Thank you for posting this. I can't understand why some people keep saying he hadn't accomplished anything. Historians will probably rate hims as one of the greatest presidents of all time.
President Obama' success & accomplishmrnts #BestPresident
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It's frightening when someone gets credit for living only 35% beyond their means.
To put this in perspective. If you make the American average of around $30k/year a 35% debt increase means that you now owe $10,500 more this year than you did last year. For every $3 you earn $1 would go have to go towards the debt and roughly $0.60 would go to taxes.
You would have to live off $1,166 a month just to break even. For most of us that wouldn't even cover our rent, especially when you throw interest and late fees into the mix.
Forget Trump, this is the scariest thing happening in our country right now. These are the same conditions that led to the French Revolution.
You are looking at from personal finance.
Change you perspective, it's bussiness... you aquire debt to continue to expand.
By that standard Obama must have expanded the American empire by 35%. If so where is it?
Lol in GM... Healthcare, 12 million created jobs, are you serious?
We lost a bunch of our privacy under Obama, and he was secretly signing off on all that NSA shit, if it wasn't for Snowden and Wikileaks we would have never known what he was really up to. I don't give a shit about people who couldn't get insurance before but I all I know is my premiums have gone up every year.
Look, man .... Obama was far from a do-nothing president.
Its just that, as a black man, when I read that, I don't get excited. Not because Barack didn't accomplish anything, but my focus is on my community going forward, not whether Barack will be well respected as a president historically. Thats great for the Obama lineage, but what about us? What about me?
A fact of life is we're at/near the very bottom as a collective, and that hasn't changed from the moment we came here 'til the present day. The optics have improved, but the optics always pale in comparison to what is beneath them. With other racial and ethnic groups coming in in droves, and a jobs opportunities shrinking because of technological advancements rendering human labor obsolete, things only stand to get worse. On top of that, we're still not a sufficiently unified collective. We're still lacking in infrastructure.
To put it bluntly, we're still residing within the system that enslaved, oppressed and still oppresses us, with nothing on the horizon suggesting that that will change substantially at all.
Its so bad that we almost fanatically support Democrats who have zero interest in true black empowerment, but doing just enough to maintain our loyalty, which obviously doesn't take much.
I saw someone talking about missing the forest for the trees, but I think they mistook the trees for being the actual forest.
I'm thinking large picture, and our place in it as black people. It is quite possible for America to be extremely prosperous and for black people to still suffer the affects of racism and everything that comes with that.
I respect Barack as much as I can respect a president of Amerikkka, but I have no real use for a major leader or political figure that can't help the black community sort out their mess.
This isn't even so much of a critique of Barack as it is an examination of why we feel the need celebrate leaders that are incapable of facilitating - along with OUR COLLECT EFFORTS - black liberation.
I don't care about symbolism. None of that was able to prevent the justice system from allowing white police offers from getting off after murdering one black life after the next. Barack didn't cause that, but he couldn't stop it.
Now, what?
Its just that, as a black man, when I read that, I don't get excited. Not because Barack didn't accomplish anything, but my focus is on my community going forward, not whether Barack will be well respected as a president historically. Thats great for the Obama lineage, but what about us? What about me?
A fact of life is we're at/near the very bottom as a collective, and that hasn't changed from the moment we came here 'til the present day. The optics have improved, but the optics always pale in comparison to what is beneath them. With other racial and ethnic groups coming in in droves, and a jobs opportunities shrinking because of technological advancements rendering human labor obsolete, things only stand to get worse. On top of that, we're still not a sufficiently unified collective. We're still lacking in infrastructure.
To put it bluntly, we're still residing within the system that enslaved, oppressed and still oppresses us, with nothing on the horizon suggesting that that will change substantially at all.
Its so bad that we almost fanatically support Democrats who have zero interest in true black empowerment, but doing just enough to maintain our loyalty, which obviously doesn't take much.
I saw someone talking about missing the forest for the trees, but I think they mistook the trees for being the actual forest.
I'm thinking large picture, and our place in it as black people. It is quite possible for America to be extremely prosperous and for black people to still suffer the affects of racism and everything that comes with that.
I respect Barack as much as I can respect a president of Amerikkka, but I have no real use for a major leader or political figure that can't help the black community sort out their mess.
This isn't even so much of a critique of Barack as it is an examination of why we feel the need celebrate leaders that are incapable of facilitating - along with OUR COLLECT EFFORTS - black liberation.
I don't care about symbolism. None of that was able to prevent the justice system from allowing white police offers from getting off after murdering one black life after the next. Barack didn't cause that, but he couldn't stop it.
Now, what?
Is GM going to give the money back with interest?
I wish black people would just admit that they're not really all that dissatisfied with life in America, because it has become abundantly clear what will bring arouse the fight in black folks. We don't wake up at the thought of TRUE empowerment, but will fight tooth and nail so that our position and status in society isn't decreased. This is why we are disjointed as a community, but will support Democrats with passion, and hate a Donald Trump to the core.
