Posted on 02/11/2009 6:36:19 AM PST by arkadyka
Yesterday Obama hosted a Q&A in Florida and it was amazing to see the kind of questions being directed toward the president. One in particular that I found striking is that of Julio whom according to some "stole the show" as if there is some show to steal at a town hall meeting.
Below is the video and to give you context Julio's question came at the tail end of a very similar line of questioning from the crowd. One individual asked the president why his unemployment benefits were not as large as his paycheck while he was employed and why is there no automatic mechanism to automatically generate the same amount in dollars. Another woman complained that she has been waiting for subsidized housing for two years and just wants a new kitchen, bathroom and living room. Finally Julio is featured below and I do not need to paraphrase.
(Excerpt) Read more at rkdpolitics.blogspot.com ...
Something tells me that Julio is going to be unemployed soon. One shouldn’t speak ill of his/her current employer in public.
THE FACE OF THE “NEW” AMERICA!
He got a broadcasting job offer today. It worked.
Maybe Julio shouldn’t blow his entire McDonalds paycheck on Obama merchandise and cocaine.
Heck, Freeper Maggief just found out that “Henrietta” and her son - who is 38, college educated, and worked in computers, when he bothered to work - have been on the welfare whiner circuit for years. In fact, the son (Corey) and his mother Henrietta were interviewed in 2004 by the newspaper in Rochester, where the family lives when they’re not spending the winters sponging off of Floridians, about their lack of health care benefits and how tragic their situation was. Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.
Furthermore, I can’t believe that Bambi’s team didn’t know this in advance. I’m sure Henrietta and son have been identified as perfect poverty poster children. This was beyond disgusting. It was cynical and utterly shameless.
The first time I saw the clip of this Jose guy, I actually thought it was a brilliant infiltrator mocking Obama and his brainless peasants. It's almost inconceivable that somebody could be this pathetic.
Does anybody remember the old TV show “Queen for a Day” ? That comes to mind....
Also how do you insert an image?? Thanks!!
Even though he lacks basic english his zeal is certainly suitable for Air America.
Did he really get an offer?
Can you link me please? Is Henrietta the name of the other woman groveling for housing aid?
Here’s some help - I don’t like advertisers pimping their blogs in the morning.
Julio in not so many words complained that his benefits at McDonalds were simply not good enough and it was up to the president to make things right! It would appear to me that the level of discourse in this country has completely and utterly degenerated to levels unseen before. Yes things are tough, but they have been tougher. 1970s, 1980s and the 1930s all brought severe hardships according to both the misery index and raw unemployment numbers.
The blame falls on the liberal institutions in this country that encourage and reward federal safety nets and make it acceptable to go on national television and literally BEG for aid. An entire fabric of society has been fundamentally changed over a course of 60 years, an awful sad change. Compare and contrast the battered workers of the 1930s who were ASHAMED to take federal aid and did so under only the most pressing of circumstances. Some even felt the responsibility to pay it back due to the burdening guilt they felt. These people and those principles are long gone, replaced by the likes of Julio and his Floridian comrades. An individual who has no compunction of begging for better benefits while in college on national television, but to be celebrated across the country! Look on YouTube and you will see that this individual has been elevated to virtual hero status.
Finally, Obama continues to nurture within our society a notion that government is the only institution capable of helping us get out of this recession. He continues promising hope and change dressed in federal aid assistance paid by the rest of the working America. He has no problem with Julio asking for better benefits, or someone asking for higher unemployment benefits or a someone else requesting federal housing aid. They are his constituency and he will continue perpetuating this infant-like reliance on the nanny state as long as it suits him politically. He will then be worshipped and idolized for his benevolence while the rest of the suckers provide him the means and ability to do so.
See post #12.
She got the house. It was donated to her.
What a crackhead loser. Perfect illustration of the millions that when out and voted for Zero.
Our local afternoon talk show host was sure it was a stunt by some radio jocks. He didn’t think the guy was “for real.”
Julio’s parents need to give him a swift kick in the ass!
going to add that into the post, thank you.
This is instructive. The way to get a job under “Change” is to beg Obama.
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