AMERICA’S BLUDGEONED YOUTH: Homeless, Hopeless and Addicted…. Will they
start the revolution?
"Public education as a whole came
under brutal attack as part of the Obama administration’s effort to shift the
burden of the financial crisis onto the backs of the working class."
"This is not surprising. As a presidential
candidate in 2008, Obama appealed to young
people with empty promises of “hope” and
“change,” only to oversee an enormous
transfer of wealth to the rich, unending war
and the further destruction of democratic
rights."
Obama returns to Chicago to promote “civic engagement”
By
Kristina Betinis
25 April 2017
25 April 2017
In his first public appearances since leaving the White
House, former President Barack Obama made two stops in Chicago, his former
home, to urge young people to become involved in politics and community life.
Both were small, closely managed affairs with little public interaction, and
the proceedings at times veered into the absurd.
Obama’s first public event was held on Sunday in the
neighborhood of Roseland, where he was invited by his former secretary of
education Arne Duncan to speak with young men on reducing gang violence. In a
widely-publicized event at the University of Chicago Monday, Obama led a
discussion among six Chicago area high school and university students and an
invited audience.
BLOG: UNDER OBAMA'S REGIME, THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY BECAME THE CRONY BANKSTER-FUNDED PARTY FOR OPEN BORDERS, ENDLESS HORDES OF ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
BLOG: UNDER OBAMA'S REGIME, THE CORRUPT DEMOCRAT PARTY BECAME THE CRONY BANKSTER-FUNDED PARTY FOR OPEN BORDERS, ENDLESS HORDES OF ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
Obama’s statements revealed the immense disconnect between
the Democratic Party and the vast majority of the population, in particular
those he was purportedly aiming to reach.
Post-presidential mythmaking is in full swing, and
Monday’s event had moments of unintended humor. The student who introduced
Obama, Richard Omoniyi-Shoyoola, compared Obama’s life to those of Frederick
Douglass and Theodore Roosevelt.
Obama spoke to his young aspiring political operatives on
stage with him: “The single most important thing I can do is to help in any way
prepare the next generation of leadership to take up the baton and to take
their own crack at changing the world.”
Obama’s appearance is in line with the Democratic Party’s
effort in the wake of the 2016 elections to somehow bolster support for the
Democratic Party and the political system as a whole. Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders is currently touring the country with Democratic National Committee
chair Tom Perez for the same purpose.
What was most striking about Obama’s appearance was its
political impotence. This is not surprising. As a presidential candidate in
2008, Obama appealed to young people with empty promises of “hope” and
“change,” only to oversee an enormous transfer of wealth to the rich, unending
war and the further destruction of democratic rights. The resulting widespread
disillusionment with the Democratic Party and official politics helped Trump
win the presidency last November.
In referring to the numerous social problems young people
face, Obama had strikingly little to say: “Yes, we confront a whole range of
challenges, from economic inequality and lack of opportunity, to the criminal
justice system to climate change to issues related to violence. All those
problems are serious, they’re daunting, but they’re not insoluble. What is
preventing us from tackling them and making more progress really has to do with
our politics and our civic life.”
Obama made the claim that the political situation is being
made worse by individualism, which has undermined involvement in civic groups
like Rotary Club or Parent Teacher Associations. Apparently all the problems in
the world will be solved if only more people go to PTA meetings.
He attributed the political divisions in the US to special
interests, gerrymandered districts and apathetic young people. Rather than
acknowledge that whole swaths of the population are alienated from official
politics because it serves social interests hostile to their own, Obama
suggested that it is, in part, American disinterest in politics that is to
blame: “When I said in 2004 that there were no red states or blue states, there
are United States of America, that was an aspirational comment … [O]bviously,
it’s not true when it comes to our politics and our civic life, and maybe more
pernicious is the fact that people just aren’t involved. They get cynical, and
they give up.”
A recent survey published by Runaway Inequality
Educational Network indicates that significant majorities of respondents 18 to
40 years old support a radical transformation of social life in America to
include heavily subsidized health care, free education, higher taxes on
financiers, increased workplace rights, citizenship rights for immigrants and
prison reform, among other social improvements.
