Posted on 01/10/2014 12:05:42 PM PST by Red Steel
Summoning his inner community organizer, President Obama said Thursday he intends to “mobilize the country” this year around a national mission of giving poor Americans a shot at economic success.
“This is going to be a year of action,” Mr. Obama said at the White House. “This is not just a job for government. This is a job for everybody.”
The president announced the selection of five new “promise zones” — distressed communities that will qualify for tax breaks and expedited grants to combat poverty. The administration chose Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Antonio, an eight-county region in southeastern Kentucky and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma for the additional help.
But the administration’s promise to cut through red tape for the communities is off to an uncertain start. Mr. Obama announced the initiative at his State of the Union address one year ago; it has taken an entire year for the government to receive applications from cities and to select the first five of what Mr. Obama said will be 20 “promise zones.”
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This former Baskin Robbins scooper is going to take his mid 30’s approval rating and mobilize what? Get back in your room, Zero - nobody’s lissnen
More demscum corruption. That is all this is.
One would have thought that rather than spending 4 plus million on a tax-payer all-expense paid vacation, he would be magnanimous and spend the money on the POOR.
‘Hope and Change’, only more concentrated.
“This is going to be a year of action,” Mr. Obama said at the White House. “This is not just a job for government. This is a job for everybody.”
He’s the one who said that you didn’t do that yourself, the government helped you.
Oh well it was expected since he can’t keep track of all his lies.
He has ZERO credibility with anything he says or does.
...code words for more Democratic Party giveaways...(with our tax dollars). Will somebody please bring on impeachment hearings for this SOB.
Sorry, Odumbass. You’ve made me hate you so perfectly, that not only will I not help you with anything, I will actively work against anything you propose. And I represent the feelings of millions. So, if you really want to do some good for the country, get the hell out of the oval office.
“Remember “green shoots”?”
“A thousand points of light!”
The “War On Poverty” worked real well; this new spending scam by the Idiot-In-Chief should go over like a fart in church, too.
No thanks, your actions have created enough!
I guess he hasn’t created enough poverty yet
Thanks for posting...I missed the other thread. This is hilarious. ISWYDT ;)
A.C.O.R.N. ZONES.
Is this where installing bums in private homes comes in?
you mean...payback zones.
At this stage in his political cycle they should be re-named
BROKEN PROMISE ZONES.
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