A Democrat will not empower us, but will keep us afloat. We don't demand anything more than that. If it wasn't for the police killings, and job losses after the recession, most of us would be fine with where we are as black people. Only a small percentage of us understand that we are wholly at the mercy at the system of white supremacy. As long as they're still giving crumbs, we're good. What happens if they ever decide to take 'em away . . .
. . . like Donald Trump may very well be interested in doing?
One man and his administration can come in and potentially do all of that? Does that not SCREAM we are not safe or comfortable in our position, but are merely USED TO IT and HAVE gotten comfortable with it?
Until we have our own system, from top to bottom, and the means to deter anyone who would fuck with us, we are teetering on the edge, plain and fucking simple.
My eyes are too open for me to celebrate anything less than steps towards TRUE black liberation. Anything else is just being happy with Massa's hot butter biscuits.
A Democrat will not empower us, but will keep us afloat. We don't demand anything more than that. If it wasn't for the police killings, and job losses after the recession, most of us would be fine with where we are as black people. Only a small percentage of us understand that we are wholly at the mercy at the system of white supremacy. As long as they're still giving crumbs, we're good. What happens if they ever decide to take 'em away . . .
. . . like Donald Trump may very well be interested in doing?
One man and his administration can come in and potentially do all of that? Does that not SCREAM we are not safe or comfortable in our position, but are merely USED TO IT and HAVE gotten comfortable with it?
Until we have our own system, from top to bottom, and the means to deter anyone who would fuck with us, we are teetering on the edge, plain and fucking simple.
My eyes are too open for me to celebrate anything less than steps towards TRUE black liberation. Anything else is just being happy with Massa's hot butter biscuits.
Sadly, I think black people have little to no interest in black empowerment.
That's the issue I see.
Look at anything negative posted about a black child woman or man on this board... 4 pages average
Positivity... crickets
That's the issue I see.
Look at anything negative posted about a black child woman or man on this board... 4 pages average
Positivity... crickets
No but the taxes the 1.1 million employees pay more than make up for it
It's paid back though, in case you were wondering
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...says-automakers-have-paid-back-all-loans-it-/
In that case it was a sound investment that didn't contribute to the 35% increase in the debt. So what did?
He is a personality that helps promote the system. Whites will continue to poison the water, air, soil, etc. and will continue to be programmed against real blackness and blacks. A system of staying in control of white power. The real wages of blacks is kept hid by fraud and survival teachings. All most blacks know is try to get money and life is rigged up for us to get it with out selling our souls. Obama did more killing than most presidents have done. He is a puppet for great devils like Bush, etc. And if any black think that being carbon copies of whites is going to improve life they are sadly mistaken.
President is not a real goal for any real black man. Separation and uncovering and living by the truth. What is hid is the drone strikes, the kill list that came by his desk every Tuesday, the drug use as it has always been with every president, and just like the brainwashed in Jonestown some people love white control and the promotion of a white reality. This paying taxes for others to live good off of controlling you.
My only praise is when the nation I am working on finally start materializing. My vision in life is to build a black nation here in the dirty south. A nation the way we lived before other races were grafted from us (THE ORIGINAL BLACK NATION). Real black men and women. I tell you and will one day prove it, there is no way a grown man can tell another grown man what to do unless he controls him. We have yet to see a real man not controlled by this white (Satan)world. Elijah Muhammad was the closes example I have seen yet. Our kids are being raised up putting no energy toward anything dealing with reality until the beast has control of them. I will one day show the whole world what a real man is. During the early 80's Farrakhan was showing some signs of that.
Lol keep trying bruh
This is not to shame Obama. I'm just shaking my head at the fact that we've become such a deadbeat nation that a 35% debt increase is a comparatively good thing.
Eventually we're all going to have to answer for this debt and once we do it will create chaos, ruin and death on a scale never seen before.
You bring up business and investment. Okay, show me one business that can lose money for over 30 years and still stay in business.
The nation will carry debt as long as it's a capitalist society, that's the nature.
Obama we supposed to quadruple the deficit let republicans tell it.
There is HUGE difference is losing money and aquring debt. Trump is a billionaire right? But he has personal debt amounting to 600 plus M.
I am a business owner so I completely understand how assets and liabilities work. What I doubt understand is how the country keeps piling on debt while the people's standard of living stays the same or worse. It's like balling on a credit card without paying the bill
Its a shell game.
We borrow money with a p2p.. then those p2p are bet on, traded and sold.
The cost of doing bussiness will never decrease, there are 4 ways to offset
*Produce more... won't happen
*Print more money - inflation
*Raise Taxes... good luck, political suicide
*Borrow from to there sovereign
The spending is recouped over time by taxes. But there is a tipping point when we hit that expect war to normalize the debt
Damn, that's horrible. Didn't know it worked like that
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