Just 16 months ago, millions of Americans cheered and cried tears of joy when Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States. Today, there isn’t much to cheer about as 15 million Americans are out of work, and the unemployment rate continues to climb.
According to Breitbart.com, the White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims.
The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries to the conference that is set for April 26-27.
“The summit will highlight the role entrepreneurship can play in addressing common challenges while building partnerships that will lead to greater opportunity abroad and at home,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Predictably Americans, some who lost their businesses in an unrelenting recession, exploded with rage in the comments section. rangerrebew writes:
It kind of makes me wonder why he’s so hard on American business?! He wants to help [muslims] but wants to tax American business into bankruptcy?! What am I missing?
Most readers questioned how much the conference would cost taxpayers (millions), and almost all wondered about the point of the conference when so many Americans are out of work.
Can you blame them? Here is a man with absolutely no business experience holding a conference on entrepreneurship to teach muslims how to run their own businesses in another country. Does anyone see the irony in that? What about the American entrepreneurs who helped vote obama into office because they believed that he wouldn’t tax them into oblivion?
At 9.7%, the unemployment rate is still at an all-time high, but Obama wants to teach muslims to earn more money even though they make up less than 1% of the total population of the United States.
