Obama advises students to patiently work in silence as Wall Street profits from wars and the rest of our problems...
President Barack Obama gave the commencement address to the graduating
class of the Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in
Columbus, Ohio.
"I dare you, Class of 2013, to do better. I dare you to do better," Obama said.
Obama also urged the students to "reject these voices" that warn of the evils of government, saying:
"Still, you'll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as
nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's the root of all
our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that
tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these
voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique
experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can't be trusted.
"We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to
solve our problems, nor do we want it to. But we don't think the
government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we
understand that this democracy is ours. As citizens, we understand that
America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be
done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely
necessary work of self-government...
The cynics may be the
loudest voices—but they accomplish the least. It's the silent
disruptors—those who do the long, hard, committed work of change—that
gradually push this country in the right direction, and make the most
lasting difference."
Yes; those in power like Obama want everything to be out of sight and out of mind.
Obama and these politicians just love those foundation-funded flowers
who pull people into thinking the process of change must take a long,
long time.
Wall Street gets what it wants when it wants it but
the rest of us must be patient and work in silence for change that will
come in some distant future.
Just follow Obama's lead and
everything will be okay--- ya; sure, you betcha. War after war; hit
lists for drone attacks; growing joblessness and rising poverty; the
fiasco of Obamacare instead of real health care reform; rising food
prices; soaring gas prices; heating bills you need to put on your credit
card; electric rates increase by leaps and bounds as you cut your
usage; immigrant workers from Mexico treated as criminals by a bunch of
anti-Latino racists and bigots which include members of the U.S.
Congress...
And all of this calls for working in silence?
What kind of "community organizer" was Barack Obama?
Really? People are just supposed to "bite the bullet" and put up with
all this crap no matter how much they are hurting in spite of the fact
we working people who create all wealth?
Tell Barack Obama to
tell his Wall Street merchants of death and destruction who profit from
wars to patiently wait for their next war because the needs of the
people for jobs, a quality public education, decent housing, an end to
racist discrimination and inequality, the right to breath fresh air and
drink clean water are more pressing than any of these dirty imperialist
wars.
We have seen how Barack Obama works by the way he has
pushed forward with this Trans-Pacific Partnership--- Wall Street works
quickly in secrecy and silence behind our backs and without any
participation from the American people and Obama thinks we are so stupid
to believe that we will not rise up and loudly resist this corporate
corruption of our government and Wall Street's arrogance in hogging the
wealth like a bunch of greedy pigs feeding at the public trough with
their bribed politicians like Obama and the rest of these Democrats and
Republicans who never object to spending for wars but ALWAYS object to
spending for human needs.
The entire scenario makes me sick and it's time to tell these Wall Street politicians, "We are fed up!"
And we need to tell them "we are fed up" in a loud, boisterous,
militant and united way in which political and economic power is taken
away from Wall Street and placed in the hands of "we the people."
Obama would just love it if all of us would sit in silence as he works
from his "hit list" on the desk in the Oval Office murdering innocent
people--- most of whom are children and their mothers.
Obama's
advice to these graduating university students is worth about as the
high-priced diplomas they received for which they will end up never
paying off their student loans for the rest of their lives as they find
jobs at poverty wages at Wal-mart, Target, Burger King or some loud,
noisy, smoke-filled casino of the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty
wages and without any rights under state or federal labor laws.
Just keep your mouth shut and endure the pain and suffering--- just the
kind of advice one would expect from anyone carrying out Wall Street's
reactionary imperialist agenda.