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Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obama" - 11/19/2008 9:43:40 AM
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ManimalX
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First we had Joe the Plumber, then Tito the Builder, now we have Cory the Well Driller, eloquently expressing his concerns in an open letter to Barack Obama. This letter has been circulating like wildfire via chain-email, but it has been confirmed as legitimate. Sean Hannity was able to track down Cory the Driller yesterday and spoke with him on his radio broadcast yesterday.
Here are some excerpts from the letter:
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You see, Mr. Obama, I’m the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I’m the guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting, stressing and risking, to build a business and get ahead. I’m the guy who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs for East Texans who didn’t want to take a risk, and would not demand from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I’m the guy you characterize as “the Americans who can afford it the most” that you believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution “to spread the wealth” to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything. You want to characterize me as someone who has enjoyed a life of privilege and who needs to pay a higher percentage of my income than those who have bought into your entitlement culture. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career. What’s worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a better life instead of themselves. Liberals are succeeding through more than 40 years of collaborative effort between the predominant liberal media, and liberal indoctrination programs in the public school systems across our land.
The conclusion, addressing lazy folks who have no work ethic:
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You see, I know because I’ve had them work for me before. Hundreds of them over these 25 years. People who simply will not show up to work on time. People who just will not work 5 days in a week, much less, 6 days. People always looking for a way to put less effort out. People who actually tell me that they would do more if I just would first pay them more. People who take off work to sit in government offices to apply to get free government handouts (gee, I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they had spent that time earning money and pleasing their employer?). You see, all of this comes from your entitlement mentality culture.
Oh, I know you will say I am uncompassionate. Sorry, Mr. Obama, wrong again. You see, I’ve seen what the average percentage of your income has been given to charities over the years of 2000 to 2004 (ignoring the years you started running for office - can you pronounce “politically motivated”), you averaged of less than 1% annually. And your running mate, Joe Biden, averaged less than ¼% of his annual income in charitable contributions over the last 10 years. Like so many liberals, the two of you want to give to the needy, just as long as it is someone else’s money you are giving to them. I won’t say what I have given to charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times more than you or Joe Biden… combined (don’t you just hate google?). Tell me again how you feel my pain.
In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems. Like all of western Europe. All countries on the decline. All countries that, because of liberal socialistic mentalities, have a little less to offer mankind every year.
God help us…
Cory Miller
just a ordinary, extraordinary American, the way most Americans used to be.
You can read the whole letter here, among other places:
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/11/cory-well-driller-i-resent-you-mr-obama.html
It is rather lengthy, but is a good example of just how much fear and mistrust Obama brings as President. Real workers DO NOT LIKE Barack Obama. The question is if he is going to heed wisdom and forgo his disastrous economic ideas, or is he going to misinterpret the election results and go hard left? Unfortunately, the way his cabinet is fleshing out indicates that he is misinterpreting the results and moving hard left, where he always felt more comfortable.
In the words of Cory, God help us.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 11:04:15 AM
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Wait until his tax hikes pass. Then you will see the problem with the uninformed/misinformed 0bama supporters. We are talking about millions of people who work hard, pay their taxes and provide jobs for others. When they go under so do all their employees. The 0ne is clueless on so many issues that we are all going to pay for his incompetence.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 11:32:30 AM
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Ditto Steph.
67% of Obama supporters don't have a clue of
how the government was set up in the beginning
{and worse, don't care}. They don't even know
which party is in the majority or who the names
are of those leading us into destruction.
{and worse, don't care}. Kinda makes you wonder
why when this great country started that the voters
themselves had to be vetted to vote.
But the good news is, "God is always in control."
God may have to totally destroy this country,
but He will work it out for good for those who
love Him {and I mean God, not Obama} and
are "called" according to "His purpose."
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 5:17:56 PM
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Discounting the parts where Cory says "resent" (I don't resent Obama, but rather disagree with him) and some of his "rougher" edges around his speech in arguing against Obama, I like his points a lot.
