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If I were born an African-American or any minority in thes United States, and had waited all these years to see a brother or comrade excel upward to become president, I would be elated to the utmost.
But now, with all this about cap and trade. the cost of medical treatment on the rise, not to mention the deficit spending on the rise and the fact we are we are no longer going to be a democratic society but will join the ranks of the Europeans and become a socialized country that has the Government tell each and every one of us how to live, what doctors to see( if we get a chance to see one ), not to say anything about our taxes that will be on the rise, if I was that minority, I would be very upset to see what this one person is going to do to our country.We will be back in the dark ages in no time flat.
I hate to see minorities slide back to the days of old. All these jobs that are promised at the start of the year will be moving overseas and the rich people here in the atates will be placing there money in foreign banks to escape the big taxes that will be placed on them.
So what are you and the rest of us to do except call our congress members and tell them to quit this nonsense.
Frank Tranchina
Delta
2 Responses to “Obama should be disappointment to minorities”
Posted June 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Nothing like having your head buried in the sand, or somewhere. I guess the answer to all of the threats to our existence and economy is to do nothing.Or will tax cuts cure all the problems? It’s all a big conspiracy to enlarge government, but for what purpose?
Posted June 30th, 2009 at 9:22 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
This letter seems pretty convoluted to me.
First, to say that minorities will be negatively affected by Obama’s policies, more so than the “majorities”, does not appear logical. I am assuming that the writer is equating minorities with lower income sectors of the population. The fact of the matter is that Obama’s policies are designed to reduce income inequality by taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
Where I would tend to agree, to some extent, is that his policies are resulting in extraordinarily high deficits which will, in all likelihood, lead to long term economic stagnation and high unemployment. In that regard, minorities are more likely to have a higher percentage of unemployment, as they do today, than other sectors of the population.
“… we are we are no longer going to be a democratic society but will join the ranks of the Europeans and become a socialized country that has the Government tell each and every one of us how to live”
Well, we should not confuse democracy with economic policy. Because we remain a democracy we will have the opportunity to throw out the bums starting in 2010. We are not stuck with these folks forever.
“All these jobs that are promised at the start of the year will be moving overseas”
I tend to agree with this view to a small extent. Cap and trade is a good example of how jobs could very well be moved overseas where companies are not subjected to the carbon tax on emissions. An oil refinery, for example, will be able to produce gasoline overseas cheaper than it can here. That will lead refineries to shut down in the US (and maybe that is what environmentalists want), with accompanying job losses, and we will see an increase in gasoline imports. “Green” jobs may offset these losses to some extent but, based on Spain’s experience with moving to a “green” economy, jobs gained in green industries were considerably less than those lost in carbon rich industries.
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