Obama, who could speak in no meaningful way to any of
these issues, is far removed from the conditions and problems most young people
in Chicago and across the United States confront. The Obamas have
spent the last several months
vacationing on super-yachts and at
posh tropical resorts with some of the
world’s wealthiest entertainment
businessmen and stars, including
David Geffen, Richard Branson, Oprah
Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
spent the last several months
vacationing on super-yachts and at
posh tropical resorts with some of the
world’s wealthiest entertainment
businessmen and stars, including
David Geffen, Richard Branson, Oprah
Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
Widely noted in the press was the fact that Obama said
nothing in either of his appearances about Trump. He only indirectly referred
to the issues of immigrant deportation and the Democratic Party’s losses in the
2016 elections. This was reported to have created some tension at the
University of Chicago event, and the question-and-answer period was cut short
after just two questions.
Obama reportedly said his silence on Trump is modeled on
George W. Bush’s decision not to criticize Obama after Bush left office. What
it clearly reflects is the unanimity within the ruling class on basic issues of
policy, however bitter the divisions may be on certain matters—and in
particular on foreign policy. After Trump’s election, Obama declared that the
elections were merely an “intramural scrimmage” and that “we’re all on the same
team.”
At least this much was true.
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Obama lives it up in the lap of luxury
[18 April 2017]
Obama lives it up in the lap of luxury
[18 April 2017]
THE LEGACY OF
BARACK OBAMA:
Final Death of the
American White Middle Class
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have found
themselves consigned to
economic ghettos, living in
neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist
below the
poverty level.
Millions more now live in “high poverty” districts
of 20-40
percent poverty, according to recently released report by the
Brookings Institution.
THE OBAMA BOOK DEAL: Sixty-five million
dollars—or even $267.5
million—is a small price
to pay for the contribution the former president
made
to enriching the already fabulously rich,
defending the American ruling elite’s
geopolitical
interests around the world and continuing the
assault on the
wages, benefits and living
standards of the working class.
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA UNDER
MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number
of elderly persons who are homeless in the US will have doubled by 2050.
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM
.... A Glimpse...
$640,000 and breeding anchor babies like bunnies
MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
EACH ILLEGAL WILL COST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
$640,000
and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
AMERICA STUDENTS STARVE:
Report on the impact of
OBAMA-
CLINTONOMICS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/uc-workers-starving-in-state-that-hands.html
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
pounds America’s youth as they build a border to border Mexican welfare state
on our backs!
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE
…… ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE… they also get our
jobs!
The new reports show that in addition to
“traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these
teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling
drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat
properly.
For ordinary Americans, the one way you draw a $400,000 paycheck is to do something to create value. This is the story of very hardworking small businesses everywhere. As one wag put it several years ago in a book title, the first $20 mil...
For ordinary Americans, the one way you draw a $400,000 paycheck is to do something to create value. This is the story of very hardworking small businesses everywhere. As one wag put it several years ago in a book title, the first $20 mil...
April 25, 2017
After his billionaire vacay, Obama cashes in at the speech trough
For ordinary Americans, the one way you draw a $400,000 paycheck is to do something to create value. This is the story of very hardworking small businesses everywhere. As one wag put it several years ago in a book title, the first $20 million is the hardest.
Then there's Obama, fresh off his billionaire vacation over in Tahiti at Marlon Brando's exclusive hideaway estate, now drawing his first $400,000 paycheck for a...speech, from Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Cue the music:
We're in the money, come on, my honey
Let's spend it, lend it, send it rolling along
Let's spend it, lend it, send it rolling along
Nice work if you can get it. And Obama is far from the only ex-official who's done it. The Bush family was the first group of politicians I was aware of that played this game. My savvy auto executive uncle in Michigan explained to me as a kid that this was very likely a disguised sort of bribery.
Obama has just demonstrated a capacity to take whatever this is to new heights. So much for this guy being a man of the people or devoting himself to mentoring young black men and returning to community organizing or his daughter Sasha in his post-presidency, as he had claimed at the end of his term. Nope, it's all about cashing out and getting rich on unearned income now, something he didn't want to tell the reporters when he was exiting office. Not exactly the "gone fishin'" relaxation of a real retirement, either.
The bigger question to ask may be what Cantor Fitzgerald got in return for its $400,000. Was it an expectation that Obama's minions would be returned to power, and an expectation of being remembered for their emoluments, or was it a payoff for some favor the Obama administration did during his presidency? A good investigative reporter should probably check into this.
As for the rest of us, well, compare and contrast how we make our $400,000 paychecks, all the pious talk from Obama during his presidency about how we all "work hard," now coming up against this rich wastrel picture. He's not adding value. He's collecting rents.
Had enough?
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