So now Stephen Morris is carrying on about dictators!
“Where was the outcry when President Obama proudly proclaimed that with one stroke of his almighty pen he could circumvent Congress and the Constitution….”?
I assume he’s now whining about Executive Orders.
Hmmm, where was his outrage when Saint Ronald Reagan issued 381 executive orders? Any word of dictators then? I doubt it.
How about when Gerald Ford issued 169 executive orders?
Or the 166 issued by George H.W. Bush?
The 291 issued by George W. Bush?
The 346 issued by Richard Nixon?
The 364 issued by William Clinton?
President Carter’s 320?
And, remember that Emancipation Proclamation thingy we all learned about in school? That was an Executive Order. So I guess Abraham Lincoln was also a dictator.
Typical TeaPotted Hypocrite. They act as if President Obama invented everrrrrrrything on January 20, 2009.
Nothing that they now hate was ever done by any other President ever. Ignorant TeaPotted Hypocrites.
If President Obama was actually a dictator, Stephen Morris would not be “allowed” to have his hate-of-Obama letters published in this newspaper on a weekly basis. He would probably be in jail in fact.
He brings up freedom of speech but does not understand that it works both ways.
He and his TeaPotted friends are free to spout any hateful rhetoric they wish. But, the rest of us are free to call them on it.
Despite what he says in his last letter, President Obama himself has never vilified anyone who criticized him.
In fact, he has shown much more class than all of his detractors combined. For more than five years this president has been called the most vile names imaginable on just about a daily basis.
He carries on about welfare cheats and food stamp recipients. I guess he would prefer that folks just starve.
He incorrectly assumes that only people on “entitlements” voted for President Obama.
Just a few facts (those pesky things) about food stamps.
Usage of food stamps increased 63 percent under George W. Bush and 46 percent under President Obama (source: USDA).
Almost 1,000,000 of our active-duty and retired military need food stamps to get buy. I guess Morris would prefer that those fighting for his freedom to hate the President would rather have them starve.
From the website of FeedingAmerica:
•76 percent of SNAP households included a child, an elderly person, or a disabled person. These vulnerable households receive 83 percent of all SNAP benefits.[i]
•SNAP eligibility is limited to households with gross income of no more than 130 percent of the federal poverty guideline, but the majority of households have income well below the maximum: 83 percent of SNAP households have gross income at or below 100% of the poverty guideline ($19,530 for a family of 3 in 2013), and these households receive about 91 percent of all benefits. 61 percent of SNAP households have gross income at or below 75 percent of the poverty guideline ($14,648 for a family of 3 in 2013).[ii]
•The average SNAP household has a gross monthly income of $744; net monthly income of $338 after the standard deduction and, for certain households, deductions for child care, medical expenses, and shelter costs; and countable resources of $331, such as a bank account.[iii]
And we can add in a large portion of Wal-Mart employees who are not paid a wage that enables them to even shop at Wal-Mart. The rest of us taxpayers are, in fact, subsidizing this private business because they are too cheap and greedy to pay their employees a living wage.
Morris mentions the CBO report about the Republican version of jobs that will be lost because of Obamacare (by the way, there is no such entity as “Obamacare”). He overlooks the FACT that that LIE was debunked weeks ago. Since he knows how to type, I will assume he also knows how to look up facts.
I will not bother about his ranting about the New York State Retirement System except to point out that the president is not in charge of it.
If the premise of his letter is dictatorship, perhaps he should try to stick to that subject.
Morris seems to be upset that “in Obama’s world, Americans, such as those in the tea party, are labeled radical extremists. Then has the nerve to end his latest word salad with “that is, if Barack Obama still allows us to have elections”. That comment is not only extreme, it is also extremely ignorant.
But I agree with him about voting in 10 months. I hope intelligent people will vote Democratic because it’s way past time to clean House.
MaryEllen Scherer
New Hyde Park
