Obama’s Sob-Story Example of Why Unemployment Benefits Should Be Extended is a Convicted Fraudster
**Written by Doug Powers
Politics 101: If you’re trying to convince hard-working Americans — many of whom are holding down multiple jobs — to support their tax dollars going towards extending unemployment benefits to people who have allegedly fallen on hard times, your “grounds-of-compassion” example should not be a criminal.
By way of Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
Many of the OOTD entries have to do with poor research informing statements from Barack Obama, but today’s is perhaps the most embarrassing. Obama wanted to get a photo opportunity with a real, live, unemployed person — only no one bothered to check why Leslie Macko lost her job:
Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In 2009, Macko was convicted of prescription drug fraud, at which point she lost her job as an esthetician in the spa at ACAC.However, on July 19, Macko was seen standing next to President Barack Obama as his example of the needs to extend jobless benefits.
“We need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year, and has been looking for work ever since. Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do. Not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support,” Obama said in his speech.
The White House is spending record amounts of money these days, so you’d think at least a little of that would go toward background checks.
Video from WCAV:
**Written by Doug Powers
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Well, considering tax cheats Tim Geithner, Kathleen Sebelius, et.al. that means as far as Obummer is concerned, Leslie Macko IS a good example.
Good point… she might have been there for an interview.
Meet your new senior citizens medication allocation szar.
Let me rephrase her new job title:
“Senior Citizens Allocation of Medications”
artistszar.O/T
Y’all might want to check out the ‘GOP realease obamacare bureaucracy chart’ on thefoxnation.com. They have the old chart and the new one. This will blow your mind!
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With the kind of vetting with the rest of his advisers, I’d be surprised if his example wasn’t a convicted felon.
Holy mackerel! CBS-19 in Charlottesville? They might have just restored a little of my faith in journalists.
Yeah, like a background check of Soetoro/Obama himself.
Not only a good example, but in BHOs world, he probably believes that she’s the typical American.
Just a typical Democrat.
It appears that Obama and most of those around him are frauds and convicts.
Rezko, Blago, etc., etc., etc.
Why does anyone take Obama’s word about anything?
Why does anyone trust the fraudulent COLB that was produced at and by the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago, and which was never verified as authentic by the Hawaii Department of Health?
Why doesn’t any Representative ask why the Hawaii Department of Health wasn’t willing to say “Obama was born in Hawaii” until AFTER the U.S. House of Representatives voted favor of H.Res. 593, which included those words and gave the Hawaii Department of Health “cover” to say the same thing?
It’s a chicken and egg thing…
The U.S. House should not have voted for H.Res. 593 (or confirmed Obama, for that matter!) until they had received the long-form birth certificate from the State of Hawaii.
Even now, every Representative who voted for H.Res.593 deserves to know if they were “snookered” by Obama.
Yes sir, our gubmint can’t even set up a photo-op sob story without f-ing it up. Newt was right this morning when he said Obie-won was a good talk show host for things like THE VIEW, but he is a total mess as a PRESIDENT.
Okay, this is both insulting and telling.
Isn’t your family the first place you’re supposed to go for help? You know, before asking strangers to hand you their money?
And I have to wonder: Does Obambi want the goobermint to replace her father? Does he want everyone turning to him and the goobermint? My opinion is he does. And that may be the most dangerous part of this mess. He wants the goobermint to take over the part of father, mother, caretaker, etc. in all of our lives. It stems from his apparent misguided belief that long ingrained values are the problem and goobermint is the answer.
Nothing new here. He surrounds himself by tax cheats, terrorists and communists. This president is the worst person to ever make president. He’s destroyed this country and has given it a third-world status. She’s never been proud of the country I and friends of mine fought and bled for. I’ve never been so terrified for my country as I was when he took office and as I still am today
Oh yeah, I fully agree on the context as well. This dolt and his staff of merry idiots seem to have a hard time choosing good examples.
Yes, because the biggest threat to the socialist fascist state is the family that supports itself and its members. Obama wants to do to the American middle class what the left did to a significant portion of the black community since the 1960s: complete and total reliance on government through the declining standards in schools, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and reliance on government programs.
I thought the same thing when I saw it last night. The local stations are usually so over the top for the Democrats, I didn’t expect anything like this at all.
SMACK…!!!
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Like most of Comrade Obama’s (PBUH) choices–this wasn’t a “bug”–it was a feature!
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Birds of a feather (shakedown artists, drug crooks) flock together.
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Just once I would like to read a true story about an Obama Regime appointee or official doing a great, fair, competent job for the majority of the American People–not for some chosen socialist or marxist special interest group.
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November 2010 and November 2012 can’t get here fast enough for me.
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John Bibb
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Obama – “Uh-h, vetting? Isn’t that something those corrupt Republican’s do?”
Can nothing surrounding these people be about truth? The simple answer is no.
To tell the truth would be to admit to this gigantic fraud they are perpetrating on the American gullibles.
Those who put this man and his team of cheat-based progressives into power, need to look beyond what is being said, and look to what HAS been said already, then apply THAT to what has already been forced down our throats.
