Let the Riots in Britain be A Warning to America

[texshelters]

Let the Riots in Britain be A Warning to America


For my full posting, go here:

http://texshelters.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/let-the-riots-in-britain-be-a-warning-to-america/

Dear President Obama:


I admire you in many ways, but when dealing with jobs and the economy, you have been a disappointment to me and the American people. You continuously acquiesce to Republican demands on economic matters while millions of Americans remain unemployed. You don’t stand up to them on taxes and you don’t defend the social safety net. You have coddled Wall Street and done little to change the employment situation. We hired you to work for the all the American people and not just the moneyed elite and the Republicans. In this task, you have failed.

Millions of Americans with no hope and nowhere to turn are at best a burden society. At worst, unemployment and desperation are a threat to our nation. In the long run, compassion toward desperate Americans is not only the most humane course of action, but it is the most fiscally sound. 

Your jobs programs have been lacking or nonexistent. Where are the public works programs we desperately need? How do you expect to have additional revenue in the United States if by cutting the budget, you increase unemployment while not raising tax rates on those that can most afford it?


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So instead of getting the much needed infusion of stimulus money to help create jobs while at the same time strengthening our weakened infrastructure http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-28/us/infrastructure.report.card_1_drinking-water-infrastructure-aging?_s=PM:US , we get a lecture about how we’re giving too much to the poor. While cutting into social spending, military spending remains untouched and no new sources of revenue have been added. Any stimulus spending would be temporary, but it needs to be large enough to jump start our flagging economy. I fear if we don’t start addressing long term unemployment and poverty, we will be met with a crisis such as the riots in England of the past week.

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There is an international youth crisis in employment. The Arab spring was in large part fueled by youth who had no jobs and no prospects. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064058743638.htm


President Obama, do you want to be responsible for riots in the streets of America, do you want to be seen as an oligarch who doesn’t care about his people, a modern day Hoover, or do you want to be seen as the second man in our history to save the United States from revolt and save it for future democracy and future capitalism? The time is now President Obama. Heed the warning signs of riots in Britain and protests across the Middle East, or go down in history as the man who failed to take action when his nation needed him.


Read my whole posting here: 

http://texshelters.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/let-the-riots-in-britain-be-a-warning-to-america/


Yours, 

Tex Shelters

[gtar100]

1. Oh, ye who unrec...this is not a threat, this is a warning of the inevitable

History repeats itself when the same thing is done over and over. Humanity should have learned this from empires past but the rich are short-sighted. Their insatiable greed is their undoing. It's inevitable.

[Citizen Worker]

2. If only...it were more than a dream or wish.

[WingDinger]

3. WE, Dems, have ceded terms of the debate to the unstable Tea Party.

WE did. Noone else here but us chickens. When they come home to roost, we blame the media, or corporate money. We have a million of them. We try all but the right thing.

[kelly1mm]

4. The warning I got was to not get rid of guns so I can protect my life and property

and that of my neighborhood while the police do nothing.

[ATLdemocrat]

5. It'll come to America

Sooner rather than later. And the worst thing about it will be those that don't understand why.