Posted on 08/10/2011 6:42:01 AM PDT by 11th Commandment
People are going hungry, pulling their children out of school due to poverty, and joining criminal gangs to make ends meet in the poorest region of the Congo, the worlds second-poorest country. Residents of this African nation attribute this economic devastation to what they call the Obama Law provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law backed by Obama that have created a virtual embargo on minerals produced in the Congos desperately-poor mining towns. As David Aronson notes in The New York Times...
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According to Wiki - their own government banned mining not the USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#cite_note-0
This might be another blame America first group.
And the Republican response will be to remain silent and pass up another opportunity to bash this clymer. All those years we’ve heard how Republicans hate black people and part of the so-called evidence concerned supposedly devastating Africa with a lack of foreign aid/exploiting resources/ignoring AIDS/etc., but now here’s a black (when he’s not Irish) President and his party doing real devastation and the Stupid Party is sipping cocktails with Muffy and fretting over invites to upcoming Georgetown soirees.
Dodd-Frank seems to have closed the market.
Once again, Obama exhibits all the political deft of a Monkey Masturbating in Mittens.
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