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Obama is a Poverty Pimp

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_pimp

Poverty pimp or “professional poverty pimp” is a pejorative label used to convey that an individual or group is benefiting unduly by acting as an intermediary on behalf of the poor, the disadvantaged, or some other “victimized” groups.

 

Those who use this appellation suggest that those so labeled profit unduly from the misfortune of others, and therefore do not really wish the societal problems that they appear to work on to be eliminated permanently, as it is not in their own interest for this to happen.

The most frequent targets of this accusation are those receiving government funding or that solicit private charity to work on issues on behalf of various disadvantaged individuals or groups, but who never seem to be able to show any amelioration of the problems experienced by their target population. Some even suggest that that if profit were eliminated as a factor, greater steps in the alleviation of the oppressive situations could begin to truly occur.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/poverty

“President Obama has been a lifelong advocate for the poor. As a young college graduate, he rejected the high salaries of corporate America and moved to the South Side of Chicago to work as a community organizer.”

Obama shouldn’t pat himself on the back for “rejected the high salaries of corporate America and moved to the South Side of Chicago to work as a community organizer” unless he can point to improvement in their lives, because the way he explains it, it sounds like he did it for himself more than for him… after all it did lead to him becoming president, right? Not a bad career path, so that he can put his own kids in private school, and his wife can fly all over the world staying in posh hotels, telling us all how much they care.

 

Poverty Pimp

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I have never heard of that term lol.

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