I don't completely agree that we should not offer charity to the poor (as the Bible instructs!), but it should not be through the government. First, the government offers a blanket check of "charity" in many cases rather than looking at people's specific needs and background. I think peopel themselves ought to freely give out of love in situations that need it and in an amount they feel/see fit. It should not be a quota sort of thing (like X percent of income, etc.) and it should not be given to all in a blanket check.
I do like Cory's criticism of the entitlement philosophy as a kind of straw-man argument. I agree in principle with not having entitlements for free that are gauranteed. I also agree that those who risk and work hard should not be punished for their success.....They may be punished to a degree that they cannot even sustain their business which creates jobs for others. How can you give a blanket tax hike on all people making over $250K?
I respect Cory's effort, though, in trying ot send a point out to Obama about how his policies and views affect Americans and our culture in ways not often acknowlefged ord discussed by the mainstream media and/or Obama himself. (For every time Obama talks about these big bad companies taking people's money and dreams away, he does NOT equally talk about personal responsibility for those who are lazy. He should also focus on reform and personal responsibility - like McCain/Palin - equally to helping to poor. We need to teach people who are abusing gov't charity that they need to take responsibility for their actions and how they affect society.
Overall...interesting piece. Thanks for the post. 
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 6:16:03 PM
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Thank you, solomonsprayer, for the thoughtful response. I appreciate you being able to contribute to the discussion, rather than throwing out an ignorantly snide comment about hard workers needing to find a different line of work.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 8:17:36 PM
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RAts!! You beat to the post, Manimal!! I heard about this yesterday and was going to start a thread, but you beat me to the punch. I agree with this guy and here's the thing, what will we do when alllllllll these rich mines dry out and the folks aren't rich anymore b/c we took allll their money to give to the lazy bums who don't want to work? Will we then hope that someone, somewhere gets rich so we can drain him/her too? Then what? Who knows. I support the rich in this country b/c it's the rich that supplies the jobs. You drain this well, and there ain't no more wells. Not gooooddd!!!!
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 9:01:01 PM
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HUH??
If these so called "business" men really knew what they were doing they'd be successful despite who's running the country.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 9:08:00 PM
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Not necessarily. My niece's husband is just starting out in his business and while he's done very well the past several years he hasn't gotten to the point to where a massive tax hike won't hurt his business. He has been able to hire several people but if the costs to operate go too high he will have to lay off people in order to stay open. Higher taxes affects the costs of the supplies that his business has to purchase in order to operate. Higher prices get passed down to the consumer and if the consumer has less discretionary income they can't purchase as much and the vicious cycle works it's way through to everyone.
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Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how stupid he is. ~ Ecc. 10:2-3
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 9:10:56 PM
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One other thing Deb, what happens when this starts to affect your husband's employer?
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Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how stupid he is. ~ Ecc. 10:2-3
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 9:29:02 PM
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It goes both ways. There have also been plenty of business owners who have cheated, screwed over, endangered, or otherwise abused or exploited their employees or who have manipulated the political system to benefit themselves to the detriment of the community. We could go back and forth on this forever, but suffice it to say, there's plenty of good and plenty of bad in the camps of both workers and employers.
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It is rather lengthy, but is a good example of just how much fear and mistrust Obama brings as President.
How much of that fear and mistrust is because people genuinely disagree with him and how much of it exists because some in the Republican political machine have built up a lot of negative hype around him?
-Dan.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 9:41:33 PM
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So you disagree with Cory the driller's premise?
Should our tax plan be shaped by the few crooks or the vast majority of hard working employing business owners?
Why is the tax plan a social engineering attempt? Instead of arresting law breaking business owners, we should tax all the business owners?
How is that fair?
What are businesses in business to do? Will increasing taxes on these business owners help the economy?
Its not republican indoctrination. Its called...common sence.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:04:31 PM
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So you disagree with Cory the driller's premise?
I think think he highlights a portion of what goes on in this country, which is not necessarily representative of the whole. My main disagreement was with the overall tone that paints a picture of a struggling business owner being robbed to pay off a bunch of slackers.
Maybe I just don't have such a romanticized view of small businesses. I appreciate and respect what some people have done in creating something out of nothing, but I don't hold to this notion that they're all paragons of virtue, hard work, and sacrifice. Some are; some aren't. There's about as much variety in small business owners as there are in employees.
