By Herman Cain —— Bio and Archives May 14, 2015
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The effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don’t want to work, are lazy, undeserving, got traction. I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu. They will have folks who make me mad. I don't even know where they find them. "I don't want to work, I just want a free Obamaphone or whatever."News flash for the president: There are people who aren't interested in working, and many of them got that way because of liberal anti-poverty programs that only bred dependency and kept people in poverty! But if the president wants to deal in poverty facts, I've got some facts for him: When he took office in 2009, there were 9.9 million blacks living below the poverty level. As of 2013, there were 11 million. How is Obama's big-government approach working out for poor blacks? Not so well! The overall percentage of Americans living in poverty is 14.5 percent, but if you want to break that down along racial lines, it's 12.3 percent of whites and 27.1 percent of blacks. A lot of black people voted for Obama because they thought he would know how to make things better in a way that would benefit them. He has failed to do that. We're deeper in debt, our economy is now growing and we've got more black people in poverty than ever. Obama has failed. He needs to stop attacking the messenger and get some better policies. Perhaps the only thing worse than Obama's comments were the fact that his audience thought it was hilarious. Folks, Obama and his supporters may think poverty is a laughing matter, but those of us who understand these numbers know it is not. Can we get a serious president please?
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