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@Obama's reluctance to initiate large programs for blacks has drawn critics, especially some members of the Congressional Black Caucus who have said that since black America turned out in droves during his election campaign, black America should see some tangible benefit from his victory.

Are you serious? Since when is the primary reason to exercise your constitutional rights only to get something back in return? So basically what your saying is that since blacks finally decided to vote, the government owes them money. Based on that premise the youth and hispanics of this country should also get a check since they turned out to vote in huge numbers as well.

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"will be sorely disappointed".

The only people who might be disappointed are those who have been under a rock for two years or those who still think this is late 2008.

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Unfortunately, some groups of people have been hurt worse than others by the greed of corporations and irresponsible leadership of our government. In which case spending priorities should take those groups' needs into account. The problem is our priorities are not determined in this way. Rather, politicians prioritize the desires of special interest groups, which in itself is a function of how much those groups have to offer them politically, financially or in the form of favors. As African Americans do not have a political apparatus beyond our voting bloc, our needs have been ignored ever since we stopped demonstrating we are a force to be reckoned with.

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In order to get the country back on track, there will have to some cuts and everyone should adjust their spending habits and do whatever it takes from all Americans. Everyone should do their part.

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While Obama declared in his Saturday radio and Internet speech, “This budget asks Washington to live within its means, while at the same time investing in our future,” it is the poorest sections of the working class who will be compelled to sacrifice.


The Obama budget freezes pay for federal government workers, imposes the five-year spending freeze for domestic programs, and slashes community action programs, the Community Development Block Grant, and heating assistance

Other cuts include:

. The Women, Infants and Children program, providing milk and other food for low-income pregnant women, mothers and young children, cut $758 million, about 10 percent

. Head Start preschool education, cut $1.1 billion, about 14 percent

· Community health centers, cut $1 billion

· The District of Columbia budget, cut $240 million, mainly from the Metro system.


There are moves in both the House and Senate to pass the 2011 Defense Appropriations Bill intact, which would effectively exempt the military budget from any cuts in the revised continuing resolution

One month later, Congress must act to raise the ceiling on the national debt—another action that could have been taken by the previous Democratic Congress. House Republicans aim to use the debt ceiling vote as another means of compelling drastic cuts in spending.


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/budg-f14.shtml

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There is one sad problem still present in America.
There are reports that minority youth is over 35% in many cities. One reason put forth is that "Starter Jobs" are taken by hard working Illegal Immigrants trying to better their lives.

Which group deserves our loyalty in this crisis?
Our citizen youth or the Illegal Immigrant? So far our minority representatives seem to be on the side of the Illegal Immigrant.

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Some of the respondents seem to lack first principled reasoning. The Chess Game Analogy is absolutely absurd! It's speaks to a calculating Corporate Politican that will sell his own family up the river, just to get re-elected.

After four-hundred years of being relegated to pushing rocks up America's hills of oppositon with a feather... If Black folks cannot get a Blackman in a position of significant influence to recognize that most of Black America is at a significant economic disadvantaged because those at the helms of power that work the leavers of manipulation do not look like us and frankly would prefer that Black folks were put back on the plantation... if not a Blackman sitting in the most powerful position in the universe... than whom?

Even with two PhD's and the most marketable skills on the face of the earth Black folks are relegated to making just 70 cents for every dollar their white counter part make... a white counterpart that maybe a high school dropout (reference Forbes listing of Wealthiest Families) The racial disparities in this racialized society along distinct lines of race and ethnicity are so copious it would take a supercomputer with zigabytes of memory capacity to list.

What is troubling about our beloved President is while he was giving our tax dollars by the billions to the White Wall Street Huslters and the Good-Old-Boy, Corporate Oligarchy that orchastrated the horrific collapse of the economy to "bail them out", Black businesses could not get the time of day, yet alone a loan to keep their businesses running. Like my Momma used to say, those with the same skin are not necessarily your kin. I believe such is the case with President Obama.

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Its very debased, morally n spiritually wrong...period.

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