WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) — U.S. President Obama was sworn in for his second term Sunday by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts with his younger daughter noting he “didn’t mess up.”
The private ceremony was held in the Blue Room of the White House with several of the Obamas’ closest relatives on hand and Roberts’ wife Jane among the witnesses for the official swearing-in. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will take their public oaths Monday in front of the Capitol before a crowd on the National Mall in Washington.
Unlike the president’s 2009 inaugural oath, Obama spoke clearly and without stumbling over the words.
First lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia stood by Obama’s side during the oath.
At the conclusion, Roberts said, “Congratulations, Mr. President.”
Obama said “Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. Thank you so much.”
The president then embraced his family, telling Michelle, “Thank you, sweetie” after she congratulated him. Malia appeared to tell her father, “I’m so happy, yay” and Sasha told him “Good job, Dad.” And when he replied, “I did it,” she responded, “You didn’t mess up.”
Obama then thanked everyone and exited the room with his family.
Obama was sworn in using the Robinson family Bible, which was held by the first lady.
“The bible was a gift from the first lady’s father, Fraser Robinson III, to his mother, LaVaughn Delores Robinson, on Mother’s Day in 1958. Mrs. Robinson was the first African-American woman manager of a Moody Bible Institute’s bookstore; this was the only Bible she ever used,” the presidential inaugural committee media guide said.
Earlier in the day, Obama and his family attended a pre-inaugural church service in which his re-election theme of moving forward was related to the story of Moses.
The Rev. Ronald E. Braxton of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church read from the book of Exodus Sunday. He urged Obama to not let obstacles interfere “where forward is the only option.”
“I’m a witness that the God of Moses , with miraculous power, still moves on behalf of humankind,” Braxton said. “Forward was the only option.”
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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LVS
January 25, 2013 at 11:00 am
@Katie-it is now bred into the libs. They are taught that they are entitled to everything without having to work for it and what their parents didn’t teach them the socialist schools and college’s will.”
You’re a dum phuck. I have a son that has NOT missed a days work in 5 yrs. Makes peanuts because it beats nothing till he can get a better job. He was taught good work ethic. The working poor ask for NOTHING except RESPECT! He was raised to be kind to his fellowe mnan and not judge them. My daughter (married) with children has NEVER drawn welfare and has a handicapp child. She also dooesn’t ask or expect anything except RESPECT for being willing to do any job asked.
It’s the RICH that expect people to kiss their feet because they think they are above others. Statements like your are an insult to anyone who works. And you sit there doing NOTHING all day except stick your nose in your neighbors business. You make me gag you nasty good for nothing.
@Ignorant Liberal-just what this site needs. Another ignorant, stupid person who can’t read, can’t spell and can’t comprehend the simplest terms. It is not my fault that your kids turned out to be losers. Your son is stuck in a low paying job because he was to stupid to go to school and your daughter was probably into drugs and that caused her to have a handicapped kid. Now go away loser. Crawl back into the bar and get drunk again.
LVS just what the heck are you so angry at. You go on rants that sound so stupid. You call everyone who disagrees with you names. You really sound like you need professional help. I truely hope that there is something in your life that makes you happy besides all the attacks you make on people you don’t know. Do you treat people you know who don’t agree with you this same way? You are one very bitter and angry soul. Could it be because you are starting to realize that the so called “ignorant Liberal- stupid person who can’t read, can’t spell and can’t comprehend the simplest terms” are really right and that you are starting to believe in facts that prove you have been wrong for all these years? I hope some how you can find some peace in knowing its alright that you have been wrong all these years. I don’t think any of the worse for you because of it.
@Happy Guy-read her post again if you can. It wasn’t me who made this into a personal attack, it was her. If they can’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen. The same goes for you truck driver.
@Happy Guy-the opinion of a socialist, communist jerk means nothing to me. You and your girl friend have done everything you can do to try to discredit Katie, Maybe and me and have only managed to show you ignorance.
LV, that is the first true statement you’ve made.
You, Katie and Maybe have indeed shown us ignorance. And lots of it.
