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| Baldo | Sep 3 2011, 11:08 PM Post #16 |
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Black unemployment: Highest in 27 years NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The August jobs report was dismal for plenty of reasons, but perhaps most striking was the picture it painted of racial inequality in the job market. Black unemployment surged to 16.7% in August, its highest level since 1984, while the unemployment rate for whites fell slightly to 8%, the Labor Department reported. "This month's numbers continue to bear out that longstanding pattern that minorities have a much more challenging time getting jobs," said Bill Rodgers, chief economist with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Black unemployment has been roughly double that of whites since the government started tracking the figures in 1972. Economists blame a variety of factors. The black workforce is younger than the white workforce, lower numbers of blacks get a college degree and many live in areas of the country that were harder hit by the recession -- all things that could lead to a higher unemployment rate. But even excluding those factors, blacks still are hit with higher joblessness....snipped http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/news/economy/black_unemployment_rate/ This is really sad. I can't understand why Obama continues to have such high support in the AA community. They deserve better, but until they hold their leaders responsible for actual results it won't improve. Obama continues to receive broad support from blacks (83%) - August 30, 2011 http://www.gallup.com/poll/149225/Obama-Weekly-Average-Approval-Holds-Term-Low.aspx |
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| chatham | Sep 4 2011, 07:53 AM Post #17 |
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obama gets a lot of support because he is black. Period. The blacks I know who are unemployed don't blame anyone. These friends just want to work. There are no jobs.... |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 4 2011, 08:35 AM Post #18 |
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I think Ms Dowd has also lost that lovin' feeling... "Obama’s re-election chances depend on painting the Republicans as disrespectful. So why would the White House act disrespectful by scheduling a speech to a joint session of Congress at the exact time when the Republicans already had a debate planned? And why is the White House so cocky about Obama as a TV draw against quick-draw Rick Perry? As James Carville acerbically noted, given a choice between watching an Obama speech and a G.O.P. debate, “I’d watch the debate, and I’m not even a Republican.” The White House caved, of course, and moved to Thursday, because there’s nothing the Republicans say that he won’t eagerly meet halfway. No. 2 on David Letterman’s Top Ten List of the president’s plans for Labor Day: “Pretty much whatever the Republicans tell him he can do.” On MSNBC, the anchors were wistfully listening to old F.D.R. speeches, wishing that this president had some of that fight. But Obama can’t turn into F.D.R. for the campaign because he aspires to the class that F.D.R. was a traitor to; and he can’t turn into Harry Truman because he lacks the common touch. He has an acquired elitism. MSNBC’s Matt Miller offered “a public service” to journalists talking about Obama — a list of synonyms for cave: “Buckle, fold, concede, bend, defer, submit, give in, knuckle under, kowtow, surrender, yield, comply, capitulate.” And it wasn’t exactly Morning in America when Obama sent out a mass e-mail to supporters Wednesday under the heading “Frustrated.” It unfortunately echoed a November 2010 parody in The Onion with the headline, “Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail.” “Throughout,” The Onion teased, “the president expressed his aggravation on subjects as disparate as the war in Afghanistan, the sluggish economic recovery, his live-in mother-in-law, China’s undervalued currency, Boston’s Logan Airport, and tort reform.” You know you’re in trouble when Harry Reid says you should be more aggressive. If the languid Obama had not done his usual irritating fourth-quarter play, if he had presented a jobs plan a year ago and fought for it, he wouldn’t have needed to elevate the setting. How will he up the ante next time? A speech from the space station? Republicans who are worried about being political props have a point. The president is using the power of the incumbency and a sacred occasion for a political speech. Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed. The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term. The White House team is flailing — reacting, regrouping, retrenching. It’s repugnant. After pushing and shoving and caving to get on TV, the president’s advisers immediately began warning that the long-yearned-for jobs speech wasn’t going to be that awe-inspiring. “The issue isn’t the size or the newness of the ideas,” one said. “It’s less the substance than how he says it, whether he seizes the moment.” The arc of justice is stuck at the top of a mountain. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.
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| cks | Sep 4 2011, 11:53 AM Post #19 |
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The Dowd piece in today's NY Times should be the cause of much sorrow and fear in the Obama re-election headquarters. Dowd is at her most trenchant describing the elitist occupant of the White House. Her adjectives, I predict will be quoted time and again in the coming months by those in their quest for the presidency as to why the current occupant should be ousted by the public. I thought her paragraph about the "Speech Illusion" to be quite on target. "....the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back to the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed. The days of spinning illusions in a GReek temple in a football stadium are done. The One is dancing on the edge of one term." From her mouth to God's ears.......we can only hope that he is indeed, "One and Done." |
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| kbp | Sep 4 2011, 01:55 PM Post #20 |
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Love that article Joan, thanks!
The “jobs plan” was due no later than Jan. 21, 2009; the day after he took office by way of promises he had made. This “jobs plan a year ago”, whatever brought that date up, would have been Plan B ….that’s if we somehow consider the Stimulus to have been Plan A …in which the details looked like cost-based “hope” for his “change” more so than any real tool to create jobs …a theory setting aside the idea it was a planned failure for our country and the fron door for his efforts to keep adding regulations. This editorial is great, overall, but it’s another example of how any Obama “SPEECH” is considered by the media to be a “PLAN”. Looking back at what Obama had “miscalculated in 2009”, it’s becoming clearer and clearer why they had to twist so many Democratic Congressional arms to pass that Obamacare. He bet the entire farm on that bill and it has only added to the attention given his failures …while also fueling the opposition, especially the Tea Party, as if he created his own opponent thru 'how & why' that group holds so much political sway today. All they have left now is a ‘common enemy’ to bitch & whine about in their efforts to motivate the unemployed troops needed for his re-election campaign. Of course "now" is 14 lonnng months before the election, so I have to be cautious in jumping to conclusions! |
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| Joan Foster | Sep 5 2011, 08:51 AM Post #21 |
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Margaret Wert was not impressed by President Obama’s visit to her flood-ravaged Wayne neighborhood today. "The president’s lucky I didn’t get to meet him," said Wert, 45, pausing from an afternoon of scrubbing her Fayette Avenue home, the stench of mildew wafting out the front door. "Because I would have handed him a broom." "I think it was a big photo shoot for Mr. Obama," said Wert, a customer service agent for the Anon Flag Company, who declined to give her party affiliation. "When he comes back again, I’ll let him do my yard work." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/mixed_nj_response_to_president.html Edited by Joan Foster, Sep 5 2011, 08:52 AM.
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