Helping the Kids

Townhall.com ^ | August 3, 2013 | Bill O'Reilly

[Kaslin]

As President Obama heads for a nice vacation at Martha's Vineyard, a place of wealth, I want him to work on a simple math calculation. One of the major themes of the president's administration is that there is a tremendous problem of "income inequality" in this nation that must be addressed.

Obama's solution is to redistribute income using seizure tactics. His plan is to have the federal government provide subsidies for those with low incomes by taking money from business and the affluent. The problem is that high taxation restrains economic expansion and inhibits the country from creating new avenues of wealth. If the affluent spend less and business invests less in expansion and development, wages for workers stagnate because there is heavy competition for jobs.

The president does not seem to understand that.

But the core problem of "income inequality" stems from failure to seize opportunity. If an American is insufficiently educated and does not develop useful skills, he or she will not be able to earn much money in the marketplace. And little is being done about that.

So here's the math deal, Mr. President. Right now, approximately 48 percent of American children living in female-headed households are poor. That's compared to a poverty rate of 11 percent for kids living in a married-couple situation.

The out-of-wedlock birth rate for African-Americans is close to 73 percent. For Hispanics, it's 53 percent; for whites, 29 percent. And sadly, most of these children are growing up without fathers in the home.

So where is the national campaign to discourage women from having babies out of wedlock? Is the Department of Education doing anything about that? The media? Anyone?

Back in 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle derided a TV character named Murphy Brown (played by Candice Bergen) for having a baby outside of marriage. Quayle was mocked unmercifully by the elite media and the salon set.

But Quayle was right. According to the U.S. Census, 34 percent of unwed mothers do not work, and that is driving abject poverty.

America offers the most people the best opportunity to pursue happiness. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country -- most of them poor. They believe they have a shot at improving themselves economically.

But children living in poverty without fathers to guide them are at a strong disadvantage in our competitive society. Obama's solution is to throw as much money as he can into programs to help these kids. But that will never work.

The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America. But now it is being destroyed in some precincts. Welfare programs and public schooling will never overcome disadvantage on the home front. It is time for Obama to lead. The way to foster "income equality" is to encourage traditional upbringings and discipline.

Just do the math, Mr. President.

[Venturer]

BillO’Reilly is a white man and despite his wishy-washy way of catering to the black man, he thinks like a white man.

Obama thinks like a black man and thinks he can take the wealth from the white man give it to the black and everything will be ok.

Now that is a simplistic answer. But go back and view what has happened during Obama’s reign and you will see that is exactly what Obama is trying to do..

[txrefugee]

In Obama’s War on Whites, he redistributes income from the Middle Class to his lower class voters, and then economists wonder why the Middle Class is dropping out of the work force.

Could it be that they are smart enough to figure out that it’s not smart to work? This is exactly what happened in the old USSR, where the joke was, “ The bosses pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.” That worked out well, didn’t it?

[ronnie raygun]

We see NAACP, black congressional caucus, racebaiters Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others, and black elected officials making statements that encourage support and accept the thug life style which includes the male not being responsible for thier actions and the female given a confortable tax payers liberal progressive democrate safety net that makes it easy to have children and not worry. This has grown into a government business that employes many of the uninformed voters and thier families who are funded by thier representative plantation owners who divy out the cash in support of this life style. How do you correct this?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.”

And that is Obamas first problem. He didn’t come from a traditional American family so he has no clue what that means.

[unlearner]

“Obama thinks like a black man”

How exactly does a black man think differently? The problem with Obama is that he thinks like a liberal. Pigmentation does not preclude a particular thinking pattern. If you think pigmentation precludes or predisposes a leftwing or rightwing worldview, you are thinking like a liberal yourself. Keep your eyes on the ball and don’t let the liberals change the narrative. If we don’t let them make everything about race by focussing on the real issues in our response, the pendulum of public opinion will swing back to the right.

[upchuck]

Methinks Mr. O’Reilly does not understand nobama’s plan.

Unfortunately, nobama’s plan is going along all too well.

[Vaduz]

I want him to work on a simple math calculation

Good luck with that he hasn’t made a good calculation in the last 4 1/2 years.
The only thing he knows id to use instructions from the socialists hand book.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

One of the major themes of the president's administration is that there is a tremendous problem of "income inequality" ... solution is to redistribute income using seizure tactics... provide subsidies for those with low incomes by taking money from business and the affluent. The problem is that high taxation restrains economic expansion and inhibits the country from creating new avenues of wealth. If the affluent spend less and business invests less in expansion and development, wages for workers stagnate because there is heavy competition for jobs. The president does not seem to understand that.

Of COURSE he understands that -- he intends this to happen. HE IS THE ENEMY.