Posted on 05/03/2012 9:29:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can "Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime -- and how Mitt Romney would change her story." It is one of the most brazenly statist pieces of campaign literature I can ever remember seeing.
Let's, for the purposes of this post, set aside the misleading generalizations regarding policy in the ad (no one is innocent on that account, obviously). What we are left with is a celebration of a how a woman can live her entire life by leaning on government intervention, dependency and other people's money rather than her own initiative or hard work. It is, I'd say, implicitly un-American, in the sense that it celebrates a mindset we have -- outwardly, at least -- shunned.
It is also a mindset that women should find offensively patronizing. When they're old enough, I hope my two daughters will find the notion that their success hinges on the president's views on college-loan interest rates preposterous. Yet, according to the "Life of Julia," women are helpless without the guiding hand of Barack Obama.
Julia can enroll in a Head Start program to help get her ready for school. Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve the program … Julia can take the SATs because she was trained by the useless “Race to the Top” program, yes, implemented by President Obama … During college, Julia undergoes surgery, which is thankfully covered by her insurance due to parents' coverage until she turns 26 … thanks to Obama.
Julia works as a full-time web designer, and thanks to Obamacare, her health insurance is required to cover birth control and preventive care, "letting Julia focus on her work rather than worry about her health..."
...because children are bad for your health, obviously.
And so on and so forth.
Julia then has a son named Zachary (who has no father around, as far as I can tell) and we can start the entire storyline again.
Finally, Julia retires. “After years of contributing to Social Security, she receives monthly benefits that help her retire comfortably, without worrying that she'll run out of savings...
This allows her to volunteer at a community garden.”
If you think Social Security benefits allow you to live your retirement without worry, you deserve Barack Obama.
Most decent people believe that government should be there to assist and help those who find themselves in legitimately rough or desperate circumstances. But an adult Julia, from what I can tell, does not qualify.
Is Julia hot?? Do we get to watch her gov’t funded videos?
He is one amazing dude.
Age 70, Julia finds out she has breast cancer, but is told by an Obamacare death panel that she’s too old for them to waste any money on saving her life. She’s given pain pills and a pamphlet promoting assisted suicide.
Charity, private charity, had been the classic American way of helping people who fell on difficulty due to no fault of their own. Less so now that government has taken over so much of its function, and far more wastefully. Is Head Start the only thing that could help Julia in getting an education? Is she so hard up now she can’t afford the pill or condoms if she and hubby want the passion but not the progeny? (If there is a hubby? Is she, heaven forbid, an alley cat?)
Reality TV: The Julia Show
Sure seems to be something of the American dream lost here. Wouldn’t Julia like to aspire to doing well enough that all or most of these government bennies become irrelevant to her life? This sounds like a paean (hurrah! I spelled it correctly) to treating the safety net as a hammock.
Well, I wasn’t watching much TV in those daze (other than the Boston Bruins), but I’m willing now to stipulate that Diahann Carroll is/was hot.
This surprised her because she and her boyfriends were using free, government paid contraception.
No worry. Julia simply went into the Obama Medical Center for a $50 abortion. Now, not being punished with another burdensome child, Julia had much more time to devote to the community organic garden. She even had a little extra to donate to the Democrat party.
One day she paused to count her blessings.
She thought about freedom from an unwanted child along with food stamps and the free solar panels that kept her government housing apartment warm!
Julia knew that she could rest easy.
Obama had made sure that her life would be care free. Housing, food, health care -- even an electric car and kitchen remodel -- all taken care of by the Father of the Country.
Julia and Zachary were pleased to set up a table with a collection of photos in a corner of the living room. Each morning she knelt to say thanks. Obama truly makes life worth living.
Is that obama aunt? The one that is illegal alien and never worked - ever - but says she deserves everything free cause she got here.
No. Just a "composite" of her.
Who the hell is EQAndyBuzz and why you are “not” paying for his whole life.
EQ cannot enroll in a Head Start program to help get him ready for job training. He is a white, christian male and does not qualify. Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve the program … EQ can take the SATs at his own expense. However, even if EQ does well, he cannot afford college tuition and cannot get a loan. Why?
