Obama's betrayal of the working-class male

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2009-07-18 16:01

Article here. Excerpt:

'It's no secret that men have been hit hard by the recession. From November 2007 to November 2008, the U.S. economy lost over 2 million jobs – 82 percent of those losses were male jobs and only 18 percent female jobs. The reason is because men are concentrated in the sectors devastated by the downturn: manufacturing and construction.

This employment gap prompted University of Michigan economist Mark Perry to dub the downturn a "man-cession in the lipstick economy."

So in his Inaugural address, Barack Obama glowingly promised, "We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together."
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As soon as Obama released his stimulus proposal, the National Organization for Women and other feminist groups swung into action. They knew the head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Lawrence Summers, would be a push-over following the putsch at Harvard University.'

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To the best of my knowledge, Obama never made any promises to working-class males when he campaigned. In order for him to betray such men, he would have had to promise them something or in any case been interested in their interests in the first place. I don't recall him doing so and I think it is because the interests of working-class men hold no place in his heart or ideology of government.

I do recall him making a lot of promises to and for women, though.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2009-07-20 13:41

There is your first betrayal right there. Men are denied equal treatment under the law. There is a whole bundle of betrayals in that category...

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Submitted by canaryguy on Mon, 2009-07-20 14:40