Barack Obama Says He Works For All Of Us?
September 22, 2012 – After the edited video of Mitt Romney making comments about the 47% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes was made public, Barack Obama went on Letterman and said, “My expectation is that if you want to be president, you have to work for everyone, not just for some.”
Really? Obama works for all of us? Sorry Obama, you do not work for me, you work for the government employee unions and moochers. Oh, and he’s also working on behalf of his dead Marxist father and that Communist mentor of his, Frank Marshal Davis. We wouldn’t want to leave those guys out of it. Hell, we might as well toss in the radical Muslims that are trying so hard to destroy our nation. He sure spends enough time kissing their asses.
I wonder how all those millions of jobless folks feel about Obama’s comments? Especially those black folks who have lost their jobs by record numbers. Does Obama work for them also?
Today’s 14.1 percent black unemployment rate is almost twice the 7.4 percent white rate, and the racial gap — after narrowing from 2005 to 2009 — has widened since the recession’s June 2009 end. At Obama’s inauguration, 7.1 percent of whites were jobless compared with 12.7 percent of blacks,” Bloomberg writes. “Amid a fitful economic recovery over the past three years, black households’ median annual income fell 11.1 percent, more than twice the 5.2 percent inflation-adjusted decline suffered by white households, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Sentier Research.” Read the full story here:
So not only no, but hell no. Barack Obama works against most of us.- JRoycroft
Well, I’m a committed Pacifist (religious), so he doesn’t work for me either. However, his opponent looks even worse. Guess it’s one of those “vote against” years.
Invisible Mikey
09/22/2012 at 9:13 PM
Look at it this way- At least Romney never put a corporation in debt. At least not into the trillions.
J Roycroft
09/22/2012 at 10:11 PM
There are financial deficits, and there are moral deficits. The USA owes heaven big time for all the innocent people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (I’m not talking about the guilty targets, just the civilians.) Romney is much more likely to expand the war machine, so I can’t vote for him. I have to vote against. It’s not like Obama will stop war either, but he is less likely to expand it.
Invisible Mikey
09/22/2012 at 11:37 PM
I can understand your point, but what about the overall state of our economy? You say Obama is less likely to expand it…Why do you think that?
J Roycroft
09/23/2012 at 12:10 AM
I don’t think Obama has done much for the blacks. Are the blacks better off now since Obama has been in office? I was thinking about this the other day. Have they gotten better jobs, more of a hand up instead of a hand out? Have they gotten better education, more advancement, more opportunities? Has Obama done anything special for them? I don’t think so. Do you think that is good? I was expecting and hoping Obama would have done a better job and I was expecting him to be the one to finally help Black Americans. Unemployment with the black youth under age 29 is 30%! This is terrible. And yet, most of the blacks will vote for Obama again. I don’t get it.
anonymous
09/22/2012 at 9:32 PM
Actually, aside from the fact that blacks have been struggling under Obama, some Black Preachers are trying to encourage their church members to not vote for Obama because of his stance on gay marriage. Gay marriage is a big no-no in the black Christian community. Some political watchers are saying that will cause about a 10-20% decrease in his black voter support.
J Roycroft
09/22/2012 at 10:16 PM
Back at J – The overall state of our economy is evolving, in my view. We were overly reliant upon fake financial service products. That and the absurdly unrealistic housing bubble caused the great recession. Romney is hobbled by a decades-old view of how to handle an economy. The correct path out of these woods is voluntary simplicity – owning less, recycling more, alternative energy, and smaller homes. We are an obese nation, both physically and materially, and the most fat to be cut is in the military. Romney resists that entirely. Obama does too, but less. He’s the better choice.
Invisible Mikey
09/23/2012 at 1:22 AM
I find your reasoning very interesting. Would you care to share your view with my readers in your own un-edited post?
J Roycroft
09/23/2012 at 2:13 AM
I appreciate the offer very much, however I write in my spare time for amusement, and I have little of it right now (I’m an X-ray Tech at a busy Urgent Care.) I have sometimes posted about these generally related issues: voluntary simplicity, radical inclusiveness, the moral position of the Occupy movement, and the history of congressional gridlock (19th Century). Here are relevant links for any interested: http://invisiblemikey.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/are-we-better-off/
http://invisiblemikey.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/weeds-bigwhigs-and-know-nothings/
http://invisiblemikey.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/understanding-the-u-s-occupation/
http://invisiblemikey.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/maybe-i-need-a-hug/
Invisible Mikey
09/23/2012 at 10:32 AM
No, Obama certainly doesn’t work for all of us. He’s a man of pretty words, but then most deceivers are. All those who are going to vote for him because he promises to preserve Medicare and Social Security are not looking at things rationally. Both programs are simply not viable in their present form. Some sort of reforms will have to take place regardless of what Obama promises. The way I see it, we tighten our belt, and learn to live with fewer entitlements and governmental safety nets, and choose the candidate who can make the necessary cuts in a methodical and controlled fashion, or choose the candidate who promises the moon only to have every thing abruptly cut off when the government goes bankrupt. Entitlement programs will be reformed either way.
middleagedhousewife
09/23/2012 at 2:09 PM