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I agree with you on this. My problem is that Obama and the democrats are very good at trying to sell the concept of redistribution of wealth, in essence giving my hard earned money to some unnkown azzhat who would rather smoke crack then work. Why should I be held to higher standard then Obama by Obama? Because when obama made the speech which did include the phrase 'I am my brothers keeper', that is exactly what he wants the rest of us to do.
No thanks....play social experiments on your own dime if not your own brother obama.
Camping, I totally understand your point. I've had similar conversations (with the exception of the crack users) with family members. In my opinion, Obama is only seeking to find ways of strengthening America as a whole. By raising taxes on those making over 200 - 250,000K(??), he feels that it will contribute to making America stronger. When people go out to vote in November, they should vote on real issues facing them, not Obama's brother. In your case, I can totally understanding you not wanting to vote for Obama.
I also understand the point that some are making, he should practice what he's preaching. I didn't read the article, but who's to say that Obama knew anything about this brother before running for President. Is it fair to judge him based on this unless the person (s) is simply looking for an excuse.
By the way, drug use is affecting many Americans, not just the poor.
So are you honestly comparing obamas tony middle class upbringing in Hawaii where he his grandmother was a bank officer and obama himself attended the best private schools as equivalent to being poor even by african standards?
no, I'm not. there's no way he's gonna make it to far because he won't have the same benifits Obama or anyone else in america has growing up. However, this is one man among millions in need, his family ties are insignficant. If Obama wants to help him it would best be done by contributing to charities working in that country.
"Significantly, it was only four years after his father's death that Mr Obama travelled to his father's ancestral Kenyan village. There he learned the full story of his father's life and met some of his relatives. One of his half-sisters, Auma, is now a council worker in southern England, but some of his other relatives are still living in huts in the village, without plumbing or electricity, farming a few scrawny goats and chicken and growing fruit and maize. They speak the tribal Luo language and depend on handouts from family members who have emigrated to the UK and the United States for their few luxuries, notably the transistor radios that they use to follow Mr Obama's rocketing political fortunes."
Camping, I totally understand your point. I've had similar conversations (with the exception of the crack users) with family members. In my opinion, Obama is only seeking to find ways of strengthening America as a whole. By raising taxes on those making over 200 - 250,000K(??), he feels that it will contribute to making America stronger. When people go out to vote in November, they should vote on real issues facing them, not Obama's brother. In your case, I can totally understanding you not wanting to vote for Obama.
I also understand the point that some are making, he should practice what he's preaching. I didn't read the article, but who's to say that Obama knew anything about this brother before running for President. Is it fair to judge him based on this unless the person (s) is simply looking for an excuse.
By the way, drug use is affecting many Americans, not just the poor.
I am more then familiar with the toll drug use has had on the middle class I am sad to say. And don't be fooled, middle class drug users deplete financial resources in the way of arrests, the cost of imprisonment, food stamps for when they are released, and financial help for their families while they are incarcerated. You don't have to be poor to take from the federal government. And you don't have to be poor for me to resent having to take care of grown capable adults.
The problem with obamas 'brothers keeper' idea, is that in order to keep ones brother one has to infantilize him to the point he can't make it without his handout. There are too many people with able bodies and minds who are second/third and fourth generation welfare recepients. That is not strengthening America imho, and I do feel that obama will end up growing that segment of the population through a misguided view of compassion.
Anyone too poor to file a tax return will get a check in the mail. That rich guys who wakes up everyday and leaves his wife and kids at home to go earn a living will have his taxes go up, while the guy who sips gin all day gets a check in the mail. It's called income redistribution.. also called socialism.
I don't sip gin all day yet I get a check. Gotta love socialism.
no, I'm not. there's no way he's gonna make it to far because he won't have the same benifits Obama or anyone else in america has growing up. However, this is one man among millions in need, his family ties are insignficant. If Obama wants to help him it would best be done by contributing to charities working in that country.
I also believe his family ties are insignificant --- perhaps he has reasons not to fully embrace every member of his paternal family. It really is none of our business (and that does go for cm half sister as well).
My problem has been that obama sees mandatory public service, and has a host of social experiments he would like to implement at the cost of the taxpayer. Perhaps we should emulate the model you just described instead.....let people sink or swim depending on the personal decisions they have made, and if they sink -- let privatized charities help them out and not the federal government.
What is good for one obama should be good for our nation as well.
I also believe his family ties are insignificant --- perhaps he has reasons not to fully embrace every member of his paternal family. It really is none of our business (and that does go for cm half sister as well).
My problem has been that obama sees mandatory public service, and has a host of social experiments he would like to implement at the cost of the taxpayer. Perhaps we should emulate the model you just described instead.....let people sink or swim depending on the personal decisions they have made, and if they sink -- let privatized charities help them out and not the federal government.
What is good for one obama should be good for our nation as well.
The one thing you can count on to have eternal life....a government program. We pay into more and more every year and they get thrown into the list of 1000's we never hear anything else about.
I am more then familiar with the toll drug use has had on the middle class I am sad to say. And don't be fooled, middle class drug users deplete financial resources in the way of arrests, the cost of imprisonment, food stamps for when they are released, and financial help for their families while they are incarcerated. You don't have to be poor to take from the federal government. And you don't have to be poor for me to resent having to take care of grown capable adults.
The problem with obamas 'brothers keeper' idea, is that in order to keep ones brother one has to infantilize him to the point he can't make it without his handout. There are too many people with able bodies and minds who are second/third and fourth generation welfare recepients. That is not strengthening America imho, and I do feel that obama will end up growing that segment of the population through a misguided view of compassion.
Obama is big on education and would like to reform the education system. He wants to make it easer for students to go to college and the students will have to give back to the community. My impression of Obama is that he believes in teaching a man to fish, not giving him a fish (at least, not a long-term enabler). Call it a hands up.
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