Sharpton: If You Want Black Men To Take Care Of Their Families, Give Them Training And Jobs

Truth Revolt -- Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Al Sharpton centered his focus on the black community and their economic problem, saying if black men are to take care of their families like they are always asked, they need training and jobs.

Sitting with Garner's widow, Chuck Todd mentioned that Mr. Garner had to sell single cigarettes to survive and asked Sharpton his plan to address this "economic hopelessness" in the black community.

Sharpton responded:

"We aggressively -- the National Action Network and the civil rights community -- supported a jobs bill, support infrastructure development. Because when we go and challenge men in our community to say, ‘You’ve got to stand up and you've got to be responsible’ — they need jobs. They need training."

Sharpton finds hypocrisy in Congress killing a jobs bill and then expecting black men to care for their families:

"So at one hand, we can't expand the public sector for jobs. At another hand, they say, well, we're being harassed and treated differently by law enforcement. So we've got to strike a balance that is not in our power to do, which is why we're going at the Congress to make that possible."

You can't kill a jobs bill and infrastructure and then tell men to take care of their families. You can't have it both ways.

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Blog author's comments - It appears that quite a few black men are not interested in working and taking care of a family. Why is Sharpton looking at public sector jobs, does he want the government to give the black men jobs? At least 7 of 10 black children are born to single mothers. Welfare and other government handouts, funded by the tax payers, are caring for the mothers and their children. There may be men living with the single mothers, but the majority of them are not employed. There are many black families who are doing well, but so many black mothers and single parent children are struggling.

The black men should have provided their own training by at least completing high school, but Sharpton and other race baiters like him put the blame for what has and is happening in so many black communities on others. Its people like Sharpton who ensure the problems in the black communities are never resolved because they are providing an excuse for so many black men. If a black man doesn't take care of his family, he's a victim. He needs the people in Washington to fix things for him. That is why so many blacks will never rise above where they are today. Many blacks thought Obama was their savior, but in my opinion he has only made the problems worse.

Two Added to Food Stamp Rolls for Every Job Obama Says He Created

CNS News -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said yesterday that the Obama administration has pulled the nation from the depths of the "Great Recession" with the creation of 7.2 million private sector jobs.

"And what is absolutely true is that we have come a long way since the depths of the Great Recession. We've created over 7.2 million private sector jobs," Carney told reporters at a press briefing.

Here's what Mr. Carney didn't say:

Since February of 2009, the first full month of Obama's presidency, 9.5 million Americans have dropped out of the labor force. Nearly 90 million Americans are not working today!

That means that 1.3 Americans have dropped out of the labor force for every one job the administration claims to have created.

There are 15 million more Americans on food stamps today than when Obama assumed office.
At the end of January 2009, 32,204,859 Americans received aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As of April 2013, there were 47,548,694 Americans on food stamps.

That means that more than two Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls for every one job the administration says it has created.

Under Obama, 1.6 million more Americans are collecting disability insurance. In February 2009, 9,334,369 Americans received disability payments. Today, that number is 10,953,733.

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Blog author's comments - Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the Obama administration has pulled the nation from the depths of the "Great Recession" with the creation of 7.2 million private sector jobs. If this was actually true why do we read during the rest of the column how really bad the jobs market has been during the time the Obama administration has been in office?

I have to believe that most of the jobs which have been filled during this time have been part-time or temporary jobs and, of course, government jobs. What Carney said is not accurate. And Obama will attempt to place the blame for the true jobs figures on the Republican controlled House.

The White House is promoting food stamp use...which is creating dependency on the government, the key to strengthening the liberal and socialist agenda. He and his administration's policies will never create jobs and strengthen the economy. If the Democrats can win control of the House in 2014 and retain the Senate, I have no doubt he will pass another 'Stimulus' bill which he will say will be a job creator...much like the last one he passed when he had full control and what did that create aside from putting the country deeper in debt. His answer to every problem is to throw money at it.

Obama is in charge of the executive branch. If there is waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, Obama is responsible for it. I continue to preach that at the very least the GOP has to hold control of the House. If they do not control the House after the midterm election in 2014, during Obama's last two years in office he will be completely out of control. We will see amnesty and citizenship for the illegals which will cost the taxpayer's even more to fund food stamps and other government programs. This will also mean millions more Democratic Party voters. The GOP has to get their act together or America will continue down hill if Obama is able to do what he has planned.

The Gulf Recovery Obama Does Not Want to See

The Heritage Foundation
August 13th, 2010

Next week, for the fifth time since July, the first family will board Air Force One for yet another luxury vacation, this time to an exclusive Martha’s Vineyard estate that rents for up to $50,000 a week. But before they head north, the Obamas will first grace Panama City, Fla., with their presence this weekend for what is being billed as a "solidarity vacation to the Gulf Coast"

While in Florida, the President is expected to meet with local business leaders to discuss the effects of the spill before departing on a cross-country trip around the United States including stops in Los Angeles and Seattle to raise cash for Democrats and a stop in Wisconsin at a renewable energy factory. Not on the agenda? Any meetings with oil workers in other Gulf states who are now unemployed thanks to President Obama’s Gulf oil drilling ban.

