Women and minorities hardest hit: “I am just a little bit weary of the
promises that (Obama) has made. I really haven’t been seeing any kind of
changes that affect me directly.“
Opening the handwritten letter from
President Obama brought a glimmer of hope to her life as he promised her
that things would get better for her and her family.And
despite the fact Destiny Mathis, from Hobart, Indiana, treasured the
letter, more than two years later she has no choice but to sell it as
she and her three children face eviction from their home.The
26-year-old was an avid campaigner for Mr Obama in 2008, getting
T-shirts made and encouraging people in her neighbourhood to vote.… She graduated top of her class in 2005
and was working as a surgical technician while also helping her mother,
who was battling cancer at the time.She said: ‘I campaigned for him hard. I got the shirts made, the Barack the Vote shirts made. We’ve done a lot.’
It was about half way into the President’s term that things took a downward spiral for her.
Her third baby was born prematurely with health problems and with limited daycare options she could no longer work.
Her partner also left around this time.
With nowhere else to turn, she decided to write the President a letter.
She
told the Huffington Post: ‘I wrote him just expressing my concern about
what’s going to happen in the next two years. I know he’s under a lot
of stress, but I need to see more results.’
Mathis’ story also perfectly illustrates the grand irony of Democratic Party rule — the ‘party of the common man’ invariably makes things much worse for poor and working class Americans when they cede control of the economy to Big Business, Big Banking, Big Labor, and Big Government.
I wonder, if Destiny Mathis had been a “bundler” delivering up to $500,000 in donations to the Obamas instead of wasting her time printing corny t-shirts (presumably with her own money) and knocking on doors in the ‘hood during the 2008 campaign, might she have landed a cushy “key administration post” in the Obama White House, instead of ending up long-term unemployed?
Another Obama myth, busted — the man who was ‘not for sale’ and who would ‘end business as usual in Washington’ ended up being one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, schmoozers of mega campaign donors ever to inhabit the White House.
Out of Hope and No Real Change: Obama 2012.