@STUPID-STUPID is as STUPID says-you are still STUPID.
LVS I tried to be nice to you with a post I made on whinners den just a minute ago. I have since read your post here and I am sorry I tried to be nice. You are one very angry, hateful, and bitter person. You are the person who yells at the kids for being in their yard. I can feel your blood pressure rising while I sit here. You are going to blow any time now. I liked it much better when you weren’t talking to me. I know you are a dried up old man but you need to GROW UP.
So, if we represent our screen names, I guess LVS means Loud Violent and Simple?
I thought it meant:
Loud and
Very
Stupid
@STUPID-don’t you get tired of being Happy Guys “B”? As for you Happy Guy-I don’t care if you are trying to be nice or not. Just try being civil for a change. As for children, I love watching kids play and they often stop by my house just to talk to us. Kids are great. It is just the parents you have to worry about. They mostly have big mouths and can’t be trusted. Don’t attack me and I won’t attack you. Pretty simple isn’t it?
Hey Loud, don’t you ever get tired of being “D”? And “S”? And “U”? And “I”?
You won’t have to worry your greasy little head about me ever attempting to be nice to you, clown boy. I’m just getting warmed up.
@happyguy and stupid. You 2 have done your best to degrade me, make me look the fool but I don’t care. Both of you claim to have an open mind. I have a video for you to see, it is 21 minutes long but well worth the time. Everything that I have stated on here is starting to come true and here is the proof. This video is about obama asking the leaders in our military 1 question and if they fail they leave office, I was asked this very same question back in 1995 by some officers from the pentagon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzT6X3_Bg9o
There’s only one person making you look like a fool, maybe.
@stupid, did you atch the video?
that was supposed to be watch the video
When you have evidence right in front of you that prooves you wrong and you still refuse to believe it, now who is the fool?
maybe this is not evidence. It is total hearsay. Just because a couple of right wing zelots say it doesn’t make it a fact. You can’t have proof based on a nameless witness. You should know that.
Ever hear of Deepthroat and the trouble he caused?
maybe this isn’t watergate. The marines aren’t going to come knocking on your door. There wasn’t a second shooter. The President isn’t going to become a dictator. He will leave office peacefully in 2017. You might have a plot to a fiction novel at best.
So you want to hear about the second shooter?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Can’t find your pacifier.
god stupd is is really stupid nothing but vomit comes out
boy barney is a true idiot too go back to cartoon land
Katie said: It has to do with his philosophy of spreading the wealth. Eventually, you will see how he will accomplish this.
Well enlighten us Karnak the Magnificent.
My theory is he is trying to help the “working poor”. Via taking less taxes out of their paycheck so they can buy a house, feeed their family or self….and affoird health insurance. Got any “working poor” in your business? You probably do. They’re the ones making min. wage or less than $20/hr.. And don’t give me that line “Well they could get a better job”. Them leaving doesn’t make the need for that position to go away.
When I read someone posting “the rich will be hurt the most with tax increases I gag” pooooor little rich bstrds. my heasrt bleeds for them. not.
There is something wrong when the public doesn’t think ambitious, intelligent people should be rewarded financially. Everyone in this country cannot make the same living wage. Obama and the working poor may like to think that is possible, but it can’t happen without all of us giving 100% of our assets and wages to the government and living on entitlements. It’s called Communism and it doesn’t work. The leaders get all the perks and the best in life while everyone else becomes the working poor. The wealth isn’t spread, the misery is! The leaders in our country are already acting like leaders in a Communist country in that they think they can do no wrong, take all they want, and are untouchable.
When the debt we owe China and other countries comes due and we can’t pay it, Obama and his ilk will go after the rich in this country through higher taxes or confiscating the rich’s assets to pay the debt. I for one would not be shocked if this government garnishes peoples’ cash assets some day not too far in the future in order to pay our national debt. All a president has to do is sign an executive order. Who needs 3 branches of government to protect us? It hasn’t helped lately. Then the playing field will be somewhat leveled. He’d better freeze all the accounts so he can continue to take from the rich to give to the poor or else everyone with money will be leaving in droves. And you wonder why rich people park their money in overseas accounts. It’s not to avoid taxes as much as to protect assets in case some rogue president gets in office.
