The Obama Economy: Blacks, Hispanics Hardest Hit
Their unemployment rate went way up, and despite occasional hints of improvement stayed up. The African-American jobless rate finally maxed out at 16.7% just seven months ago, a full two years and two months after the recession’s end. The rate fell to 13.6% in January, but jumped to 14.1% in February, a movement that the government’s March 9 employment report oddly characterized as showing “little or no change.”
That 0.5% increase was indeed small relative to another change in African-American unemployment: The jobless rate for men 20 and older spiked to 14.3% in February from 12.7% the previous month. While the “mancession” element of the recession’s impact has ended for the workforce as a whole (the overall unemployment rates for men and women 20 and older were identical in February), the jobless rate for African-American women was still 1.9 points lower than that of African-American men.
By contrast, the seasonally adjusted Hispanic unemployment rate peaked (though at a much higher rate) in December 1982, the first month after the official end of the deep recession of the early 1980s; the African-American jobless rate peaked the very next month. Both rates headed steadily downward for the rest of that decade.
Readers may have noticed that a certain Professor Derrick Bell has been in the news since Thursday, March 8. That’s when the late Andrew Breitbart’s associates released a video of some guy introducing and hugging Bell, who died in October 2011, at a 1990s Harvard rally. This guy told those assembled: “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.” The video involving Bell, “a man who posited that the civil rights movement was too moderate because it accepted the status quo, and believed that the entire legal and constitutional system had to be transformed in radical fashion,” proves that this guy “not only associated with radicals, he was their advocate.”
While this guy, Barack Obama, has presided over the United States of America, the plight of blacks and Hispanics has worsened significantly, and to a much greater degree than it has for whites (for whom the past three years also haven’t exactly been easy), pleasing the imaginary group I described earlier.
Amazingly, at least at first glance, Obama’s economic failures haven’t visibly infuriated those his misguided policies have hurt the most. His defenders and his party have gone out of their way to excuse his mistakes and are working feverishly on behalf of his reelection. The reason for this should now be obvious: They subscribe to what Bell believed.
Despite what they say, the economy is important to them, and to Obama, only to the extent that its favorable portrayal regardless of the underlying reality facilitates victory in November. The fundamental transformation of America as we have known it is what really matters to them. They must be stopped, or we will see suffering that makes what we’re enduring today seem like a picnic.
A cynical person would say that African-Americans have been actually encouraged by Democrats in the Federal Government to stay on the government plantation, so that government agencies have to now provide everything for African Americans, from housing and food stamps, to education and welfare. You name a government program and chances are you will see a lot it directed towards African Americans (with the possible exception of these “Green” energy outfits, like Solyndra). In short, the Federal and state governments have become the primary employer of blacks, from the post office to government bureaucracy jobs to the military.
Now I’m not sure blacks like this situation. Maybe they do. Maybe they like being “taken care of” in exchange for their Democratic votes every election. I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s not good for a person’s integrity and self-confidence to be dependent on anyone for anything, especially the Federal Government. Because whatever the government gives you, it can take right back from you. So instead of encouraging independence and self-reliance, the Federal Government is encouraging dependence and never-ending poverty. And that is a shame, because African Americans are no different from any other group of hard-working people. The only thing that will help them are jobs, good jobs and real jobs. If we had a decent Federal Government, it would be encouraging job growth within black communities, with massive tax cutting incentives, maybe even “tax holidays,” for corporations that open factories or offices inside black communities. But all we get from Washington is more and more “aid,” which is a code word for saying “keep them nice and happy on the government plantation.” If I were an African American, I would be insulted by what the Democrats are always pushing. Give them more job opportunities, not more handouts.
Their people admitted exactly that, that they depend on govt jobs and handouts, just a while back when the TeaParty was coming down hard on RINOs and spending. Anything you do to shrink govt or taxes is, therefor, racism.
It was shocking, as you don’t normally hear them describing themselves accurately within earshot of the major media. Normally, we are bad and we are the ones who must be eliminated. Or enslaved rather, for them to parasitize.
Why do you insist on repeating the imbecilic and politically-correct term “African-Americans” in one line, then say “blacks” in the next? Why not be consistent and just say “blacks” all the time? “African-Americans” is a kowtow term that only the liberals, white & black, use. Not all Africans are black, and not all blacks are from Africa. And if a number of anthropologists are to be believed, ALL humans originated in Africa, which makes EVERY human, even us “crackers” as the liberal “African-Americans” call us Caucasians, “African-Americans.” See how stupid it is? Drop the “african-american” and call them “blacks” or “negros” and save your tongue some wasted effort.
