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Maxine Waters to Obama on unemployment: Iowans or blacks?
Politico ^ | September 8, 2011 | By JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 09/08/2011 7:05:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Just hours before President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on his jobs plan, Rep. Marxine Waters (D-Calif.) is demanding the nation’s first African-American president prove he cares as much about unemployed blacks as he does about Iowa’s swing voters.

“There are roughly 3 million African Americans out of work today, a number nearly equal to the entire population of Iowa. I would suggest that if the entire population of Iowa, a key state on the electoral map and a place that served as a stop on the president’s jobs bus tour were unemployed, they would be mentioned in the president’s speech and be the beneficiary of targeted public policy,” Waters said in a statement to POLITICO on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: failure; maxine; maxinewaters; racist; socialism; waters
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Maxine is a modern slavemaster. She wants to keep her voters dependent and on the plantation. They then need to come to her for assistance.
21 posted on 09/08/2011 7:32:28 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She has no leverage. Blacks will vote for Obama no matter what.


22 posted on 09/08/2011 7:34:14 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Anyone know the status of Mad Max's ethics charges?

I suspect there is more to her flapping her loud mouth as of late.

23 posted on 09/08/2011 7:36:37 AM PDT by SMM48
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To: Maverick68

“I honestly ( and maybe naively) believe we are on the cusp of a Conservative revival.”

I hope and pray you’re right.


24 posted on 09/08/2011 7:37:43 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Those who love liberty love Sarah)
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To: unkus
"Iowans or blacks?"

How about Americans?
25 posted on 09/08/2011 7:38:41 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What about black Iowans?


26 posted on 09/08/2011 7:44:13 AM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: Gen.Blather
Any whites in her district or anywhere else need not apply.

Describes exactly how my sister and her family in Houston feel as constituents of that nutjob twin to Maxine, whose name escapes me at the moment.

27 posted on 09/08/2011 7:48:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

oooohhh...it is gettin’ UGLEEEE out there!

Betcha when he decided to fire up the race war
Barry never expected he would be Target Numero Uno...


28 posted on 09/08/2011 7:50:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Vigilanteman

Sheila Jackson Lee -

I LIKE it that these racist Marxists are speaking out.

To defeat the left, expose the left.

Let everyone know what they stand for, preferably from their own mouths.


29 posted on 09/08/2011 7:51:33 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Definitely a many stepped program

Start by securing borders if another ‘Ellis Island’ facility is needed, do it.

Go after employers of illegals- that includes private hirers of baby sitters, personal gardeners, maids etc etc, not only corporations.
Get ‘free money’ programs that are out of control, under control.

Overhaul the Social Security cash cow - no need for people 25 years old drawing ANYTHING from the Social Security fund.
Drug, alcohol, aids are, for the most part, self inflicted maladies - if an exception has to be made, fine.
Even if they went to paying YOUR SS benefits to a surviving spouse at 65 or to minor children to 18 it would be a lot cheaper than the BS that is going on now.

Overhaul the welfare/food stamp/school lunch etc programs to just include the neediest.
We all believe in ‘common sense’ and although a job at say McDonalds may not be acceptable to a person, use it as a base and make up the difference (for a livable wage) with public money.

If the public trough (for the most part) dries up, jobs open up by the ‘removal’ of illegals, then you can work on the jobless problems.

If a person can say ‘draw’ 700 tax free a week from various programs etc, why go out and work at say asphalt for 10-15 taxable per hour?


30 posted on 09/08/2011 7:53:14 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How about us older white construction workers.
Its getting rough out here in the private sector.


31 posted on 09/08/2011 8:02:34 AM PDT by winodog
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To: FortWorthPatriot

Iowans or blacks?”

How about Americans?


They don’t see it that way.


32 posted on 09/08/2011 8:04:47 AM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear Maxine

Where else ya gonna go? Take it and like it, sweetie.

Love,
Obama


33 posted on 09/08/2011 8:06:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She got da honky-tonk blues.


34 posted on 09/08/2011 8:17:17 AM PDT by tumblindice (Governor Ricardo Perry: "No border fence")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You go girl..if she keeps it up..I may send her $5..


35 posted on 09/08/2011 8:18:27 AM PDT by ken5050 (Save the EARTH...it's the ONLY planet with CHOCOLATE!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Perhaps no black lawmaker has been as vocal as Waters in criticizing the president on employment matters. But she has long been popular in her Los Angeles district, and may feel that she has more freedom to push Obama without risking a backlash from African-American voters who flinch at the prospect of hurting him politically.”

If this doesn’t illustrate the F’d up racism of the black community, then nothing will.


36 posted on 09/08/2011 8:24:41 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: unkus

Oh, I know. I just thought I’d spit that out at her anyway. Vent my frustration, if you will.


37 posted on 09/08/2011 9:04:06 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: MrB

Thank you. Yes, Sheila Jackson Lee is the forgettable idiot whom I had in mind.


38 posted on 09/08/2011 9:25:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How far do the black racists think they can push their agenda before there is white backlash? It is coming....


39 posted on 09/08/2011 10:27:26 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Last night my neighbor informed me that if Obama loses, it is because he is black. I replied, that being black is the only reason he got elected with no qualifications. And he denied it, so I pointed out that at least two people had told me they were voting for him because it was about time we had a black President. I personally think that will not be an issue in 2012 and thus he will lose because the sympathy for the blacks vote has already been done.


40 posted on 09/08/2011 11:03:42 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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