Re: Obama: The Anti-Bling: From Riches to Rags

On Feb 6, 4:01 pm, trudogg <independ...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It had been prophesied for ages. Someone would come with a system to
shake the very foundations of the Earth. Someone whose presence would
cause fear and trembling among the rulers of nations. I'm not talking
about the anti-Christ of Biblical lore. I'm talking about Barack
Obama: the anti-Bling.

President Barack Obama. If you're on the low end of the economic
spectrum, you've gotta love this guy. He rolls into DC like a Harvard
educated Robin Hood with his group of merry men stickin' it to the
rich and giving to the poor. I mean, the first bill he signed wasn't
to give some fat cat a tax break but the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act
that is designed to help the underdog fight "the man."

It's one thing to have the audacity to hope but to have the audacity
to put a limit on how much CEO's can make a year...Well, that takes
guts.

Be afraid, rich and powerful. Be very afraid.

Talk all you want about hope and the rest of that jazz but like they
say on the streets; money talks and everything else walks. Don't talk
to me about pullin' myself up by my bootstraps if I can't even afford
those $2.99 "bo bo" sneakers that they sell at Dollar General.

And all those fancy self motivation speeches will just get drowned out
by the noise of the rumblin' bellies of those who consider the dollar
menu at McDonald's fine dining.

As Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) once said, "a man is poor for one
reason and one reason only: 'cause he does not have money. If you want
to get rid of poverty, you give people money..."

This is a reality that the stinkin' rich have never wanted to face. As
one writer once put it, "the problem in this country is not too many
poor folks but too many greedy rich folks."

While some people look with scorn at entitlement programs such as
affirmative action, many believe that through some process of economic
Darwinism rich folks are supposed to be rich and poor folks are
supposed to be poor. That is just the natural order of things.

That is why, since the founding of this country, any talk of economic
equality makes the wealthy relieve themselves in their trousers.

During the early 20th century, anyone who talked too much about
economic inequalities would be listed as a "Commie" or a "Commie
sympathizer."

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his
need...."

What kind of sicko came up with that ?

This is perhaps one reason why even civil rights groups like the NAACP
shied away from the money question in its early years and adopted an
ideology of what Harold Cruse, in his book "Equal but Plural," calls
non-economic liberalism.

In other words, you could fight to sit in the front of the bus all you
want but when it came to owning the bus company...

Forget about it !

As Cruse put it, the real prize of the Civil Rights Movement was the
"freedom to starve without regard to race, creed, color or national
origin."

Towards the end of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to face
this grim reality as he organized the Poor People's Campaign when he
talked about how integration did not cost this nation one penny.

Little has changed since the 60's, unless one counts the faux wealth
of the Hip Hop "ghetto superstars" whose flaunting of their riches on
MTV Cribs leaves some with the false impression that we have achieved
economic equality in this country. Although rappers like Young Jeezy
proudly rap that "my president is black," most likely, the record
company owner is still white.

Despite all the high hopes of economic reform, the reality is that the
rich ain't given' it up without a fight. If the Great Depression
taught us anything, it is that the wealthy would rather jump out of a
30 story window than face the dire possibility of becoming a member of
the middle class.

You can pass all the legislation you want but to get a buck from these
misers, you're gonna have to pry it from their cold dead hands.

Min. Paul Scott
--

http://gssites.com/congrats/index.html

Your post is silly. Do you know what happens to most
people that win the lottery? They end up dead or
bankrupt. Why is this? Because the people who
should have money will make it in spite of their
circumstances, and those that don't understand
the principals of success will soon be parted from
their cash.

Ok, look at the bad economy right now. There aren't
many jobs. People are hurting. Yet, there are some
people who know how and where the opportunities
are, and I don't mean favoritism. I'm talking about
insight and talent and not making excuses. The
past is past and we must deal with what's before
us now.

And for my vote, I'd say that the owner of Young
Jeezy's record company has just as much a chance
of being black as white, and no matter what their
color is, the owner will be the owner because they
understand the principles of success.

I voted for Obama because he strikes me as
being intelligent. That's the only reason. Color
had nothing to do with it.

------
Mark
The minority report
.

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