Where did you get the ridiculous notion that people shouldn’t be rewarded? Where? The republican party? Fox?
Because NO ONE has ever uttered anything of the kind.
Perhaps you feel that some other people who aren’t as lucky, or as enterprising, or as educated deserve to be punished? Because that’s the way your post comes off.
Reward the top, punish the bottom. Why?
Tell us, Katie, why? The bottom work hard and deserve a living wage. The top works hard and deserves a living wage.
Neither one deserves ALL or NONE.
I’ve pointed you in the direction of enough factual sources to know better than to post this kind of nonsense, yet you continue.
Seize assets. Sigh. I guess that’s right after they take their guns, right?
@stupid, just in case keep an eye on your 401K
@Stupid: You just proved you’re a socialist/communist. You think all people should be compensated equally. You think that being poor equals having nothing and you blame the rich for it. You think no one in a society should be poor. That will never happen. There is this thing called a bell curve and it applies to just about everything in life. There are jobs in this world that do not command decent pay. Period. If they did, no one would be able to afford those services or the products. And the rest of us should not have to subsidize their wages because then we still would not be able to afford those services or products. A functional society needs a certain number of poor and a certain number of rich. Yes, it sucks to be the working poor, but that is the way the world turns. What has happened now is that the top half of society is subsidizing the bottom half and the middle class are becoming the “nouveau pauvre” who can’t afford the things they used to.
The rich have always contributed to charities that help the poor and good causes. That pipeline just may stop if you tax them to death. There is a lot more waste and corruption in government than anywhere else. The government passes laws that make it impossible for hospitals to donate leftover meals to homeless shelters. Nothing about government is productive. It is a paranoid monster that wants to control every aspect of our lives while it is out of control itself.
I’ve reread my comment and as usual, you’re lying. I said nothing of the sort.
If you can pull yourself away from Rush for a minute and allow your brain cells to unscramble, read my comment again and tell me exactly how you got such a bizarre collection of untruths from my words.
I’ll wait.
@Katie-it is now bred into the libs. They are taught that they are entitled to everything without having to work for it and what their parents didn’t teach them the socialist schools and college’s will.
Explain something, you two brainiacs. How does this quote:
“Tell us, Katie, why? The bottom work hard and deserve a living wage. The top works hard and deserves a living wage.
Neither one deserves ALL or NONE.”
..translate into entitlement to you? How? I clearly stated that both deserve a fair wage.
Please explain.
I never listen to Rush, Beck, Hannity, or any of them. I think for myself and my eyes and brain are wide open to what has happened and what will happen.
Rahm Emanuel is already dictating to banks that they are not to do business with gun manufacturers. By what authority does he think he can do that? That is flat out wrong. Bank of America has already lost our business for what they have done to two gun manufacturers this past year. I want a president who will call up banks that do business with film producers and theaters to curtail their freedom of speech by telling banks not to do business with producers and theaters that are involved with movies that use swear words and show violence. I wonder what Rahmbama would think of that.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/emanuel-to-banks-stop-supporting-gun-makers/
Must reeeeeeeealy suck to be you with all that doom and gloom floating around in your head. As sick said, the working poor deserve to have enough to support their family or even themselves. I don’t care how much money the rich make. It’s America. Land of opportunity. But I don’t like the idea of people like Romney dogging the working poor and acting like they don’t count because they don’t pay millions. When I worked our bosses considered EVERYONE important in the scheme of things. Government workers work fr us. So why are they financially way better off than the working class that pays taxes? Bch about them instead of the people working their azz ff for peanuts. Turn off fake fox news, get outside and breath freash air. You’ll feel better.
@Katie – what in the hell do Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, guns or banks have to do with my question?
Where do you get “entitlement” from “fair wage for both”?
Where???
This is what we have to look forward to. I know this is alittle off topic but if he lies about one thing who knows what he will lie about next.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=281866875274876&set=a.216265815168316.45186.216262095168688&type=1&ref=nf
maybe…the facebook page you posted is of a news story NBC did on Dec 15. All the facts had yet to been released. There were no lies about Newtown. Again…get your facts right.
