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Boehner: Obama's 'never even had a real job for God's sake'

4:44 am - 08/03/2012


House Speaker John Boehner went over the top today when he ripped into President Barack Obama during an interview with Fox News Radio.

When talking to Kilmeade & Friends about Obama's speech in Ohio yesterday, Boehner said this:

"Sometimes I have to catch my breath and slow down because the rhetoric in this campaign is just so over the top. And that's because the President's policies have failed. Listen - 93% of Americans believe they're a part of the middle class. That's why you hear the President talk about the middle class every day, because he's talking to 93% of the American people. But the President has never created a job. He's never even had a real job for God's sake. And I can tell you from my dealings with him, he has no idea how the real world, that we actually live in, works."

Boehner also said it's been "months" since he's last interacted with Obama in a meaningful way.

"Eleven months ago, Labor Day last year, the president decided to check out," Boehner said. "And he's been AWOL from the legislative process ever since."

By Steve Frank, Thu Aug 2, 2012 4:06 PM EDT

Source includes an audio of the interview.
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ebay313 3rd-Aug-2012 09:56 pm (UTC)
Because somehow people always feel like they are struggling, even if what they are struggling to afford is beyond the reach of others. I actually had a friend- well a family who where friends with my family kind of thing- and I thought for the longest time that they were poorer than us. It was only several years ago really that I discovered that my friend's father made about 4x what my mom made. But they always said they were poor and were struggling- so I thought they were poor. Also things like- they were always having their cars repossessed. We never had a car repossessed. It wasn't until I was much older that it clicked- we never had a car repossessed because we never had a new car. We had used cars either given to us free or bought very cheaply from family. My mom bought her first used car from someone other than family when I was in high school- and to date she still has never bought a new car. They had cars repossessed because they kept buying new cars and then spent the rest of their money on other stuff so they couldn't make the car payments. They weren't really poor- they just tried living way beyond their means.


And that's sort of an exaggerated example, but still think about things like where people live- if you make hardly anything and struggle to afford a small apartment, or you make a lot and buy a house with a mortgage that takes up a large portion of your income, both people feel like they are "struggling" even though the person in the large house could live in that small apartment and pay that rent without the slightest difficulty. People feel like they are "average" because most folks are always struggling to afford things and associate that with being middle class- because if they were rich they wouldn't struggle to afford things! But it's a matter of what you are struggling to afford- basic necessities? basic necessities plus a little? a lot beyond basic necessities? A new boat?
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