Posted on 03/26/2008 4:59:39 PM PDT by a_chronic_whiner
Barack Obama’s much-discussed speech in Philadelphia earlier this week was not only about race. It was also about economics and, specifically, about poverty. Measures of group wealth, or the lack of it, are often used to support claims that our society is racist. Obama’s speech revealed that though he may be, to many people, a refreshingly new kind of post-racial politician and a healer, when it comes to notions of poverty and economic advancement, his ideas are right out of the 1960s and 1970s.
At one point in his speech, for instance, Obama suggested that some black poverty today can be attributed to the “legalized discrimination” that existed in America prior to the civil rights laws of the 1960s, which, in his telling, prevented black families from accumulating “wealth to bequeath to future generations.” Obama seemed to suggest that families in America escape poverty by patiently accumulating wealth and passing it on to future generations—when in fact millions of Americans of all races leap out of poverty within a single lifetime through their own initiative, not their inheritances. We are long past the time when the legacy of Jim Crow laws and other forms of official discrimination can explain black poverty rates.
Reading Obama’s speech prompted me to look at his larger economic policy proposals, especially those aimed at combating poverty. Clearly, he believes that our economy is failing many Americans, and to help the impoverished, he proposes everything from tax credits for the working poor to a higher minimum wage. In fairness, on these issues, he’s not much different than his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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Poverty of life skills, yeah, for sure. You got to get up, get to work or school, clean the house, be well groomed, go to bed at a reasonable hour, pay your bills, not spend more than you have, eat right, don’t smoke, or do drugs or get drunk. Be on time, be polite for starters.
Lets Hear it for the Motown Manifestos!
“Da Bourgoise, he control da mean o production”
Obama wants the same wages for everyone......it’s called socialism, or communism if you wish. CEO’s shouldn’t be allowed to make as much as they do. If I remember right, it’s the stock holders that determine a CEO’s salary. Obama doesn’t want people to know this little fact. Every time he gives a speach, he is talking to the blacks, for the blacks. This country doesn’t need this type of dividing attitude. It will never bring us together.
Finish high school, at the very least.
Get a job and keep it.
Get and stay married.
Have babies.
In that order.
Eat right and don’t get drunk? I have to do both at the same time? Save me the embarassment. I should be able to do it once in awhile....they get to do it all the time.
get up
get to work or school
clean the house
be well groomed
go to bed at a reasonable hour
pay your bills
not spend more than you have
eat right
don’t smoke, or do drugs or get drunk
Be on time
be polite
Who you think you are? That’s a heavy load to be puttin’ on the brothas. Racist!
Obama decries the fact that families can’t hand down their
rightful, hard-earned money to their children and families, but is in favor of eliminating the Bush tax cuts, raising capital gains taxes, and raising the “Death Tax” to over 50 percent.
What a Socialist Jerk!
Obama knows full well that the reasons behind poverty have more to do with attitude and the victim mentality than black families passing on wealth to their children.
His solution: put up a smokescreen, and then raise taxes to the point where nobody can pass wealth down.
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