CNBC’s Santelli: Why doesn’t Obama go after Apple’s profits?

If I broke my right arm, am I going to pick a fight with the neighbor? No. If I’m two months behind on my mortgage, am I going to go complain to the bank? Probably not. But let’s see, with gasoline approaching $5 a gallon, isn’t this just a supreme time to pick a war with the energy people that are bringing us what already seems to be in the market’s eyes in short supply?

Just like picking fights with China when the world’s about ready to go into recession. There’s a time and a place for everything.

And, by the way, all these profits Exxon’s making, the administration doesn’t like it. Well, what about Apple making a billion dollars a week, or Microsoft? I bet you if GM made a billion dollars a week, they wouldn’t mind. Come on! – Rick Santelli, CNBC

See the video via RealClearPolitics here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]

299 Comments

  1. Oh my God there are LIBERALS everywhere! There sucking us dry! They are like zombies feeding on our brains! Hide your children. Lock up your wives! The liberals made the gas prices go up! The liberals want everyone to have affordable health care! We can’t have that. That is communism! The liberals want to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, educate the children, comfort the sick…. Oh wait. That was Jesus that wanted that. Never mind. I just know them liberals are bad for this country!

    1. Bull shit. The liberals want to steal our private property, rights, destroy the US constitution, ask them permission to flush our mandated low flush toilet, change a freaking light bulb, our freedom of speech, our freedom of movement, and on and on and on.

      Your stupid little Jesus comment is twisting the reality that conservatives want to make people help themselves, not leach off success and destroy it. Conservatives are all for helping the truly needs and do so much more than any liberals ever do. Google donations from both and you’ll see. Biden donated under $300 to charity last year or something pathetically close to that.

      So go to hell Hankster you brainwashed-moron!!!

  2. Are all political commentators in the US fucking retarded or just the ones on TV? Apple, like every other US corporations, pay the taxes it owes under the law. If Exxon is paying its fair share, that’s all you can ask. If its not, well guess whose fault that is? Lobbyists. It’s time for the US to grasp the fact that gasoline, like every other consumer product, isn’t a god given right. It’s subject to market forces like everything else, and your incessant bitching about the reality of the oil market and industry is, always has been and continues to be insufferable. Canada has been paying 4 dollars a gallon for years and nothing has collapsed because of it. Get over yourselves, man up and pay the piper. Either stop voting for corporate shills that pander to your standard idiotic obsessions (guns, abortion, your god delusions) while selling you out to the highest bidder, or keep being distracted by stupidities like gay marriage and the fantasy of ever lower taxes while you foot the bill for multinational corporations and billionaires crying about poverty.

    1. No all liberals are and so are you, you jackass, her shadow-lemming!!!!!

      Fair share??? You commies are sick. The wealthiest people in the US pay by far, the most money in taxes period. You scum sucking leaches can never get enough. You won’t stop until total destruction. You are delusional.

      Corporations should not be taxed as we the consumers end up paying for it in the end on top of all the other BS taxes on the same products. Taxes are a communist tool. You are a lemming!!!!!

    1. Democrat is another word for saying “I’m a communist, hell bent on destroying the US, Capitalism, Happiness, Freedom, Standard of Living, and all that is good”. Go to hell Mikey.

  3. This is idiotic. Obama is going after oil subsidies because they are bad policy. The oil companies do not need them to survive or thrive. He isn’t going after Apple because Apple isn’t subsidized by the government.

    1. You are idiotic and don’t get it. Try Austin, TX and Apple you moron. Plus Santelli doesn’t want them to go after either Apple or Oil you moron!!!!!!!!!! He’s making a point about what f*cking commies you libtards are and of course you clueless Lemmings can’t even figure that out. Losers

  4. I can’t believe all the posts on here who think that Rick Santelli represents the liberals. He is just shilling for his buddies in the oil industry. This web site has more reactionary misinformed and idiotic right wingers than any other i’ve ever seen. It’s really a phenomenon. ….Let me guess what the replies will sound like.- Your a phenomenon you commie libtard! lol

  5. And too the many posters who seem convinced the Republicans are going to win in November…..have you looked at any polls lately? Obama is leading almost every swing state by double digits and Wisconsin is a downright massacre. Good luck it’s only going to get worse rom here for the right.

