Discriminations

I love when left-liberals believe they can win on the issues. They can't, but believing so convinces them to be honest. There's little doubt in my mind the Obamas believe everything they've said. They've just internalized the rationales so deeply they don't recognize them for what they are. This isn't unique, it's fairly standard for conventional lefties, especially those like the Obamas not exposed to a diversity of views.

Hillary on the other hand has learned the lesson. She knows she has to pose as a moderate to have a chance of election.

americans have more money than ever before. they are struggling because they want more and because everything costs money. the more you want, the more you have to pay. a relative of mine told me that people in her hood don't have two cents to rub together. she lives in the inner city, where there are apartment buildings, family houses, cars everywhere, tvs and dvds in the houses, everyone has a cell phone, an ipod, goes on vacation, never lacked a calorie in their lives, etc., etc. either people like mrs. obama are really stupid or they lie all the time. they can't stand to admit anything here is good.

John Rosenberg in his own words describes himself here:

>>>"Discriminations was originally the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg, but Jessie has adopted Honorary Founding Blogger status. A 19 year old second year graduate student in applied physics at Caltech, she doesn’t have time to sleep, much less blog. John, who has retired from real life, does have time. He is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination."

I wonder, pray tell, what the senior citizens siting around a diner in Altoona, PA, would consider a "retired guy" completing a "30 year overdue dissertation at Stanford"?

Would they consider that "elitist?"

I don't know. I think I'll take a poll the next time I'm in one of those diners.

Anita writes:

>>>"americans have more money than ever before."

Umm...where do you get this material from?

>>>"First, however, it is useful to provide some general economic context to the reality of Bushonomics over the past seven years. The income gap between average Americans and the very wealthiest ten or so percent of the US population has increased to obscene disparities only previously equaled in history during the 1920s. Real American wages, adjusted for inflation and other economic factors, have been continually eroding as a share of the overall national wealth.

Permanent, chronic unemployment and underemployment has become a reality of life for many more Americans. Costs for health care, prescription medications, insurance, education, housing, energy, credit, and increasingly for fundamental economic necessities such as food, clothing, and basic family entertainments are becoming increasingly prohibitive for many ordinary American taxpayers."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_constanc_080319_in_the_public_intere.htm

Well, what about savings? Surely with all this money Americans are able to save more right, Anita?

>>>"You've probably heard that the American savings rate for 2005 was negative 0.5 percent, the lowest since the Great Depression. The annual savings rate has been negative only twice -- in 1932 and 1933, during the Great Depression."

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/2643

Anita writes:

>>>"they are struggling because they want more and because everything costs money. the more you want, the more you have to pay."

Hello? Does the term INFLATION mean anything to you? If you keep the SAME rate of consumption--not buying a single thing more than you did the previous year, and the COSTS of the things you consume INCREASES, but your wages remain the SAME, you will have LESS money at the end of the year.

Apparently, Anita...you're declaring war on "math."

Anita writes:

>>>"she lives in the inner city, where there are apartment buildings, family houses, cars everywhere, tvs and dvds in the houses, everyone has a cell phone, an ipod, goes on vacation, never lacked a calorie in their lives, etc., etc."

OK, so basic shelter is now a "luxary item?" If you assume people WORK, a car is now a "luxary item?"

And, um...let me go way out on a limb and say that anything you can buy from 7-11 or Walgreens (cell phones, TV's, DVD's) can't be really considered "luxary items."

But hey, that IS the Right Winged CONSERVATIVE condescending view on the working class and poor, right? If you're blue collar you should be living like you're in downtown Calcutta or the bowels of Bangladesh begging for alms or something. Why, I'd half expect the theme from "Good Times" to be cued in as I read your post.

Anita writes:

>>>"either people like mrs. obama are really stupid or they lie all the time. they can't stand to admit anything here is good."

Not at all. Michelle Obama grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a one bedroom dwelling. Barack Obama was raised by a single mom, and when he was with his Grandparents they often used foodstamps.

Some "elitism", huh?

But hey, Anita, you just go ahead and listen to multi-millionaire Cable News pundits and hate radio talking heads. If they're good enough for George Stephanopolous, I'm sure they're good enough for you, too.

--Cobra