The Gantt Report
President Barack Obama is a very smart man but on some issues The Gantt Report is far smarter!
The President is currently being held hostage by Congressmen and Senators from both parties that are voting for themselves instead of voting for the people those elected officials are representing.
Close to 300 hundred members of Congress are millionaires and many of those millionaires are refusing to vote to extend unemployment benefits unless the benefits are accompanied by an extension of tax cuts for America’s wealthiest citizens.
The President, who is oftentimes advised by political idiots, seems to think the administration needs to compromise with and appease modern day political vampires that want to suck the last drop of life blood out of the economy by refusing to tax the rich and ultimately making deficit reduction unlikely or perhaps impossible.
The Gantt Report knows the President’s current political strategy to push through meaningful legislation by singing a political version of Kumbya is ridiculous!
If the President can’t get support from Washington politicians, Barack Obama should take his fight to the streets. If rednecks and conservatives have “Tea Parties”, the President’s most ardent supporters should have “Block Parties”!
Now, who are Obama’s biggest supporters? Well, you have Blacks, Latins and various minorities but you also have minority, majority and all other kinds of jobless folk.
The President should go from city to city and tell everyone that can’t get a job, can’t get a loan and can’t get a mortgage that millionaire Congressmen care more about extending tax cuts for themselves than they care about poor people having a job, a place to live, food to eat or Christmas gifts for family and loved ones.
Obama needs to pull the sheets off of reactionary and recalcitrant politicians and expose them for what they really are, puppets of big business!
What’s good for Halliburton or Goldman Sachs, for instance, is not always good for Americans.
Even if the President follows The Gantt Report advice and rallies the people on the highways and byways, the message has to be delivered by messengers that the people trust. Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima can’t move the people. The President has to join forces with community activists, community organizers and community leaders.
You can’t fight a political war with scared soldiers! You have to have the people that fight for equal rights, fight for justice, fight for peace and fight for jobs everyday to be on the front lines with you.
The President is quick to travel to Afghanistan to fire up the troops. He needs to use that same quickness to travel to Liberty City, to Harlem, to South Central, Calle Ocho, Bankhead, Edgewood, Ibor City and other economically depressed communities to fire up the unemployed, the exploited, the oppressed, the neglected and the dejected!
Congressmen that vote against extensions of unemployment benefits should be targeted like Jews target Nazis. They should be pointed out and voted out in 2012!
If the President will fight for us, we will fight with him.
The President has a choice. He can lay down and let conservative Republicans and Democrats walk all over him or he can rise up, stand up and speak up by telling the masses of Americans how the Congressional millionaires that people voted for are plotting and scheming to give themselves tax cut extensions but at the same time are refusing to give needy Americans extensions on unemployment benefits.