    1. You are going to wallowing in your mommy’s basement you fool. Maobama is not ahead in any real polls. But keep being delusional if that makes you feel better F-Moron.

  6. Why do those who can never hope to be rich defend the rich so adamantly? Why do those who are not employed by the oil companies ,or own oil stock, defend big oil’s right to charge excessive prices for their product? Do they really believe that two percent of the population has the right to set the rules and control policy for the rest of us? I do not understand!

    1. Big Oil, Big this Big that. You are one sick Lemming troll. Success breads success. Liberals hate success and only want to spread misery. You are part of the problem you jack ass!

        1. No, actually fscuttle it doesn’t matter. What matters is what you communist jack asses are doing to the US. You are aholes. Spelled incorrectly or not!

      1. molly, I think your dictionary is a bit off:
        stupidity noun:
        1. lack of intelligence, foolishness, denseness, brainlessness, ignorance, dull-wittedness, slow-wittedness, doltishness, slowness; thickness, dimness, dopiness.
        2. foolishness, folly, silliness, idiocy, brainlessness, senselessness, injudiciousness, ineptitude, inaneness, inanity, absurdity, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, fatuousness, madness, insanity, lunacy; craziness.
        But thanks for playing…

        1. molly, True American, and Karen,
          Just admit it: you’re all the same person… But y’all need some practice. Those snappy comebacks of yours just aren’t up to MDN standards. Try harder or you’ll disappoint fscuttle…

  7. Here we go. MDN is now oficially the meeting point for angry American kids sans education. Maybe you guys should consider a different lifestyle, fix your education system, and spend less money on your killing machinery. It’s just an idea though…

    1. The Angry Americans are the vast majority of the population which are conservatives.

      The uneducated and brainwashed are the LIB-ROW-TARDS!!!!!!

      Fix your brain washing you foreign troll and go crawl back under whatever rock you slithered out from in whatever hell hole country you take up space in, you ahole.

      Tine from XYZ pathetic country that’s too afraid to announce where it’s from!!!!!! Loser!!!!!!

  8. Clinton gave us 911 by defunding and emasculating the CIA and FBI

    And…

    At President Clinton’s direction, no fewer than 10 federal agencies issued a chilling ultimatum to banks and mortgage lenders to ease credit for lower-income minorities or face investigations for lending discrimination and suffer the related adverse publicity. They also were threatened with denial of access to the all-important secondary mortgage market and stiff fines, along with other penalties.

    The threat was codified in a 20-page “Policy Statement on Discrimination in Lending” and entered into the Federal Register on April 15, 1994, by the Interagency Task Force on Fair Lending. Clinton set up the little-known body to coordinate an unprecedented crackdown on alleged bank redlining.
    The edict — completely overlooked by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and the mainstream media — was signed by then-HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros, Attorney General Janet Reno, Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, along with the heads of six other financial regulatory agencies.

    “The agencies will not tolerate lending discrimination in any form,” the document warned financial institutions.
    So this is where it all started.  In 1994.  When the government pressured lenders to qualify the unqualified.  To put people into houses they couldn’t afford.  Or else.

    1. You seem to know every detail about how Clinton contributed to the housing crisis that happened under Bush. But yet you probably don’t know anything about that video.Why is that? I’ll be waiting for your reply but i won’t hold my breath.

      1. Watch your ass hairs grow. You can selectively pick out whatever commie crap that you want but it won’t change the fact that you aholes are destroying the US, caused the housing crisis single handedly, and are the scum of the earth!

      2. I thought I explained that video the first time you posted it.
        Now, would you please give us your interpretation of Bush’s involvement vs. Frank’s or Dodd’s or Waters?

        Here’s my thought: He placated the left to shut them up, keep the war funded, and the economy going.

