Posted on 07/29/2013 11:06:33 AM PDT by Starman417
Glenn Reynolds said that the worse Barack Obama performed the blacker he would get. That is true, but it's also true that the worse Obama performs the more his inner Karl Marx bleeds through and Obama's real character is on full display right now.
And think for a moment about how Obama is framing his economic speeches. The core of what he’s trying to do, he said at Knox College in Illinois Wednesday, is not to make the economy better or create jobs. It’s to eliminate inequality.
So in many ways, the trends that I spoke about here in 2005 — eight years ago — the trend of a winner-take-all economy where a few are doing better and better and better, while everybody else just treads water — those trends have been made worse by the recession. And that’s a problem.This growing inequality not just of result, inequality of opportunity — this growing inequality is not just morally wrong, it’s bad economics. Because when middle-class families have less to spend, guess what, businesses have fewer consumers . . .
And that’s why reversing these trends has to be Washington’s highest priority. (Applause.) It has to be Washington’s highest priority. (Applause.) It’s certainly my highest priority. (Applause.)
He throws in “inequality of opportunity,” but what Obama is really angry about is inequality of result. He’s mad that some people have more than others. That we’re not spreading the wealth around enough. That people are getting ahead even though you didn’t build that. Because at a certain point, you’ve earned enough money.
It’s the politics of resentment, touted by someone who harbors resentment. It’s at bottom the philosophy of, gimme what you got, you rich bastard.
It’s anger. And, as it expressed itself in the speech Wednesday, it wants payback.
If income inequality isn't undone, blacks in this country will riot, rape, pillage and it's George's fault. Zimmerman, not Bush:
“If we don’t do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be. Unemployment will not go down as fast as it should. Income inequality will continue to rise,” he said. “That’s not a future that we should accept.”A few days after the acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case prompted him to speak about being a black man in America, Mr. Obama said the country’s struggle over race would not be eased until the political process in Washington began addressing the fear of many people that financial stability is unattainable.
“Racial tensions won’t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they’ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot,” Mr. Obama said. “If the economy is growing, everybody feels invested. Everybody feels as if we’re rolling in the same direction.”
And Obama wants that civil unrest in this country:
Stuart Varney: Obama used the term "inequality" more than he used the word "growth". And this is a problem, according to Charles Payne.Charles Payne: It is a problem. He talked about [income inequality] being morally wrong. You know, Stuart, if you and I entered this building and there were different rules for each of us, that would be morally wrong. But if I dropped out of high school and smoked weed all day and you worked your way through college and made more money than I did, that's not inequality, that's just.
Here's what this president did: he tried to condemn capitalism. He tried to condemn success. He promotes mediocrity. And he's making excuses for people to fail in this country, instead of being honest about it.
His phrases: "people who lost their homes through no fault of their own", "people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own..." You know what: if I own a business and have 10 employees and things get bad, guess what? I'm not going to fire my best employees! Maybe you did lose your job because you weren't up to snuff!
The bottom line is this: the president is pushing this agenda. That America is somehow a mean-spirited country without opportunity and we're going backwards. When, in fact, every single year we get closer to that "more perfect union" that we strive for.
[On Obama's prediction that income inequality will increase and "social tensions will rise as various groups fight to hold on to what they have"]
In my mind -- and I hate to say this -- I think President Obama would love to see civil unrest in this country very much like the Arab Spring. I think what he's trying to do is to spark this revolution against the wealthy, against the "One Percent" who are holding us back, who are hoarding this money,
You know Democrats are trotting out this statistic about how much money the top one percent controlled in 1979 versus how much they control now. Well, it's quadrupled, as if it's the same group of people who've been greedy with money and greedy with opportunity.
You know who it is? It's a kid like Lebron James, who was in the bottom one percent and is now in the top one percent. And his salary skews that top one percent to make it look 400 percent better. What that number shows is that opportunities for America... not the bad part of America, the good part of America.
It's much easier to take from others than it is to work for something
Alinsky saw social tensions as a necessary circumstance to effective community organizing. Without anger, without the have-nots blaming the haves, it is harder to accumulate power. Alinsky considered the creation of social tensions, or the exploitation of them, as essential to move wealth and power from those who have it to those who don’t.Once “social tensions” are stoked, all that is left is the tactical organization.