Because in 2006 Barney Frank and Chris Dodd made a concerted effort to bring down the Bush administration and with that the entire financial industry. An industry where many of the investors were white, christian, middle class males who worked their butts off for 35 or more years to prepare for their retirement. When the markets crashed, people like EQ not only lost their jobs, but also most of their portfolio.
To compensate for the lack of a job, instead of taking unemployment or welfare, EQ worked at menial jobs and supplemented his meager income with his retirement funds until something better came along.
EQ undergoes surgery, however, his health insurance consists of paying for COBRA at $1000 per month because he cannot buy affordable health insurance, thanks to Obama.
EQ’s child gets sick and spends a year in residential treatment which bankrupts EQ. EQ asks the government for assistance with locating facilities. He is told he doesn’t qualify for assistance.
To get back in the saddle, EQ travels halfway across the country for a job which will separate him from his family. He sleeps on an air mattress and eats rice and beans for 6 months, living in 1 small room. He bums rides from the people he works with and his only luxury is renting a car every couple of weekends so he can go shopping for essentials. For entertainment EQ treats himself to Netflix.
EQ is a veteran. He applies for jobs at USA jobs and other government job site. He is told that he is over 36 years old and that his skin color and sex puts him at the bottom of the list for jobs.
EQ finally finds a job at home in the field of his choice. Despite all the “help” the government says it provides, EQ did it on his own, which in the minds of the liberals in this country, makes him part of the 1% who should pay more taxes.
Sure it’s not a compression of her?
Julia at 67 volunteered for the community garden. Julia at 70 volunteers again, this time as mulch.
Must not have been hot, she never even got married.
It’s scary how out and out blatant this campaign is about it’s socialist roots. From the historically marxist “Forward” slogan, to Julia. Julia is the female protaganist in Orwell’s 1984. She rebels with Winston, only to ultimately submit to Big Brother.
He is a white, christian male
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You don’t understand.
Guess you don’t realize that because you were born white you have had it made all your life.
You only recently released your slaves.
You drive high powered vehicles.
You constantly put down the Black man.
You want to keep women barefoot and pregnant.
You have had everything ‘given’ to you for your entire life.
You don’t want clean air.
You hate children that aren’t yours.
You don’t want clean water.
So, now that the ‘chickens have come home to roost, it is time for you to pay for your past sins.
I guess if people whose great great grandparents weren’t even born yet can be considered products of slavery, the fact that your grandparents didn’t come to this country until the early 1900’s makes YOU guilty of owning and promoting slaves/slavery.
Bizarro world at its finest.
From the comments:
“What’s that big trench in the community garden for?”
Wow.
Just wow!
If the GOP had any brains and guts, they would create a mirror site about the life of "Sally" who works all her life, learns the critical values of family, individual worth and effort, whose normal family provides all her needs and guidance to be an independent human being and a success throughout her life. Who is a productive taxpaying adult all her life, and the only obstacles in her lifelong efforts to succeed as an individual is the coercive, arbitrary heavy hand of government.
And she succeeds beyond all expectations in spite of them.
For her, "recreational sex" is not a health issue.
For her, a "victim identity" is never a tool for advantage, just her innate effort and excellence.
Without the oppressive weight of National Socialism and its resulting confiscatory tax burden , she can provide for her own home, for her own family (in or out of her home.)
She learned early in her life about the lethal trap of the "public commons," which always fails due to the human tendency at parasitism.
Clearly, this Julia is a mythical invention of the propaganda machine to mesmerize the ignorant, the idle, the useless, the natural urban predators who never produce anything of national worth. But the garbage of society whose "fair" share net contibution is zero, or substantially negative, can vote themselves ever increasing "free stuff."
That predicts inevitable total social collapse.
Perhaps Obama and his minions can tell us how a nation comprised totally of Julias and Julios can last more than a generation without literally eating each other.
Waiting (not holding my breath) for a rational response.
There is a big reason why the government option is preferable to charity by the left. Charity requires the acknowledgment that those who have achieved and who therefore can give are not villains. It also suggests that the recipient of the charity be appreciative and thankful to those who provided the charity. The left is driven by hatred, and cannot abide that. They prefer to vilify those who have, take their ‘stuff’, make it clear that they have no choice but to give up their stuff, and then spit in their face rather than be thankful.
