Posted on 05/12/2015 10:49:53 AM PDT by Nachum
During a panel discussion about poverty, President Obama criticized Fox News for stereotyping poor people as “sponges” or “leeches.” Part of the problem, he explained, was that so many people think that the poor are underserving of help from the federal government, causing wealthy people to actually be angry at the poor. “I think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges and leeches are don’t want to work, are lazy or are undeserving got traction,” Obama said. He blamed the Fox News channel for feeding that narrative. “It’s still being propagated, I mean, I have to say that if
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Well said. It's a way of life for some. And it gets passed down from generation to generation.
Food Stamp Prezzy is angry? He must get from the Moose.
I can afford a smart phone, but I don’t have one because it’s not worth the price to me. I have a regular phone that does voice/text and that’s it. That is enough.
When FedGov takes our money (by force or threat of force) to buy goodies for people who are not willing to work as hard as we have worked, that bothers normal, productive people. When FedGov bureaucrats then buy better stuff for the parasites than we are willing to buy for ourselves, the Head Thug should not be surprised when people like us resent his generosity with the money he stole from us.
Not all poor people are lazy, undeserving, sponges and leeches. But all people who accept more than they need, paid for by others, are lazy, undeserving, sponges and leeches - and that is milder than what I really think. Welfare is something that good people should be embarrassed to accept. I can understand and tolerate those on public assistance accepting a “free” phone so they can be contacted by employers for a job, but taking more than they absolutely need is pure theft.
Food Stamp Prezzy is angry? He must get it from the Moose.
gotta tell ya... I got an email promo from Dick’s Sporting Goods this morning... 20% off online purchases today only...okay, I hit a lot of golf balls into the water this past weekend, so I open it up. One of the banner ads inside says “shoe calendar”.
What the hell is this? So I click it open, and it’s a basketball shoes release dates/price list.
100 bucks doesn’t even buy the Kyrie Irvins ($109), much less the Lebrons ($174) or the Jordans ($244— and they have both “home” and “away” versions of the Jordans so the kids can shell out 500 bucks by the time they’re done...). What a freakin racket. All the way around.
Poor fella. Maybe he shouldn’t be doling out so much of other peoples money then.
I’ve brought that bit of tape to the attention of Liberals, and they get REALLY angry. I mean, REALLY REALLY ANGRY!
Then they deny that such a thing as the Obamaphone program EVEN EXISTS! There’s just no reasoning with these people.
Obama doesn’t have one of them there ObamaPhones to go with his ObamaPencil...
Give him one ...it aint fair...
There’s gotta be a racist reason why not..
More on press bias.... the REAL kind:
From link:
“In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, liberal columnist Kirsten Powers cites Fournier’s experience as one that is typical when mainstream journalists come under fire by the left and right when they veer from the party talking points.
“Ron Fournier, editorial director of the National Journal, previously worked at the Associated Press for two decades and won the White House Correspondents’ Association Merriman Smith Award four times.
His credentials suddenly meant nothing when he dared to write pieces about liberals and Democrats that were less than glowing,” she wrote in the newly released book from Regnery Publishing.”
Same experience here. I once stood in line waiting to pay at the local Dominick's grocery store behind a black woman with three unruly kids.
She was yakking on the phone to one of her baby daddy's the entire time. Everything on the conveyer in front of me was food I cannot afford to buy. Yes, she paid with EBT cards.
Her phone? The latest iPhone.
After she checked out, I paid for the four things I put on the conveyer, then left the store. As "luck" would have it she was parked down the same aisle I was. Out comes her key chain then "honk honk honk!" she goes to the back of a Cadillac Escalade (brand new, "license applied for") and the hatch automatically opens.
I fumed.
I work for a living. I bust my ass to take care of my family. I paid for her groceries, her iphone and her Cadillac Escalade.
My phone? A $79 blackberry knock-off. My phone plan? A pay as you go purchase the minutes upfront. My vehicle? A 13 year old GMC Envoy.
Why am I bothering to work and take care of my family instead of getting on the government welfare rolls getting my free food, free obamaphone and free caddy??
The ingenious thing about what Obama has done is that he has only passed one new entitlement program through the Congress (Obamacare). But he has been playing fast and loose with the eligibility requirements for all of the others (LIHEAP, SNAP, Obamaphones), allowing him to buy MASSIVE amounts of votes with programs that were up and running under George W. Bush.
I agree with Obuttboy. A better word is "parasites".
Obama thinks society is OBLIGATED to giving away free fish.
Conservatives want to give free fishing lessons.
Obama is mad the truth was exposed.
He brings this up now? almost three years after the campaign? Obola is the only one still talking about The Phone Lady. Still beating that imaginary dead horse.
Yeah, and it's the no class "f word" pResident using it... smh...
I think the program actually started under GW Bush.
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