Bufoon Right Winger Dr. Mike Adams Makes Pres. Obama's Point- but doesn't know it....

[Swamp Lover]

Read the Right Winger's story about how he got his PhD while funding himself through an assistantship and working as a musician, but did it all himself. First, he got the start up money from the death of his grandfather- an inheritance froma life insurance policy. Next, he is a graduate student on an assistantship. When I was a grad student on assistantship, also in Mississippi, not only did I get a stipend like Dr. Adams, but my entire tutition was paid for- that's right Dr. Adams and I both went to school on the tax payer dole. NExt, read the success story of this "rugged individualist" and count the people who helped him along the way, although he thinks he is making the point that he did it all on his own...no one helped him....except a singing partner, a fraternity, the guy who would rent him equiptment for cheap, a restaurant owner who took a chance, a bar owner who gave him gigs....but no....he did it on his own!!!!!

Read the article and count the number of folks who helped this conservative make it all by himself!!!!!

Dear President Obama:

I’m still reeling from your recent remarks about small business owners in America. With one sweeping generalization, you stated that those of us who have had successful businesses did not earn that success. Instead, you insist that someone else made it happen for us. I’ve written to tell you my story in the hopes that you will see the foolishness of your unproven assertions.
Back in 1989, I decided to pursue a PhD in Criminology. I was nearing the end of my Master’s program in Psychology. I had a teaching assistantship that paid a mere $345 per month. I knew that I could not live on $345 per month for the minimum of three years I would need to finish my doctorate. I also knew that my parents would not be able to extend the same financial support they had so graciously extended while I was working on my Master’s degree. So I devised a plan to start a new business with just $1000 of initial investment.
My grandfather had passed away in December of 1988. In the late spring of 1989, my grandmother mailed me a check for $1000 that had been part of a life insurance policy payout issued upon my grandfather’s death. In the late summer of 1989, I met a graduate student by the name of Shannon Ruscoe. He had been playing tennis with my roommate Harry Wilson the day I met him. I was sitting in my living room playing a song by James Taylor when Shannon started singing along. After just a few minutes of listening to Shannon sing, I knew my life would never be the same again.

http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2012/07/23/how_obama_earned_my_doctorate

[Renew Deal]

1. Pretty funny

[Swamp Lover]

2. And this guy seems to be a Free Republic Sweet Heart.

Some sort of right wing conspiracy author.

[JHB]

3. I remember a news show back in the 80s, on the welfare debate...

It was a one-shot "special report" kind of thing, structured to pick a handful of ordinary people and get their views after the presentation of different arguments and counterarguments.

The one guy who stuck in my mind was a man from Arizona, who'd started off as a construction worker, saved up, started his own building supply business, and was taking the now-familiar "I worked hard and made it. the government never handed me a check" view.

Leaving aside how these people were actually chosen, and assuming he represented himself fairly, I found myself having my first bout of arguing at the television set:

"Wait a minute. You're in the building trades in Arizona. A place made ripe for grown thanks to Federal water projects, power projects, and transportation projects. You don't have to have cashed a single government check to have benefited from 'The Government'. What would your taxes be if the State of Arizona had needed to take out bonds to pay for all that?"

[leftyohiolib]

4. to the right wing mind those people are tools he used to get there all by himself

[kimbutgar]

5. I get his newsletter for health advice and he really has gone over

The right wing deep end . It is so disappointing that such a smart guy has become an unhinged right wing lunatic.

[Swamp Lover]

6. I hope that you were careful about his health advice.

I think he's a PhD in Criminology.

[SidDithers]

7. Edit: nevermind. Same name, different people

Sid

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Heh - you're thinking of the guy who has proclaimed the Aurora shooting to be an FBI false flag op

It's on NaturalNews, though I won't dignify it with a link. At least the next time some gullible DUer quotes him, we have an exampkle to show of how much of a wingnut he is.

[SidDithers]

13. Yeah, I was thnking of the Health Ranger himself...

who also claims to be a musician, and whose pictures is not too dissimilar from that of RW wacko TownHall Mike Adams.

Who knew there would be two of em

Sid

[JoePhilly]

8. I've never met a poor frat boy.

Clearly, his family had the money to pay for his Master's degree.

Then he plays keg parties, and private parties ... I'm sure he included that income on his taxes.

Clown.

[librechik]

9. E pluribus Unum? No WAY

A united America is a COMMUNIST America--if you listen to the logic of the Right Wing, which is filled with no one but u independent millionaires who made their money all on their own--no inheritance, no favorable laws, no great economy to float you.

What idiots!

[Swamp Lover]

11. According to the Limbaught-right wing the biggest victims in the Aurora tragedy

are the investors in the movie who may lose money if ticket sales suffer.

[FarLeftFist]

12. And did he drive to his gigs on public roads?

[Swamp Lover]

14. And a PhD in Criminology?

Is there a private sector call for Criminologists, or do they work for tax funded organizations?