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The Poor Aren’t Buying Obama’s Class Warfare

The regressiveness of the Progressives is coming home to roost.

Obama is forcing our troops to fight a politically correct war in Afghanistan; however, he is prosecuting his class warfare with no holds barred.  Obama and the Democrats are the Navy SEALS of class warfare.  Fortunately, his target audience, the poor, are not impressed with his ferocity.  Obama’s support among the poorest Americans has dropped to an all time low, according to the latest Gallup poll.  This, from CNS News:

Each week, Gallup publishes the president’s average approval rating for the previous week among four income brackets: those who earn $2,000 per month or less, those who earn between $2,000 and $4,999 per month, those who earn between $5,000 and $7,499 per month, and those who earn $7,500 per month or more.

For the week of April 4-10, Obama’s approval rating was 48 percent among those making $2,000 or less per month, and 46 percent among those in each of the three higher income brackets.

Mr. Tax-the-Rich is now under 50% support among all income brackets, garnering roughly the same level of support among low-income Americans as from the rich guys whom he detests.

While Republicans were never skilled at articulating how free markets offer the best jobs and cheapest products to the poor, Obama is the master.  Even the most naive voter intuitively knows that Obama has impounded our natural resources and printed fake money.  No matter how many welfare programs he tries to create, poor people will not take kindly to the pain they experience at the gas pump and in the supermarket.  If Republicans would do a better job articulating the regressive effects of ethanol and farm subsidies and food commodities, Obama’s lowest approval rating would be among the poor.

Here is the latest report from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau regarding inflation on some of the most basic needs in Wisconsin:

  • Apples increased 24 cents (18 percent) to $1.52 per pound.
  • A gallon of whole milk increased 50 cents (17 percent) to $3.41 per gallon.
  • One pound of bagged salad increased 33 cents (15 percent) to $2.48.
  • A five-pound bag of flour increased 25 cents (12 percent) to $2.34.
  • One pound of ground chuck climbed 32 cents (10 percent) to $3.41.

It’s important to note that Wisconsin’s “Marketbasket” inflation is actually lower than the national average.  Even the government can no longer manipulate the CPI numbers to ensconce any trace of inflation.  Look who’s forcing poor people to eat cat food now?

Memo to Barack Obama:  As poor people suffer from the high cost of basic needs, they are not pinning the blame on Bush’s “tax cuts for the rich.”  They are pinning the blame on the donkey.

Now, if only the (non-ethanol promoting) Republicans would seize the moment….

COMMENTS

  • http://VocalMinority.typepad.com EricTheRedVM

    … of the day. If only the Republicans (other than conservative talk radio) would actual convey these facts to the American people.

    Quietly waiting for Atlas to shrug.

    http://VocalMinority.typepad.com
    The Jewish Republican’s Web Sanctuary

    • dog_nut

      (lack of)jobs, results of inflating the currency and gas prices should be enough to send the Fresh Price of Bill Ayers packing next year.

      • dog_nut

        should be “Prince” not Price. freudian slip…..

  • davidleigh

    A couple of months ago I read on another site the thoughts of some think-tank person who is a democrat and highly respected. He said “we can only hope he’ll leave the country in the shape we had when Jimmy Carter left office.” That is a grand summary, don’t you think?

    • SoulEspresso
  • paramedichess

    Thanks to several decades of stupid farm subsidies, nearly our entire food industry is dependent on corn. Most processed food is sweetened with corn, almost all meat is fed with corn, and corn-based ingredients can be found in over half all all products in your local supermarket. Now, the same stupid people who brought you a corn-based food industry have decided that it is a good idea to burn all the corn (in the form of ethanol). Who would have thought this might effect food prices?

  • libertyatstake

    … one should assume. They see wages stagnant and prices on everything rising. Learn through pain, as my 16 year old is fond of saying.

    d(^_^)b
    http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

  • bobojake
  • lineholder

    about this very subject not too long ago. She was convinced that this would be the year that the government succeeded in “taking from the rich to give to the poor”. She had even started living off of expectations of this redistribution in funds.

