Real-estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman, a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, says President Obama doesn’t seem to care for people – and the result is an economy that is on the brink of a “potentially catastrophic" collapse.
In fact, the nation may well be down that road with an unemployment rate Zuckerman estimates could be 20 percent.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerman details his near total alienation from Obama, adding that it is also sweeping his political party.
Among business executives who support Obama in 2008, Zuckerman says, "there is enormously widespread anxiety over the political leadership of the country." Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, "The sense is that the policies of this government have failed. . . . What they say about [Obama] when he's not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing."
Zuckerman says his alienation with the administration began shortly after inauguration day in 2009.
He supported Obama's call for heavy spending on infrastructure “but if you look at the make-up of the stimulus program," says Zuckerman, "roughly half of it went to state and local municipalities, which is in effect to the municipal unions which are at the core of the Democratic Party."
Just wonder what you all think it means when it makes no difference at all to the average working stiff whether George W. Bush (R) is in office of if Barack H. Obama (D) is?
The reality is that it doesn't make any difference to the people who don't pay any attention to anything but themselves, those who are too busy with their every day lives, in this me, me, me society. It is called apathy. BTW it is those people who don't know anbything about what is going on, nor do they think that they can do anything about what is going on.
It is a sorry state of affairs when the minority of people in this country can actually dictate what goes on in every day life with all this PC crap.
We have met the enemy and he is us? All those people representing Colorado in the House and Senate were voted in by us. Same nationally, we like to whine, but most incumbents get re-elected.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
How about electing some leadership that understands how business works in a capitalist society AND conservative leaders who have some actual experience in offices such as Governors and members of Congress. It's a rare breed but I want to believe that there are a few left.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
AspenValley wrote: Just wonder what you all think it means when it makes no difference at all to the average working stiff whether George W. Bush (R) is in office of if Barack H. Obama (D) is?
Hello?
Is anyone out there actually awake?
Hello?
Awake? Remember when people didn't always look to the government to fix their financial problems - there was a time when your only legal solution was to go earn it, it should still be the primary solution. Really we need to wake up when all we know how to do is debate how we are going to spend other people's wealth, this is all getting kinda sad.
You really should not notice much of a difference between these two...that is unless you give them too much power or expect too much from them. People can whine all they want and enjoy placing blame on either one, but I notice little difference between them on most policies. One thing I wish they would have both changed was having less policies, we generally know how to run our lives, what gives with looking to government so much for so many things, what have we lost that we had only so long ago. Is in the internet that makes us so needy and irresponsible?
posteryoyo wrote: Remember when people didn't always look to the government to fix their financial problems - there was a time when your only legal solution was to go earn it, it should still be the primary solution. Really we need to wake up when all we know how to do is debate how we are going to spend other people's wealth, this is all getting kinda sad.
