have to give some," Gibbs added, noting that the address will also try to stress that "those that have had the short end of the stick for the last few years (will) get the help that they need."

Gibbs said that the country is at a crossroads, as it has been before, and "we always find ourselves -- at least this country always has -- doing what is necessary to make this country and the lives of the American people better for each and every generation that follows."

Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for chief of staff, said Obama's speech Tuesday will ask the nation to reject the "culture of anything goes."

Emanuel said Obama will ask Americans to restore a national value system that honors responsibility and accountability. It harkens back to John F. Kennedy's call for personal sacrifice in his 1960 inauguration address.

Emanuel appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" and Gibbs appeared on "FOX News Sunday."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/responsibility-theme-obamas-inauguration-speech-aides-say/

Little-Acorn
01-18-2009, 06:11 PM
Uh-huh.

When he starts sayng things like, "You are responsible for earning your own wealth, supporting your own obligations, taking the consequences of your own mistakes, and dealing with your own misfortunes. And when you need help, ask your friends, family, neighbors, local charities etc., that's fine. And during the good times, stand ready to help the friends, neighbors etc. who need help. But don't try to FORCE anyone to help you by using the coercion of law and government power."

....then I'll believe that he favors real responsibility.

So far, I haven't heard it. Not since the 1980s, in fact.... so, Barry, the time is ripe.

namvet
01-18-2009, 06:57 PM
lets see if he's responsible for his self first.

PostmodernProphet
01-19-2009, 10:13 AM
yes...."responsibility"....as in, the government is responsible for you.....not as in you are responsible for yourself......

Monkeybone
01-19-2009, 10:19 AM
yes...."responsibility"....as in, the government is responsible for you.....not as in you are responsible for yourself......

that is exactly what i was thinking. if people had been more responsible we wouldn't be where we are now. It makes me sad that this country has been turned into a "gimmie gimmie" instead of the "work hard for it and you can earn it" country.