[color=black][/color'Black race hate' the dirty little secret. As the entitlement debate heats up, the race card is being played by the left via black democrats. It is ugly stuff. The black democrats fortify the bigoted notion that black is synonymous with the government dole in many forms. I know this is not true but it buys votes for the democrats. Race politics works.
As a first generation (legal) American I do not carry the slave, Civil War baggage on my back. I have often wondered how I would feel if I were a black with a history of slavery in my family. I would carry a lot of hate in my heart even in the 21st Century. Black hate is contributing to the destruction of America.
In many instances the cry of bias provokes legislation that favors the few. The bias cry subverts justice, the OJ trial being an example.
I was brought up in the melting pot America, not the America of diversity. In diversity some of US are more equal than others. Some of US are disregarded as vestiges of an evil past. Not unlike the Native American when Europeans came to the new world. Maybe America is experiencing karma or as Yogi Berra said, "deja vu all over again". All over again is where we are at, no one, black, white, brown or tan has learned from history. What we take from a 'half-truth' history is to do to others what they have or may do to you.
We hear increasingly how those seeking higher office should have a political science & business/accounting/management background. This would be nice but like a jury, elected officials in a democracy should be reflective of the populace - not an elite. The other day I heard Al Sharpton on MS-LSD talking about a need for jobs. How does a man who has destroyed men with slander, provoked riots & never had a real job become an authority on employment. Being black is your credential.
Yes, America is a racist nation & the black (African-American) is leading the charge. ]
I believe many of the entitlements were/are race driven and used for political gain through parties. Before things like welfare and food stamps were something you would link to ghettos or trailer parks, now though since the promises kept coming more people want that free handout, we have what 70% of Americans receiving some form of entitlements. The game is over and we can't afford it any more with so many people having their hands out wanting more and more. The scary part is what we will have to deal with once these entitlements are ended, many people don't know what a honest days work is, all they know is handouts. These people will be dangerous and end up expecting your money like they're entitled to it and they will try to get it by any means.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I believe many of the entitlements were/are race driven and used for political gain through parties. Before things like welfare and food stamps were something you would link to ghettos or trailer parks, now though since the promises kept coming more people want that free handout, we have what 70% of Americans receiving some form of entitlements. The game is over and we can't afford it any more with so many people having their hands out wanting more and more. The scary part is what we will have to deal with once these entitlements are ended, many people don't know what a honest days work is, all they know is handouts. These people will be dangerous and end up expecting your money like they're entitled to it and they will try to get it by any means.
CHA-CHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"we have what 70% of Americans receiving some form of entitlements."
Is "70%" a rhetorical example or are you saying that 70% is an actual fact?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- One in six Americans receives some form of government aid because of effects of the recession that started in 2007, a review of data indicates.
More than 50 million people are on Medicaid, a program principally designed to help the poor, and nearly 10 million Americans receive unemployment benefits, USA Today said Monday in a report based on data from state officials.
"Virtually every Medicaid director in the country would say that their current enrollment is the highest on record," said Vernon Smith of Health Management Associates, a company that compiles data for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
More than 40 million people now receive food stamps, a jump of nearly 50 percent since the recession began, the report said. The unemployment rate in the United States remains above 9 percent.
Additionally, the number of people receiving welfare benefits has increased more than 18 percent, to more than 4.4 million, since the recession began, the newspaper said.
Critics of expanding government aid such as welfare and food stamps are concerned the numbers won't decline once the economy recovers, but anti-poverty experts said the benefits are justified. "They're much harder to unwind in the long term," said the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner. The institute is a Washington think tank.
LaDonna Pavetti of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said the assistance is justified.
"We should be there to support people when the economy can't," she said.
The US Government's agenda to lobotomize the majority of Americans has been an unequivocal success.
Americans now live in one of the world's least free prison camps yet when asked they will tell you they live in the land of the free and, on top of that, they are attacking and occupying countries who did nothing to them because "they hate us for our freedom"!
