Thursday, February 16, 2012

Obama’s $10,000 Bets

Lenny McAllister

Lenny McAllister

 
Obama’s $10,000 Bets
After doubling down on his support of Planned Parenthood, unions, and other liberal causes over the years, President Obama makes a symbolic statement by betting with the teachers’ unions.  He achieves this by ending school funding for poor students in his own backyard.
What do you call: 1) an increase in funding for education bureaucrats; 2) an increase for eclectic car buyers to support the American automakers: and 3) a decrease for poor kids in Washington, D.C. ?
Status quo.
Many folks will willingly overlook and deny the fact that it would be different if the shoe was on the other foot.  That is, if a Republican president repeatedly proposed cuts to a program annually championed by the opposing party, one that offers better educational opportunities for hundreds of poor students otherwise stuck in a failing school system there would be outrage within the Black community. Read More