I use colored. Like NAACP…
Look no further than Indians, who live on reservations under government control. They live in perpetual poverty with high rates of alcohol and drug abuse, waiting on their checks. Most of their brethern in Oklahoma have integrated into the general population and become independent. The difference is a stark reminder that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Do you think those people dependent on the government for everything really care about “integrity” and “self-confidence?”
Dear posters and readers, the newest inclusion to the ‘hate group’ hit-fest, is (none other than) Daniel Greenfield, AKA, Sultan Knish, at least according to the SPLC.Interesting.
When I read about his ‘new status’ (he became duly elevated in my eyes) I veered from hysterical laughter to outrage. The SPLC has the LARGEST financial (war) chest, (out of all the ‘rights’ groups)afforded to fight on the behalf of all those who are non-civilized and anti-American.Ponder it.
As such, the SPLC bears WATCHING, at least, if one is an American patriot.
Time to turn the tables.
I think it goes beyond ethnicity.
Those who have been encouraged by Progressive rhetoric into placing their trust in our government, deep-pocketed employers, union membership, and/or the possession of a college degree to secure their future FOR them, as they simply plodded along in their jobs or school, thinking that their support systems wouldn’t change underneath them over their lifetimes, are the ones who are the worst off today.
Those that have kept control of their future, by doing the dirty work of saving, prudent planning, deferring gratification, and active career management to maximize the value of their labors, have done better (though it hasn’t been a picnic for them, either).
Left wing activists, fond of calling Republicans demons or racists, are not saying a peep about this horrific rate of unemployment for African Americans. You would think that with an unemployment rate of 16%, there would be howls of protests and threats, led by the professional race baiters. But no. They have their man in the White House so they will take whatever is handed out to them without question. It’s amazing. Obama knows they will vote for him regardless, so he doesn’t trouble himself with the serious problems on unemployment in the black community. If only there was some way to tie this to George Bush……
activists are not saying anything because, fundamentally, they do not see a problem with it. To the contrary, increased dependence on imperial Washington appeals to their need for more power over more aspects of more people’s lives.
Never forget this – liberalism cannot survive without a massively uninformed population. They get away with this because both the Repub and conservative establishments are too weak-willed to speak to people frankly. The right allows the left to set the terms by dividing people into categories based on race, ethnicity, or orientation; the right HAS TO see people as people and to call out the left on its tactic of dividing. When people are separated, they are much easier to control.
It’s even worse than that. It’s “The evil republicans led by the even more evil Cheney/Bush satanic haters of all people of color did this to us so therefore the new government who is in our corner will fix it.”
Obviously, they haven’t and probably have no intention of doing so. Other than using “their people” as props and stooges for their agenda, they couldn’t care less about them.
But, they have been fed this hope and change song and many still sing it but it’s always somehow compelling when I read about people of color and how this new brand of “transparent” government isn’t getting them that new kitchen or car or new house that they seem to believe they were promised.
Remember, often times people, that is–individuals–manufacture a fantasy in their minds and stick to it against all evidence to the contrary. The human mind has an extraordinary capacity to rationalize even when the truth hits them between the eyes and sometimes especially when it does. Because to admit they were wrong is somehow a force tantamount to being naked.
And in psychological terms, it is virtually indistinguishable from it. Ever stood in a room full of people and found out you were the one who had it wrong? The feeling of wanting to crawl into a hole and die? The natural human instinct is to protect itself by lashing out.
However, it is also the mark of a mature human-being who admits they were wrong and humbly assesses how to not do that again. It’s not the mistake, it’s the character shown in the recovery that matters often more than the mistake itself.
My biggest frustration is that in the past 40+ years, the ignorant and emotionally immature segment of the population has grown to such a huge proportion it makes ME want to go crawl into a hole. They’re everywhere. Poor behavior all over the place.
The theft of the legitimate aspirations of black Americans by the left is a heartbreaking tragedy of the modern era. The emasculation of blacks via the left’s education, social, penal and medical policies reduced this constituency to a mere shadow of its former vibrancy (one that was upheld in the face of ruthless discrimination.) Sadder still is the manifestation of the Stockholm syndrome in which the black electorate identifies with the policies of their destruction engineered by the authoritarian left all in the name of social justice; it makes one weep.