    We’ve had some conversations since then, and I tried to point out to her that even if the current administration does manage to succeed in increasing taxes to whatever point would be required to redistribute income “equally”, once it gets into the government’s hands, they’re going to find some “just cause” that needs “government intervention”, like health care or global warming, etc. They’ll spend the proceeds on programs like that first, and it won’t be redistributed in the way that she believes it would be.

    It was such a sad conservation, really, but she was about to screw up financially by getting herself way over her head in debt. I like this lady. I couldn’t just let her buy into the lies, you know? I had to at least try to get her to stop and think about it a bit.

    She gets it now, and she isn’t happy about it at all. She’s probably one of those who falls into the less than $2,000 per month category.

  • runner12

    I think people are becoming disenchanted with Obama and are realizing that teleprompter speeches and neo-socialist programs don’t help you find a job or feed your children

  • cja99

    without lying to the American People. Come on Republicans…. everything that comes out of Obama’s mouth is a lie. You have so much material there it isn’t funny!!!! And those job numbers, he’s playing with the numbers every week. America is in serious decline, what are you waiting for – Obama to drive America right off the edge?

  • rattlerjake

    And the GOP has gone along with it. The more “poor” you have the more entitlements you need, and the more votes you get. The only sure cure for this country is to cut off the entitlements, let charities and foundations deal with the poor through contributions/donations and go back to a country that believes that IF YOU WORK YOU EAT. This includes trying to send every dumb-ass to college through grants (you earn it through academic achievement), and we need to change the voting laws so that anyone receiving government aid looses their right to vote until they have been of aid for one year. We will never get out of this economic slump as long as we have so many people dependent on government.

  • controse

    At every instance of the Democrats attempting to blowup a political discussion of the issues by drawing attention to some unhappy circumstance or another (starving children, abandoned old folks, etc) just respond with “Yes that is an unfortunate situation. Since the federal government has no constitutional authority to help with that what can you and I do to help?” Bam! Emotional leverage is gone. Now we can talk about the unemotional subject of constitutional authority since both sides agree how unfortunate the situation is.

    The first tag line is of course “Mr. President, show us your papers.”

  • mspector

    And until just recently conservatives and Republicans have not been good communicators (with notable exceptions such as Reagan). In his talk to the Chicago fund-raiser Obama referred to House Republicans as “America’s accountants”, and all too often we come off that way.

    The simple statement of the vision, I think, is that the economy gets healthy as competition improves, and competition improves because entrepreneurs have money to invest in product development, manufacturing and marketing. We get more in taxes because small businesses compete and grow, selling more and employing more. The reality behind “soak the rich” is that all this activity will be snuffed.

    So Obama is not simply indulging the rhetoric of class warfare, his approach will if adopted kill the only thing that makes everything else in this country possible, and that is the robust growth of competition.

  • williamjameson

    Dems should not be compared to an honorable group of elite military fighters.

    Dems and the liberal media are comparable to the the former East German Stasi. While they have some “normal” that identify with the majority of US citizens, more and more appear to be more like the Stazi making demands, beating down on all opposition, using propaganda in a far more aggressive manner since Obama popped up and they try to cast themselves as normal while the media conceal many bad things that we all talk about. That’s closer to Stazi.

    And of coarse the Fecal Brains at Media Matters now have surveillance on this site……..MM is comparable to the Stazi and some even look like the Stazi. No joke Eric Boehlert is creepy looking and he lies all the time!

  • larry_hagedon

    Now if some Repuiblicans would just stop demagoguing The Age of Bio Technology and support it instead…

    Folks, The age oif Bio Technology, ushered in by ethanol, is as solid a mom, hot dogs and apple pie Republican issue as there ever was.

    What is not to like about a multi billion dollar industry, buillt by American entrepeneurs and American investors, employing American workers, to buy American raw materials and using American waste; garbage, sewage, manure, and industrial wastes, to produce goods ranging from food to feed, pharmaceuticals, nutriceuticals, industrial chemicals, plastics, fertilizers and fuels, and sold Right Here In America?

    Why would Republicans demagogue companies like EI DuPont, Dow Chemical, Cargill, ADM, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Poet, Proctor and Gamble, BASF and a hundred other Biotech companies.

    Biotech companies are now paying billions of dollars in local, state and federal taxes while creating markets, jobs and profits.

    Republicans should be championing American Industry and The Age of Bio Technology, not the anti business, marxist Dems.