Posted on 05/04/2010 12:19:04 PM PDT by george76
I'm always entertained when older folks try to reach out to people my age. It's hardly ever a pretty sight and most of the time these attempts end up being hilarious. I found myself chuckling at Barack Obama's most recent effort to beg young voters to come out to the polls this November.
No one is buying it anymore, especially young people.
Even the most liberal of my generation are frustrated with the President... The radical environmentalists on college campuses across the country were furious when Obama opened up the coasts for limited drilling.
Young Americans are realizing they did not get the politician they bargained for.
Better yet, some of us are realizing that the Obama presidency is punishing our future. Down the road, we will be the ones forced to pay off the record-breaking deficits and debt that Obama's budgets and trillion-dollar spending programs are leaving us.
There is little doubt that Obama will have a hard time reconnecting with the new voters he had in 2008. While he may get the koolaid-drinkers, it appears most everyone else is dissatified with him and his policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Massive unemployment AND forcing young adults to purchase health insurance they don’t want or don’t need or be penalized via their tax refunds. If their mommy and daddy either can’t afford to buy health insurance or don’t want to and prefer to pay the penalty, which is probably what will happen in most instances, the 18-26 group will essentially be getting screwed right along with the rest of us.
All the Obamacare amounts to is a new tax. A tax on those that can least afford it, ie those making UNDER $250,000/yr.
And anyone with half a working brain cell can discern that yes, HE LIED about that too.
Thanks.
What a mess we are in.
Never letting a crisis go to waste ?
I don’t know, many college students only have kool-aid served in the commons. Independents are really worried though, especially the ones that voted for him to “give him a chance.”
You're welcome. It was worth the effort.
BTW, I stole YOUR clapping hands gif...thanks.
'S okay. I got it from a free site.
“but gone are the days when they would just turn up somewhere and get a job on the spot”
I was fortunate enough to be able to find work every summer during college. Sometimes even more than one job.
Yes, those days won’t be back for a while.
At one point in our history, only white, male landowners could vote. If you look at the first hundred years of our nation’s history, while there were some odd birds, there was harmony. With the Civil War and eventual emancipation of slaves, philosophers and European political revolutionaries saw the potential to infect the mindset of the American public with malaise and dependency.
If you look at some of the earliest black American thinkers, you will see black men who had every intention of working to make it in this world. They believed in the Founding principles and ushered in a generation of strong, hard-working black men and women. The “slave mentality” was still extant, but the hard-working, American mentality slowly bled south and brought us great black leaders like MLK. However, other black leaders like Sharpton, Jackson, and Malcolm X were born from families who could not bring themselves to work for who they considered the enemy, so they continued to suck on the teat and pray for retribution.
There should be examples made of the powerful black men in our history. Instead, “Black History Month” focuses on plight, hardship, and destitution instead of faith, hope, and hard work. The black “leaders” have subjugated their own people, and thus they’ve become slaves to their own race. As such, we have an entire voting bloc of Democrats who only listen to their same-race slavemasters to ensure that those “leaders” continue to receive favors from their governmental masters/overseers.
All true.
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