Obama: Keep ‘Em Needy and Ignorant

posted at 11:51 am on October 21, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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We’re now living through the “Obama Years” (capital Y), a phrase I predict that will be looked back on some day with the same nostalgia people reserve for the Great Depression. Yep, I remember the Obama Years, future oldtimers will be telling their grandkids. People lining up on the street on the false hope of a government handout.

No, for real. It happened two weeks ago in Detroit. Some 35,000 people, most of them black, lined up on the streets leading to the Cobo Center, where they believed they would be receiving “Obama money.” If that phrase — Obama money — sounds to you like funny money, you’re on the right track, except that funny money (aka counterfeit currency) really exists.

So desperate were these people to cash in on free money distributed by the man America had elected as its savior that fights broke out. Several people were nearly trampled.

In fairness to the Obama administration, the city of Detroit, and its fine citizens (more on them in a moment), a real process had supposedly been instituted to make stimulus money available to the most hard-hit victims of the recession. Unfortunately, here in the Obama Years, applications were distributed to 65,000 people, when in fact the plan was to issue checks to 3,500 — specifically those who had been out of work the longest and/or were facing foreclosure.

For an insight into the way government operates during the Obama Years, you can look to resounding success of the Cash for Clunkers program. But you can also learn much from the people who lined up outside the Cobo Center. Luckily, Ken Rogulski of WJR in Michigan was on hand to interview people in line for Obama cash. Here is the transcripts of one exchange:

ROGULSKI: Why are you here?

WOMAN #1: To get some money.

ROGULSKI: What kind of money?

WOMAN #1: Obama money.

ROGULSKI: Where’s it coming from?

WOMAN #1: Obama.

ROGULSKI: And where did Obama get it?

WOMAN #1: I don’t know, his stash. I don’t know. (laughter) I don’t know where he got it from, but he givin’ it to us, to help us.

WOMAN #2: And we love him.

WOMAN #1: We love him. That’s why we voted for him!

WOMEN: (chanting) Obama! Obama! Obama! (laughing)

This, I believe, is just as Obama would have it: to be adored by his followers who believe he will dole riches out to them as needed from his personal “stash.” In short, the goal of his administration is to keep the masses ignorant and in need — which in turn are hallmarks of socialism. As Grant Ellis writes in American Thinker,

Liberty and responsibility are codependent: two sides of the same coin. I don’t think this concept is that difficult to grasp but our government, often at the insistence of a loud and ignorant political base, has sought for decades to make Americans less responsible for their daily lives and therefore less free. Curiously, this stealthy march toward tyranny is often done in the name of compassion, usually for ‘the needy.’ Shamefully, with the ‘help’ of government, the truly needy are at high risk of becoming truly dependent. Once that happens, escape is practically impossible.

That is one reason Obama is so threatened by dissent — why he and his minions disparaged the tea parties and has mounted an all-out assault on FOX News.

Yes, indeed, the Obama Year. Ain’t life grand?

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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