Obama Cuts Programs, Bobbo's Soul Crushed

[VivisMom]

Oh noes! More oppressing the poor!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x393405

Ken Burch   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 05:30 AM
Original message
If Obama DOES cut Head Start and community block grant funding
   
He can't call himself a Democrat any longer.

NOTHING can make up for cutting those things. Nothing at all.

And cutting them cannot be a part of any strategy for winning back lost ground later.

The "indenpendents" are NOT demanding that we TOTALLY abandon the poor...and if they were, their votes couldn't be worth having.

NOTHING can make up for the reduction of Head Start.

But some here will defend it all anyway.
 

du_da (104 posts)           Fri Feb-11-11 05:48 AM
Response to Original message
3. In today's political climate
   
I don't see how you don't include Head Start on a cut list. Certainly in a perfect world we wouldn't do that, however the people have spoken and they want the parent's carrying the weight of preparing children for school not government. If they are wrong we need to show them why they are wrong. If you think we can do this without the independents then you are just fooling yourself. You might want to look around see which ideology is winning the votes and dominating communities at the moment. How many times have you read postings on DU from someone complaining how the conservatives have taken over their neighborhood. Now, how many times do you see the same type of post on a conservative site referring to liberals taking over the neighborhood?

Obama's big mistake in all this is to even try to pick and choose programs. He should have accepted that he was going to have to make cuts so as to not lose any more ground to the opposition and simply cut everything by some appropriate percentage across the board with no exception. That would have hurt but it would have shown him willing to take the issue serious which is what the independents want to see and at the same time forced the opposition to show their true colors by giving them the opportunity to stepped forward to try to save their own preferred projects. Thus illustrating that they weren't entirely serious.

Lousy freeper troll! Alert! Alert!

du_da (104 posts)           Fri Feb-11-11 06:12 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. We don't have the luxury
   
of ignoring the previous election results, especially when nothing indicates the trend coming back our direction at the moment. If you don't think part of that message was one of personal responsibility then you weren't paying attention. As for freeperville, I avoid that one. Even if they weren't so off the deep end their format sucks so bad that it is nearly unreadable. As such maybe there's an exception. But I check several sites of all political flavors and the complaints of neighborhoods becoming too liberal have been few and far between lately. It seems we aren't doing a good job spreading the word. Either that or they have managed to scare everyone into hiding. I will give you the possibility that it could be the later but I don't see any evidence of that.

Like you, I would like to take those tax breaks and put them toward getting us out of this mess as well. Guess what, this isn't a dictatorship and we don't have that option and never did. Progressives never had a majority more or less super majority. We have always had to deal with the real world which includes the right leaning tendency in this nation. Truth be told we either were unable or unwilling to sell the people on the fact that rich people are not as deserving of tax cuts as everyone else, as such the method for passing tax cuts for the middle class that did not include tax cuts for the rich simply wasn't there, and not passing them for the middle class was political suicide.

So you want to explore the world of the absurd, lets explore the possibility that we can accomplish anything without getting support from people who are not already part of our choir.

No, really...whose mole is this?

And then the Buick pulls up, like you knew it would...

bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #5
51. How easily you throw around the word "luxury: when you KNOW this equates to DEATH.

obbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #72
73. While I completely agree with you, can you iimagine how painful it is for someone like me
   
to read those words?

This is about ME.. this is my life.

And millions just like me.

It. Is. Soul. Murder.

Me, me, me, me, I, I, I....STFU you worthless piece of shit.

Maybe frank can enlighten me, is Ken in any way related to our old friend Ben Burch?

[Ralph Wiggum]

The more I think about it, I'm so torn between whether Bobo the Hobo is the biggest ****ing moron on the planet or just a brilliant mole.

[GOBUCKS]

bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #5
51. How easily you throw around the word "luxury: when you KNOW this equates to DEATH.

Well, the hobo may well be right, and that's why I have to agree with the muslim's decision to do it now. If he had waited a few months, the weather would be much warmer, and our city crews would have less time to dispose of the carcasses before they began to smell.

[Evil_Conservative]

bobbolink   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 01:46 PM
Response to Reply #5
51. How easily you throw around the word "luxury: when you KNOW this equates to DEATH.

What's this about?

If you own anything of "luxury" value, you're going to die?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Bobbo's Soul Crushed

[zeitgeist]

This is from another thread which bobo was quite active on dealing with heating assistance, I will post a link for those with time or inclination but this quote is priceless on the overall reading comprehension of the dump:

MadTrucker99 (2 posts)      Thu Feb-10-11 06:53 PM
Response to Original message
140. If conclusion jumping were an Olympic Event

 They are talking about the Weatherization Assistance Program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which provided up to $5 billion to help low income families save on their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient. If this item is true, then the change would be returning the the program funding to the pre Act levels. It could be that no one is applying for the money at that level and the money can be better used elsewhere. The money was NOT for buying heating oil or gas or electric. It was specifically tagged for those who wanted to upgrade their current heating equipment to more energy efficient equipment.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x384453

The dummies, bobo included were on the proverbial wild goose chase throughout most of the thread.  

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-10-11 12:34 PM
Response to Reply #22
76. Why do they hate us?