I was watching the news right after the shooting and I saw the police taking the rifle out of the trunk and I’ve talked to quite a few people that saw the same thing.
maybe I will never convince you of the truth but I will keep telling it. Show me the footage of the bushmaster getting removed from his car. If that were true it would be all over the internet. You mass conspiracy therory is based on un truths. The long gun removed from his car was a shotgun.
I did look for the video but I couldn’t find it, the rifle that they took out of the trunk had a magazine and if you want facts, you look it up to disproove me. If I am wrong I will admit it but being retired military I know the look of an M16/AR15 compared to a shotgun.
Sorry but the facts are coming out. The children in Newton were not shot by the AR-15/Bushmaster; it was found in the trunk of the car. Adam did have 4 pistols with him in the school.
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/
Ok happyguy, the video that Joao Do Carmo showed was the original video that I saw and now I have to admit that the magazine that I thought I saw was the pistol grip, it could have been on a shotgun or the AR15, either way it also said that there was no rifle in the school so the government has been lying to us all along, just like bengazi.
maybe…here is a link that tells you what weapons were found where… http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/31221-update-state-police-confirm-weapons-used-in-newtown-shootings/
weapons siezed from the attacker were:
1. Bushmaster .223 caliber– model XM15-E2S rifle with high capacity 30 round clips
#2. Glock 10 mm handgun
#3. Sig-Sauer P226 9mm handgun
Seized from suspect’s car in parking lot:
#4. Izhmash Canta-12 12 gauge Shotgun (seized from car in parking lot)
maybe…from mother jones,” Authorities reportedly recovered three guns—a Glock and SIG Sauer, both pistols, inside the school and a Bushmaster .223-caliber rifle [Update: On Saturday, officials including the state’s chief medical examiner said that the rifle was the primary weapon used in the shooting.] At least 100 rounds were fired. Officials have checked the suspect’s home for evidence.” The bushmaster was the weapon that killed most of the children.
I read that article and not once did they say that the AR-15 was used but that it was there. I read another article that debunks the myths of that day.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/debunking_the_sandy_hook_debunkers.html
I admit that this article plus the link in the middle of the article bring up quite a few more questions.
I just can’t buy into a conspiracy theory here. There was a lot of wrong reports that happened just after the shootings. But when the medical examiner says that most were killed by the bushmaster and I have read other reports that have said all except the shooter were killed by the bushmaster, I tend to believe that. Just way to big of a story to have such a large cover up.
I’ve read reports that said the only weapon used was the AR-15 and I’ve read reports that said only the handguns were used so I don’t know. I do know that the government has lied to us before so I am not going to believe every single word out of their mouth.
If you go looking for trouble you’ll likely find it. If you continue to consider someone is lieing you’ll never know when they tell the truth.
They’ve lied to us soo many times they could be telling us the truth right now with proof and I probably wouldn’t believe them, no matter who was in office.
Tim said:
And as far as the housing bubble start under Clinton when he changed the rules to get more people into houses that they could not afford them.
BULL! Anybody that buys a house they can’t afford is the one responsible. No body forced young people to go in debt. They CHOSE to. That’s the problem with young people today. They think they should start at the top. New cars, new house,new boat,etc.. Every other generation started small. Now they want these huge $4-500,000 homes that cost an arm & leg to heat not to mention high taxes and insurance on them. Now they want to blame all the Dem Presidents for their stupid choices. Let them suffer. Maybe they’ll learn to start small and listen to elder advice and take personal responsibility for their choices.
Obama does not care about the middle class. Looks at taxes who got hit the most with tax increase. The middle class and who is going to get hit the most when the rest of the taxes for Obamacare start kicking in, the middle class. Obama is fooling everyone that voted for him if you think he cares. the only one he cares about is himself. And as far as the housing bubble start under Clinton when he changed the rules to get more people into houses that they could not afford them. Then in 2007 when the Democrats took the House and Senate and Frank and Dodd got together and let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac go, even though President Bush had wanted them audited and control1ed since 2001, Frank and Dodd stood in the way. They allowed millions of tax payer money go to bonus Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac employees for buying up worthless housing loans from people who should not have bought a house. All while trying to be fair. Life is not fair and it should not be if you are not willing to work for it.
