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We must stop Obama from using the economic crisis to grow government and pushing poverty for everyone.

Obama's Crisis

President Obama is facing a massive crisis.  This week he learned that black unemployment among males is at the highest it's ever been since records have been kept.  At a time when Americans are demanding that we rein in government spending, Obama's largest constituency is at risk of losing their jobs because the public sector is the largest employer for black males, providing 18 percent of jobs. 

But Obama's crisis is one of one of his own making. Since Lyndon Johnson's creation of the Great Society, collectivists have created a dependency culture that has culminated in an appaling and historic 16 percent unemployment rate for African-Americans, versus 8 percent for whites. 
 
And it's only going to get worse.
 
How Obama believes he can solve the crisis is apparent.  A couple of days ago he told a crowd of government functionaries that there's nothing more important than a government job.  
 
The Liberal solution always includes more government spending and oversight of our lives. 
 
Frankly, Obama doesn't care about African-American unemployment.  The real crisis for him is losing the African-American vote, his bedrock constituency with an approval rating over 80 percent!  But if Americans put a stop to enlarging government, blacks will feel it first when government jobs are cut.  Now with Conservatives in Congress holding the purse, entitlement funds are at risk and panic is setting in.
 
This is why the full delegation of the Congressional Black Caucus met with the President for an hour yesterday for the first time since he took office in 2009. After the meeting, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the caucus chairman, told the media that the CBC was not satisfied that the “poor and the vulnerable are hurting,” but added, “we are satisfied that (Obama's) attention is on that.”
 
Cleaver also said the CBC was "unapologetically pushing" Obama for more government programs that target African-American communities.
 
For generations, socialists, which includes the CBC members, have been getting reelected by trapping the poor in the promise of easy money and no responsiblity.  But when the money fails to materialize, when the families break down and crime runs out of control in our neighborhoods, they blame private enterprise, an unfamiliarity in today's African-American communities, thereby shoring up their re-election.
 
Nothing will get solved until conservatives force liberals in our poorest communities to start talking about the facts. The real problems we're facing are because we abandoned the roots of Western civilization that are embedded in Christianity. Socialism puts our society on the path to destruction, causing the “poor and the vulnerable” to suffer more than ever.
 
We see the symptoms of socialism when black men choose to live outside of marriage, stop their education before they finish high school, and turn to promiscuity. Now real, committed families are almost non-existent and for more than a generation, our kids have grown up without fathers.  Mr. President, you're just now worrying about the unemployment rate among black men?
 
When men, not government, shoulder the responsibility for our families, we all succeed. When we restore our Christian principles that have made our civilization the greatest in history, we all are lifted up.
 
For the past 50 years we've been losing this battle.  Unless we change the hearts and minds of the most vulnerable who decide who's elected, we will continue down the same path and in just two generations there will be no one else to carry on our message.
 
This is why I'm making sure our poorest communities talk about the real problems - because the solution is right in front of them: themselves.
 
My network of pastors is sharing my story and talking about the breakdown of civilization to their congregations. Many who hear my message of freedom have never heard it before and I've been delighted that more pastors are contacting me to join in our battle to save our country.  Our movement is growing!
 
Please contribute right now to grow my Pastor Network into all metro areas of the US with a donation of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or even $1,000.  2012 is around the corner so let's not give up now.  Let's return to the battlefield before it's too late.
 
Your foot-soldier for freedom,
Filed under: economics, limited government, welfare

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