Giving a speech at Tulane University this morning, in the once great city on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi, the City of New Orleans, Barack Obama, in trying to win the hearts and minds of as many people as possible, said the following:
"Katrina may have battered the levees, but it also exposed silent storms that have ravaged parts of this city and our country for far too long. The storms of poverty and jobless, inequality, and injustice... those are the storms that swirled before Katrina hit.
I was down in Houston visiting evacuees a few days after Katrina. I met a woman in the Reliant Center who had long known these storms in her life. She told me, and I quote,
'We had nothing before the hurricane, now we got less than nothing.'
'We had nothing before the hurricane, now we got less than nothing.' Think about... I think about her sometimes, I think about how America left her behind before the storm. I wonder where she is today. America failed that woman long before that failure showed up on our television screens."
Mr. Obama, what were that woman's circumstances before Hurricane Katrina? You didn't fill ANYONE in on exactly what she was going through in her life and how she got there.
My impression is that Obama was suggesting that the woman was in poverty and it wasn't her fault.
Really?
Everyone in America who lives in poverty, that's the government's fault? Surely it couldn't be my fault or my neighbor's fault. Poverty must be the fault of the government, right?
Okay, I'd agree that the politicians in Washington should do more to help people get out of poverty -- I don't have the answers but I know that the help should be in helping them to help themselves get out of poverty.
That woman that Obama spoke of, perhaps her poverty was HER OWN DOING. If that's the case, is it up to the government to give them handouts so they can move beyond poverty? No. Therefore the government should definitely NOT be taking more of our hard-earned money in order to pay for such handouts. The mere thought of raising taxes to establish free handout programs for those in poverty, it's dangerously raising my blood pressure and really pissing me off.
Sadly, wealthy liberal politicians and businessmen and actors and musicians (who shall remain nameless) must not be able to remember what it's like to stretch a dollar or what it's like for every paycheck to be carefully used rather than spent like it's no big deal. For the most part, OUR money should remain OUR money...
...and people should bust their own asses to get out of poverty. There are Americans doing that EVERY single day. Hell, in the United States there are MILLIONS of illegal immigrants from many different nations doing that EVERY single day!!!! They help themselves. In many cases, they've risked their lives to come here to help themselves and even their families in poverty back home. I'm not endorsing being here illegally but making a point that people who aren't even from here, they know the value of hard work in America to earn a paycheck to help themselves. Maybe more Americans in poverty oughta ask the illegals for advice.
What the government needs to do is stop spending idiotically for things like a children's museum dedicated to the history of peanuts or a neighborhood beautification project that will raise the home value of the politician who tacked the earmark onto some bill passed by Congress and ultimately signed by the President.
Spending responsibly could truly change the face of this nation to give more people more of an opportunity. But one of the most amazing things about this country is people in ANY situation are allowed to rise above... all they've got to do is work hard enough. From every hellish neighborhood and school in this country, someone's made it out successfully through hard work and the desire to live a better life than those around them. It is possible.
Look, bottomline is the government should not be taking more of what U.S. citizens work hard to earn in order to give to those who haven't helped or those who just won't help themselves. The government should encourage us to help our fellow citizens... but not force us to.
So shut up, Obama. You'd probably make a very good president who truly cares about the citizens of this great land... but NO raising taxes.
But wait. Obama's still a very misguided fool for wanting to appease the evil of Saddam Hussein. With all the information that we had about the man and his dictatorship, Obama thought that was okay? Let's allow him do as he pleases? Let him keep on breaking U.N. resolutions against him? Let him keep making deals with certain countries so he could attain personal wealth and luxuries that he didn't give to the citizens of his nation? Let him keep spying on weapons inspectors and giving them the run-around? Let him keep on encouraging suicide attacks on Israel and paying the families of those who've blown themselves up? Let him keep on allowing al-Qaeda to have a training camp within the borders of Iraq?
I guess Saddam was an okay guy, huh, Obama?
Oh, and wanting America to surrender to al-Qaeda and leave Iraq in defeat, allowing instability to rule, allowing genocide to occur, allowing Iran to influence the entire region... did I mention allowing America to surrender and be defeated by al-Qaeda? All of that is despicable.
Barack Obama does not deserve to be President.
Not of this country.
There needs to be an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that bans HOT weather.
I'm completely against more government; they screw everything up, waste our money, and call it okay. But at this moment it would be nice if the government controlled the weather. If our politicians truly care about the people they're supposed to be serving, they'd finally give them comfort in their environment i.e. TURN THE HEAT DOWN!!!!!
