Your last comment is very informative. Is it possible to have your sources? Please, share with us the links where you found these valuable information. Thanks in advance for your collaboration.

You’re referring to Obama’s so-called budget put forth after 3 1/2 years in office that the Democratic controlled senate voted down 99-0. Not even one senator “Democratic or Republican” supported Obama’s shenanigan for political expediency.

Time has come to pass and Obama has proven that he’s not a leader. For the first 2 years in office Obama had a democratic controlled Congress and political capital to pass any of his Initiatives. You should start researching your horse in the race instead of mouthing off at things you appear to know nothing about.

So you ARE suggesting that Black people “use their feet” and vote Republican. You know what pimps your hand? People like you are always talking about what Obama is failing to do, but you NEVER talk about what the Republicans are doing. Why not? And another thing – don’t you know enough about how government works to know that it is CONGRESS that controls spending? Obama can’t do ANYTHING for us that CONGRESS doesn’t vote to approve.

So we’re dealing with one of two issues – either you’re too dumb to know what you’re talking about, or you know how things work but you’re trying to delude the Black community. Which is it? And another thing, why are you hiding behind a screen name? Who are you? I like to know who I’m calling a fool.

And finally:

Obama Initiatives
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– Spur Job Creation: “In addition, to help those most affected by the recession, the Budget will extend emergency assistance to seniors and families with children, Unemployment Insurance benefits, COBRA tax credits, and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs.”
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– Reforming the Job Training System: “The Budget calls for reform of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which supports almost 3,000 One-Stop Career Centers nationwide and a range of other services. With $6 billion for WIA at DOL—and an additional $4 billion in the Department of Education—the Budget calls for reforms to improve WIA.” Strengthen Anti-Discrimination Enforcement: “To strengthen civil rights enforcement against racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, religious, and gender discrimination, the Budget includes an 11 percent increase in funding to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. This investment will help the Division handle implementation of a historic new hate crimes law. The Budget also provides an $18 million, or 5 percent increase, for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), which is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee. This increased investment will allow for more staff to reduce the backlog of private sector charges.”
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– Support Historically Black Colleges and Universities: “The Budget proposes $642 million, an increase of $30 million over the 2010 level, to support Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In addition to this discretionary funding increase for MSIs, the Administration supports legislation passed by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate that would provide $2.55 billion in mandatory funding to MSIs over 10 years.”
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– Help Families Struggling with Child Care Costs: “The Budget will nearly double the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit for middle-class families making under $85,000 a year by increasing their credit rate from 20 percent to 35 percent of child care expenses. Nearly all eligible families making under $115,000 a year would see a larger credit. The Budget also provides critical support for young children and their families by building on historic increases provided in ARRA. The Budget provides an additional $989 million for Head Start and Early Head Start to continue to serve 64,000 additional children and families funded in ARRA.”
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– Reform Elementary and Secondary School Funding: “The Budget supports the Administration’s new vision for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) … The Budget provides a $3 billion increase in funding for K-12 education programs authorized in the ESEA, including $900 million for School Turnaround Grants, and the Administration will request up to $1 billion in additional funding if Congress successfully completes ESEA reauthorization.”
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– Increase Pell Grants: “The Recovery Act and 2009 appropriations bill increased the maximum Pell Grant by more than $600 for a total award of $5,350. The Budget proposes to make that increase permanent and put them on a path to grow faster than inflation every year, increasing the maximum grant by $1,000, expanding eligibility, and nearly doubling the total amount of Pell grants since the President took office.”
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– Help Relieve Student Loan Debt: “To help graduates overburdened with student loan debt, the Administration will strengthen income-based repayment plans for student loans by reducing monthly payments and shortening the repayment period so that overburdened borrowers will pay only 10 percent of their discretionary income in loan repayments and can have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years. Those in public service careers will have their debt forgiven after 10 years. The Budget also expands low-cost Perkins student loans.”
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– Prevent Hunger and Improve Nutrition: “The President’s Budget provides $8.1 billion for discretionary nutrition program supports, which is a $400 million increase over the 2010 enacted level. Funding supports 10 million participants in the WIC program, which is critical to the health of pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants. The Budget also supports a strong Child Nutrition and WIC reauthorization package that will ensure that school children have access to healthy meals and to help fulfill the President’s pledge to end childhood hunger. The President continues to support the nutrition provisions incorporated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).”
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– Revitalize Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: “The Budget includes $250 million for HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods program, which will target neighborhoods anchored by distressed public or assisted housing with physical and social revitalization grounded in promising, measurable, and evidence-based strategies.”
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– Increase Funding for the Housing Choice Voucher Program: “The President’s Budget requests $19.6 billion for the Housing Choice Voucher program to help more than two million extremely low income families with rental assistance to live in decent housing in neighborhoods of their choice. The Budget continues funding for all existing mainstream vouchers and provides flexibility to support new vouchers that were leased and $85 million in special purpose vouchers for homeless families with children, families at risk of homelessness, and persons with disabilities.”
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– Preserve 1.3 Million Affordable Rental Units through Project-Based Rental Assistance Program: “The President’s Budget provides $9.4 billion for the Project-Based Rental Assistance program to preserve approximately 1.3 million affordable rental units through increased funding for contracts with private owners of multifamily properties. This critical investment will help low-income households to obtain or retain decent, safe and sanitary housing. In addition, the Administration requests $350 million to fund the first phase of this multi-year initiative to regionalize the Housing Choice Voucher program and convert Public Housing to project-based vouchers.”
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– Promote Affordable Homeownership and Protect Families from Mortgage Fraud: “The Budget requests $88 million for HUD to support homeownership and foreclosure prevention through Housing Counseling and $20 million to combat mortgage fraud. In addition, the Budget requests $250 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’s (NRC) grant and training programs. Of the $250 million, $113 million is requested for foreclosure prevention activities, a $48 million increase (74 percent) over 2010.”
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– Fight Gang Violence and Violent Crime: “The Budget provides $112 million for place-based, evidence supported, initiatives to combat violence in local communities, including $25 million for the Community-Based Violence Prevention Initiatives that aim to reduce gun and other violence among youth gangs in cities and towns across the country, and $37 million for the Attorney General’s Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, which targets the youth most affected by violence and most susceptible to propagating it as they grow up.”
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– Expand Prisoner Re-entry Programs: “The Budget provides $144 million for Department Justice prisoner re-entry programs, including an additional $100 million for the Office of Justice Programs to administer grant programs authorized by the Second Chance Act and $30 million for residential substance abuse treatment programs in State and local prisons and jails. In addition, the Budget provides $98 million for Department of Labor programs that provide employment-centered services to adult and youth ex-offenders and at-risk youth..”
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– Fully Fund the Community Development Block Grant Program: “The Budget provides $4.4 billion for the Community Development Fund, including $3.99 billion for the Community Development Block Grant Formula Program (CDBG), and $150 million for the creation of a Catalytic Investment Competition Grants program. The new Catalytic Competition Grants program uses the authorities of CDBG, but will provide capital to bring innovative economic development projects to scale to make a measurable impact.”

