Why Is Obama A Democrat?

Why Is Obama A Democrat?

To my knowledge no one has asked this question, but it might be important. 

Does he have a genuine desire to lift up the down trodden, the under achiever, the illegal alien which is his base, or did he discover early on that these very people he says he wants to help are the people who are easiest to deceive?

How is it he feels confident to accuse his opposition of the very things he himself is and has been planning for years? It is because his followers will not question his statements and therefore it does not matter if the other side calls him out ... his followers will stubbornly stick by him.

At the first debate Obama accused Romney several times of planning tax increases, which Romney repeatedly denied. The very next day, Vice-President Joe Biden proclaimed loudly in public, that yes there will be a 1 trillion dollar tax increase put in place by the Democrats, canceling the Bush era tax cuts. 

Historically, Democrats have raised taxes, while Republicans have lowered them. 

His voter base will applaud this because it punishes the comfortably wealthy and supposedly will put more freebies on their own plate. But it won’t actually help the poor or illegal person. It will simply buy votes with promises and squander the new tax revenue.

I thought I was born a Democrat. I thought all working people were required to be Democrats. I worked for a living and belonged to various unions which of course were extensions of the Democratic party and/or other groups. I blindly voted the Democratic ticket without studying issues or backgrounds. Being a Democrat insured me a job. This is what nearly all young people think, that the Democratic party will protect and provide for you as long as you are loyal.

This is conditioned ignorance and it is what the Democratic Party relies upon. It is idealistic and unsustainable.

It is my observation that Barack Hussein Obama is at very least a smooth talking con man whose talents are more suited to being a Talk Show host/TV preacher. Nothing in his background qualifies him to be where he is today, and is a testimony to his ability to deceive, blatantly.

He has a face and a glib demeanor which allows him to get what he wants from ignorant people. He walks and talks like a messiah while promoting a self-serving socialist agenda. He is currently engaged in calling Romney a liar while being unable to defend his own extremely poor record. He promises better things in 4 more years, but his history strongly suggests otherwise.

Stupid In America

Opinion
Stupid In America
By John Stossel
Published September 16, 2011| FoxNews.com

School spending has gone through the roof and test scores are flat.

While most every other service in life has gotten faster, better, and cheaper, one of the most important things we buy -- education -- has remained completely stagnant, unchanged since we started measuring it in 1970.

Why no improvement?
Because K-12 education is a government monopoly and monopolies don't improve.

The government-school monopoly claims: Education is too important to leave to the free market. At a teachers' union rally, even actor Matt Damon showed up to deride market competition as "MBA style thinking."

"Competition may be okay for selling movies and cell phones, but education is different," says the establishment. Learning is complex. Parents aren't real "customers" because they don't have the expertise to know which school is best. They don't know enough about curricula, teachers' credentials, etc. That's why public education must be centrally planned by government "experts".

Those experts have been in charge for years. They are what school reformers call the "Blob." Jeanne Allen from the Center for Education Reform says for years attempts at reform have run, "smack into federations, alliances, departments, councils, boards, commissions, panels, herds, flocks and convoys, that make up the education industrial complex, or the Blob.

Taken individually they were frustrating enough, each with its own bureaucracy, but taken as a whole they were (and are) maddening in their resistance to change. Not really a wall -- they always talk about change -- but more like quicksand, or a tar pit where ideas slowly sink.

And the most powerful part of the Blob is the teachers' union.

This Saturday, I interview Nathan Saunders, the President of the Washington, D.C. Teachers' Union, and Joseph Del Grosso, President of the Newark Teachers' Union. They say things like, "the unions have a pretty strong history of advocating for high-quality public education... We have progress as a result of unions."

Their predecessors were more candid. When the Washington Post asked George Parker, when he headed the Washington, D.C. teachers union, why he fought a voucher program that let some kids escape failing government schools, he said, "As kids continue leaving the system, we will lose teachers. Our very survival depends on having kids in D.C. schools so we'll have teachers to represent."

Albert Shanker, the teachers' union president who, years ago, first turned teachers unions into a national political force, was even more honest. Shanker callously said, "When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."

Union leaders first. Teachers second. Kids third. Or maybe fourth or fifth, after the school board, the principal's union, or some other part of the Blob.

John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. His special "Stupid In Amerca" airs Saturday at 10 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. PT. "Stossel" airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. and midnight ET. It re-airs Fridays at 10 p.m., Saturdays at 9 p.m. and 12 midnight, and Sundays at 10 p.m. (all times eastern). He's also the author of "Give Me a Break" and of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." To find out more about John Stossel, visit his site at johnstossel.com.


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