By the government's own standards, Head Start is a dismal failure, every year since its inception . In the annual report received by the White House, its effectiveness rating (100% is total success) hovers at or below 50%.
And that program is one of hundreds similarly rated, which continue to be funded year after year.
Can anyone imagine a private industry company whose success rate for decades is 50% surviving long?
I'll have to find the official site that documents that beyond question.
Any program with a rating of less than 75% should have gotten the ax decades ago. Yet, like vampires, they continue existing and more similar programs are added every year.
Julia--- Julio--- lets make it simple, No useful productive work, no food. No food, starve.
Community organizing to create additional parasites does not qualify as work. Activism which destroys property and lives is not work.
Back to the drawing board.
I suspect she looks like this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPg-87Z9FVk/TpWldPuDpeI/AAAAAAAACeM/5nZ89uNaBgU/s1600/Fat%2Band%2Bhungry.jpg
Hmm, not so much in that case.
Call me indecent then. Family, friends, neighbors, church community should provide this assistance. Of course we have seen the destruction of the family unit over the past couple of generations, and churches are a shell of what they once were... But relying on government to 'stand in the gap', just creates greater dependency on government. I'd like them to be limited to building roads, protecting the borders, and administering the Law equitably... Instead we have an octopus in Washington DC (and every State Capital fiefdom) with their tentacles spread into all aspects of our lives.
Didn't Cambodia have some of those under Pol Pot?
Call me indecent then. Family, friends, neighbors, church community should provide this assistance. Of course we have seen the destruction of the family unit over the past couple of generations, and churches are a shell of what they once were... But relying on government to 'stand in the gap', just creates greater dependency on government. I'd like them to be limited to building roads, protecting the borders, and administering the Law equitably... Instead we have an octopus in Washington DC (and every State Capital fiefdom) with their tentacles spread into all aspects of our lives.
Perhaps the most egregious example of the liberal media planting a pro-Kennedy spin on Chappaquiddick came in a January 5, 2003 Boston Globe Magazine profile of Kennedy:Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/07/18/40-years-chappaquiddick-ted-kennedy-would-have-brought-comfort-mary-jo-k#ixzz1tpi7DxqO
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age,” wrote the Globe’s Charles Pierce. The quote was recognized as the worst of the year at the MRC’s DisHonors Awards in 2004.
I'm sure the Obama Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda or Propagandaministerium has a glib, meandering and unconvincing explanation for that!
LOL. That’s a good one. She does this right after she participates in Two Minutes of Hate.
Then one day, Julia passed away. But the body wasn't found for five days, because no one had checked on her, not even the people from the community garden. With no children, no one came to claim the body either. The county health department cremated her and interred the ashes in a communal urn.
Meanwhile, Obama teed it up on #1 at The Courses at Andrews...
Quoting John Lennon:
“Half of what I say is meaningless,
but I say it just to reach you, Julia”
SOURCE:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/298859/julia-kevin-d-williamson
Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:
4 months: Julia’s mother decides that giving birth will be hard on her figure. She kills Julia. Under Barack Obama, her right to do so is absolutely nonnegotiable.
10 years: Trapped in a failing and dangerous public school, Julia (another Julia, not the dead one) is terrified and miserable. Under the Obama administration, protecting the government education monopoly from competition and accountability is almost as sacrosanct as abortion. School-choice programs are severely constrained or eliminated. Julia falls behind.
21 years: After barely completing her high-school degree in her god-awful school, Julia goes looking for a job. There aren’t many, especially for people without college degrees. Julia kicks around the food-service and hospitality industries for a while, and ends up getting a job as a bartender. Even at her relatively low level of income, she pays a host of direct and indirect taxes to help subsidize Obama donors and supporters at politically connected businesses. She can’t quite figure out why President Obama’s pet millionaires and billionaires need her money more than she does.
22 years: After working in the bar for a while, Julia decides she likes it and wants to open her own place. But she’ll need capital to get that done. Under Obama, there is little or no credit available to small entrepreneurs, because we never got around to fixing the problems in the banking system, instead choosing to futz around with things like the disclosures on credit-card offers and micromanaging swipe fees and grandstanding about bonuses. Julia does not open her new business, and she doesn’t hire any other Julias to build, decorate, supply, or staff it.