In my last blog I started with mention of Bruce Bartlett’s interesting and important book on the black vote in support of what had been a consistently white supremacist Democratic Party. He wants them to switch, and wants Republicans to make reparations for slavery with education scholarships. See http://clarespark.com/2012/03/14/history-as-trauma/. But also see the importance of education reform, laid out here: http://clarespark.com/2011/08/31/review-steven-brills-class-warfare/. The example of Eva Moskowitz’s charter schools should give us all pause as to the educability of black and brown children.
Great comments. But I am not weeping for them. They made their bed and they can sleep in it. If as a group they are too stupid to understand what is happening to them then they deserve to live in misery and they can blithely go about listening to the crap they listen to. Yuck!
“Imagine this: A group of raging white racists…”
I don’t have to imagine it, you’re talking about the DNC. History tells us the Democratic Party was in power in the Slave States, history tells us the Democratic Party enacted the “Jim Crow” laws, history tells us the Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Movement, and history tells us the Democrats enacted “The Great Society”.
Derrick Bell was right, there is a movement designed to “keep the black man down”, he just wasn’t bright enough to figure out it was the Democratic Party. He was also right about the the need to transform the legal and constitutional system but, again, he wasn’t bright enough to figure out that that transformation had to be back to individual freedom, individual liberty and individual responsibility. I guess once you’re on the plantation you stay on the plantation.
You’re right: it’s an ironic weirdness where the Dem Party MUST continue to chase phantoms 50 years and more after the fact and in the process make the entire history of America look so much worse for blacks than it actually was that the echoes and effects can never die down. If you listen to black folks you’d thing 100,000 were lynched rather than less than 4,000 from 1882 to 1968 according to the Tuskegee Institute. Black gangs kill more people than that today in a few years but they’re not race-based militias cuz they don’t have websites. Having a website and rifles and being a threat that never quite materializes is worse than murder in the thousands and thousands over only a 10 year period.
Slavery was a horrible crime but was addressed and fought against from the very beginning in 1776, starting most notably with the state of Massachusetts which outlawed slavery. Jim Crow was largely confined to the South and in any event, there is no proof that all of white America was on board with the idea than they were with prohibition of taxes today. Reportedly over 50% of Americans disagree with the amount of taxes they pay.
When you want to demonize someone, make it look like every single person was in agreement with bad laws when in fact there is no evidence in popular literature or film 1930-55, for example, that white American’s had any overarching interest in race. In fact, it’s telling that by population, 80% of Americans were against the South in 1861 but the Left makes it seem like the Civil War from a Northern point of view saw slavery as irrelevant and from the Southern view as the be-all and end-all. The Left just says whatever they want and see if it sticks.
Nothing has changed from the point of view of the Left unless it applies to themselves and the odious history of the Dem Party when it comes to race in America – then change is say to be real and considerable. No, it’s just white people in general who never change and in the view of the Left whites are endemic, intransigent and incurable racists.
From ~ 150 years ago it falls under the “be careful what you wish for”.
The slave long dreamed of being free. The Civil War brought about that freedom in theory. In fact, it was something else. Those Southern democrats co-opted the whole thing and manipulated the law(s) to suit them. Their spurious and straw-man arguments then were hinged around the notion that the north was “telling them what to do”. Though I have seen that damned northern know-it-all attitude first hand, I have to say that in a much more practical sense, slavery and the oppression of blacks had to go.
However for quite a very long time now the democrats have built a huge house of straw and figured out a way to get themselves into office by pandering to the very people they despise. How strange the relationship. How odd the mechanics of it. How surreal the results.
But as mentioned here, the blacks are of the mind that they can be free and collect all the assumed respect, perks, rights and privileges of freedom, supposedly “given to them” by the democrats in return for nothing.
The problem is this: Freedom is not free. It comes with the price tag of personal responsibility, accountability, character, honesty, forthrightness, the ability to think clearly and steadfastness. All of these things the democrats have encouraged the black population to avoid.
The natural human behavior is to gravitate towards that which is easiest. And the democrats have made it blindingly easy to be irresponsible, unaccountable, lacking in character, etc., etc. You might say they invented the whole cultural collapse.
I noticed back in the 70′s how news reporting started focusing on the little side stories about how someone was yet again another “victim” and the ground-breaking news program “60 Minutes” took it to a whole new level. Over time it became fashionable to be a victim. It is now a requirement, it would seem, in certain segments of society. So the transformation was complete, not by the huckster Obama, but some decades ago when the crying public was given free housing, money and food, all in the name of “fairness”.
