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| Obama On Baltimore: Republican Congress Won't Invest in Urban Communities |
| 2015-04-29 |
| [Breitbart] During his press conference today, President Obama addressed the violence in Baltimore, claiming his political agenda would help solve some of the problems found in impoverished urban communities, such as the one where the violence occurred. Alright, so you've had 6 years. How much more time do you or LBJ's 'Great Society' actually need? Wait! Let me do the math...51 total years is it now? Please give us a new number, a new myth. "There's a bunch of my agenda that would make difference right now in that," he said, calling for more funding for early education, criminal justice reform and job training. More funding is it? Imagine that. Money, the usual donk antidote and sacred mantra of the community organizer. Obama criticized members of Congress for blocking his agenda items, but encouraged Americans to do some "soul searching" during his joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this afternoon. Yes of course, Americans must 'soul search', it's actually all our fault anyway. "I'm under no illusion that under this Congress we're going to get massive investments in urban communities," he said, adding that it was important to work to improve communities anyway. Translation: It doesn't matter what he Congress and the American people want, Champ knows best and will do it his way. He explained Americans should not "just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns," but rather work together to tackle poverty around the nation. Yes, yes, yes....you racist Americans pay attention. "[W]hat I've tried to do is promote those ideas that would make a difference, but I think we all understand that politics is tough because it's easy to ignore those problems or to treat them as a law and order issue as opposed to a broader social issue," he said. It all begins with law and order, the rule of law is the foundation. All else is potential anarchy. Check out the Japanese model while you're there. Obama also suggested that the media was once again overplaying the violent protests while ignoring the peaceful ones done by community organizers in the Baltimore community. I agree, urban rioting, the torching of 145 automobiles and 15 businesses a few miles north of the nation's capital.... not actually newsworthy. Yawns, calmly kliks over to 'Wheel of Fortune'. "One burning building will be looped on television over and over and over again and the thousands of demonstrators who did it the right way, I think, have been lost in the discussion," he said. Did what the 'right way', break windows, loot, stone the police ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Basketball is so racist. More like Midnight Knockout Game. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-04-29 18:32 |
| #10 Midnight Basketball - again? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-04-29 17:32 |
| #9 Provocative analysis NMU. I think we'll all be knee deep in empty shell casings and hand grenade pins before para #3 happens, but good luck with it anyway. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-29 16:47 |
| #8 Yes, RJ. After the WWII peace dividend ran out in the '70's, both political parties used various techniques to try and fool people into believing it would last forever. One of the things they did was bloat the federal government in order to create higher paying "jobs" for native born Americans who had told themselves (and were propagandized to believe it by Madison Avenue and Wall Street and the entertainment and education industries) that they couldn't possibly work for such a low wage as the jobs you mentioned actually paid. But the tasks that you describe still needed to be done. Trouble was that you can't pay much more than a few dollars per hour for that type of work because that's all it's worth in a world labor market. So the way politicians dealt with this was by allowing illegal aliens in, and telling native born Americans that "working class" was something vastly more than what it actually is in terms of material standard of living and that they were "above all that". Now the chickens are coming home to roost. The size of the publicly employed sector needs to be diminished by 50% or more, and illegal immigrants need to go away, and the former government employees need to do those jobs the illegals were doing, even if it means a massive downward adjustment in their income stream. This MUST happen, but the way of doing it will be tricky. Any way you slice it violence will happen since this will be a massive disruption of the status quo. It's loin-girding time. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-04-29 15:38 |
| #7 no mo uro, In the past the uneducated unskilled workers were doing all the jobs that illegals are doing now (carwash, construction, gardening, etc). The problem is few are connecting the dots between higher minimum wage, increased illegal immigration, increased welfare, and growing welfare rolls in the black community. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-04-29 14:37 |
| #6 President Obama says the Baltimore rioters that chose to loot, burn, and attack police aren’t true demonstrators at all – why they’re just plain “thugs”. Not content with a simple denunciation of criminal actions and the folly of pissing in ones’ own water bucket, Obama is compelled to continue his lecture on the perceived inequities that face Americas’ minority populations. Similarly, President Obama has repeatedly said Islamic terrorists aren’t true Muslims – they’re simply common criminals. And bound by his postmodernism roots he routinely provides ethical equivalent arguments based on ancient atrocities. In both cases Obamas’ Social Justice Sermons allude to a greater oppressor as the root cause. Thus alleviating individual responsibility (criminals as well as the larger group) and advocating government solutions. Moreover, by now those that’ve paid attention should know who the “Oppressors” are. |
| Posted by: Unomomble Unolurt3811 2015-04-29 13:10 |
| #5 Because it worked so well in Detroit. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-04-29 11:42 |
| #4 We've destroyed the family unit, the values of faith, and exported the old middle class jobs. We've devalued discipline and slef-discipline. It hsould be no surprise that the trillions of dollars thrown at the 'problem' over the last half century have been 'insuffucient.' |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-04-29 08:27 |
| #3 What happened to all that trillion dollar stimulus from 2009? That was a Donk Congress. You had the means and choice between shovel ready (low skill) projects or crony politics. You chose crony politics. Reap what you have sowed. However, you, just like the community, blame everyone else but yourselves. That's why you fail. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-04-29 07:47 |
| #2 I posted about this years ago. http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=02/21/2008&SO=&HC=4&ID=228376 The things Obama talks about were a scam when LBJ talked about them and are a scam now. Beyond relief from starvation, nothing can be done to elevate many people, regardless of their race. They do not have the intelligence or work ethic or inherent skills or correct personality traits to do better than rented housing, simple food, and cheesy entertainment. A better education system might help some maximize their lives, but not all or even most. The reality is that many Americans - not just black people in inner cities, but people of all races in all areas - want the stuff without the ability to delay gratification or make sacrifices or work very hard. That attitude is what happens when you don't keep score in soccer and everyone gets a trophy, just as much as when Democrat politicians tell you that the only reason you don't own a house and a nice car is racism, and that envy is a virtue and not a vice. "Stuff" isn't a right. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-04-29 06:05 |
| #1 Sounds like a smart move not to, to me. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-04-29 06:04 |