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I Though Obama Was Going To Be Different. Look At Minority Unemployment.
Yooperkat, I've read many of your posts on many different threads and based on them I can comfortably rest assured that there was never a moment when you thought Obama was going to be "different". Give me a break.
He is different, Obama realizes that their isn't a presidential magic wand to instantly fix the economy which is why he wants to invest in things that can set the majority of Americans up to have a better future with educaton being the key. Investments don't always reap obvious rewards instantly. Republicans simply want to give further handouts to those that already have the most. We know this doesn't work but they want to keep doing it.
I agree that education is good.
How are people going to pay off student loans for a Bachelors degree when they aren't working?
Hell, good plan to go to college I guess.
But, only 70% of minorities graduate from high school.
I think Obama is failing because he isn't really addressing the problems.
He is actually making it more difficult for a person of any stripe to find employment.
I Though Obama Was Going To Be Different. Look At Minority Unemployment.
Yooperkat, I've read many of your posts on many different threads and based on them I can comfortably rest assured that there was never a moment when you thought Obama was going to be "different". Give me a break.
Geez.
I said I thought Obama was going to be different -- because the Democratic Party said he was going to be different.
I said I thought Obama was going to be different -- because the Democratic Party said he was going to be different.
I knew he wouldn't be.
Ha, ha, ha. When did you ever believe anything the Democratic party said. I mean, seriously?
I can see it now. You sitting there slack jawed, watching MSNBC in total awe that Obama was going to put all the black people back to work and believing it.
Not that I mind. You're a worthy opponent in the political opinion ring.
This is what it's going to come down to in November.
Obama has turned out to be the biggest divider this country has ever seen.
Different? No.
He's in bed with Wall Street, He's a war monger, He's got no idea how to improve the economy, He's lied about Guantanamo, He's broken his promise to fix our immigration problem and He's running his re-election campaign on nothing.
No Accomplishments. Wow, vote for Obama, He's a loser.
Last edited by Yooperkat; 06-06-2012 at 10:24 PM..
A lot of smart but financially illiterate people make that mistake (not realizing how huge an effect it has decade-to-decade even if the year-to-year changes have been small recently), give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
edit: on topic, from a larger strategic and game-theoretic perspective yes, the 'black community' (insomuch as an ethnic community is a coherent thing which can have wider political interests, which is debatable at best) throws away most of their political capital and influence by not swing voting, but, I don't think you can really argue convincingly that it would be in the interests of an individual democrat who happens to be African-American to vote for a republican just so they could honestly tell a pollster they did so if asked.
He's not comparing "a decade" he's comparing nearly 30 years of inflation. It's simply ridiculous to even think about comparing a 50k income in 1980 has the same purchasing power of that it in 2008. The idea that "decade-to-decade, year-to-year changes have been small recently" is a contridiction in and of itself. All in all with any decent inflation calculator we are looking at more than a 150% increase in inflation over that period of time. Giving him the benefit of the doubt on that wouldn't be anymore rational than making Mickey Mouse President.
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