Posted by
Judge Milton on Friday, November 07, 2008 6:00:00 PM
With the U.S. Department of Labor announcing unemployment has risen to 6.5, Obama took to the press to express his concern. However, I find it hard to take what's coming out of the right side of his mouth too seriously when the left is giving a different story. The only middle-class pain that the President-elect is feeling, is the pain that is hitting him in the rear.
How can Obama expect the American people to believe that he is concerned about the blue-collar workers in the auto industry when he has already promised to bankrupt the coal industry of 174,000 jobs. By the way, this is one of two industries that are actually adding jobs in the current economy - and he wants to bankrupt it. Obama also wants to convince us that he worries for tens of millions of families who are struggling to pay bills when he admits that his cap-and-trade regulations will skyrocket energy prices.
He is also not concerned with the upper class as he has repeatedly stated that he will increase taxes on the top 10% of earners in the nation (who already pay 70% of all federal taxes) and "spread the wealth" to social welfare programs.
With this, we see his focus is truly on the lowest economic class of society, which he will inundate with big-government. Not a big surprise from a former member of Chicago's Democratic Socialists of America, and candidate who excited the U.S. Communist Party with his platform.
SOURCES:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_and_jobs_in_the_United_States
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=129270,00.html#_pagi
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html#anchor792932