Why ask why.  Here is the OP's link to the article being discussed for those interested yet not wanting to soil themselves by going over to visit the dump.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/exclusive-obama-to-cut-energy-assistance-for-the-poor-20110209

[BlueStateSaint]

Bobbo's Soul Crushed

I didn't realize that this:



makes such a big package!  H5!

[zeitgeist]

I didn't realize that this:



makes such a big package!  H5!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48BTtAVsK0&feature=related[/youtube]

Somehow this fits.

[Evil_Conservative]

I didn't realize that this:



makes such a big package!  H5!

The Kia Soul is cute!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQyZ8BoNSQ[/youtube]

[AllosaursRus]

Uh...... how the hell is Bobo illegible for "Head Start"? Sorry Hobo, but that's a stretch not even DUmmies can connect to.

Ken Burch   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-11-11 05:30 AM
Original message
If Obama DOES cut Head Start and community block grant funding
  
He can't call himself a Democrat any longer.

NOTHING can make up for cutting those things. Nothing at all.

And cutting them cannot be a part of any strategy for winning back lost ground later.

The "indenpendents" are NOT demanding that we TOTALLY abandon the poor...and if they were, their votes couldn't be worth having.

NOTHING can make up for the reduction of Head Start.

But some here will defend it all anyway.

First off, what the hell are "indenpendents"????????? I thought y'all were the mostest smartest people on the interwebs! Y'all are so smart ya don't even use "spell check"!

The "indenpendents" are NOT demanding that we TOTALLY abandon the poor...and if they were, their votes couldn't be worth having.

Then y'all are ****ed! Without foolin' the "Indies" you will never win another election.

Even if you haven't noticed, we're ****in' broke! The "Indies" have noticed. That's why we kicked yer ass in November. They bought a vowel just like we did, which means, like I said before, y'all are ****ed! The only ones in the electorate that think we can just keep printin' money, are you left wing lunatics!

Why doncha try auditing the Head Start program and find out how many bureaucrats got rich funneling the money to their pet projects? Maybe then, you would get a clue in fiscal responsibility, and figure out we can't continue to fund failing freebees that never pan out!

Are you DUmmies the last to know we spend more money than any other country in the world without positive results?

and ya wonder why we watch like our own private Ant Farm. Go figure!

[AllosaursRus]

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-10-11 12:34 PM
Response to Reply #22
76. Why do they hate us?

Well.............maybe it's 'cause you're a low life leechin' slug. But I could be wrong.

[CC27]

I see i started a new catch phase, "and the buick pulls up. LMAO. 

[DefiantSix]

Bobbo's Soul Crushed

How did the Hobo's Buick get caught up in the Cash for Clunkers sweep?  

[miskie]

Aside: Im guessing this was a Triumph TR3.  Probably early 60s.. 61-63

[franksolich]

I see i started a new catch phase, "and the buick pulls up. LMAO. 

I wondered who the original author of that was.

It's a gem.

[Gina]

The Kia Soul is cute!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQyZ8BoNSQ[/youtube]

A vehicle isn't supposed to be cute, Jess    it's supposed to be badass!

[Chris_]

The Kia Soul is cute!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQyZ8BoNSQ[/youtube]

MMMMMMMMMM! Michelle....

[CC27]

I wondered who the original author of that was.

It's a gem.

This is were i started that phase Frank.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55253.0.html

[Splashdown]

Head start, Lol.

From a NY Times op-ed, Feb 7, 2009:

In 1998, Congress required the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct the first rigorous national evaluation of the program. The Clinton administration took this mandate seriously and initiated a 383-site randomized experiment involving about 4,600 children. Confirming previous research, the study found that the current program had little meaningful impact.

link

15 years, later, it continues, not doing anything but sucking up money...

It would be amazing to me if one program--any federal program--were actually successful in any at eliminating poverty or reducing misery.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Aside: Im guessing this was a Triumph TR3.  Probably early 60s.. 61-63

I think we can restore it.

[Evil_Conservative]

A vehicle isn't supposed to be cute, Jess    it's supposed to be badass!

Exactly, that's why I don't own one.  It's just cute.  I see a lot of middle aged men driving them and I just have to chuckle at the red light.  Same with men driving a Prius.

[Duke Nukum]

Bobo seems to hate life so much, I cannot understand why she is so against her fellow progressive's action.

[Gina]

Exactly, that's why I don't own one.  It's just cute.  I see a lot of middle aged men driving them and I just have to chuckle at the red light.  Same with men driving a Prius.

Or when I see a man driving a miata

[JohnnyReb]

Or when I see a man driving a miata

Pronounced ME-oughta....like, me oughta bought a car.

[AllosaursRus]

Head start, Lol.

From a NY Times op-ed, Feb 7, 2009:
 

link

15 years, later, it continues, not doing anything but sucking up money...

It would be amazing to me if one program--any federal program--were actually successful in any at eliminating poverty or reducing misery.

The only thing these programs have done is to  make a shitload of bureaucrats rich, by givin' them a salary 10 times what you would get in the private sector for doin' the same damn thing!!!!!!!

I'd venture to put forth, less than 20% of the taxpayer money they steal actually ever makes it to the kids it is supposed to help! 20% is the high end! If we actually did an audit like what the IRS puts us criminal taxpayers thru, it would more than likely be closer to 2%!!!!!