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Poverty and the
President
by Bill O’Reilly
6/4/2011
This time next year, we should have a Republican in place to challenge
President Obama for the title of ‘World’s Most Powerful Man.” The
campaign, of course, is the ultimate reality show, and it could get
nasty.
As it stands now, Obama has to be considered the favorite despite the
shaky economy. The Osama bin Laden takedown was huge for him, and the
Medicare debate is going his way, as well. The president is a shrewd
campaigner and may have as much as a billion dollars in donated money
at his disposal. That kind of cash can buy a lot of things.
If the Grand Old Party nominates a populist candidate, it will lose the
election. Independent voters will decide the race, and they are looking
for someone to improve their lives, not drive ideology. The tea party
movement is a force, but unless it is willing to compromise in some
areas, there will be no celebration in Boston Harbor come November 2012.
The key to defeating Obama is understanding him. He is driven by one
thing above all: social justice. He fervently believes that prosperous
Americans have a moral obligation to help the deprived not only in the
United States, but all over the world. This cause influences just about
all of his decision-making.
The problem is that Obama does not really understand what drives
poverty and hopelessness. Writing in the publication “Public Square,”
theologian R.R. Reno clearly defines the issue: “A Christian who hopes
to follow the teachings of Jesus needs to reckon with a singular fact
about American poverty: Its deepest and most debilitating deficits are
moral, not financial; the most serious deprivations are cultural, not
economic. Many people living at the bottom of American society have
cell phones, flat-screen TVs, and some of the other goodies of consumer
culture. But their lives are a mess.”
For the president, social justice is all about money. And he is well on
his way to bankrupting the nation in attempting to achieve it. The only
cultural point the president has emphasized is that fathers need to be
held accountable in supporting their children. Otherwise, the cultural
aspect of poverty does not seem to exist for Obama.
The Republican Party seems lost to define the real issue: Can the
country survive four more years of a president who simply does not want
to cut entitlement spending? The risk is enormous because, once
re-elected, Obama can veto any spending-cut bills that cross his desk.
Right now, Democrats are scaring senior citizens into believing their
present benefits will be cut if Obama and the Democrats lose. In order
to counter that fiction, the GOP must scare right back. If America’s
debt is not arrested, the country will decline rapidly and in drastic
ways.
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