Freedom, by definition, is not fair. Thus, people who fear personal responsibility choose instead the security of knowing that their meager intake comes from a known source, for a known amount and a known period of time. Thus, they are spared the uncertainty of having to fend for themselves. This, they believe is right and just. It is not. It takes from those who work to live, who understand their obligations to society and who protect that which they own under the laws set forth by our system of government.
The democrats have been systematically dis-assembling it for decades because they believe only THEY have the power to administer law, not the power of God, which they categorically dismiss. The two notions, that of a God-given responsibility to govern justly and the power to do so as a self-made dictator, are virtually indistinguishable in practice unless one understands the difference.
In governing justly, the human must acknowledge the burden of responsibility to understand the guiding and teachings in the Bible and humbly admit they are working to administer things to benefit all while making sure to harm no one.
The arrogant dictators have dismissed all notions of God and therefore believe they can solve all problems with administrative action. The fallacy being that they think they are the be-all and end-all of everything. They have become enamored of their own power and believe they are all-knowing and all-seeing. Arrogance on the grandest of scales.
It is nothing new. But what is new is that the people in power have actually gone on to completely dismiss the notion of the purpose of our laws and documents and now see themselves as the omniscient, omnipresent arbiters of fairness. They are ignorant of the Bible, the Constitution, the Magna Carta, the Federalist Papers, etc, etc. Never at any time in their lives were they presented these documents and teachings with the intent of understanding humanities limitations and weaknesses.
Quite the opposite. Their educations were replete with empowerment, self-esteem building exercises and ridicule for the ones who didn’t get on board with the socialist’s way of thinking. Therefore, the leaders we have in government have been voluntarily programed to seek the easy fix, the feel-good solution and have been taught all their lives that that which makes you happy or satisfied is always good.
Society is broken. But again, it’s nothing new. Unfortunately, it will take a new age and probably severe violence to change it. Not right-wingers acting out of frustration…no. But when the food is gone due to government ineptitude, the water unavailable, the roads impassable, families destroyed, health significantly diminished, the people will revolt. Sadly, history has shown that people will put up with a great deal before that happens but the longer it takes, the bloodier the end result.
One of the benefits to the Dems. for “keeping the black man down” and providing govt. subsidies to the minorities, “white people” are not eligible for the programs. Thus providing a tension between the races that are eligible and those that are not.
Perpetuation of racism, huge benefit to the actual racists, the Dems.
I really don’t see the tension. Poor white trash acts black because they believe they can get the same benefits of blacks. Middle class and suburban whites who go to college act black because it is cool; they pay no attention to their futures. And upper class white support AA and other other programs supporting blacks. So I don’t see the tension.
All I can say that any group of people that are so stupid they don’t know what side their bread is buttered after all these years is in trouble up to their naive gullible necks. There is nothing anyone can do that helps stupid.
A lifetime of demonizing whites taught from the toddler age has so warped most black’s minds, that I figure it will be another fifty years before blacks figure out they were their own worst enemy, and conveniently used by albino limousine liberals – if they ever figure it out. When the curtain pulled, even most blacks that have cross cultural appeal, eventually prove racist. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind. That woman is as pretentious as the day is long. And those blacks that disagree with the victimization are invariably tagged Uncle Tom or sell out. The worst of black hatred is reserved for the black man or woman that dares disagree with the group think. Look at Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell – persona not grata in most black communities.
Frankly, I’m numb to the problems of Black America anymore. The double standards, the excusing of bad behavior, the fatuous charges of white racism. If you think the abject helplessness and utter depravity of the behavior in New Orleans was but an aberration, think again.
I’ll make a different prediction about Hispanics – one day, the light bulb will come on that they are being lied to and used. There’s a very different mindset and a far more dynamic work ethic in most Hispanic communities I’m familiar, and the days of them voting majority Democratic are numbered.
And those blacks that disagree with the victimization are invariably tagged Uncle Tom or sell out.
Another favorite epithet is “not an authentic black man” as was recently hurled at Allen West by one of the morons on the Congressional Black Caucus.
It has always been about transformation.
(actually, it’s about power)
The more economic hardship, the more suffering, the more elated are the would be transformers, so they can pretend to ride in on their white horses and save the day by throwing more stuff at the pathetic population.
And, not at all incidentally, cement the need for themselves and their revolting rule in the process.
