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OBAMA: WEALTHY IGNORE POVERTY BY SENDING KIDS TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS
breitbart ^ | may 12, 2015 | charlie spiering

Posted on 05/13/2015 11:17:20 AM PDT by lowbridge

During a conversation about poverty, President Obama said he was concerned that more wealthy people were separated from poverty because they chose to frequent private institutions instead of public ones.

“Part of what’s happened is, is that elites in a very mobile, globalized world are able to live together, away from folks who are not as wealthy, and so they feel less of a commitment to making those investments,” he explained during a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University today.

Obama criticized the free-market system in America for allowing higher concentrations of wealth to exist among the rich while the bottom percentage was being left behind and receiving a smaller portion of that wealth.

“Those who are doing better and better, more skilled, more educated, – luckier – having greater advantages are withdrawing from the commons,” he said. “Kids start going to private schools, kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks, an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together.”

That led fewer people to care about public institutions, Obama explained, leading to government cuts to important public functions – making the nation less equal.

Obama insisted that there needed to be more investments in public schools, public universities, public early child education and public infrastructure, insisting that funding these organizations both “grows our economy and spreads it around.”

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1 posted on 05/13/2015 11:17:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

FUBO!!


2 posted on 05/13/2015 11:18:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: lowbridge

What an a$$hole. He continues to amaze me.


3 posted on 05/13/2015 11:19:45 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: lowbridge

Like the Obamas?


4 posted on 05/13/2015 11:20:11 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: lowbridge

Gee where does Sasha and Malia go to school..Yep you guessed it..PRIVATE SCHOOL


5 posted on 05/13/2015 11:21:11 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lowbridge

He sends his own kids to a private school.

Communism does not grow the economy. It has been tried and it failed.


6 posted on 05/13/2015 11:21:24 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: lowbridge

But it’s OK if they are wealthy Democrats (think Marion Wright Edelman, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, the Kennedys, the Obamas themselves,etc, etc).


7 posted on 05/13/2015 11:21:32 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

It’s not only HE that amazes me,
it’s the sheeperal that excuse this BS
that amaze and infuriate me more.


8 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: lowbridge

This guy is pathetic.

There have been haves and have-nots since the beginning of mankind.

That’s the way it is and the way it will remain.

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9 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:04 AM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: lowbridge

WP= wealthy privelege. Guess obie and chippie will be pullin’ the girls out of sidwell and puttin’ them in PS101. No? That’s just weird.


10 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:10 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: lowbridge

So he’s going to pull his kids out of Sidwell Friends?


11 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lowbridge

He could criticize people wearing ties while wearing a tie and the left would eat it up.


12 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:33 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: lowbridge

You mean “Private Schools” like Sidwell Friends, that Obama’s kids go to that costs $35,000+ a year?

A brave reporter would have asked, If Obama really feels that way, why aren’t his OWN kids in the DC Public Schools?

Or Rahm Emanuel’s kids in Chicago Public Schools, instead of a Private school that costs $26,000 per?


13 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:44 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Well, ya know, like, he’s the president and all, and his kids HAVE to go to, like, private school & stuff.
For their safety.


14 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: lowbridge

Like your kids, Zerohissef? Heck, they even eat better than the po po public skool cheerens.

FUBO!

What a despicable sack of crap he is....


15 posted on 05/13/2015 11:22:59 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

We should tell him we will give him all the surplus money after the public debt is paid. That should hold him off for the rest of his life.


16 posted on 05/13/2015 11:23:06 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: lowbridge

He could have sent his girls to public school like Jimmy Carter sent Amy.


17 posted on 05/13/2015 11:23:33 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: lowbridge

There are a lot of middle class people who work hard and sacrifice so that they can send their children to private schools; it isn’t just “the wealthy” (like you, Obama) who send their children to private schools.


18 posted on 05/13/2015 11:23:36 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: lowbridge

Actually, they are HELPING the poor by privately paying for their own kids’ education while STILL paying property and other taxes into public schools.


19 posted on 05/13/2015 11:23:39 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: lowbridge

Well that could be sure way to cure liberals of liberalism. Send the bulk of their children to some inner city schools so they can experience the breadth and vibrancy of chaotic, violent classrooms. Some of them might even get through the school year without being physically assaulted.


20 posted on 05/13/2015 11:23:49 AM PDT by driftless2
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