Lloyd Marcus writes blog on THE GUARDIAN complaining that Obama's support for welfare ruins lives

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Quite surprisingly I found this blog on the website for the British newspaper The Guardian: "Why I am a black Tea Party patriot opposed to Barack Obama":

Obama was marketed as a "new" kind of politician.

Hogwash! Black America has suffered the devastating consequences of numerous Obamas, mostly whites ones, for many years.

Here is my personal story.

A urine smell permeated the stairwell. In the darkness due to smashed light bulbs, the sound of broken wine bottles underfoot echoed off the concrete walls. I was nine years old. With the elevators out of service half the time due to vandalism, I was forced many times to take the scary trek into the shadow of death up the stairwell to our sixth-floor apartment in the projects of east Baltimore.

This was a far cry from the brand spanking new building we had moved into just two years earlier. I remember our excitement when my parents, three younger siblings and I moved in our apartment. It was a dream come true – moving from our leaky-roofed ghetto into a place where everything, including the appliances, were new.

We were one of the first in the 11-story, all black residents building. While a few people kept their apartments lovely, most seemed committed to destroying the building.

All I kept hearing was that everything was the "white man's fault". Even at the age of nine, I sarcastically thought to myself, "how can we stop these evil white people from sneaking in here at night peeing in the stairwell, leaving broken wine bottles, smashing the light bulbs and attacking people?"

So, my early experience living in the government project taught me that some folks simply have a ghetto mindset. I also witnessed the trap of government welfare. And why were so many around me angry and violent – despite getting free housing, food and healthcare?

Marcus's childhood was during the 1950s. Yep, if he's telling the truth I guess that welfare just keeps people lazy doesn't it? After that, Marcus's father became a firefighter, the family's rent went up to $72, and the family moved to the suburbs.

He concludes his "poor people are lazy" message:

Several of my cousins stayed enslaved to the system and the bigotry of low expectations. Because true self-esteem comes from personal achievement, they possessed very little. They lived angry and bitter lives, consumed with serial impregnating, out-of-wedlock births and substance abuse. An outrageously high number died prematurely.

So, when I hear politicians, such as Barack Obama, pandering to the so-called poor of America, it turns my stomach. I've witnessed the deterioration of the human spirit, wasted lives and suffering that happens when government becomes "daddy".

So only poor lazy ghetto people who don't have much meaning in life live these kinds of lifestyles eh? Oh yeah, wonder if Marcus has ever heard that rich people who possess a lot due to "personal achievement" do the same damn things. Such as:
- Marilyn Monroe (died prematurely, substance abuse) same can be said about Elvis, Michael Jackson, Greg Giraldo, and others
- Lindsay Lohan (substance abuse)
- Donald Bren (Republican-supporting real estate mogul who had 2 kids out-of-wedlock with a girlfriend then broke up and at age 66 married a 32-year-old woman in 1998)
- Paris Hilton (heiress who's been convicted of multiple DUIs and done nothing productive with her life despite her inherited wealth)

How about this? When I hear politicians, such as George W. Bush (and other anti-tax Republicans) pandering to the so-called rich of American, it turns my stomach. I've witnessed the deterioration of the human spirit, wasted lives and suffering that happens when tax cuts and trust funds become "daddy".