Obama telegraphs what his is going to do. Like Clinton, Obama’s interpretation of words, is vague or parsed. For example, who besides me questioned what he meant about “change” during the last election cycle? What does he mean by “status quo?” Odds are his meaning is different than yours and mine.
Leslie Macko merits special consideration. She likely voted for Obama at least three times in the 2008 election.
Note to felons, frauds, scammers and shakedown artists:
If this Obama goy shows up to praise you or show you as an example….run the other way.
This guy has the “Touch Of Lead”.
Democratic politicians have already figured this out. Con artists have yet to wake up.
Just waiting for the 2000+ page bill to extend unemployement to the unemployed in prison. “O” needs to help his buds out.
Makes sense to me. If the guy can’t make a living Stealing then of course he should get unemployment. It really isn’t any different than elected officials stealing tax money to pay for all sorts of things. The gov program of crooks paying out money to other crooks is the status quo. Pelosi has stated that this will stimulate the economy. Gotta keep the redistribution of funds going because the rest of us need to atone for all the evil we have caused by believing in the Constitution and freedom and hard work. We just haven’t payed enough attention to the suffering of the little people who prefer to sit on their fat asses instead. This administration is ready to jump in with a check for existing and Michelle will help with that fat ass.
mega sarc/off
not only his buds, but a key democrat voter bloc.
Talk about a campaign commercial being gift wrapped and delivered:
“President Obama and the Democrats in Congress believe that we should extend unemployment benefits to convicted felons. Is this the way you want your tax dollars spent?”
Have a the video clip of the president saying:
Then have a graphic pop stating:
Sure it is taken out of context, but how could they defend against? Say they did not know to which you could argue that this seems to be a pattern for this administration that they do not check out people before they foist them on us.
How hard would it have been to find a legitimate example of an unemployed person? How lazy is this administration anyway?
Makes it easy to understand how this could happen.
Yeah, let’s turn control of our lives over to the government.
I am pretty sure that she was not even eligible for unemployment benefits based on the way that she was let go from her job…
can anyone confirm?
that makes the story even stupider on Obozo’s part methinks…
They should have dressed her up in a Doctors white lab coat. You know, prescription drugs and all.
Obama makes Jimmy Carter look good.
If she was fired for cause, she definitely would NOT be eligible for unemployment! If she is getting it, someone needs to investigate and make sure she no longer receives it.
By the way, it is not surprising that Obama is using a felon for this example…that is the main type of person he surrounds himself with. He probably couldn’t find an honest person willing to stand up next to him. Would you???
Speaking of Birds of a Feather, it seems Chelsea’s new fatther in law is a convicted felon and former Democratic politician.
At least Carter seemed mostly misquided, not evil.
That’s saying something–Carter being a raging anti-Semite ‘n all.
On July 29th, 2010 at 11:06 am, right_on said:
Yes. We must parse everything they say.
Right on, right_on! Obama’s pastor of 20+ years even said:
Watch this video and understand what “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright and Barack Hussein Obama really mean. They are Communist Revolutionary wolves in sheep’s clothing.
uh oh–ITTRP wrote ‘parsed’
On July 29th, 2010 at 11:06 am, right_on said:
We must parse:
and realize that the Hawaii Department of Health did NOT say
until AFTER the U.S. House of Representatives said so first!
On July 29th, 2010 at 12:13 pm, spaceycakes said:
Heh. You know me too well…
One nice thing about Obama having the “Touch Of Lead”:
George Soros has got to be getting a little bit nervous.
On July 29th, 2010 at 11:44 am, Mister P said:
The key word there is “seemed”.
In my opinion, it appears that Carter, too, was/is a Marxist.
Take a look at Communist goals described in W. Cleon Skousen’s 1960 book The Naked Communist and which were recorded into the Congressional record over 47 years ago (January 10, 1963).
Then realize how many of these goals were advanced under the Carter administration.
Just one example of many: giving up U.S. control of the Panama Canal.
That explains why this woman seemed to be talking to herself standing near Obama.
She fits right in with his other friends too.
On July 29th, 2010 at 12:28 pm, Southpaw said:
The absolute worst thing that could happen is if Soros decided that Obama was worth more to him as a martyr.
If Republicans take control of Congress, and Obama can’t accomplish any more of the Soros agenda, Soros may try to make something bad happen, and then try to blame it on Republicans and/or the Tea Party.
I pray for Obama’s safety. Jesus taught us to pray for our enemies, after all.
In 15 years I’ve only fired one employee, (a thief caught red-handed). All the rest were laid off and, of them, ~80% were laid off because there wasn’t enough work but the other ~20% were laid off when I should have fired them but didn’t. Why? – trial lawyers…
Poor workmanship, habitually late, screwing off, etc. used to be enough to fire somebody but these days it seems that you need a reason to threaten them with criminal charges or you just might be hearing from their lawyer who will shake you down for a settlement priced just south of the cost of going to trial.
If ever there was a reason for ‘loser pays’ tort reform this is a good one IMO and I suspect it would save billions in unemployment insurance claims to boot.
I want to know how someone who was fired because she was convicted of a felony (and, presumably had to spend some time in jail) could’ve POSSIBLY qualified for unemployment benefits.
