A Reunion of recent Presidents discuss Lincoln in comparison to BO
So I said to him, “Barack, I know Abe Lincoln,
And you ain’t Abe Lincoln ..”
Obama has made numerous attempts to quote Lincoln
SO WHY DOESN’T OBAMA USE THIS FAMOUS LINCOLN QUOTE:
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
… Abraham Lincoln
I’m not sure that quote was from Lincoln.
At least that’s what I heard on O’Reilly.
Regardless of from whom it came, President Obama could never use it, because it woulod destroy his entire policy and philosophy.
If he didn’t say them, he should have said them. But BO can not say ever them because this type of thinking is the opposite of what Progressives and Socialists think.
The 1942 quote is from William J.H. Boetcker and it is often incorrectly attributed to Lincoln.
However, the universal truths expressed are as clear and self-evident to free men and women today as they were in the dark days of World War II, and were as true then as they were when Thomas Jefferson wrote about self-evident truths and unalienable Rights in 1776.
PROFIT is a four letter word BO uses to castigate the producers.
In the FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS (FAR) the Government’s Policy on PROFIT is:
FAR 15.404-4 Profit.
(a) General. This subsection prescribes policies for establishing the profit or fee portion of the Government prenegotiation objective in price negotiations based on cost analysis.
(1) Profit or fee prenegotiation objectives do not necessarily represent net income to contractors. Rather, they represent that element of the potential total remuneration that contractors may receive for contract performance over and above allowable costs. This potential remuneration element and the Government’s estimate of allowable costs to be incurred in contract performance together equal the Government’s total prenegotiation objective. Just as actual costs may vary from estimated costs, the contractor’s actual realized profit or fee may vary from negotiated profit or fee, because of such factors as efficiency of performance, incurrence of costs the Government does not recognize as allowable, and the contract type.
(2) It is in the Government’s interest to offer contractors opportunities for financial rewards sufficient to stimulate efficient contract performance, attract the best capabilities of qualified large and small business concerns to Government contracts, and maintain a viable industrial base.
(3) Both the Government and contractors should be concerned with profit as a motivator of efficient and effective contract performance. Negotiations aimed merely at reducing prices by reducing profit, without proper recognition of the function of profit, are not in the Government’s interest. Negotiation of extremely low profits, use of historical averages, or automatic application of predetermined percentages to total estimated costs do not provide proper motivation for optimum contract performance.