Be careful what you say, there are a few people on here that worship the ground obama walks on and will defend his lying ways till the day they die and they get very pissed if you talk bad about him. As true as what you just said is they don’t care about the truth, they only care about him being a democrat.
I have to love how anyone who questions Osama Obama is labeled a racist by his supporters. Here’s a quick thought about some of our “poor”. Most countries you can tell the poor by the way they look. Just watch any tv add showing malnourished, starving children. This is a true sad situation. Now look at so many of our countries “poor”. Obese, covered with tattoos, smoke. Yes there always seems to be enough money for the ciggs and tattoos as long as there are taxpayers flipping the bill. Too many are using programs because they are just too lazy to work or can’t pass a drug test. This is the face of the new Democratic party.
I say I must agree with you. I personally know kids that smoke cigs,, pot, get tattoos and get over 300 a month food stamps and energy asst. and rent asst. and don’t work it just doesn’t seem right to me but when I think about the children they have if you take them off all the asst. what happens to the kids? Foster care system is already over loaded.
And how is that akll of a sudden Obama’s fault? Welfare has been around since at least 1970 and before. Obama isn’t in charge of the welfare programs. Welfare isn’t a “cause”. It’s an “effect”. A concept too difficult for you to understand.
You all watch too much television.
Latest stats. 1 in 50 on food assistance programs during the great depression. 1 in 5.7 during the Osama Obama administration. You could look it up like I did but since your a strong Obama supporter I’m sure you will wait for some program where a working person will have to do it for you.
Using the most hated man by Americans as our leaders 1st name is an insult to every American that died on Sept. 11. And complaining about feeding innocent children who have no choice in their demise makes you hugely pathetic. I’d say that no matter who is President.
http://politichicks.tv/column/heres-why-the-rnc-has-been-so-silent-about-rampant-voter-fraud/
@sickastupd, very well said. Thank you. King is a racist who has no place in our government. He’s even openly said “people should be sorted out like puppies in a litter”. Appauling!
@Katie, “welfare has been around at least 45 yrs. Obama did NOT start welfare programs. He did NOT tell people to have kids they can’t afford. He did NOT create the situation they are in. It’s called “personal responsibility”. Blaming others doesn’t make people more responsdible. You give them a pass to be lazy when you do. So are you giving past Presidents a free pass for okaying welfare programs? People didn’t start complaining so loud and blaming the President until Obama took over. Most complaining are holier than thous who just THINK they know “who’s” on welfare the most. Obama is trying to help the “poor working class”. But people like KING in Congress are the cogs in the wheels of progress. Being neutral makes it easy to see who’s the problem.
Other presidents have tried to change the welfare programs, cut back on them, make it “workfare”, and prevent fraud. This president has tried to expand all welfare programs with his invitations and advertisements way more than any other administration. It has NOTHING to do with color. It has to do with his philosophy of spreading the wealth. Eventually, you will see how he will accomplish this. Right now he is giving money to the poor and the lower middle class. It is coming from China through deficit spending at the present time. Eventually, China will have to be paid. That money will either have to come from the rich in this country or China will own us. Which option do you think he will choose? Which option will Americans be left with?
Define “welfare”. I agree single women/men who have children they can’t afford shouldn’t feel entitled. But painting the entire system with one paint brush and blaming Obama for “welfare” shows your lack of knowledge on the subject.
And sorry to burst your ego bubble but you have not worked and paid taxes longer than most. Have you paid for 49 yrs.? Just feel good about yourself working but you’re really no better than the next guy in the eyes of God and the IRS.
Barney, Osama Husain Obama is a true master at divide and conquer. Remember his whole campaign based on turning the country into the poor against the rich. He’s the one that is only concerned about himself and his party by buying votes with endless give away programs to deadbeats and illegals. Some of us can see thru his bs which is glaring us in the face. It’s called the 16 trillion dollar debt and more people on food stamps and government welfare programs than under any president.