If the President really wanted to see the economic damage his policies are causing in the Gulf, he could first stop in Pascagoula, Miss., where idle oil rigs in the Signal International shipyard have formed an eerie floating ghost city that locals have dubbed "Rig Row."

Instead of being deployed at sea where they could be creating wealth for this country and jobs for Gulf residents, these rigs are wasting away idly in port as a direct result of President Obama’s oil drilling moratorium – a moratorium that when first issued on just deep sea rigs, a federal judge ruled was "arbitrary and capricious" Undaunted, the Obama administration doubled down, issuing a broader oil drilling injunction that is killing even more jobs than the first ban.

Why is President Obama so eager to see Florida recover but doesn’t have the time of day for the other Gulf states? Eric Smith, a professor at the Tulane University business school, told FOX News: “The administration is in thrall to the environmental community, unfortunately, and as a result, they’re playing that card, and I think to try and slow up, or increase the cost of, hydrocarbons. I just think that’s the reality." " The Obama oil ban isn’t about safety, it is about permanently shrinking our domestic oil production capacity as quickly as possible.". . Entire column

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Blog author's comments - Barack Obama is without a doubt the worst president this country has ever had. On one hand he knows exactly what he is doing to the economy of the Gulf states with his pandering to the environmentalists. On the other hand this guy is in way over his head.

He does not seem to have a clue as to the plan he should implement in an effort to help create jobs. All he has done since he has been in office is throw money at any problem he encounters or blame someone else for his failure. This of course has not helped but only served to deepen our economic woes.

The BP oil leak is another example of why arrogance and incompetence is a dangerous combination. It's an outrage. Look at what's happened: An entire industry has been shut down on the basis of an unwarranted panic.

Another Week...And No Job?

ANOTHER WEEK...AND YOU CAN'T FIND A JOB?
By Neal Boortz -July 16, 2010
Do the businesses out there have the money to expand? Yes, they do. The desire is there as well. What business doesn't want to grow? So ... what's the problem? Why did you or someone in your family spend the week spinning their wheels looking for a job? What's holding things up?

Consider:

Major corporations are sitting on $2 trillion dollars in cash right now. Corporate profits are up.Banks have another $1trillion in excess reserves.

As National Review's economics editor Larry Kudlow points out, that's $3 trillion dollars being held in the private sector that could be financing the greatest job-creation and business growth. What's more .. this money could be financing growth in the private sector, not in government. So ... what's the problem?

Obama and the Democrats .. that's the problem.

Just a few things to consider:

This new so-called financial reform bill the Democrats have just passed calls for the creating of 243 new regulatory rule makings that will affect businesses across the country.

Tell me .. are you going to take that cash out of your reserves and start spending before you have a clear understanding of what those new rules are going to be and how they are going to affect your business? There is the law of unintended consequences out there to deal with.

Then there's ObamaCare. Tax hikes and new regulations. Businesses are still trying to figure out how this is going to affect their bottom line. For instance ... do they keep their employee health care benefits or let the government just do it all?

The fact is that businesses don't really understand what their relationship is going to be with the Imperial Federal Government in the years to come. Taxes going up? More regulations and bureaucrats to gum up the works? Will ObamaCare become the disaster that so many expect?

I don't care how much you love Barack Obama. You could think that he is just the most amazing and talented human being to ever walk the halls of the White House. The fact is that American business doesn't like this guy.

Corporate America, as a matter of fact, has just recently begun to acknowledge their dislike of the current administration. Private small business owners ... where 80% of the jobs are ... have been wary of this guy since day one.

Do you want to see these businesses start hiring? Well .. that's going to take a while. The effects of all of these new laws and regulations are going to have to make themselves known. That won't happen in weeks or months. One thing would help .. and that would be for the voters to wake up and chase as many of these left wing anti-capitalists power-hungry Democrat politicians out of office as possible in November.

In the meantime ... if you're unemployed, and if you aren't looking for a government job ... and you vote Democrat in November ... well, let's just say that the economy isn't your only problem. You may just flat-out be unemployable... Entire column

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Blog author's comments - Some of the reasons for the sad shape of our economy cannot be explained much better than the Neal Boortz column. Many businesses are content to wait and see what the Obama regime does next.

They are not going to invest their cash and hope the current economic climate will change. This thinking began while Obama was campaigning prior to the election.

Obama's plans have not worked out so well have they? Unemployment is in double digits in most states. This will not improve in the near future. Boortz told us why.

Obama still wants to redistribute the wealth. He has been preaching this since he assumed office. The economy will not improve as long as the Obama administration retains their power. November is our chance to remove some of the Democrats.