Re: Obama's Fantasy Politics Fooling Fewer and Fewer Americans

LEW we're lucky we aren't in a depression because of Bush no
oversight, enforcing laws

a 64 trillion dollar hidden market and no oversight which cause all this damage

On 5/28/12, lew <lewcoop@aol.com> wrote:
> Obama's Fantasy Politics Fooling Fewer and Fewer Americans
>
> M Catharine Evans
> americanthinker.com
>
> In response to an article entitled "More Maryland families than ever
> require government aid to stay afloat" a 58-year old commenter wrote
> "there are no jobs for someone my age...we just tough it out."
>
> He's not alone.
>
> Neil Bergsman, director of the Maryland Budget & Tax Policy Institute
> told the Maryland Reporter "it took from January 2008 to February 2012
> to double the number of people enrolled in the Food Supplement
> Program."
>
> For cash-strapped families in Maryland who do not qualify for state
> assistance, food bank officials said there has been a surge in demand
> for the basics. Even people who wrote checks and donated food to their
> local food pantries a couple of years ago are now asking for help.
>
> Apparently, the state of Maryland is not doing well. Just like the
> rest of the country.
>
> A headline at the Weekly Standard reads "Under Obama: 30 Worst Months
> of Employment in the Past 25 Years."
>
> A report from the Employment Policies Institute reporting on high
> unemployment figures for teens declared, "When the analysis is
> broadened to include discouraged teens that have stopped actively
> looking for work but would still like a job, nearly every state
> experiences a jump in their teen unemployment rates."
>
> Researchers from the Journal of Labor Economics found summer jobs are
> strong indicators of a teen's future success in the marketplace. With
> D.C. coming in first at 51.7% unemployment, young people living in
> the nation's capital should be discovering just how much the economy
> sucks under Obama's failed policies.
>
> Others toughing it out are college graduates and those with Master's
> and PhD's. Record numbers are on food stamps.
>
> Another group not getting much attention in the news are middle-aged
> parents going through their savings and tapping into their retirement
> funds to help out their grown children.
>
>
> 39% of all adults ages 18 to 34 say they either live with their
> parents now or moved back in temporarily in recent years. Among 18-
> to 24-year-olds more than half (53%) live at home. Among adults ages
> 25 to 29, 41% live with or moved back in with their parents.
>
> On Friday Fox News chronicled Barack Obama's desperate struggle to win
> back the white working-class voters who supported him in 2008.
>
>
> Among middle-class, white voters who said they were struggling
> financially, Obama trailed Romney 58 percent to 32 percent.
>
> Obama scored pretty well with white voters [in 2008] with household
> incomes less than $50,000. He nabbed 47 percent, according to exit
> polls. That was more than enough to deliver the win given Obama's
> massive margins among minority voters.
>
> So the situation is worse, not better than four years ago. No one
> knows that more than hard-working taxpayers dealing with stagnant
> wages and rising food and gas prices.
>
> But what makes the last four years and the economic anxiety so much
> harder to take is the fact that Obama lied.
>
> He lied from the get-go. In 2008 he promised transparency, debt
> reduction, an end to crony capitalism, a spirit of bipartisanship,
> "the same kind of healthcare that members of Congress give
> themselves," and he said he would "put more money into working
> families' pockets."
>
> In the first quarter of 2011 49.1%.of the population living in Obama's
> America resided in households where "at least one member received some
> type of government benefit."
>
> Obama never had any intention of helping people; only of helping
> himself and the people who put him in office. He's sunk billions into
> phony companies with taxpayer monies.
>
> It's Grove Parc Plaza all over again. He and slumlord Valerie Jarrett
> looted the Treasury to pay off various cronies and there's nothing to
> show for it but a bunch of scurrying rats.
>
> Obama suckered idealistic young people into voting for him. On some
> level their naiveté and desire to believe is understandable.
>
> But far more bizarre was Obama's effect on professional intellectuals
> and upper middle-class white suburbanites. They read Dreams from my
> Father and deemed it a "'tour de force." (words from my own sister-an
> attorney!).
>
> A blind man could have seen candidate Obama and his radical friends
> really did want to spread the wealth around. But as Cardinal Ratzinger
> once wrote "intellectuals are blind when it comes to their
> intellectual constructs. For this reason they could forswear every
> realism and continue to fight for a system incapable of honoring its
> promises."
>
> The talented Mr. Obama has betrayed the middle class where it hurts - -
> in their bank accounts, investment portfolios and in their job
> security. Even if they haven't been laid off they know neighbors,
> friends, or relatives who have suddenly found themselves working two
> part-time jobs at one quarter of their previous salaries.
>
> A member of my own family, a bank vice-president for 20 years, was
> laid off in 2010. Shellshocked at the impending loss of his home
> (which he eventually had to sell) he spiraled downward for over a
> year. My brother's toughing it out now, still unable to understand
> what happened to make him believe in that hopey-changey stuff.
>
> Think Obama is losing sleep over the lies he spewed in 2008?
>
> For the record in 2003 George W. Bush gave up golf saying it sent the
> wrong message while our troops were in harm's way. According to White
> House Dossier the current commander-in-chief hit his 90th round of
> golf this past December in Hawaii. As Americans planned staycations,
> the Obamas have spent millions on treks to Spain, Marthas Vineyard,
> Mexico and South Africa. And the President is still not letting up on
> golf despite the economic maelstrom headed our way.
>
> Lastly looming over regular folks' heads is a 15 trillion dollar debt.
> Remember when Senator Obama blasted Bush for increasing the debt?
> Well he has managed to outdo Bush in three years!
>
> CBS News reported in March 2012:
>
>
> The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush
> presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama
> took office.
>
> People are noticing Obama's fantasy politics aren't working.
> Americans are well aware of the reality of the tenuous struggle to
> retain the dream they've worked hard to attain.
>
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