Under Obama US middle class spends 43% of their income on food and gas. Obama comfortable as landlord of Asphalt Plantation as was his mentor Jarrett

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8/23/12, "The O-Conomy: How President Obama's Economy is Crushing the Middle Class," American Thinker, Peter Morrison

"No president has complete control over the economy; however, what happens under the president's watch reflects his policies or lack of policies. Ultimately, as Harry Truman made clear, "The buck stops here!"...

New leadership and new ideas are needed. The middle class cannot survive another four years paying 43 percent of their diminishing income for food and gas." (end of article)

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8/23/12, "Obama and the Asphalt Plantation," American Thinker, Lee Cary

"The lack of interest he (Obama) showed for the plight of the poorest constituents in his Illinois State Senate district should have been a clue as to his intentions - or better, his disinterest in the matter.

When Barack Obama said "I'm not the president of the black America," he was telling the truth. He hasn't been blacks' president, because he hasn't acted as the nation's president.

And so it is that in the nation's urban centers today, too many black communities remain asphalt plantations where corrupt politicians are the overseers -- most from the same political party that the president leads....

Upon his election in 2008, President Obama had the political capital to tackle this problem, but he wasn't up to the task. In fact, the task doesn't, in retrospect, appear to have even been on his agenda."...(near end of article)

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Obama's #1 mentor Valerie Jarrett had no problem abusing the poor:

8/14/12, "Obama's Strange Dependence on Valerie Jarrett," American Thinker, Karin McQuillen

"Not that Jarrett's record in Chicago was anything to be proud of. Jarrett was known for her corruption and incompetence. Daley finally had to fire her after a scandal erupted over her role in misuse of public funds in the city's substandard public housing. She went on to become CEO of Habitat Executive Services, pulling down $300,000 in salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation. Again, she managed a housing complex that was seized by government inspectors for slum conditions. The scandal didn't matter to Obama. The sordid corruption was all part of Jarrett's Chicago success story."...

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