Identities versus Issues

How does a society continue to develop and thrive?  We all know the answer:  through relentlessly and objectively discovering essential issues and problem solving our way through them together.  That is how America always has operated—issues before identities.

Then along comes Barack Hussein Obama and the problem solving process gets turned on its head.  The President does not think about problems that need solving, but subgroups who need placating—subgroups with whom he feels identity allegiance and/or to whom he is beholding.  

Consider the jobs crisis.  The old-fashioned American way would have been to discover tasks that must be addressed and means for doing so.  That process inexorably would have led us to discover the jobs that need to be filled, the skills and training that workers require, and the funding necessary to put the most qualified people to work.

Not so with Barack.  Obama listens to the demands of his favored interest groups, the group with whom he identifies and decides how to placate them.  Invariably, the identified-with groups share essential similarities with him, especially racial, ethnic, and philosophical similarities.  

So how about a couple interest groups to whom the pandering President devotes his attention, time, and resources?  

1.  Race-focused, especially black- and Hispanic-focused, programs of all sorts.  
Therefore, job-creation is not driven by needs of the market place, but by the kind of jobs that the favored groups are willing and capable of doing.  Low tech, low-skill, high-paying jobs tailored to persons with little education and limited English language skills do just fine.   

2.  Benefits based on the sexual orientation of the citizenry.  
Thus, the military should respond to sex-driven appetites of soldiers, sailors, and marines.  For instance, homo-erotic needs come first and the mission comes later.  In civilian life, work benefits must be provided for “life partners” of homosexual employees.  Why not provide equal benefits to the biological parents and siblings of all employees, if the workers live in a household with them?  Or is copulation, rather than blood-ties, the premier criterion for life-long commitment?      

3.  Unbridled, long-term government sponsored and funded health care for the Obama-defined “needy.” 

I guess we should expect that people given unlimited access to any and all extravagant medical procedures will show proper restrain in their use.  There are no hypochondrical, alcoholic, or drug-abusing “poor folks.”  No poor people whose own maladaptive lifestyles contribute to their ailments.