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Washington, DC, United States, 2012/05/18 - Uproar came from many conservatives after President Obama released a slide show early May on his website, barackobama.com. It highlights a fictional woman named Julia and how Obama, through various welfare programs, helps Julia throughout her life.
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For example, at age 3 in Obama's slide show,“Under President Obama: Julia is enrolled in a Head Start program to help get her ready for school. Because of steps President Obama has taken to improve programs like this one, Julia joins thousands of students across the country who will start kindergarten ready to learn and succeed.”
The Heritage Foundation immediately responded the next day with,“A Better Life for Julia” showing how Julia's quality of life would be improved with conservative reforms. “Julia will be a happy three year old unburdened by the federal government. She will not be $50,000 in debt the day she is born, and her parents will have access to private preschool providers of choice.”
“Heritage did a great job. But there's a piece here that people are missing. In order to qualify for a Head Start program, Julia's mother has to be making less than $15,000 a year,” says Star Parker, President of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). “My 'Life of a Black Julia' is a clarion call about the welfare state. It's a response to Barack Obama's account about a fictional middle-class woman named 'Julia' who his campaign team said could only survive economically because of lifetime government handouts.”
Star Parker's “Life of Black Julia” paints a picture of what life is like on welfare and total government dependence. “After you review this slide show,” continues Parker,“you'll see the reality of dependency that Leftists don't want Americans to see.”
You can check out “Life of Black Julia” at urbancure.org/lifeofblackjulia.
About Star Parker
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501©(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty. Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 300 newspapers and internet news sites worldwide. She consults with Republican legislators on numerous urban issues, has lectured on anti-poverty initiatives at more than 180 colleges and universities and serves on the advisory boards for several national organizations.
About CURE
The Center for Urban Renewal and Education's mission (urbancure.org) is to address issues of race and poverty through principles of faith, freedom and personal responsibility. Their objective is to build awareness that conservative agenda of traditional values, limited government, and private ownership is of greatest marginal benefit to low income peoples.
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