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What are businesses in business to do? Will increasing taxes on these business owners help the economy?
I don't know. It may. We're in debt up to our eyeballs and we have to find cash somehow.
-Dan.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:07:24 PM
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Geez, with all these "So-and-so the (insert career here)" what nots going around it's starting to feel like career day at kindergarten, being trapped in the young kids' section of the bookstore or like there's a really bad propaganda camaign of some sort going on...
The letter contains many arguments that might tug successfully at a particular political group's heartstrings, but to a good degree a lot of them are half-truths, omissions of important information, or flat out red-herrings and straw men.
If Cory-the-Driller is having so much trouble with his employees, it doesn't prove that the poor have no work ethic. It proves that he - or whoever does his hiring and other HR - is doing a very poor job of it. The rate of abscence and turnover he describes is atrocious and is costing him dearly.
Just because someone owns or manages the business, be they Cory-the-Driller or any other business owner/manager, doesn't mean they have good work and business ethics. Look at Wall Street. Look at AIG.
As to taxes, if we're going to have a government and that government is going to do anything, SOMEONE is going to have to pay the taxes. The Bible tells us to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. So if Cory's taxes are raised, he has to pay them.
One of the few things I can see that's right - logically and Biblically - is that the non-disabled shouldn't be given an unconditional and especially not a rather endless unconditional free ride on the welfare wagon. For them, it should be time limited and it should, IMHO, be work-fare. Though I'd agree that ideally, more charity should be done through the churches - whether or not the government continues in welfare. And I'd rather see the government continue in some sort of welfare - if they'll quit endlessly enabling those who aren't disabled - than risk seeing people starve because, quite frankly, all too many churches aren't doing charity work.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:29:05 PM
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How much of that fear and mistrust is because people genuinely disagree with him and how much of it exists because some in the Republican political machine have built up a lot of negative hype around him?
-Dan.
Dan, this has NOTHING to do with spin or hype! Obama's economic ideas to date are RIDICULOUSLY harmful to almost ALL of the job-makers in the country. There is NO WAY he can implement his spending and taxing ideas without utterly destroying the economy. His moronic leftist economic philosophy might sound great echoing in the halls of his numbskull inhabited Ivy League schools, but those laughable and witless socialistic philosophies are worth less than a pile of steaming hippo dung in the real world.
The fact, proven time and time again, is that a lower tax rate ACROSS THE BOARD results in growth and increased revenue. Liberals are famous for the horrendous unintended consequences of their stupid ideas, and Obama's tax plans are in line to be the next.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:37:03 PM
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I think think he highlights a portion of what goes on in this country, which is not necessarily representative of the whole. My main disagreement was with the overall tone that paints a picture of a struggling business owner being robbed to pay off a bunch of slackers.
Maybe I just don't have such a romanticized view of small businesses. I appreciate and respect what some people have done in creating something out of nothing, but I don't hold to this notion that they're all paragons of virtue, hard work, and sacrifice. Some are; some aren't. There's about as much variety in small business owners as there are in employees.
-Dan.
The personal character of the business owner doesn't matter. They create jobs, which create products and services people want, which increases tax revenue, which is good for everyone.
I have worked for some pretty big "donkeys" in my time, but guess what? My bills got paid and I contributed back into the local economy. Guess what else: I don't give a flying plague rat if a CEO takes a private jet everywhere and bathes in golden bathtubs. Why are people so jealous? The world ain't a level playing field, my friends. Some people make more money than others. Big deal, get over it. "Fairness" only exists in bedtime stories and the disconnected imaginations of witless liberals. We can deal with ethics reform later if that becomes necessary, but in order to do that we actually need surviving businesses.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:44:03 PM
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HUH??
If these so called "business" men really knew what they were doing they'd be successful despite who's running the country.
Give me a break. This is such a completely ignorant statement I don't even know where to begin. Have you ever RUN your own business? Have you ever had your livelihood hang vicariously by a few dollars plus or minus? Are you being obtuse on purpose for a joke?