Great Article!!! You are 100% right on everything that you note and the people that you note will never see it-EVER, until it’s TOO LATE! Watch! p.s. I also predict that the two-witnesses of Revelation, chapter 11 will first appear on September 16, 2012 on the Annual Feast of Trumpets(war) and over 3 1/2 years will have destroyed u.s., save 144,000 from the Spiritual Assembly and another 144,000, 12,000 from each tribe of Israel, less Dan, to keep the promiss made ot Ya’aqob, also as written in Revelation! You’ll also know if this “prophecy” or not on September 16, 2012, won’t you? WATCH!
Roughly 20% of American blacks are employed in the public sector–a much higher figure than for American whites. So cutbacks in government services which are taking place at the state and local level are going to cause more unemployment for blacks than for whites.
Wait, there’s been cutbacks in public sector employment! I thought the plan was simply to hire more and more people to do less and less work at the expense (err… I mean for the benefit of) everyone else.
Minorities, as well as the right must fight this Presidency, or get used to performing sexual favors to earn the cash necessary to fill up their gas tanks, in order to get to jobs that pay less than they made in 2008, if they are lucky enough to even have a job. At least their contraception costs will be covered by the ObamaCare mandate.
Read more of my article, Breitbart Barack: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/breitbart_barack.html#ixzz1pCiesMKD
The way I see it that when the government runs out of money for those on the government dole, the administration will blame white people and then the riots will start. Many blacks see through this blame game and are not buying the rhetoric, at least those who are or have been regularly employed. Now those who are black & white that are on government subsidies and who wish to stay there will be po’d when the money dries up. And where is all this money going? Solyndra, etc. Billions of dollars going somewhere and no one wants to follow that money trail because maybe they will get a good chunck of change out of it for themselves. This is nothing but a scam x 10. While they are filling their pockets they breed hate in the nation. We all know it and it seems like we cannot do nothing about it while they laugh at us. But never forget who they realy fear and that is us who ain’t down for the game.
He will not be re-elected… Omg…He’s enjoying these gas prices, His Objective is to ruin America,….. and it’s working
When David Horowitz provided some context about the Atlantic slave trade, the SPLC said it rose to the level of hate speech yes, history is racist. On the SPLC website for hate-crimes for 2011, there is nothing about a handful of incidents where “flash-mobs” of black folks organized themselves using social media and then went out and beat snot out of white folks for the insane reason they were white folks. The media itself, accustomed to exaggerating the least hint of hate crime by whites, didn’t even want to identify the race of attacks that were obviously racially motivated.
By the SPLC’s own definition of hate-speech on their site, the Left consistently fails and yet is immune from criticism by the SPLC. Once upon a time the SPLC did good work and they are to be commended for their work against white supremacist groups
Now, they are in fact not running our of targets just ignoring them because they are the now proverbial inconvenient truth. A white equivalent of any number of minority racial groups and laws supported by the Dem Party would be consider “hate” by the SPLC were those people white.
Like all bureaucracies about social justice, it’s never “mission accomplished” but just business as usual but now with Hallmark Cards that say “black ho’” rather than “black hole” and “blah” and “food stamp President” as the “New Jim Crow.” To say the modern version of the SPLC is depraved is an understatement.
If the SPLC were to open their eyes, they’d see that now the smoke has cleared from a half-century ago, the only racial institutions are those that benefit people of color. Time for a new clock and new glasses. The problem for the SPLC is that their funding would dry up and be replaced from places they consider naughty, such as the almost entirely white GOP, or worse, the National Hockey League.
Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist Jerry Bowyer, Who needs Molotov when we’ve got Alinski?
http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/03/obama-fabian-socialist-oped-cx_jb_1103bowyer.html
But…they will keep on voting for their master because he is the same shade as they. Other than actually having one in the White House, there is nothing really different now than it has always been. EXCEPT there is NO thriving business to carry these misfits on the dole. We have always paid their way, its just that in the old days, we had enough revenue to carry them and still make our own way in the world. All that has changed under BHO’s rule. Meanwhile, they don’t get it, they never will either. You have to have a brain to figure this ever so complicated situation out.
Thank you, Mr. Blumer, for the superbly researched, referenced and written essay today.
Your penultimate observation, though…
“… Obama’s economic failures haven’t visibly infuriated those his misguided policies have hurt the most.”
…, while accurate, I think forgets that this has been the rule, not the exception, for leftists throughout the history of socialism. Even Soviet Russia, at its decrepit and thoroughly corrupted lowest, still had true, unalterable believers. We should not be the least bit surprised that liberals here and now would fall on their own ideological swords since their philosophical forebears have been doing exactly that for a century.
