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Obama's reference to moochers

Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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Obama said, “By telling hard-working middle-class families that the reason they are getting squeezed is because some moochers at the bottom of the income ladder, because of minorities and because of immigrants or because of employees or because of feminists, because of poor folks who aren’t willing to work, they have been able to promote policies and protect special interests and those at the very top of the economic pyramid. That’s just the truth. I hope you don’t mind me being blunt about this, but I have been listening to the stuff for a while. And I’m concerned when I watch the direction of our politics. We have been hearing this story for decades, tales about welfare queens, talking about the takers, talking about the 47 percent. It is the story that is broadcast every day on some cable news stations, on right wing radio. It is pumped into cars and bars and VFW halls all across America and right here in Elkhart. If you are hearing that story all the time, you start believing it. It is no wonder people think state government is the problem.”

I'm feeling just a bit tweaked right now.
My mother taught me that if I didn't have something nice to say, to not say anything. OK, I'll just grumble under my breath.


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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are so right about that! I thought we were turning the corner on this us vs them mentality, but reverse discrimination is taking off again. What a step backwards, and O was largely responsible with his "circle the wagons" approach to garnering support.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 11 months ago
    There is no problem with moochers. They hardly make a dent in our society. It's only when non-moochers are encouraged to become moochers from the moochers in government that it becomes a problem.FDR opened the mooching door a crack, LBJ kicked it wide open, and Obama took it right off the hinges.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 7 years, 11 months ago
    Obama likely never made it through AS, some speech writer likely started, but did not finish it. Obama does not have the IQ to understand AS.
    Of course they pander to blacks, whcihsrewin them over. The black communities are the worst after his 8 years!b Why should we be surprised, while a state legislator, he got $5 million for a part in depressed balck Chicago. The money never went to that park, He never felt one with blacks, but did feel one with commies.
    Our real problem are generations of students comine out of Dept. Of Ed run schools, which have taken the ability to reason as an individual, and replaced it with peer socialism.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Theres a documentary on Netflix called THE WEST, and one episode touches on the relentless persecution of the mormons for (of all things) their allowance of polygamy. I mean, really, who cares how many wives you have.....

    Anyway, the mormons were chased from state to state until they finally got to Utah (which was part of mexico as I remember). The US persecution stopped there, at least for awhile, until the uSA took over the mexican territories all the way to the coast. Then the mormons were under attack again, and their territory minimized by the US. Eventually, the mormons just gave up (mostly) their belief that polygamy was OK. I can see why they are kind of a closed society today and very protective of their members.

    Too bad, really, since I could care less about polygamy. I am willing to live alongside them and accept them, so long as they give me the same consideration. I wont try to convert them, so long as they dont try to convert me.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hopefully that will gain traction in the mormon faith. Religions need to be more accepting of non believers or risk a lot of negativity from the plurality of non believers.

    Try being gay (or black for that matter) and interact with at least the mormon heirarchy. One would think they would be more accepting of other people, given the fact they were really persecuted themselves for years and years.
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  • Posted by fivedollargold 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yep, Romney screwed us with his dumb health plan. Agree that the LDS have some odd beliefs. But, I had a Mormon roommate and have some Mormon friends today. Nice, hardworking people, Harry Reid excepted. None of them tried to force anything on me, and we had interesting discussions.
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    well from what we are all observing he is working as best he can to have more and more people in need of the soup kitchens.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 7 years, 11 months ago
    it's not State government which has primarily spoiled
    much of the nation's urban population ... it's federal
    government! . we have found the enemy, and he is
    speaking! -- j

    p.s. tweaked? . how about angry?
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  • Posted by scojohnson 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Nope, I would never show up, but he might get more of the mooching masses thinking it's a soup kitchen.
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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    maybe you do not realize that what you have joining 0 who is from the gutter is more from the gutter in the audience. now think about it would you actually want to be a part of 0's audience?
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years, 11 months ago
    The lefties always squeeze race into every topic. Always. As soon as I hear reference to race anymore my brain shuts off and I start planning my next fishing trip or round of golf. I just don't entertain it anymore...
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  • Posted by jetmec 7 years, 11 months ago
    Ok I'm tired of hearing this crap about Moochers!! Find them something to do!!!! Infrastructure needs repairing or replacing. Find out the real cost of living in the various areas add $100 and the amount of tax payable and that can be the pay for thee people, If they have a problem then no money at all They then produce something and give back to the country
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 7 years, 11 months ago
    After taking one luxury vacation after another at taxpayers expense, he has a lot of nerve talking about others describing people of his ilk as moochers! I particularly enjoyed the mention of VFW halls as echo chambers for the hate filled. Can one imagine the hue and cry if a republican had been so tone deaf as to spit on a group like the VFW!
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He shouldnt have made these comments, except that he totally arrogant and entitled, so he doesnt care at this point what people think of him. He is giving away the secrets of the statist realm and laughing at us at the same time.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Because Romney is the same thing. He had romneycare even before obamacare. He is mormon, which is a scary thing. In addition to some financially conservative beliefs, They have other very scary beliefs and they try to force everyone else to adhere to them.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Obama is the poster child of the new entitled and arrogant black culture. I will say that he is consistent at least.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Obama is the poster child for the government supported entitled black culture. He has done more to hurt blacks than anyone in modern history.

    I used to be a supporter of the oppressed black minority. Now I just want to stay away from the modern black culture now, because it is so entitled. These people complain all the time as customers that things are not right for them, they saunter across the street so white people have to wait, they are loud in restaurants and let their kids run all over the place. The problem of course is entitlement, but our government has coddled blacks especially- making them the most entitled group now. I am politically incorrect, but I am tired of political correctness.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These liberals are EVIL to the core. They know what they are doing, but they dont care about anything except themselves.
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    Posted by term2 7 years, 11 months ago
    I have thought for awhile that our liberal politicians know what they are doing, and are just EVIL to the core. In this case Obama knows damn well whats happening and continues to do it.

    I hope Trump gets in and blows apart the establishment. Interesting that both he AND Sanders are on the same train (at least what the problem IS, NOT what to do about it of course)
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 11 months ago
    Olde Dino sez the prez knows he is lying through his grinning teeth.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 7 years, 11 months ago
    Hello jbrenner,
    The epitome of a man oblivious of reality, combined with delusions of grandeur.
    Regards,
    O.A.
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