They've been indoctrinated all of their formative years in mandatory children concentration camps (public schools or private, government regulated schools) and the Government and Federal Reserve has destroyed the economy to the point that it is the rare mother who actually stays home with her kids. Mom and Dad are both out working because they can't afford not to. And even if they can, the government promotes "women's liberation", which like all government programs, means the opposite of what it is called - and Mom works a full day before returning home exhausted and then giving her kids another few hours of brainwashing via television to complete the full day of programming. They even call it that right to their face... "we now return to your regularly scheduled programming". It's okay, no one ever figures it out.
And if the kids get upset at having to spend eight hours per day in kid jail they are immediately trotted off for their ingestion of toxic chemicals. Adderall. Prozac. Whatever... anything to keep them dumbed down and in line.
You can always spot an American anywhere in the world - not just because they take off their shoes and belt at every airport. Once in Thailand I was in a taxi with an American friend. We drove past a place that looked like it had difficult working conditions (it was a small sewing factory that didn't appear to have air conditioning in the dense heat of Bangkok).
He said, "That's a sweatshop!"
I agreed. They almost certainly were sweating in there! It was hot as hell.
"That should be shut down!" he intoned.
I tried to explain to him that in Thailand the Government doesn't regulate things like that. People of free will are allowed to make their own choices on whether they will work in those places or not. And, in fact, if they had government regulation, all it would mean is much less jobs as employers couldn't afford to employ as many people as they otherwise would (this may ring a bell for most manufacturing enterprises in the US).
His only response was, "What's the government regulated minimum wage here?"
I just hung my head and sighed.
Then, recently, in Mexico, I had met an American and we were walking along when a car flew by in the city at about 80 mph.
"Whoa! What's the speed limit here?" he asked, shocked.
I told him there are no speed limits.
He responded, "That's terrible!"
Yes. Yes. Americans love that freedom, don't they. As long as it is fully regulated, taxed and overseen by some government bureaucrat.
Even the Tea Party, which is supposed to be the most freedom-minded of the political affiliations in the US has attracted entire throngs of "freedom loving" people who are dependent on government programs and don't even know it.
One of the siren songs of the tea party lately has been, unbelievably, "Goverment, keep yore hands of my medicare!"
It's so hard to spell properly after 12 years of government education, after all.
But, yes, the point, spelled correctly or not is... We are against government involvement in our lives! Now, get out of here and stop messing with our medicare, social security and student loans, goddamn commies!
Cornell University recently did a study to see if Americans equate the money they receive from the US government with government “programs”. They asked Americans if they had ever used a government program.
43% of people on unemployment “benefits” said no. 43% of Medicare recipients said no. 44% of those on Social Security said no.
And to top it off they asked college students receiving Government "education" assistance if they were the recipients of government program and 53% of them said no.
So, we have now reached the point where the majority of 300 million+ people have no idea what freedom is ... have no idea where the money they receive comes from (over 50% of US citizens are net tax recipients)... and who think that the money they get comes from some magical pot o' gold called "Obama's stash".
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August 25, 2011
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Is "70%" a rhetorical example or are you saying that 70% is an actual fact?
Last year over 50% received some form of assistance, from what I read the number increased by 15-19% this year.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Last year over 50% received some form of assistance, from what I read the number increased by 15-19% this year.
I don't consider Social Security "An entitlement". Is that part of your 70% figure??? If I were to go by "what I read" and all I read was from the ultra Right or the ultra Left, I doubt my numbers would be very accurate.
I was just wondering if the 70% figure was a fact or an opinion based on conjecture.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't consider Social Security "An entitlement". Is that part of your 70% figure??? If I were to go by "what I read" and all I read was from the ultra Right or the ultra Left, I doubt my numbers would be very accurate.
I was just wondering if the 70% figure was a fact or an opinion based on conjecture.
Could be with the baby boomers hitting but that also proves what a disaster these entitlement programs are doing to our nation.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
(African-American) is leading the charge.
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