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Obama Speech: 5 Pillars to Economic Recovery

Submitted by J Boogie [TLL] on Tuesday, 14 April 2009Comments

obamaPresident Obama gave a speech today on the state of the economy, and the path he plans on taking the country down. Though hardly a revelation to anyone seriously following the economy, his speech may provide insight into his methodology and at the very least gives a glimpse of what is going on in that head of his.

The 5 Pillars that Obama focuses on are:

  1. New rules for Wall Street. Yup, it’s so necessary.
  2. Education, not just for younger people but the President urges all citizens to take one year of higher education or career training. On the same note, the President wants to get back to “building things” and looks towards the sciences and engineering sector to help lead a wave of getting back to creation versus the amorphous and unstable void that is the financial sector.
  3. Harnessing renewable energy that will allow us to create new jobs and new industries. President Obama sounded adamant about the U.S. becoming THE world leader on renewable technologies, and will fight a world where those jobs and industries exist beyond our borders.
  4. Changes to the health care system, which President Obama believes is sapping huge amounts of money that could be saved to generate billions.
  5. Savings in the Federal budget, aimed at lowering the deficit for future generations.

President Obama bases his economic policies on the five aforementioned pillars. Well, it seems some people are taking Obama’s five pillars and tying it into the Five Pillars of the Muslim Faith, which from what I have studied stand for five duties that fall upon all muslims. The point of doing so is to obviously rattle the extreme right into a panic and frenzy. Whereas most of us who watched President Obama this morning heard a man discussing five areas that he felt are important to our nations recovery, a very small group of people saw an Islamic threat. If you tuned in to Fox News when President Obama visited Turkey, then you surely know about the Obama “bowing” incident that seemed to rattle the right wing. I find it very interesting that people are so quick to deride the Islamic religion as a bunch of extremists, when they themselves cannot take a step back to see that they can be just as crazy. This culture of global superiority that pervades the United States is one of the reasons that people around the world hate Americans. Our inability to look beyond ourselves is quite amazing.

To end this post, I simply leave you with these comments from the blog, Atlus Shrugged, which is the first hit on Google when you search for the terms “Obama” and “Five Pillars”.

“The man has never read the Bible and I’ll bet he can quote much more accurately from the quran. Pile of sand?? He’s a pile of shiite!”

“No wonder they still live in a destitute sand pit. There’s nothing in the 5 pillars about actually “doing work”"

“I blame EVERYONE who voted for him. THEY have put this country in great danger.”

-J Boogie [TLL]


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  • f.d.
    So the only connection between his recovery plan and Islam is the use of the words "Five Pillars?" Seriously? Evangelicals have hit the bottom of the well.
  • Yep, "Five Pillars" is the ONLY connection. But I think that they are taking this speech, along with a prior one on education where Obama discussed "Five Pillars" of rebuilding education, and sprinkling the bowing incident in Turkey, and coming up with "Islam Threatens America".

    It is pretty ridiculous that they would get so worked up. And if you take a look at my tweets, certain places are really REALLY getting riled up. It's actually quite sad seeing how some of the right views certain things.
  • Great post, I agree. I saw the "Five Pillars" part of your headline and IMMEDIATELY thought of the 5 Pillars of Islam, but again, I'm Muslim, and I was taught about those at a very young age. :) And they're handy: they're the five main beliefs: belief in 1 God, praying 5 times a day, giving alms to the poor, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and completing Hajj if you have the means. One for each finger on your hand, the basic tenants of the faith, the fool proof guide on how to be a Muslim, bam.

    Yes, it's Islamic in theme, but there's hardly anything threatening about those five pillars. If it was, say, the 5 Religions Muslims Must Wage War Again (I'm being facetious; nothing of the sort exists at all!), then I could understand the outcry and outrage. :-P

    But this? Not so much.

    Again, great post. I think I'll type up something about this for my blog and, of course, link back to you.
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