Obama celebrates Senate action on unemployment extension, dings GOP’s ‘partisan game-playing’

This is good, but I am beginning to believe that
having a black President is a bittersweet
victory. It appears tha Blacks will
lose ground to politically appease whites.

This became evident with the
recent “white farmer” episode.

Amer

Live by racial politics, die by racial politics.

Rather than be the president who happens to be black, Obama and his supporters insist that he be recognized as the black president. This enables them to play the race card as a political tool when they want to counter his opponents (“Oh, they’re just racist for opposing his policy on [fill in the blank]“).

But by insisting that this unqualified empty suit be the first black president and not someone more experienced like Colin Powell, for example, the democrats have poisoned the well for future black presidential candidates because independent people, who decide elections, are going to think back to this time in history and ask themselves if they want to go through that again.

The endless unemployment extensions are hard to justify when I am scraping by having to do whatever it takes to pay my bills. As a “self-employed” / “freelancer” / “independent consultant” for the same company for 5 years I lost my income when the company went bankrupt. . I’ve cut down everything to the bone and beyond. Sold off personal property. Taken work way below my level, almost entry level. Moved downward in housing. But the “no-work pay” for others keeps getting extended and extended and extended supported by Federal Tax dollars. It leaves a bad taste. Either widen benefits to include the rest of us who did not work on staff or let us all stew in the same thin soup. Maybe more families hung out over the hairy, ragged edge will develop some political will. There is a difference between state and federal unemployment benefits. Federal unemployment benefits extend state unemployment benefits out to 26 weeks. They must be explicitly passed by Congress. They’re paid for out of our federal tax dollars we all pay. A law firm should start a class action suit for “us” who have paid taxes but don’t qualify for benefits including the 1 year worth of cobra subsidies.

“Live by racial politics, die by racial politics.”

The only people who are insisting that Obama be recognized as a “black president” are people on the right who cannot get over that a highly qualified man who happens to be black won the election and got elected President.

If I was uninformed and unreflective, I might follow Obama around and believe everything he said. That concerns me. Everything to Obama is a political basketball. To him, it doesn’t matter beyond that.

Look, in 2009 Obama said the benefits should be paid for, but with elections coming up he wants to be divisive. Why not pay for the benefits with unused stimulus dollars? And why accuse the Republicans of being against the unemployed?

Many thoughtful people recognize that a few more months of benefits does not create jobs. There’s some increased consumer spending, but that is not the robust economic growth that America stands for. I would just like to hear an intelligent conversation in Washington about building robust economic growth. It would have to involve lifting harmful regulations like illegal affirmative action programs, fiscal and monetary policy, establishing leadership or competitive in key industries (such as the internet), in short–becoming interested in business, industry and performance. Instead, I hear remarks like Obama’s that I am supposed to believe that because he gets on TV and says Republicans hate the unemployed (even unemployed Republicans, I suppose), that must be the truth of the matter.

I would like a little more honesty and transparency from the Democrats, even during, or perhaps especially during a national election. Tone down the partisan noise and race-baiting and speak truth to the American people.

“And why accuse the Republicans of being against the unemployed?”

Because that’s how they’ve been filibustering and voting, genius.

More genius : “I would like a little more honesty and transparency from the Democrats, even during, or perhaps especially during a national election. Tone down the partisan noise and race-baiting and speak truth to the American people.”

Should they be any more honest than their opposition? More genius.

i am currently collecting unemployment for the first time in my life. ive worked since i graduated h/s and paid my taxes. i am a single mother who has lost my house, my health care coverage, sold everything i have and will probably lose my car very soon. now 2 wks before christmas i lost my unemployment too. i have gone on several job interviews and being told over and over again that i am over qualified or not qualified enough. i have even put ads on craigslist looking for a job. i have traveled over an hour to some of these interviews. i have called companies all day long just asking if they were hiring and still to no avail. the hardest part is trying to find a job and pay a babysitter for my 3 year old at the same time.

something has to give, i am not the only one in this situation and i know that there are worse situations then mine. we can help all these other countries when they need it and yet we cant take care of our own.

merry christmas and a happy new year ~ not for me this year!