I thought unemployment was only for those who lost their job thru no fault of their own – like, say, their employer cutting staff, going bankrupt, relocating to another state (country), etc.
I can’t decide to stop showing up for work, get fired because of it, then expect to collect unemployment………..can I??!?
I worked in HR for many years. You cannot collect unemployment if you are fired for cause…IF it is proven. As far as I know, that hasn’t changed. However, it might have been snuck in the health bill somewhere, or that finance “reform” bill that you can collect unemployment even if you sleep on the job 8 hours a day. Wouldn’t surprise me.
Hey, it wasn’t her fault her employer found out…
But, we’re talking about the “Touch Of Lead” here, sooooo:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
(The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!)
Robert Burns
A proven talent and resume enhancer for high level federal employment, or for that matter, many state and local governments who may still be hiring.
The first round of payments to unemployed people that are paid for from the money in the insurance pool, should be considered Unemployment Insurance Benefit Payments.
After that first round, any extensions should be called what they are: Welfare Payments.
And people should have to pass a different set of qualifications before they are given welfare payments.
During a prolonged recession like this one many more people than normal will qualify for these welfare payments.
But there is no reason for taxpayers to provide almost 2 years worth of “unemployment benefits” to all unemployed people when many of them may have significant savings or a spouse who provides a second income which can sustain the family.
At the rate things are going, the Obama Administration no longer needs a bus to throw people under, it needs a freakin’ mile long freight train.
Depends on the state. I have seen some states that penalize someone who is fired for cause by docking them a specific amount of time they can claim unemployment. So say there is a 2 week penalty for being fired. You file for unemployment and are approved effective June 1, so with the penalty the effective date is adjusted to june 15.
Sorry to say it, but even in my own family the moral hazard of UI reared it’s ugly head. Last month my brother lost his benefits in the congressional wrangling, but even in Central Oregon where there is nearly 15% unemployment he quickly found a job a Wally World. Is it ideal? No, but it’s not really that much worse than the job he had before the recession. While the faceless gov’t $$ came in he was content, but when his options dwindled down to sleeping on the street, taking what little I could give him, or working, he made the right choice. And instantly he feels much better. I can’t believe that his experience is that uncommon.
Amazing. You would think that the Clown-in-Chiefs people would learn to do background checks at some point.
Shhhhh!
As Judge Susan Bolton noted in her decision on the Arizona SB1070, running a records check on Leslie Macko and other poster girls and boys would be too much of a burden on FBI criminal records internet database.
I probably shouldn’t write this but I think Ms. Macko represents an important constituency within the ranks of the Obamanation: the free riders. However, probably two of three Obamanauts are free-riders, not one of three (do some more background research). He’s not embarrassed because he knows he needs them and is hoping to cultivate more. More prescription/extra-prescription drug junkies, more flunkie union members, more insurance fraudsters, more dependent classes (and once everyone’s dependent, you ration!). You can’t have socialism without a lot of free-riders (and it’s the natural downfall of socialism when imposed). This is why I continually say that the hardworking people and small businesses are AT their breaking point. The bus is full, and riders are on the roof (and fully half of Obama’s friends, family and associates are under it). The shocks are sagging, we’re out of fuel, and we’re tired of pushing. Having the people on the bus yelling at us to push faster isn’t going to help. We’re at the tipping point. I think people like NJ Gov Chris Christie understand this, and they know the scale of the entitlement crisis we have. You have to be insane, stupid, or power-mad to increase spending now. I drive through a Northeastern city every day to and from work and in the afternoon see able-bodied men between the ages of 18-40 lingering about, many consuming alcohol, joking around like it’s a big party. Clearly they’re NOT SUFFERING ENOUGH IN UNEMPLOYED STATUS (and there aren’t any off-shift jobs because manufacturing is gone). Yet we have to import a workforce from other countries. And some of the jobs I see illegals in pay decently. I’d do some of them if I got laid off. Unfortunately, I can’t not work. But I’m getting really darned tired of being lectured about needing to give more to other people through the wasteful government filter. And guess what else: NO small businesses are hiring, why hire someone else (when you pay govt to hire someone through payroll taxes) when it’s going to cost more next year? Why hire someone new when you’re pretty sure that the tax and entitlement tsunami is going to slaughter your business. HOPE is gone. HOPE is dead. And then I see that POS Joe Biden going on the Today show (sorry, my wife was watching) and gripe about the “Bush Recession”? Are you even a man? You’ve been in office for almost two years and you’re still whipping Bush? I’m sitting there wondering how these guys got elected (and then i remember that we’re a nation of grifters). This is the Obamanation, and it’s the Obama Economic Collapse. Enjoy it, free-riders. You reap what you sow. [/RANT]
What, Obama could not find an unemployed plumber? I guess after the last plumber took him to task, he decided to find someone who was too stupid to take him to task.
If she was fired for cause, she shouldn’t have been collecting any unemployment benefits. People who get fired don’t qualify for UC.
I’d like to see that enforced since I don’t qualify for UC, not because of being fired, but because I’m self-employed. Don’t qualify for benefits under any circumstance, but for some reason, I still have to write quarterly checks to the UC fund…