This quote is from a friend of mine. He is a blue collar worker. How would you respond to this?
Tell him to blame his boss. I mean is the President supposed to dictate salary structures for private businesses?
I don’t see the connection between him not getting raises and Obama. How does that work?
Tell your friend to stop being lazy and blaming other people for his problems. The guy’s been working there for five years and no one has taken notice of his contributions? Must mean he isn’t making any. He’s lucky to have a job at all, especially considering his victimized attitude. He is not entitled to a raise by virtue of there being a President of the United States. Where would he even get such a silly idea?
If Romney is elected he’s not going to get a raise. He’s going to get fired. The job will either be outsourced to China or deregulated to the point that he can be fired on a whim. He will also lose whatever health care coverage he has. But I guess that will be Obama’s fault too.
“That’s odd. I’ve gotten several raises in the past 4 years. Have you considered the possibility that you’re a shit worker?”
Before I start cheerleading for Obama, I think I’d need to know a wee bit more about the details of your friend’s situation. Don’t you think?
Huh. Who knew your friend works for the President!
You don’t need to cheerlead for Obama. It would not matter who was president - his friend still made a stupid statement,even if the friend is a government worker.
My response would begin, “Huh, Joe Biden, I’m surprised at you…”
Like what? Is Obama his boss? Is he working for a government agency?
If anything like that were true, do you really think the OP would have omitted it?
He works as a contractor for a huge manufacturing corporation. Has been working for the contractor for 6 years and at the same location.
It is my guess that when he asked for a raise, his employer blamed Obama for him not receiving a raise.
Go ahead John Mace, bring out the Obama banner.
Maybe he should thank his boss and/or President Obama for still having a job after 6 years.
Nothing personal, but :smack:
Pretending anything you say will make a difference: I would gently point out that Obama wasn’t president five years ago. The economy crashed and went into a deep recession around the time he took office. Almost everybody wants the recovery to go faster than it’s going, but unless your friend is a private employee of Barack Obama, the fact that he has not gotten a raise in five years suggests his friend’s industry has problems that go beyond just the broader economic issues, and Obama isn’t responsible for those any more than he’s responsible for the economy crashing before he was elected. And of course there are a lot of factors that influence the economy beyond just the president (and the rest of the political system).
I’d point out that Obama hasn’t gotten a raise in 4 years either.
Not to mention, Obama actually did lower tax rates for middle-income folks like your friend. AND he’s reduced the amount of withholding for FICA (I think it was FICA … it was something in withholding) over the past couple of years. Methinks your blue-collar friend actually has more take-home pay than he would have had without the President’s actions.
Of course, those who believe our President is a socialist/communist/foreigner who can magically control gas prices and China’s currency would be completely unable to fathom that he’s actually cut income taxes instead. Yet that is the truth. The tax thing, I mean, not the socialist/magic thing.
Well, if he had done a little better at the first debate…
In that case, he should ask his employer how, specifically, Obama is responsible. We can’t read his mind.
My yearly income has doubled in the last five years, I was wondering who I should thank.
More than doubled for me. Thank you Obama!
Join a union.
Did his employer explain the connection?