Trust me when I say this: EXCESSIVE TAXATION CAN AND DOES CAUSE BUSINESSES TO FAIL. This has nothing to do with the folks who are running the business, it has to do with the greed of people like ol' Senator Government  and redistributing poverty a la his Obamanomics nincompoopery.
Maybe in some cases that's true, but for the most part, poor business management skills are more likely to cause a business to fail than just about anything else.
-Dan.
That is also true. But why make it even harder to run a profitable business? People are going to make bad business decisions with or without unreasonable taxation, why add to the failure factor by running pople out of business with those unnecessary taxes?
Yes, we are in debt. Yes, we need to pay that off. But how about being responsible with the INSANELY large amounts of tax revenue Americans contribute ALREADY before adding more tax that will be wasted even more irresponsibly? How about some tax oversight that eliminates moronic expenditures like the retarded "Teapot Museum"? If black holes of wasteful spending like that are eliminated, I would be happy to pay higher taxes.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 10:46:28 PM
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I think think he highlights a portion of what goes on in this country, which is not necessarily representative of the whole. My main disagreement was with the overall tone that paints a picture of a struggling business owner being robbed to pay off a bunch of slackers.
Maybe I just don't have such a romanticized view of small businesses. I appreciate and respect what some people have done in creating something out of nothing, but I don't hold to this notion that they're all paragons of virtue, hard work, and sacrifice. Some are; some aren't. There's about as much variety in small business owners as there are in employees.
-Dan.
The personal character of the business owner doesn't matter. They create jobs, which create products and services people want, which increases tax revenue, which is good for everyone.
I have worked for some pretty big "donkeys" in my time, but guess what? My bills got paid and I contributed back into the local economy. Guess what else: I don't give a flying plague rat if a CEO takes a private jet everywhere and bathes in golden bathtubs. Why are people so jealous? The world ain't a level playing field, my friends. Some people make more money than others. Big deal, get over it. "Fairness" only exists in bedtime stories and the disconnected imaginations of witless liberals. We can deal with ethics reform later if that becomes necessary, but in order to do that we actually need surviving businesses.
As has been pointed out in other threads, a progressive tax structure is justified because, generally speaking, "the rich" benefit more financially from government services than do the poor.
I'm not convinced that the economy will be better off if we maintain the current levels of historically low tax rates on the upper brackets. I won't argue for or against it, but I haven't really seen much in the way of evidence put forth by conservative supporting their position that these increases will be harmful. All I've seen is empty rhetoric, Cory's letter included.
-Dan.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 11:10:43 PM
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As has been pointed out in other threads, a progressive tax structure is justified because, generally speaking, "the rich" benefit more financially from government services than do the poor.
I'm not convinced that the economy will be better off if we maintain the current levels of historically low tax rates on the upper brackets. I won't argue for or against it, but I haven't really seen much in the way of evidence put forth by conservative supporting their position that these increases will be harmful. All I've seen is empty rhetoric, Cory's letter included.
-Dan.
Can you please tell me what government services the "rich" benefit from more than the "poor"? Can you then explain to me why that matters? In other words, why does everything have to be economically "fair"?
As far as empty rhetoric, it has been demonstrated throughout history that increasing the tax burden on job-creators causes a decrease in tax revenue. This rate fluctuates over time, and is sometime higher than others, but there is a point where increasing tax rate actually DECREASES tax revenue because businesses go OUT of business, move their base of operations to a foreig country, or find various other ways to pay less tax.
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RE: Meet Cory the Driller: "I resent you, Mr. Obam... - 11/19/2008 11:46:11 PM
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It goes both ways. There have also been plenty of business owners who have cheated, screwed over, endangered, or otherwise abused or exploited their employees or who have manipulated the political system to benefit themselves to the detriment of the community. We could go back and forth on this forever, but suffice it to say, there's plenty of good and plenty of bad in the camps of both workers and employers.
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It is rather lengthy, but is a good example of just how much fear and mistrust Obama brings as President.
How much of that fear and mistrust is because people genuinely disagree with him and how much of it exists because some in the Republican political machine have built up a lot of negative hype around him?
-Dan.
Trust me. It's not hype. And I don't fear him but I do mistrust him.
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