Ronald Reagan rallied Americans together. Obama knows only how to divide us.
A couple of notable things:
Income inequality
It is highly significant that Obama speaks of "income inequality" instead of "wealth inequality." Income inequality isolates and protects the über-wealthy like the Pelosi's, the Kerry's the Kohl's, the Blankfeins and the Kennedy's who never have to work another day in their lives. You're not going to touch their wealth. As always, those working the hardest will be made to bear the brunt of the burden.
Obama's economic record absolutely sucks:
Median household income has generally trended lower but has plunged under Obama
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The country is disintegrating faster than his presidency.
Bravo - nice read with solid insights.
That looks as real as any of the other photos from his youth.
When 0bama Fails, FREEDOM Prevails!
Obama is reducing inequality.
In 2008, 87% of the country was above the poverty rate. In 2010, that rate had dropped to 86%, and today it’s 84%. With nearly four years left in power, Obama hopes to bring the percentage living above the poverty line as close to zero as possible. Think how little inequality there would be if we were all miserably poor. Obama would consider that a big win.
Mission accomplished.
The Obama presidency is doing just fine.
It’s the nation that is disintegrating.
Big difference.
Who cares what 0bambi says?
“And the trees are all kept equal,
by hatchet,
axe,
and saw.”
I personally will never forgive anyone who I am aware voted for him
“The Obama presidency is doing just fine.
It’s the nation that is disintegrating.
Big difference.”
Yep. I mean, isn’t he going on vacation again? Things are going swimmingly....
Obama Scandals By Subject
Obama Attacks the 1st Amendment Obama and the IRS The Gunwalker Scandal
Obama vs The 2nd Amendment Benghazi-Gate Obama vs. Your Privacy
Obama and Agenda 21 The Obama "Dead Pool" The Clinton "Dead Pool"
The Boston Marathon Massacre Sandy Hook Massacre Socialists/Communists in the White House
Obama and Israel - Year 1 ...Year 2 ...Year 3 ... Year 4 ... Year 5
Goldman Sachs personnel in the ObamaWhite House Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood
Obama records which have not been released
Gays and Lesbians who currently are in the Obama White House Is Obama Gay? Obama and Derrick Bell
A List of Obama Czars (in alphabetical order) The Solyndra Scandal
Obama Ethics, Year 1 Obama Ethics Year Two Obama Ethics, Year 3
Obama Ethics, Year 4 Obama Ethics, Year 5
Cass Sunstein Olympics Obama Audio and Video Michelle Obama's attendants and their salaries
Elena Kagan Mania Van Jones "Laugh-a-Thon" Obama and Eric Whitaker
Obama and Egypt The Berwick Chronicles Obama Voter Fraud
Obama and TARP Sestak-Gate A Brief Time Line of events of Watergate and Monica Lewinsky vs. Gunwalker
Scanner-Gate Rosen-Gate JournOlist/Names British Petroleum-Gate
Inequality means you have to drag the successful down to the least common denominator, and those at the bottom are incapable of rising without progressive programs.
“Nothing consumes a man more completely than a passion for resentment’’.— Nietzche.
We have yet to discover all the scandals! There is more that we don’t know—I am thinking. Mission for the Pajamahadem—find the truth! Find the new scandals and re-examine the old (Like the Birth Papers) Let us keep applying the hot foot to Obama and his minions. Let not a day pass when they are kept off ballance by the alternative Media! Maybe we should pool our resources to form an online Confederacy of Free Media. What say you! Charge to the Sound of the Guns!
He throws in “inequality of opportunity,” but what Obama is really angry about is inequality of result. He’s mad that some people have more than others. That we’re not spreading the wealth around enough. That people are getting ahead even though you didn’t build that. Because at a certain point, you’ve earned enough money.Hence, his continuous anti-Constitutional push against the 2nd Amendment and gun ownership.
Thanks for the ping to this one. The million dollar question is what will disintegrate first, obama or the country?
Graewoulf, regarding the stuff you posted, the part that bothers me the most is the spineless RINOs who are the enablers. It’s too bad WE don’t have the blackmail information that’s being used to keep them “in line.”
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