Obama FAILS at Spreading the Wealth Around

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Obama is a failed socialist.

Obama is a failed president.

Obama has literally failed at every job he ever had.

Yea, but he is not a failed plutocrat. Not by a long shot. Big difference. And I voted for him. If only the Repubs would have offered a more viable candidate. But they didn't. Mitt? More of the same. John? Might've died and left us Sarah. No thanks.

When Bush's approval rate dropped to 22% (Bush's Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent - CBS News) I think everyone thought he was a failure, too.

But now just 5 years later he seems to have regained some respect. Those 4600 troops are still dead and 45,000 of them are still missing limbs...and Iraq is still a volatile, violent mess but, heck....who the fuck cares?

Of course I didn't vote for him in the first place since he couldn't properly string a sentence together without massive grammatical errors.

 

[zeke]

Obama is a failed president.

Obama has literally failed at every job he ever had.

Yea, but he is not a failed plutocrat. Not by a long shot. Big difference. And I voted for him. If only the Repubs would have offered a more viable candidate. But they didn't. Mitt? More of the same. John? Might've died and left us Sarah. No thanks.

Well, at least he didn't come into office with this on his resume:

I know. I wasn't a Reagan supporter though I did come to like him some. But he was led around by his handlers just like Obama and George Jr.

All good plutocrats each and every one. George by birth, Obama by luck. Reagan by design.

If you were a big trader on Wall street as the year ends, you will have a record earnings year. Tens, hundreds of millions made this year on Wall street.

How could any of them be mad at Obama? Or the Dems? Plutocrats each and every one.

Great practitioners of the golden rule; those with the gold, rule.

Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, amen.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

wealth redistribution schemes always favor the wealthy over others. Regardless of the rhetoric. Marxism in action has proved this time after time. Obama's redistribution schemes are working great. He takes money from middle income taxpayers and gives it to corporations and businesses he ideologically favors.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Yea, but he is not a failed plutocrat. Not by a long shot. Big difference. And I voted for him. If only the Repubs would have offered a more viable candidate. But they didn't. Mitt? More of the same. John? Might've died and left us Sarah. No thanks.

Well, at least he didn't come into office with this on his resume:

I know. I wasn't a Reagan supporter though I did come to like him some. But he was led around by his handlers just like Obama and George Jr.

All good plutocrats each and every one. George by birth, Obama by luck. Reagan by design.

If you were a big trader on Wall street as the year ends, you will have a record earnings year. Tens, hundreds of millions made this year on Wall street.

How could any of them be mad at Obama? Or the Dems? Plutocrats each and every one.

Great practitioners of the golden rule; those with the gold, rule.

Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, amen.

Reagan's primary handler was Donald Regan, ex CEO of Merrill Lynch. 'Nuff said.

 

[zeke]

Obama is a failed president.

Obama has literally failed at every job he ever had.

Yea, but he is not a failed plutocrat. Not by a long shot. Big difference. And I voted for him. If only the Repubs would have offered a more viable candidate. But they didn't. Mitt? More of the same. John? Might've died and left us Sarah. No thanks.

When Bush's approval rate dropped to 22% (Bush's Final Approval Rating: 22 Percent - CBS News) I think everyone thought he was a failure, too.

But now just 5 years later he seems to have regained some respect. Those 4600 troops are still dead and 45,000 of them are still missing limbs...and Iraq is still a volatile, violent mess but, heck....who the fuck cares?

Of course I didn't vote for him in the first place since he couldn't properly string a sentence together without massive grammatical errors.

I registered Repub to vote against George Bush and for McCain. I ended up hating George Bush for Iraq.

But still, Obama seriously fucked up the signature event of his Presidency. And he did it simply because he must not have been curious enough to make sure that what happened didn't happen.

Iraq was completely avoidable. And a disaster and a failure.

Same for the health care deal. Web sites do not have to fail when used.

Obama HAD to do better. This has been a failure. Disaster remains to be seen.

( I am not saying the death and misery of Iraq is anyway comparable to the inconvenience of signing up for health care. I am saying that both Presidents screwed up the main event of their Presidencies. Obama's not that bad.)

 

[Avatar4321]

Actually he has been quite successful. His goal was to spread the wealth around to his friends and political allies. The stimulus did just that. Our hard work went to pay off his buddies.

You thought he actually cared about that poor? If he cared about the poor he would be teaching people how to be responsible in the free market, not trying to fundamentally change the nation that has made the wealthiest poor in the world.

 

[Avatar4321]

I don't understand why people expect others to give them money. If you want wealth, wouldn't it be wiser to develop a way to obtain that wealth by offering something other people want? If I have a good or service that you value more than the money you pay to obtain it, then wouldn't I become very wealthy by just having you come to me to get that good or service?

But if you are waiting for some politician to redistribute wealth, why do you ever expect to get it? It doesn't make any sense.

 

[Avatar4321]

Reagan's primary handler was Donald Regan, ex CEO of Merrill Lynch. 'Nuff said.

And that's bad for some reason? Why should we conclude that because the man was a CEO and apparently was successful in life that he is somehow evil or unfit to serve?

Shouldn't we want the proven leaders governing us over those who cant govern themselves out of paper bag?

 

[boedicca]

Obama turned out to be a Banana Republic Fascist instead.

Hopenchange!

 

[The Rabbi]

Obama is a failed socialist.

Obama is a failed president.

Obama has literally failed at every job he ever had.

Yea, but he is not a failed plutocrat. Not by a long shot. Big difference. And I voted for him. If only the Repubs would have offered a more viable candidate. But they didn't. Mitt? More of the same. John? Might've died and left us Sarah. No thanks.