        1. He placated the left? That’s your answer? What a crock of shit. Bush and the Republicans own the housing crash and this proves it. He encouraged Fannie and Freddie to purchase more loans made by banks to minorities and people with poor credit. That my friends is whats called a “smoking gun”.

        2. You, F-Commie, are not playing with a full deck. You and everyone else knows that liberals caused the housing crisis and every other crisis. Bawney’s Frank, Dodd, Maobama, Clinton, etc. It’s all been laid out in front of you numerous times but your delusional liberal mind can’t wrap itself around the absolute facts.

          LIBERALS CAUSED THE HOUSING CRISIS, PERIOID!!!!!

  9. Harken back over 200 years and one will be reminded that over- reaching federal govt. was the single largest obstacle our founding fathers tackled with….much more than a military threat from another country. Without a free market, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Be grateful and admire that a company like Apple could thrive the way it has. This wouldn’t be possible anywhere else. This is great example of why you don’t want your govt to suffocate the great minds of our world. Just a thought….but a good one

      1. The leftist regime is unconscionable. We need change and reform but no this way. We are going to stifle creativity and cause out children to be be born with their hand out.

        1. No welfare check for me i have 5000 shares of AAPL. But i don’t mind providing support for the truly needy. You know some people on welfare have children fighting these wars you love so much.

        2. Very good.You almost spelled comedian correctly. Keep working on it. If you continue working hard you will be at the grownups table before you know it.

        3. F-Butt,

          It was spelled incorrectly on purpose you idiot. Just to test you because I knew that’s all you had. And in this day of iPhones/iPads there are lots of typos you Lemming!!!!!!!!!!

          Keep drinking the commie Kool Aid, numb nuts!

  10. No one can sum it up better than Trump

    Let me get this straight . . .
    We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care
    plan we areforced to purchaseand
    fined if we don’t,
    which purportedly covers at least
    ten million more people,
    without adding a single new doctor,
    but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
    written by a committee whose chairman
    says hedoesn’t understand it,
    passed by a Congressthat didn’t read it but
    exemptedthemselves from it,
    and signed by a Dumbo President whosmokes,
    with fundingadministered by a treasury chief who
    didn’t pay his taxes,
    for which we’ll betaxed for four years before any
    benefits take effect,
    by a government which has
    already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,
    all to be overseen by a surgeon general
    who isobese,
    and financedby a country that’sbroke!!!!!
    ‘What the hell couldpossibly go wrong?’
    I Just LOVE Change!!

    1. So what do you suggest we do with the people who show up in the emergency room with no insurance? Who should pay for them? Reagan made it so they can’t be turned away they have to be treated for free. The mandate forces everyone to pay their share. Personal responsibility isn’t that what you guys are always preaching? Any comment that starts with “Trump said it best” isn’t even worth reading because you know it’s an idiot who wrote it.

        1. It works? If it was working we wouldn’t be trying to fix it. Why would the right have come up with the idea for a mandate in the 90’s if the system was working?

        2. We are trying to fix the mess on top of piles of messes that liberals constantly make and force upon us all. So someone makes one bad idea a brain dead lemming like you would want to repeat it over and over again. You are sick in the head.

          Insurance across state lines. No business requirements whatsoever to provide insurance for anyone. Nor the should the government. Get rid of trip and fall lawyers.

          Get government and you out of our hair!!!!!

  11. Rick Santelli is just another big mouth with an opinion. The guy is never fact-checked and the tax issues we have today are due ENTIRELY to the GOP. The President doesn’t write law, pass laws, dictate laws, he signs laws. So if a do-nothing Congress does nothing, there isn’t much ANY president can do about it. And oil is a commodity like water, electricity and natural gas. All those prices are regulated yet oil is not. Why doesn’t Santelli ask a question like that, huh? Because he’s just another big mouth with an opinion riding a commuter train everyday. If he gives a damn, let him run for office. Then we’ll see what he has to say. A big mouth with an opinion. Like there’s a shortage of that in America!!!! I wish I had a PENNY for every stupid big mouth opinion ever uttered in the land of opinion!!!

