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Obama: Race Relations “May Get Worse”

President Obama said that if economic prescriptions of the type he supports to increase economic growth and reduce “income inequality” are not adopted, then race relations in the United State may deteriorate further.

“If we don’t do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be. Unemployment will not go down as fast as it should. Income inequality will continue to rise,” Obama said in an interview published Sunday by the New York Times. “Racial tensions won’t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they’ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot. If the economy is growing, everybody feels invested, ” he said.

Several things come to mind from Obama's statements.

1. Why has he not done anything about unemployment? He's in his 5th year as POTUS. This should have been one of the first issues he took on as president. Remember when the House and Senate both had democrat majorities? Since then it's blame the Republican obstructionists instead of blaming himself.

2. Playing the race card again I see.

3. Is he referring to racial tensions between Black Americans and illegal immigrants? It seems he's made his choice of whom to help. Many have been saying all along illegal immigration hurts black Americans. One would have a difficult time denying it with these stats. Does Obama really think there are that many jobs to go around?

The Heritage Foundation said Monday that legalizing illegal immigrants would cost taxpayers a net $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years — releasing a report that ignited a venomous battle over an immigration bill and who is truly representing the conservative movement in the debate.

Driving the costs in the Heritage report are simple demographics: Illegal immigrants are more likely to lack a high school education, and more than a third of households headed by illegal immigrants live below the poverty line, meaning those households consume more in services than they pay in taxes.
Report: Legalizing illegal immigrants to cost $6.3 trillion - Washington Times

4. So he does admit the pot is shrinking and not growing. Finally he fesses up, but its more like his statement is a Freudian slip.
 
So we have gone from the hope of a postracial America in 2008 to now, when the President is threatening us with racial unrest if he doesn't get his way.

Rush Limbaugh in 2008 said that Obama's election would only make racial relations worse, and it looks like he was 100% right.

It seems to me that by saying this the President is deliberately encouraging racial unrest. If he doesn't get what he wants, then what? Riots on cue?




Rush Limbaugh is a far right, xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, soulless, lizard person.

The dreck that spews out of Limbaugh's mouth will have little affect on the future of the USA.

President Obama didn't say that race relations in the USA will deteriorate, he said that could happen, Which is a reasonable thing to say.




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
While I don't agree with Obama on "race relations", I definitely see "class relations" getting worse. The more safety nets that are taken away, the people will fall through the cracks and out on the streets. Get enough people out on the streets and there will be issues. This won't happen right away, but eventually I think it will.

The government will eventually grow so large that it will have no other choice but to start defunding programs that people have relied on for generations in some families. Once those programs are cut, people will be out on the streets and the crime rate will skyrocket.

What is needed is responsible oversight to social and government programs for reform and in some cases cut completely. which is something the government is INCREDIBLY LACKING because it has grown so large.

I must have missed the announcements - can you point out a few of the safety nets that have been taken away under Obama's term plus in office?
 
My guess - and it is only a guess - is that the Martin case figured so prominently in discussions of race recently.

So in other words, the President, feeding on racial tensions that exist in the country following the Zimmerman verdict, decided to stir the pot a little bit more to benefit his own agenda.
 
So in other words, the President, feeding on racial tensions that exist in the country following the Zimmerman verdict, decided to stir the pot a little bit more to benefit his own agenda.

I'm not sure why the President decided to address the issue at both the beginning and end in the manner chosen. Good afternoon jcj...
 
I'm not sure why the President decided to address the issue at both the beginning and end in the manner chosen. Good afternoon jcj...

Good afternoon V1.1 - Personally, I think the man is dense and tone deaf, unable to understand the extra meaning to words he spews. However, for those who consider him brilliant, the best orator ever to grace the Oval Office, one can only assume that his words had purpose and there's only one logical purpose.
 
Good afternoon V1.1 - Personally, I think the man is dense and tone deaf, unable to understand the extra meaning to words he spews. However, for those who consider him brilliant, the best orator ever to grace the Oval Office, one can only assume that his words had purpose and there's only one logical purpose.

There is no extra meaning in the words; they are chosen carefully, and I'm sure they are poll tested as well...
 
While I don't agree with Obama on "race relations", I definitely see "class relations" getting worse. The more safety nets that are taken away, the people will fall through the cracks and out on the streets. Get enough people out on the streets and there will be issues. This won't happen right away, but eventually I think it will.

The government will eventually grow so large that it will have no other choice but to start defunding programs that people have relied on for generations in some families. Once those programs are cut, people will be out on the streets and the crime rate will skyrocket.

What is needed is responsible oversight to social and government programs for reform and in some cases cut completely. which is something the government is INCREDIBLY LACKING because it has grown so large.

Greetings, TheNextEra. :2wave:

I have been hearing the word "hydra" a lot lately when the government is being discussed, and I was puzzled why "water" would be a descriptive. So I looked the word up, and here is what I found:

Hydra: noun. Classical mythology A water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two. Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads.

Hydra: noun. Modern era.. A persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.

Now I understand why I'm suddenly hearing this word when describing the government! It seems apt! :shock:
 
Rush Limbaugh is a far right, xenophobic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, soulless, lizard person.

The dreck that spews out of Limbaugh's mouth will have little affect on the future of the USA.

President Obama didn't say that race relations in the USA will deteriorate, he said that could happen, Which is a reasonable thing to say.

"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

I'll put you down as "undecided" about Limbaugh.

It was an odd place for the President to insert race. It's almost as if the President is using fear of black violence to get what he wants.

You guys keep saying that the GOP is "out of touch" or some such. The evidence is very much to the contrary.
 
The sad case is, I don't think there is a big racial problem in the U.S. with everyday folks like you and me. I think there is a very powerful engine - led by the likes of Obama - that intentionally creates racial issues out of thin air that the less educated among us soak up and bask in. It provides them a man-made "excuse" for themselves.

You never hear Obama, and especially the Sharptons and Jacksons, lecture on personal responsibility except in one direction.

The strategy is clearly to divide us as much as possible, then capitalize politically.

Sharpton and Jackson would be without income if racial tension could not be stirred on a regular basis
 
I must have missed the announcements - can you point out a few of the safety nets that have been taken away under Obama's term plus in office?

Can you point out where I said Obama?
 
Can you point out where I said Obama?

So you were just pondering a hypothetical, were you? No safety nets have been destroyed under Obama's term in office but you can see class warfare getting worse because............
 
So you were just pondering a hypothetical, were you? No safety nets have been destroyed under Obama's term in office but you can see class warfare getting worse because............

No I am saying that if we were to get rid of all the social programs at once that the right hates, it would create chaos. You do realize that Obama is not the ONLY person that affects social programs right? So does the house and senate.
 
No I am saying that if we were to get rid of all the social programs at once that the right hates, it would create chaos. You do realize that Obama is not the ONLY person that affects social programs right? So does the house and senate.

This is why I asked if you'd heard some announcements since, to my knowledge, nobody is proposing getting rid of all social programs or even any social programs, unless you consider Obamacare a social program.
 
I'll put you down as "undecided" about Limbaugh.

It was an odd place for the President to insert race. It's almost as if the President is using fear of black violence to get what he wants.

You guys keep saying that the GOP is "out of touch" or some such.
The evidence is very much to the contrary.




You have my permission to believe whatever you want to believe, won't cost me a nickel or change the future.
 
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