Effects of Obama
Obama was not a man who wanted to be rich by becoming a politician.
But, he could enjoy being rich as everybody while there are many poor people. And, eventually he has become a rich man.
He is not a fellow poor man in Chicago any more.
But for Obama to be rich, he had to first help the poor to be trusted and elected by them. So, it has become the secondary matter for Obama to save all the poor guys in Chicago. He is too busy handling Wall Street, GM, new energy, China, etc. as a rich US President. Besides, nobody blames him for incompleteness of his mission to completely save poor residents in Chicago.
What Does Obama Really Believe In?
By PAUL TOUGH
Published: August 15, 2012
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As Obama’s time on the South Side progressed, he grew preoccupied by the fate of Roseland’s young people, especially the teenage boys, who seemed increasingly directionless and hopeless. It was not just money they were lacking, he realized, but something deeper. As a boy, Obama spent several years in Indonesia, with a close-up view of third-world poverty, and in his memoir, Obama compared the lives of the children he saw in Altgeld Gardens with the lives of the children he saw as a boy growing up in the slums of Jakarta. In many ways, Obama wrote, the Indonesian slum-dwellers had it better. “For all that poverty, there remained in their lives a discernible order,” he explained. “The habits of a generation played out every day beneath the bargaining and the noise and the swirling dust. It was the absence of such coherence that made a place like Altgeld so desperate.”
In the spring of 1987, Obama wrote, he began to feel that “something different was going on,” on the South Side. It was a subtle shift — “a change of atmosphere, like the electricity of an approaching storm” — but to Obama, that spring brought to Roseland the “sense, shared by adults and youth alike, that some, if not most, of our boys were slipping beyond rescue.”...Obama must have learnt that all he had ever learnt and acquired was useless for his great mission to save all the poor in Chicago. And as he had nothing other than what he had ever learnt and acquired, he had no means to completely eradicate poverty in Chicago. So, he could excuse himself for his failure, since he had no means and tools effective for the great mission.
And so in 2009 and 2010, the Obama administration put a tremendous amount of money, very quickly, into the hands of low-income Americans. As part of the Recovery Act, the administration extended the eligibility rules for existing programs like food stamps and unemployment insurance, and the combination of the collapsing economy and the more generous rules meant the programs grew quickly. The number of individuals receiving food stamps rose to 45.1 million in 2011 from 27.4 million in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, an additional 6.8 million people, mostly children, began receiving Medicaid. Temporary changes in the eligibility criteria for various tax credits, including the earned-income tax credit and the child tax credit, produced tax refunds for millions of low-income workers, often totaling thousands of dollars a year....
In Roseland, the stimulus may not have made things much better, but it stopped them from getting much worse. Food stamps helped some families get enough to eat, teenagers got summer jobs, some tenants received help with their rent. A stimulus grant to the Chicago public schools helped pay for the YAP program, which let Steve Gates start working with children like Jasmine and Damien. But it was, by definition, a temporary fix.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/obama-poverty.html?pagewanted=all)
But, of course, Romney would not be interested in the great mission to completely overcome poverty in Chicago if Romney should be elected as President.
But, poor people in Chicago would understand that Obama did as much as he could for them. Nobody would blame Obama for not becoming poor as much as they are.
One great experiment might be going to end as the 2012 Presidential Election has started with Obama and Romney, two strangers for poor people in Chicago.
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Luk 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
Luk 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.