Comments on: Why aren’t African-Americans outraged at Obama over economy?

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:09:27 +0000

Please tell me how African Amwericans getting “OUTRAGED” at Mr. Obama over the economy going to do?

The economy is bad for everyone!

Stop being a part of the problem, hang tough, and ride through it like those before us had to do.

This too shall pass!!

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:37:19 +0000

I have short patience with hypocrites; conservatives are more guilty on ruining the economy than so called liberals. President Obama’s economic policies are not failures; the stimulus did save some jobs. Compared to the republican alternative which would have made matters even worse is despicable. The right wing hate Obama so much they are willing to destroy the US if they don’t get their way. Many banks and corporation have been sitting on two trillion dollars of cash for months from profits but refuse to hire US workers. If that’s not enough proof to convince the public they are sabotaging the US economy just to make the President look bad then you are truly blind.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:10:00 +0000

A global minimum wage would be nice Hbeing. Unfortunately our minimum wage would make a lot of people wealthy in other countries so I don’t believe it would work. I’m pretty sure the chinese laborers are making less than a 10th of what our minimum wage is.

The outsourcing is just getting uglier and uglier too. Now even engineering jobs are outsourced. Why pay a BA in engineering $50k when you can pay a PhD $20k?

I think the solution are tariffs based on foreign payroll percentage or percentage of foreign employees. The problem is we have this bullshit WTO that oversees everything and would probably prevent any such tariff from being put in place.

And you are right by the way about it not being Obama’s doing. This was years in the making. And I am a conservative voter.

By: Hbeing814

Hbeing814 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:22:05 +0000

Probably because he didn’t preside of over the 25% reduction in American manufacturing labor from 2000-2008. The fundamentals of the economy have changed and this is the new reality henceforth. We need to push for a global minimum wage to force companies back home. Otherwise, they will continue to exploit slaves around the world no matter what the POTUS does. Get a grip.