Of course, the story you selected to tell today is but one chapter in a very long, sad story. Readers interested in the rest of the book are invited to visit Another Slow News Day’s various blog pages devoted to the many and varied destructive tentacles of Oabamnomics, starting with the subject you feature most directly today: Obamajobs.
http://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/obamajobs/
Visitors to ASND can access several other Obamanomics topical branches on the Update Topics / Barack Obama / Obamanomics menu tree.
In Australia we have been very successful in keeping our blacks in the gutter.
It takes three things to do it:
1. PC retorics (rights, victim status);
2. Comfort and status for the leaders:
3. Habdouts.
By doing that we insured not only a low status of the blacks and resentment of all other groups, but also a demographic collaps of our black community. Both parties in Australia following those lines. By the end of this century there will be no native blacks in Australia.
The “useful idiots” who voted for Obama based on the color of his skin were always going to be the first to be fed feet first through the wood chipper.
Revolutions devour their own – Stalin, Mao, Peron, Chavez, Obama… and those who refuse to learn the lessons of history get the pimp hand of reality applied until they do.. or are destroyed…
Gary – The blacks in Australia keep THEMSELVES in the gutter. Living off the “white fella’s” dime is a choice, if they REFUSE to put in the work to make something of themselves then all I have to say is good riddance….
That chart looks a lot like some I’ve seen coming from school districts. This might be a good time to point out that education and behavior are important.
That reminds me of a demographics chart of my county’s schools that I just read. Polk County Florida. Test scores for the FCAT. In EVERY school, not some, not most, but EVERY school blacks and hispanics scored significantly lower than whites and asians. Even the better schools this pattern held. What surprises me the most is that the demographic information is even out there for me to find!!
News You May Not Have Seen on the MSM
It’s impossible to post incisive observations on everything President Barack Obama’s mainstream media report and don’t report on significant stories and events that reflect negatively on their anointed one.
Some stories and events become so public that the MSM is forced to mention them and then, dutifully, bury them in the journalistic graveyard as if they had never happened.
Therefore, in the interests of public service, I present a few Obama-related stories which have either been ignored by the MSM or which the mainstreamers quickly relegated to the scrapheap along with tales of Martians invading Earth and Democrats acting stupidly.
The story of Dems so enamored of their hero that they superimposed a picture of Obama in place of the 50 stars on the American flag, reflecting their total ignorance of proper flag protocols, was briefly covered by the MSM, without commentary on those time-honored protocols.
The next steps might be his face on a trillion dollar bill and Mount Rushmore.
It gets much better or much worse, depending on your political perspective.
. The MSM gave little play to the thoughts of Steven Chu, Obama’s Energy Secretary, on gas prices both before and after he was appointed. Chu, who admitted he doesn’t drive a car, had advocated for European-level gas prices of ten dollars a gallon in the U.S. and repeated that wish even after prices began to soar.
The media also ignored his backtracking in the face of Republican derision and Chu now says, “I no longer share that view. . . Of course, we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up. We want it to go down.”
But, of course!
Outside of the administration, I don’t know who else shared Chu’s view of the benefits of astronomical gas prices. I suspect the nitwit DOE secretary got a call from one of Obama’s henchmen telling him to shut up and retreat from his imbecilic position.
. On a “comedic” front in America’s culture war, black comedian Chris Rock reverted to form and exploded when asked a question by conservative author of Obama Zombies and Hollywood Hypocrites, Jason Mattera.
Last year, Rock had incoherently said in Esquire, “When I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last–this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them,” and Mattera asked him to explain his baseless comments.
Instead of clarifying, Rock erupted, ripped the camera out of the hands of Mattera’s camerawoman, hurled it 50 feet, and challenged Mattera to a fight–while Rock was in the protection of two bodyguards.
. Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, clearly regards the president and his immigration policies the same way he thinks of rattlesnakes and illegal aliens. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=17403.)
Berlet98 – “The next steps might be his face on a trillion dollar bill.”
We might well see that towards the end of Obama’s second term.
The Obama administration is incapable of any action that does not include printing and spending. That combined with the movement underway by China, Japan, Russia and a host of oil producing Middle East countries to end the “reserve currency” status of the US dollar via bi-lateral trade agreements and other arrangements mean the days of “deficits and printing the s**t out of the dollar to fund spendulus” are drawing to a rapid close.
Hyper inflation – Change…