Can you prove more people are on welfare because they “choose” to not work? Do you realize there are baby boomers coming into retirement age. And considering what their wage was (less than min is now) when they were paying in; their SS isn’t very high in some cases. Jobs are going overseas due to past President’s policies. So more people on unemployment. People are losing homes because of what started in the BUSH era. More people are using drugs causing more need for treatment funds to pay for the kids they produce for more welfare funds to pay for drugs. More people are qualifying that didn’t before. Now if you can prove more people are on welfare by choice I might agree. But you can’t.
And if you want to combat welfare then start convincing people to use the FREE BIRTH CONTROL or tell the men to MAN UP or stop spreading their seed for thrills.
blog, just what endless give-aways are you talking about. I would like to see some facts to back up what you are saying. This sounds more like a republican stump speech than truth.
You wouldn’t know a fact if it kicked you right in your liberal ass!!
I figure he keeps screaming about facts, if he doesn’t like what I say then he can spend his own valuable time looking for facts to dispute what I say. He wants facts then look it up himself.
I do know the facts. You know opinion. Big differance between fact and opinion. You should try using real facts sometime. It will make you sound much more intelligent. Cheter Pildren do you ever post anything that is relevent to a topic?
@ Katie, Why pay for your own 20% of health insurance when welfare will cover you for free?”
says Katie.
LOL! You don’t know what the heck you’re talking about Re welfare. All you know is what some other uninformed gossipe told you.
Truth and fact is that if a person can afford insurance they DON”T qualify for welfare. duuh. Get some facts straight before you pass around TPeers BS. And if you’re speaking of Medicare, “welfare” doesn’t automaticaly pay the rest either. People getting less than $1000/ don’t necessarily qualify. They are put on a spend down program. Some would have to pay as much as the 1st $700 of the 20% balance of a mo.s worth of med bills. Then maybe Medicaid would kick in.
You’re too uninformed to be making all the accusations you’re making.
And welfare has been around long before Obama. But once a black man got in office all the screaming about welfare started.
I’m not on welfare. I’ve worked with the elderly and the poor and unemployed, disabled etc.. People who NEED those programs. You shouldn’t post claims you can’t prove. If you don’t believe me just check it out with DHS. And if you’re not at least 50 yrs. old then there are people who have paid taxes longer than you are old.
This country was built on immagrants.
@barney-maybe we are talking about the same thing here but I know a guy who made 24K last year in the first 6 months and then got sick and was unable to work and is now on food stamps and Medicaid (Title 19). It is temporary while he is waiting on his disability to be approved so maybe that is why. Social Security disability is really backed up and you have to feel bad for the people who deserve it. The problem is everyone with a hangnail is trying to get disability so they don’t believe anyone. And then of course you have doctors who fill the papers out incorrectly and then that has to be disproved.. I have no problem at all with people who deserve welfare and need it. It is with the cheaters that I disagree with and there seems to be a lot of them.
SSD isn’t that easy to get. You need lots of medical proof and Dr. backing your claim. Drs. don’t back you on hangnails. And you certainly won’t live high off the hog on it. There are lots of variables and many types of cases and programs. So lumping all “welfare” funds in one basket shows lack of knowledge on the subject. SSD actually isn’t welfare. You can’t get SSD unless you’ve worked and paid into SS. SSI is for those who didn’t pay or don’t qualify for SSD. SSD is a Fed. program. SSI is Fed money but states have control of the program. So it’s different in each state for SSI.
Bottom line is Obama isn’t responsible for people’s personal decisions.
@barney-disability is not welfare but title 19 is. I am an expert on disability and know what it takes to get it and yes even what it takes to keep it. I know people that have lied and faked their disability just to get on it and that is a fact. My father had massive heart attacks and couldn’t walk or even talk very well and they turned him down three times before we finally had to pay a lawyer to get him what he needed. I have other personal experience with it. Title 19 is different as it is income based more than health based. I was not blaming Obama as this has grown over the years regardless of who was president.