Wrong. You're such a simp, Zeke. You fall for every class warfare meme out there and every charlatan who tells you Watch out, the other guy is stealing from you.
How Wealthy are President Barack Obama and His Cabinet? - OpenSecrets Blog

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

he has never explained in great detail how stealing money creates a booming economy.

 

[Vox]

Nothing new under the sun - what dimocraps lie is not what dimocraps DO.

Big business and Wall street ALWAYS prospers THE MOST during dimocraps administrations and that is why they are the big donors to the dimocrap party.

The ones who always pay for the increasing wealth of big pockets was, is a and always will be middle class - that is the class which dimocraps HATE as they can not manipulate them as they do the inflated rolls of "poor" and obviously not the financial masters which the dimocraps feed from

 

[PredFan]

Obama is a failed socialist.

Obama pretty much fails at everything. Well, except when it comes to getting the ignorant masses to vote for him.

 

[oreo]

No president can create prosperity. He can only fuck it up.

Heaven help us survive the next couple years until we can install an adult at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Obamacare is nothing more than wealth redistribution--so in that--if it doesn't collapse first-- he will succeed.

Who Pays for ObamaCare? - WSJ.com

 

[Mustang]

What a miserable failure this comrade has become. His goal of spreading the wealth around, as he explained briefly to Joe the Plumber, has not materialized at all.

The stock market is up almost 10,000 points since he took office.

And the plutocrats are doing better than ever:

"""From 1978 to 2011, CEO compensation increased more than 725 percent, a rise substantially greater than stock market growth and the painfully slow 5.7 percent growth in worker compensation over the same period."""

CEO pay and the top 1%: How executive compensation and financial-sector pay have fueled income inequality | Economic Policy Institute

I've never seen so much false consciousness in my life. It's like economic mass hysteria.

Corporate America is screwing the average person, regardless of that person's political ideology, and middle class conservatives, many of whom are now downwardly mobile, cheer them on.

Meanwhile, Obama is trying to throw the middle class a life line, and the Republicans cut the rope to the cheers of middle class conservatives who demonize the president. It's like reading an old Bizarro World Superman comic book where everything is the opposite.

In the evening I listen to Mark Levin excoriate the president as a socialist. Then I listen to middle class conservatives call in with their economic sob stories to rail against the president who's actually on their side. They just seem too ignorant or too filled with partisan hatred to understand it.

All across this country, companies from Walmart to other big box stores and manufacturers who are sending jobs overseas are decimating communities, and middle class conservatives continue to champion even more raw unregulated capitalism which is at the heart of their economic misfortune.

Sometimes I feel like I'm watching a movie with a plot that's so farfetched that I can't believe anyone will buy it. It would be like watching the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" and drawing the wrong conclusion about some of the main characters. I'm not even talking about George Baily. Maybe he was your friend, and maybe you didn't even know him. But everyone knew who Mr Potter was. You might try to stay on Mr Potter's good side because he had money and you knew he was powerful. But only an idiot or a fool would believe that Mr Potter cared about anyone other than Mr Potter.

But regardless of how powerful and mean Mr Potter may have been, he was destined to die one day just like everyone else. But Walmart isn't going to die. It's only going to get bigger and more powerful just like all these other corporations which live on long past all of us. If people think that their children and grandchildren 30 years from now will fare better against the corporations of today than their parents and grandparents did in the last 30 years, they're living in a fantasy world.

I say that because power is what this is all about. As corporations get bigger and more powerful, individuals naturally get much smaller and less powerful. That's why corporations want to emasculate unions because unions represent the combined power of people. As the unions lose power and influence, that only leaves the gov't as an entity with the requisite power to stand up to corporations. But conservatives rail against gov't too. Why not just send up the white flag and tell corporations that they can do whatever they want and we'll promise never to complain as long as they give us a minimum wage job. Of course by that time, there will legislation to do away with the minimum wage which conservatives will undoubtedly champion.

Then, at some future point when they find the downward pressure on wages results in their pay and benefits being cut yet once again, who will conservatives blame?

They'll blame liberals even as men like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh get invited up to the big house to get a round of thanks for doing such a good job in shaping public opinion against anyone who would dare challenge their agenda, regardless of how much that agenda hurt the average citizen who just so happened to call in to one of the conservative talk radio shows to lend his support to the effort.

It's like watching a Kabuki Dance in the Theatre of the Absurd.

 

[The Rabbi]

Meanwhile, Obama is trying to throw the middle class a life line,.

Now that's funny right there.

 

[Mustang]

Meanwhile, Obama is trying to throw the middle class a life line,.

Now that's funny right there.

Don't get me wrong. Obama has to cater to powerful monied interests just like any president would have to do. Just not to the same degree. So, if you think Romney would be more likely to stand up to the big banks and Wall Street when they want consumer protection laws weakened as an example, you're delusional.

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

well it works, just go to greece and germany where everyone speaks austrian and french.

 

[Shrimpbox]

The problem is not that he has failed to spread the wealth. The problem is that the fact he did not spread the wealth is not front page news.

 

[Shrimpbox]

Mustang if you think Obama is trying to throw the middle class a lifeline you have been thrown off your pony and landed on your head one too many times, or you don't really work for a living. His regulations, his obamacare,his relaxing of welfare rules are all toxic to the middle class, and make no mistake, no matter his rhetoric he does not want a strong middle class because people like him would not be elected. Only with a society of dependency can he buy votes