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Obama's no-opportunity society
NY Post ^ | April 5, 2010 | Michael Barone

Posted on 04/05/2010 2:49:46 AM PDT by Scanian

Last summer, I wrote a column framed as a letter to a young Obama voter. It concluded: "You want policies that will enable you to choose your future. Obama backs policies that would let centralized authorities choose much of your future for you. Is this the hope and change you want?"

It seems that some young Obama voters have decided it isn't. The Pew Research Center's poll of the millennial generation, which voted 66 percent to 32 percent for Obama, found that they now identify with Democrats over Republicans by only 54 to 40 percent.

Perhaps they are coming to realize that the burdens the Obama policies are placing on the private-sector economy are reducing their choices for the future. The stimulus package, ObamaCare, higher taxes, new environmental restrictions -- they're all job-killers and help to explain why a recovering economy isn't producing many new jobs. Unemployment has been at 10 percent, rounded off, for six months now.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barone; bho44; bhoeconomy; centralizedeconomy; governmentcontrol; polls; youngvoters

1 posted on 04/05/2010 2:49:47 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Good article.

Barone is another erstwhile Detroiter who learned first hand what Unions and Liberal Policies can do to a thriving city.


2 posted on 04/05/2010 3:02:29 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
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To: Scanian

The Pew Research Center’s poll of the millennial generation, which voted 66 percent to 32 percent for Obama, found that they now identify with Democrats over Republicans by only 54 to 40 percent.
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Proving that the young are the most fertile field for brainwashing, propaganda and general manipulation. Political child molestors.


3 posted on 04/05/2010 3:14:56 AM PDT by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: Scanian
If you want to learn about Democrats, look at the cities they govern.
4 posted on 04/05/2010 3:22:17 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Thinking of using 911 for protection? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: Scanian

I have no faith in anyone under thirty to make the right decision regarding Obama. Most of the teens and twenty-some -things I see have an iPod headphone dangling from their heads and texting their inane doings. They have bought Obummer hook line and sinker.
I tried to convince one that the health-care law was a joke and generational theft, and they said..”hey at least hes doing something.”
Duh!


5 posted on 04/05/2010 3:29:11 AM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: Scanian

And now when one applies for a student loan, Obamah will be the one who decides if your area of interest is “available”.


6 posted on 04/05/2010 4:11:52 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Mikey_1962
Well the kiddies learned there are consequences to their actions didn’t they? They got us in this mess so they are going to have to help us fix it. If not, they deserve what they get.
7 posted on 04/05/2010 4:26:58 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Scanian
...Is this the hope and change you want?"

It's a good question for all the special interest or demographic groups who voted for the inexperienced Kenyan including Jews, seniors, blacks, etc..

8 posted on 04/05/2010 4:37:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: DeusExMachina05

I don’t try and convince them anymore.

I just thank them for providing my health-care and retirement.

It is funny to see their faces at that simple statement. LOL.


9 posted on 04/05/2010 4:38:12 AM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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To: DeusExMachina05

Hopefully they’ll stay preoccupied with their insipid foolishness and stay away from the polls in November!


10 posted on 04/05/2010 4:44:37 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: EBH
I just thank them for providing my health-care and retirement.

Not a bad idea...take their pay stub and point out the money being taking FROM them to supplement OUR retirement. They'll be busting their asses while I relax on the golf course or sit on the beach enjoying a cold one.

You folks over 60? Stay healthy; keep that Social Security money flowing for YEARS to come...

11 posted on 04/05/2010 5:05:12 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Mikey_1962

If you are a tax-cheat, sexual deviate and Marxist, Obama’s got a high-paying job for you.


12 posted on 04/05/2010 5:30:58 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Average Al
It's no coincidence that most of Obama’s support comes from permanently dependent classes and those to young to know Jimma Carter is more than a nice old man who builds houses for poor people. Maybe, just maybe, were seeing the making of a generation of libertarian/conservatives.
13 posted on 04/05/2010 5:58:05 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Scanian

Obama is recreating East Germany in the US.


14 posted on 04/05/2010 6:05:06 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Red Dog #1
Maybe, just maybe, were seeing the making of a generation of libertarian/conservatives.

Hope so, the cost of all these social programs is bound to squeeze them hard enough to revisit their liberal beliefs.

15 posted on 04/05/2010 6:08:04 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Average Al
From a certain perspective, I owe Jimma a debt of gratitude for making me into a conservative.
16 posted on 04/05/2010 6:25:28 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Red Dog #1
Yeah, he was a real slap in the face! Atrocious inflation, interest rates, gas lines, and the same smug demeanor as Obama.
17 posted on 04/05/2010 6:39:34 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Average Al
In the same manner, it's too bad I wasn't old enough to learn the painful truth about big government “Rockefeller” Republicans from this guy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock

18 posted on 04/05/2010 7:32:09 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Red Dog #1

Yeah, he was a real piece of work too.


19 posted on 04/05/2010 7:45:00 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: Red Dog #1

The problem is the welfare state Obama is expanding as fast as he can is in the process of collapsing. He can’t “take care” of the “dependent classes” as they are finding out.


20 posted on 04/05/2010 12:32:32 PM PDT by sinanju
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