@Barney Google: You are so wrong about people not screaming about welfare until a black man got into office. That is a typical liberal racist rant. People have been screaming about welfare abuse for years.
I think it’s wrong that welfare recipients can refuse full-time work when it is available. Have more out-of-wedlock children, get more welfare, rent support, and take another day off a week from work. Is it legal for the baby daddy to live with the woman and children if she is on welfare?
@Barney: You know what, that is the problem. Why should an employee have to turn down health benefits at a job just to qualify for other welfare benefits? Why does it have to be all or nothing? Why can’t she have rental assistance, SNAP, medicaid for her children, but be covered by her employer’s health insurance and pay 20% of the premium? Why can’t they pay for what they CAN afford? It is ridiculous that they don’t have to pay for ANYTHING. That is what is wrong with our damned system. We are making people TOTALLY dependent on the government and us taxpayers. The system is broken and is teaching people they don’t have to take any personal financial responsibility for themselves or their children.
Where are you getting the 20% figure from? Out of the air? 20% is what people on MEDICARE pay after Medicare pays. In IOWA. Every state has different reimbursement amt.. Iowa has the lowest. (do you even know what’s meant by reimbursement?) SS and SSD is NOT welfare. MANY people on SS/SSD and over 62 yrs. old recieve barely $1000/mo. And you expect them to pay 20% of a $200,000 hospital bill? Do you have any idea how much insurance premiums can be? I doubt it since you obviously don’t know JACK. You just listen to some T-Party liar and think it’s gospel.
You “anti welfare people all are assuming expansion in welfare programs is all about “blacks on welfare”. There are MANY welfare programs. Including some for people LAID OFF or due to the company they worked for CLOSED. So quit WHINEING about “welfare people” and get informed or STFU. You’re tune is old and useless.
@happyguy, those blaming, bashing Obama only care about THEIR rights. Their pholosophy is “phuck everybody else’s rights. It’s all about me.”
I thought he made a great speech today. He touched on important areas. It was a good self-esteem lifter. He reminded people that we need to work together to make progress. Not liking someone’s view is ok. But the anger amoungst people needs to cease. Entire families are dividing based on political views. That is really sad.
Four more years of a downward spiral. Expansion of welfare programs. Spiraling debt. How depressing.
Expansion? Since entitlement programs have received less and less funding, how on earth do you propose they expand?
Just where do you think all that debt is coming from?
Translation: “Obama is just going to help blacks get more blacks welfare programms .” (pssssst…whites draw welfare 2.)
I’m so sick of the whineing about “welfare programs”. Obama didn’t welfare programs. Health and Human Services deals with programs. Obama is NOT a one man band. Our government is different departments in charge of different areas of operation. Blaming him for America’s downfalls is too easy on the brain.
Obama chooses who is in charge of those departments. Have you not noticed all the “invitations” that have been extended to participate in all the welfare programs in the last 4 years? New immigrant? We have programs for you. Need help with this or that? We can help you. His administration is enabling people to become dependent on others for everything from phones to housing to food to healthcare. Why even look for work or work full-time. Have another kid, get more welfare, and take another day off work. Why pay for your own 20% of health insurance when welfare will cover you for free. And this has nothing to do with color. This has to do with a way of life for a bunch of people.
I know a cop who was interrogating a man for a crime who then was being belligerent because he was being denied his constitutional rights to welfare. He said the Constitution says it has to take care of the general welfare of its people and he wasn’t getting no welfare. Now how is that for how some people think????? Get it now? That is what this business of entitlement has led to!
Well, I can see that Katie has no intention of researching this issue. If she did, she’d know that “welfare” in the form she seems to loathe so much, is the absolute least of our worries.
Why don’t you holler and scream about the money that the military dumps into “advertising” sporting events – it’s millions and millions of dollars. Look it up.
And how about the feds spend remodeling their own offices every couple of years? MANY millions and millions of dollars.
And maybe the fact that they all get new top of the line vehicles at OUR expense to run around in – including our very own Steve King – to the tune of millions.
