{"id":4681,"date":"2014-04-25T07:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2014-04-25T07:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:28:06","slug":"moonbats-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/moonbats-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonbats on Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve observed leftists getting all wee-weed up over somebody on Fox News Business saying &#8220;don&#8217;t be poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When did the concept of bettering yourself and improving your lot in life become an idea that sensible people would find offensive?<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly better advice that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4624\">the moon-bat&#8217;s deity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3902\">Barack Hussein Obama<\/a> has been giving to a big chunk of his voter base, i.e. &#8220;be poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just look at the numbers. Minority unemployment is at record highs. Unemployment levels for minority teens are at levels that would be a national crisis if a Republican was in the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4611\">Non participation in the work force is at record high levels (currently 91 million, up from 79 million in 2008) that haven&#8217;t been seen in 40 years <\/a>(yup, the economy in our so called &#8220;recovery&#8221; is at Jimmy Carter Recession levels), the number of people on food stamps have doubled since our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?cat=240\"><em> Dear Leader<\/em><\/a> took office, t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4436\">he average income is down<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4626\">not getting laid off is the new raise<\/a>, food and fuel prices have risen dramatically, and we are still stuck in the unprecedented worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. As Mr. Reynolds says,<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/187332\/\"> &#8220;They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, the rich would get richer and the poor would get poorer, and they were right!&#8221; <\/a>Let&#8217;s not forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\">the National debt, which is at $17.5 Trillion and rising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, booming recoveries after a recession have been a bi-partisan event. Reagan, Clinton, and G.W. Bush benefited from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3946\">booming recoveries that historically follow a recession<\/a>. How did Barry get stuck with a non-recovery? Simple,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?cat=598\"> he worked very hard to strangle that recovery<\/a> in its crib. \u00a0Barry is much more interested in:<\/p>\n<p>1: His golf game<\/p>\n<p>2: His agenda of wealth distribution<\/p>\n<p>than he is in doing anything that would actually help the US economy and the average US citizen. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4363\">Sorry folks, if you are in, or want to be in, or used to be in, the middle class, you just aren&#8217;t in his core demographics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it takes a serious partisan avoidance of reality to take that much offense at someone saying to better your lot in life through self improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve observed leftists getting all wee-weed up over somebody on Fox News Business saying &#8220;don&#8217;t be poor.&#8221; When did the concept of bettering yourself and improving your lot in life become an idea that sensible people would find offensive? It is certainly better advice that the moon-bat&#8217;s deity, Barack Hussein Obama has been giving to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,43,6,50,52,19,20],"tags":[140,238,251,262,294,414,480,574,621,839],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-economy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-progressives","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-obama-economy","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1dv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}