Obama plans to help a middle class 'under assault'
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30061015
By 2015, if the jobs even come back, there will be no middle class left, only the rich, the poor and those with govt jobs. "Under assault'" implies that there is an enemy. The federal reserve would be a good place to start looking.
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Odogma
Obama has little but contempt for the middle class in America. He has always alternated between extremes in American society.He attended posh private schools in Hawaii and moved on to the Ivy League.
After the theoretical, sterile world of academia came not real world working class experience but bogus, opportunistic forays "community organizing" among the supposedly disaffected, to justify the cynical, essentailly anti-American ideology that enthralls this narcissist.
The middle class are the people he crassly and infamously insulted as bitter, clinging to guns, religion and antipathy towards those who are different from them.
They have not forgotten.
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GJDailleult
So Obama should not help the middle class because the middle class is bitter about being called bitter. Very well thought out argument there!
There is no right and there is no left. There is just the top 1% siphoning off the wealth, and everybody else. Until people figure that out they will always be under assault, and wasting their time on pointless serf vs. serf battles.
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Odogma
"So Obama should not help the middle class because the middle class is bitter about being called bitter. Very well thought out argument there!"
Obama/Leviathan should get out of the way, let ordinary folks go about the Pursuit of Happiness.
"There is just the top 1% [ insert despised group here ] siphoning off the wealth etc etc ..."
Enough with the conspiracies, please.
There has always been considerable social mobility in America. If anything, Obama and his mob of social engineers want not equality so much as the means to remove that mobility, since it is one of the most powerful forms of incentive in America. And since the Problem of Incentive ('Who will take out the garbage if we are all "equal"?') has always derailed socialism, they are determined to artificially infict on Capitalist America similar conditions so they can present socialism as a viable alternative.
Why work, why try to get ahead when Leviathan is simply going to confiscate half of your income?
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SushiSake3
It's so easy to forget, - no - actually rationalize out of existance if you're a conservative - that this global recession began under Bush.
Obama is having to cope with an economic meltdown of near Biblical proportions and isn't being helped any by the anti-American U.S. Right, who are doing everything they can to prevent policies that will benefit ordinary Americans from being passed.
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Odogma
"Began under" and "began because of" are hardly the same thing.
Also - conservatives aren't necessarily all Republicans, though I would guess conservaqtives agree responsibilty for the housing crisis is about 30 percent Republican - the fatcat country clubs types and the sort cowed into toeing the PC line that enabled Freddie and Fannie to thrive unchecked.
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Obama has compounded it, drastically, catastrophically even. The non- partisan CBO graphs illustrate that all too clearly.Obama has almost quadrupled the deficit:
Have a look - - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html
Anti-something implies pro-something else. Provide an explanation of who the monolithic Right you imagine inhabits America is serving rather than their own country, or admit that your picture of the United States is little more than a cartoon.
You have nothing to back up what you have written. All your posts are proof of is that it is easier to just invent what you want to believe.
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Odogma
In searching for facts to bolster the position on this subject that my posts outline, I also came across this relevant recent survey, conducted by CNN (somewhat pro-Obama till now, I would guess) and drawn of course, from the very middle class that Obama says he seeks to help:
CNN Poll: 3 of 4 Americans say much of stimulus money wasted January 25, 2010 2:24 p.m. EST
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SushiSake3
Odogma - "Provide an explanation of who the monolithic Right you imagine inhabits America is serving rather than their own country."
It's barely necessary to say how U.S. conservatives - that's the 'monolithic Right' that you mentioned - voted for a party led by Bush that rubber-stamped pretty much every spending policy put within 50 miles of Congress.
It's also a no-brainer to say that federal spending under bush and the GOP went up by nearly $6 trillion, and no amount of wishy-washy weasel words is going to change that fact.
It's also a no-brainer understanding that the size of most of the bailout and other economic packages put forward by the Democrats is in approximate proportion to the size of the economic hole left behind by the GOP.
While the GOP/conservatives continue to wail on about escalating costs, perhaps they should have been doing that 8 years ago when the party they voted for began to inexorably increase spending.
Odogma, you state that 'Obama has almost quadrupled the deficit,' while cleverly not bothering to mention why it has happened.
Feel free to.
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SushiSake3
Odogma, one of the the keys reasons the U.S. economy is in such a shambles is because the chin-stroking members of the GOP were out to lunch and did nothing to stop the disastrous fiscal and foreign policies of George Bush/Dick Cheney.
The funny thing is that I'm bound to be slammed as being 'anti-Bush' by individuals on the Right whose memories of the fiscal crisis and its origins stretch all the way back to.....January 2009, the time when they seem to have successfully convinced themselves this fiscal meltdown began.
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ShonanMaruNo2
Desperation. Obama's hard Left pals aren't going to like this. I predict one or two, angry with his compromises, are going to come forward with some unsavory stuff about his past. This time the media won't be able to sweep it under the rug like they did Obama's links to Billy Ayers
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sailwind
Sushi
The American people aren't against Obama trying to solve the problems he inherited from the Bush administration. As a matter that was why he was elected to solve those problems and get America back on track. What appalls them is his policies to he has pursued to try and do that. They to put it bluntly they suck and if the people of Massachusetts ain't buying it then nobody will.
You might want to FINALLY give up up on the Bush thing, the America people know who is charge and how he has performed the past year and if you can't even get the bluest of the blue states to stay on your side it is time to re-think your solutions to the problems that were inherited by the previous administration.
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Sarge
America's middle class is under assault all right - from Obama.
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Helter_Skelter
The liberal elites know what's best for the average middle-class American. What's to worry?
But seriously, Obama's been making more aggressive statements like these lately in hopes of reversing his plummeting poll numbers.
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WhiteHawk
SushiSake3:
That's not entirely accurate. Many of us remember that the fiscal meltdown began shortly after the Democrats regained control of congress. Where the spending bills and budget are written.
Oops.
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Odogma
Hey sushisake3
CNN Poll: 3 of 4 Americans say much of stimulus money wasted January 25, 2010 2:24 p.m. EST
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Sarge
What's Obama done for the middle class so far? What's he done to improve the economy so far?
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