Welfare? You want poor people to starve, but some chump spending 170k remodeling his office BATHROOM is okie dokie by you?
Why don’t you stop being so bitter and hateful toward those least able to defend themselves and go after the fat pigs who are lighting their cigars on YOUR 100 dollar bills? Like the Ag Hogs. And the Oil Hogs. And the Coal Hogs. You don’t mention THEIR welfare payments.
There is SO much more, but I’ll let you find some of it out. I can’t stand another uneducated boob bitching about welfare to help feed our poorest while those who didn’t earn it and sure in the hell don’t deserve it are laughing all the way to the bank.
Hey, All people in government feel “entitled”, starting at the top. I don’t disagree with that. It all needs to stop. Period. Instead of bitching about it on here, we all need to write to all the representatives of our state and both senators, along with the president and the head of every agency we can think of. We, the people, need to revolt in writing and make our opinions known!
Then explain why you only complain about the types of “welfare” that affect low income people. Why don’t we ever see your posts railing about the pigs at the top?
Just keep your backside covered we are in for an Obama ride. I hope those whom wanted him back get the feeling this term he is in office he will probably take away the free ride and give it to his musselum buddys.
Every time you complain about the musselums it proves that old saying…
I’d point out “spell check” to him/her but it wouldn’t do any good. People who pretend to know more than others but can’t spell their target’s name crack me up. The humor is endless.
What the flock is a musselums, stupid???
Lets see how many more trillion in give away program debt Osama Husain Obama can run up in this four year term. Despite the continual bs. about trying to protect the middle class we will be the ones paying the debt so the deadbeat party can get its votes.
Lots of errors here, blog. Check with Dave. I think he’s a spelling whiz.
Katie
January 21, 2013 at 12:20 pm Just where do you think all that debt is coming from?
All? The cost of the wars, (undeclared so many injured soldiers cannot collect $ amount of benefits they earned) backlash from the events of previous administration, and a lot of other spending has added to the debt. So using “welfare” to bash Obama is an old worn out phrase that’s useless not even true. “Welfare” covers a lot of different people and programs. Some for the elderly who paid taxes longer than you are old.
I doubt many people paid taxes longer than I am old or have paid taxes a whole lot longer than I have.
What I was trying to say that it doesn’t matter if welfare programs have “limited” funding. There is a blank check for everything and and no such thing as a budget for anything as far as this president is concerned. Just charge it to China.
Katie do you realize that over 56% of our national debt is owed to ourselves? That would be US Government Trust Funds, US investers, and the Federal Reserve. We owe China about 7% of our national debt. The rest is owed to other foreign countries.
Under what 8 year administration was the housing bubble created?
And two unfunded wars. And crushing tax cuts. And wild unchecked spending with no oversight. And a surplus that became a massive deficit.
Good thing we were “greeted as liberators” and that “the oil will pay for the war”. We might be in serious economic trouble. Good thing the banks didn’t need bailing out and the automotive industry kept making giant gas guzzling vehicles! Oh wait… dubya did one hell of an job in the eight years didn’t he?
4 more years of economic misery. Obama makes George Bush look like a saint when it comes to job loss.
The amount of jobs that are unable to be created because of taxing the middle class and spreading the wealth swamps the job loss created by the bursting of the housing bubble.
Could you please give us ONE example of taxing the middle class? Just one! And could you also give us just ONE example of “spreading the wealth”? Just one!
Please try to use facts.
you are always crying about proof, look at your paycheck. If you don’t have a paycheck then ask someone that does.
Nobody was talking to you, but I HAVE checked my payroll numbers, and they’re BETTER! If you will recall, we’ve had a payroll tax vacation under OBAMA.
I guess we know who doesn’t have a paycheck..
sickastupd…you keep forgetting that maybe doesn’t believe in proof or facts. I for one am looking forward to 4 more years of having President Obama in charge. I though his speech today was a reminder to Congress that much work needs to be done to insure that all Americans are afforded the rights that are guaranteed us in the Constitution. Those being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
AND the right to bear arm jackass!