The Black community, and indeed, America its fighting for its very existence, and you’re asked a very simple, but serious, question and your response is to start quoting Dr. Seuss, a creator of childrens’ books. Why don’t you throw in a few quotes from Mother Goose as well?

But actually, your response is tellingly appropriate, because you talking to the Black community like we’re children.

White folks have experience with people like this, and know how destructive to the people they can be. That’s why they have laws against treason. Look at the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX69a45LFLI

As quiet as it’s kept, Johnson did more to advance our community but thanks to the Corporate Media “Kennedy” is our beloved!

Let’s cut away all of the camouflage and get to the bottom line. If not Obama, who do you suggest the Black community vote for? Come on out with it.

Are you saying that all liberals/progressives/secularists/atheists are homosexuals or you are simply being vindictive?! Why is it so important to you whether gays and lesbians “want the crown jewel”? How does this affect your life (your religious beliefs and your right to marry a woman won’t be outlawed) or the economy and security of the country? Vote for what matters to your life and the well-being of your family – check out the countries where same sex marriages are legal…it doesn’t affect heterosexuals or these nations in any way of form. As someone said, if your religion forbids same sex marriage, don’t marry someone from your sex. Besides, there are many biblical laws or traditions that have been scraped off from our culture and laws (treatment of women comes to mind) because they were outdated and are unfair/discriminatory.

“Just ignore the history of heterosexual marriage as a foundational pillar that existed even before the church or the state”.
Wrong! Heterosexual marriage under the law is a pretty new concept but even if it existed “before the church or state”, does that mean, it can’t be changed, improved, made to be more inclusive…say like..the legal status of women and black people throughout the history of the West?
I would vote for Obama, not because he’s black but because he has better policies concerning the health and well-being of women than the opposition so as a black woman, this issue is relevant enough to affect my decision!