(ThyBlackMan.com) With the recent protest across America, one single observation that can be drawn is the level of two-faced hypocrisy evident in the elected leadership residing in Washington, D.C. The only consistent factor is the irony that both President Obama and the Tea Party Republicans were elected to implement change. Unfortunately neither has produced and continue to serve the oligarchs and plutocrats that fill their campaign coffers instead of the common citizenry of this once great nation.
Obama has done every shuck and jive dance move to pass his jobs bill that he only needs to wear black face to complete his vaudvillesque act. The Republicans namely Eric Cantor and John Boehner have done everything in their power to make it seem as if they are actually working for the people when they are not, seeming to always leave their white sheets hanging in the closet at home as opposed to showing their true colors.
Eric Cantor and Barack Obama are both bought and paid for by the people they claim to dislike on behalf of Obama, and protect on behalf of Eric Cantor. From the recent discussion on Israel, it is obvious that they care and want to give more loot without any query to Israel equally than they do the American people. Just ask Benjamin Netanyahu who Eric Cantor tried to play against the President. The problem is that American voters, in particular black folk do not understand that people like Eric Cantor or Barack Obama do not represent mainstream American interests or the interest of the American citizenry in generally.
Obama talks a better game about main street and the common man but all the ambassadors he has appointed and the majority of his cabinet members all gave his campaign $500,000 or more. He as cantor, have stood by and enabled America’s Wall Street and Corporate criminal elite resulting in this economic imbalance in our nation. Do not get me wrong, this includes every national politicians since Andrew Jackson since in my locution, he was the last President who genuinely understood the plight of the people albeit he was a crooked white supremacist. The sad reality is that with the assistance of the media, both the leadership of the democratic and Republican Party’s act as if their only public duty is to tell us regular folk what and how to think.
We on the ground level see what our elected leadership does not – that our social structure only is efficient and works to service the desires of a few and is inequitable for the majority. In addition it is more than obvious that this approach they foster is not sustainable forever, unless they intend to rule by brute force.
These, our elected official via policy are more concerned with the views and support of the market manipulators on Wall Street than the American people. The same Wall Street that has bought our Congress and the President for they are merely corrupted element within an otherwise legitimate system. So what he have learned from the occupy Wall Street protest is that the America police will do what these oligarchs of wealth and power desire before they serve the poor and middle class. They will arrest, beat and pepper spray regular Americans who only desire to exercise their constitutional rights to assembly and free speech although they are paid to protect and serve the innocent.
To Eric Cantor and the police departments around the USA we are mobs and in the eyes of Obama, we only deserve to be pandered to in an effort to be re-elected. Mobs as opposed to Americans protesting injustice, political corruption and corporate fascism. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, who openly states that flood, hurricane and tornado victims must pay for their own recovery by cutting social programs so his party and their supporters can continue to rape the middle class. It is clear that Eric Cantor, from his voting record and spends without repute his donations, that he represents big business, executives on Wall Street, and those who have power no differently than the democrats who go to Washington.
Eric Cantor serves to helps companies abuse their employees by opposing unemployment benefits. He has consistently with banks that fund his campaign even voting to bail out a bank that his wife works for, and sits on the board of directors. A bank in which the minimum account balance for its wealth management division is $40 million. He has side with big oil and is one of the best fund raisers in the Republican Party. Open records indicate that he spent $7,400 of donor money on gourmet chocolates last year alone. But that is possible when you are getting money from lobbyist for Genworth Financial and AstraZeneca PLC. When asked if he would pass any elements of the Obama Jobs bill, he said yes – a provision that allows government contractors to collect all the money that is due to them rather than have 3% withheld for taxes (costing US tax payers $14 million over next ten years).
Obama is just as bad. As I wrote earlier this year, “ though Obama vowed to end “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, and/or won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests. Just for raising $50,000 to $500,000 for his campaign. In total, 184 of 556, or about one-third, of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. In fact, 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took key administration posts. Also, President Obama’s appointment of William Daley as his chief of staff is another example. Daley was an executive at JPMorgan Chase, the investment bank that received a $12 billion bailout during the financial crisis”
As I write this, forty-six states are trying to keep the poor, elderly and minorities from voting in the next election by putting up roadblocks to them getting a “valid” photo ID, all under the guise of republican leadership. Just last night, Obama, after he said he understood the protestors, attended an Upper East Side DNC fundraiser to wine and dine Wall Street big wigs that cost attendees $35,800 each. An event that raised him $2.4 million from more than 60 financiers running the top funds on Wall Street. Yes, our current President claims to be for change and the people but he gives billions to Banks and corporations like Solyndra.Wall Street has trampled the American dream and politicians on both sides of the aisle are the reason us regular folks continue to have night mares.
The biggest opposition to Obama’s Jobs Act is the Democratically controlled Senate, they know it does nothing for job creation!
There is an old saying, “People get the kind of Government they deserve.” We have a two party system of government in our country. If you are not actively involved and engaged in the activities of these parties, you risk getting high unemployment and limited access to resources. We should not vilify the Republicans for doing what they should be doing as an opposition party. That is a waste of energy. Because as an opposition party, I think they are, right now, doing a pretty good job of stymieing President Obama legislative efforts .Instead, of putting the Republicans and the Democratic Parties down, we should be putting pressure where we can get the most bang for our efforts, and that is on the President and the Democrat Party. Look, the American Jobs Act by the President’s own admission will not lift us out of this recession as a country and will not lift Black people out of this disgusting Depression we are currently experiencing.
The “Act” per the President will create 1.9 million jobs and that is way short of what we need. If we are wise people, we should be asking this President and the Democratic Party to come up with a Plan B now!!! Let’s make this system work for us. Not only should they have anticipated Republican opposition but should be in a position to move to Plan B. If they do not have a Plan B, than the President needs to assemble a team who can give us such a plan. That is the kind of leadership, we as Blacks should be demanding, and the American people deserve this type of leadership. PUT THE PRESSURE WHERE THE PRESSURE OUGHT TO BE!!! http://www.sslumpsum.com
Eric Cantor is “my” Congressman. What a joke. This is a guy who thinks the “generals on the ground” and the President have the constitutional authority to start a war with Iran (youtube it). If you look at any of the “best fundraisers” in elected office, generally you will see a list of who is the most corrupt.
The only one of the presidential candidates that is not bought and paid for is Ron Paul. People like to blame capitalism for this, but the irony is that if the “free market” was so beneficial to massive corporations, he would be the best funded and have positive coverage from the corporate media. We have chronyism and protectionism for the big guys, regulations so vast that only corporations can afford to comply with them, and half the country is sure that only more regulation and more government can save them.
Half the country waves flags and the other half protests. Half blames the government and half blames the corporations. Meanwhile, the government, the regulators, and the corporations are all the same people.