23 years: Being a bartender, Julia works late at night. Under Obama, the federal government supports laws that make it difficult or impossible for a private citizen to own a gun in many places. Leaving her bar one night, the defenseless Julia is killed in the street. Ironically, the gun used to kill her was sold to a Mexican drug cartel under a program run by President Obama’s Department of Justice.
57 years: Julia (different Julia, not one of the dead ones) has been paying very high taxes for most of her life, mainly to support three federal programs: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. In fact, the payroll tax diverts about 12 percent of her income — income she might have saved — into the entitlements. Under President Obama, stubborn refusal to reform these unsustainable entitlements means that the programs have to be radically cut or entirely eliminated, and Julia and her whole generation get hosed in spite of the fact that they have been taxed for decades under the phony promise that they were “paying into” the programs. The only alternative to massive cuts was an 88 percent increase in all federal taxes, which already have been rising to offset costs from Obamacare, which were wildly underestimated.
88 years: Julia (different Julia) passes away in 2022. And she got out just in time: Policies adopted by the Obama administration sent the national debt to $71,000 per person and climbing.
“With no children”
Since her son Zachary had died of AIDS after joining a gay regiment of the Army, no one agreed to pay for a cremation.
So, the her body was buried in the organic garden to fertilize mother earth and her beloved marijuana plants.
Forward Into Socialism! Forward to Progress!
Here’s another question: If the government provides her with everything she needs, why does she need an education?
I’m confused. Since this is put out by the Obama campaign, how does Julia miraculously get past the abortionist’s scalpel and vacuum?
OBAMA ANTHEM LYRICS
All hail the messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our savior, our savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise the one
Give him your money and your guns
Give us a country
That makes your wife proud
Lord Barry heal the bitter ones
White and Clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWJEDTWWGY
O'Brien picked up the cage, and, as he did so, pressed something in it. There was a sharp click. Winston made a frantic effort to tear himself loose from the chair. It was hopeless; every part of him, even his head, was held immovably. O'Brien moved the cage nearer. It was less than a metre from Winston's face.
'I have pressed the first lever,' said O'Brien. 'You understand the construction of this cage. The mask will fit over your head, leaving no exit. When I press this other lever, the door of the cage will slide up. These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets. Have you ever seen a rat leap through the air? They will leap on to your face and bore straight into it. Sometimes they attack the eyes first. Sometimes they burrow through the cheeks and devour the tongue.'
The cage was nearer; it was closing in. Winston heard a succession of shrill cries which appeared to be occurring in the air above his head. But he fought furiously against his panic. To think, to think, even with a split second left - - to think was the only hope. Suddenly the foul musty odour of the brutes struck his nostrils. There was a violent convulsion of nausea inside him, and he almost lost consciousness. Everything had gone black. For an instant he was insane, a screaming animal. Yet he came out of the blackness clutching an idea. There was one and only one way to save himself. He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats.
The circle of the mask was large enough now to shut out the vision of anything else. The wire door was a couple of hand-spans from his face. The rats knew what was coming now. One of them was leaping up and down, the other, an old scaly grandfather of the sewers, stood up, with his pink hands against the bars, and fiercely sniffed the air. Winston could see the whiskers and the yellow teeth. Again the black panic took hold of him. He was blind, helpless, mindless.
'It was a common punishment in Imperial China,' said O'Brien as didactically as ever.
The mask was closing on his face. The wire brushed his cheek. And then -- no, it was not relief, only hope, a tiny fragment of hope. Too late, perhaps too late. But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment -- one body that he could thrust between himself and the rats. And he was shouting frantically, over and over.
'Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!'
He was falling backwards, into enormous depths, away from the rats. He was still strapped in the chair, but he had fallen through the floor, through the walls of the building, through the earth, through the oceans, through the atmosphere, into outer space, into the gulfs between the stars -- always away, away, away from the rats. He was light years distant, but O'Brien was still standing at his side. There was still the cold touch of wire against his cheek. But through the darkness that enveloped him he heard another metallic click, and knew that the cage door had clicked shut and not open.
Merest quibble.
Possible personal angst.
...and knew that the cage door had clicked OPEN ...and would NEVER be closed shut...
(documentation upon request)
[singing] hey, hey Julia, you’re actin so peculia I wouldn’t want to fool ya in a million years...
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