    1. You are another libTARD troll who hates freedom, the US, capitalism, fun, families, the 4th of July, Apple Pie, and private property. Take FButt and go straight to hell you Zombies.

        1. Baseball is a given. Why would anyone have to mention it?????

          Maybe a libtard would to try to pretend that he isn’t what he really is.

          Like liberals ALWAYS DO. Pretend not to be a liberal than somehow get elected and pull out all the stops being a liberal.

        2. The real Maple Syrup obviously didn’t type that commie nonsense. The real Mapel Syrup can’t stand commies!!!!! F-Butt get back to the hive quick, you drone!!!!!

  12. I have always been a conservative but i can’t ignore that the Republican party is no longer “conservative”. As much as i hate to admit it i have no choice but to vote for Obama.

    1. I hear that. I can’t see voting for the current Republicans most of them really have their heads up their @sses. I will probably vote for Obama too just don’t tell my friends lol.

    2. Where are the real Republicans like Reagan? At least he was willing to do whats best for the country and not just cater to the radical right. He lowered taxes but when it became apparent that we needed more revenue he raised them.11 times i believe. It’s really a shame what has happened to our party. A guy like Reagan couldn’t even get nominated today. I will probably vote Democrat this year too because Obama is more like Reagan than any of the Republican candidates.

      1. You’re worrying about the wrong political direction. The commutard liberals are the problem. You’re too brain dead to notice though. Keep doing what your told to loser!!!!!

    3. I don’t want to vote for Obama but if i don’t my mother will kick me out of the house. So i’ll vote for him.I don’t really know anything about politics anyway i’m just a little bit of a bigot.

      1. I slipped in the shower when after getting out of bed for the day this afternoon and bumped my head. I think I may have finally snapped out of my libtard haze for the moment. Obama and liberals are bad. I can’t vote for them, but now I’m really confused. I’ve always been brainwashed not to feel this way. I’m going back to mommy’s basement where it’s safe!

  13. The thought of Romney or Santorum in the White House is just too ridiculous. I will be voting for Obama. The country seems to be getting back on track so why mess with a good thing. In fact i’m recommending to all my friends to vote Democrat right down the line.

    1. The thought of Maobamanidagene or Biden in the White House is just too ridiculous. I will be voting for Conservatives. The country seems to be getting back on track and realizing how badly they’ve been lied to, so now is the time to vote the commie-zombies out forever. In fact i’m recommending to all my friends to vote Republican right down the line.

  14. I didn’t risk my butt to put some bought and paid for Republican sell out in the White House. Now that i am back from Afghanistan i will be devoting my time and efforts to getting poor people and senor citizens registered to vote and helping with transportation to the polls. The rest of you should do the same.

    1. I didn’t risk my butt to put some bought and paid for Libtard-Commnist sell out in the White House. Now that i am back from Afghanistan and Iraq i will be devoting my time and efforts to getting informed people and senor citizens registered to vote and helping with transportation to the polls. The rest of you should do the same. They will never vote LIBTARD!!!!!!!!!

        1. That is touching and telling coming from a Navy Seal, Special Forces, and Green Beret! Wow, libtards are in serious trouble this November. Landslide loss!

    1. That’s interesting Father. I have asked myself which party represents the true values of Jesus more and the answer i come up with is the Democrats.You have opened my eyes Father God bless you!

      1. No you see DC, Democrats are the antichrist. They lie, cheat, steal, and spread misery. God in the Bible states that able bodied people should not take hand outs and earn their keep. Libtards want to collapse the system with hand outs to all!

        Not going to happen. My church and many, many others, are entirely committed to voting Maobama out in 2012.

  15. Woman under 50 going for Obama 2 to 1 over Romney. Obama leading Romney by double digits nationally. Obama will be leading by 18 points 2 days before the election and you morons will still think you’re going to win. LMAO i can’t wait.

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