Sunday, January 15, 2012
How much is the religious bigotry, based in fear of Muslims, of the right also impacts American minorities?
...After (click title to entry - thank you) winning the Heavyweight Championship of the World, Cassius Clay announced his conversion to the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) under Elijah Muhammad. From that point forward, Mohammed Ali used his world celebrity to tell America of the plight African Americans had suffered. He was articulate and possessed an excellent speaking voice. And so, at the height of the conflict for Civil Rights, it was decided the best way to silence and punish Ali for his outspoken remarks was to draft him into the service....
Indeed, that left wing dominated media is a real killer, isn't it?
...Real conservatives (click title to entry - thank you) do not go peeking under mattresses to try and flush out people who are not politically correct. That's what liberals do, like this guy in the Nation magazine who finds racism in ever utterance by a Republican.
In fact, the writings this bozo cited were all work I did for a newsletter that existed for the very purpose of puncturing pretensions of political correctness. It was called Heterodoxy and it was published by David Horowitz and Peter Collier.
As the name implies, the whole and entire purpose of Heterodoxy was to challenge the reigning orthodoxy embraced by the liberals who mostly control the mass media....
The GOP's Blatant Racism (click here)
January 10, 2012
...Neither is the point to show how Republicans leverage racial anxiety for electoral effect. According to the Agriculture Department, more whites use food stamps than blacks and Latinos combined. By coloring poverty and food insecurity black, even in areas where few black people exist, Republicans hope to spin food stamps as a racial entitlement program, diverting attention from their attempts to balance the budget on the stomachs of the poor. Republicans want to slash spending on food stamps by around 20 percent and in June voted to cut the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program, which provides assistance to poor pregnant women, mothers and children, by 10 percent. All of this is important. But efforts to encourage whites to identify with their race rather than their class, as though the two could be separated and then ranked, is an age-old ploy perfected first by Southern Democrats....
"The Color of Conscience" (click title to entry - thank you)
Middle Schoolers Study Area Racism (click here)
Jan. 13, 2012 8:42 a.m.Middle school students in Coeur d'Alene are viewing film footage of their own community this morning, as part of a classroom lesson on racism. The Idaho Public Television special, “The Color of Conscience,” is being shown to Lakes Magnet Middle School students. Following the showing of the film, students in all the school's advisory classes will participate in teacher-led followup discussions on racism. Produced by Idaho Public Television host, Marcia Franklin, “The Color of Conscience” first aired in May....
The valid history of racism in the USA provides hopelessness for those born to inner city destiny.
(New York: The New Press, 2010), p. 4.
No one can deny there is a huge problem with the rates of incarceration of African Americans. How often is a drug economy all to available to young black people that believe their reality lies in being hated and deprived of their birth right in the USA?
A young man of any race does not want to know his future is refused. Americans are promised there is a better future 'for the trying.' There is something profoundly wrong within our minority communities and it lies upon a path of economic reality with hopelessness and greed at its heart. Greed is taught in the USA. It is not taught in schools and religious meetings, but, it is taught in the commercialized world of the American consumer. It is benign to most adults able to achieve a Middle Class lifestyle, but, when a child's realtiy is one of a 'dead end,' no doubt their lives become that prophesy.
Michelle, at the very least, is trying to engage the conversation. She does this with murders still occuring and incarcerations of African Americans occurring in disproportion. I applaud her engagement of the problem. It needs to continue to resolve.
...If news reports (click title to entry - thank you) from the last three decades should check clean, Black and Brown males only number the Criminal Justice System today because they choose, of own free will, to turn the ways of crime and disorder; perhaps also because they seem to come from stock inherently deformed and defiled—unable to adapt to a civilized world where barbarism is unacceptable.
And if the renowned rants of Black butlers on the Right should be treasured, Black males only find their human rights violated constantly, only find their dignities criminalized, only fall in the crosshairs of this very real War on Drugs, because they’ve discarded phonetics, filled their iPods with N.W.A. records, altogether accepted academic success as a White Thing, and preferred to sag their khaki pants three inches below waist level....
When the USA does not 'walk the walk' it has global implications that results in violence.
"From MLK to Nablus: Fighting Institutionalized Racism and Ongoing Discrimination" (click title to entry - thank you)
...While blatant discrimination remains illegal in the United States, American society still struggles with issues of more hidden discrimination. Education is at the heart of this debate. The fight to ensure equal access to a quality education for all American children, regardless of race, rages onwards. Poverty and the low quality of education available to minority groups are inextricably linked....
...Similar to the way that racial discrimination manifests itself in the American educational system, discrimination also plagues Palestinian refugees, both within the West Bank and in other host countries....
The innoculating continues and continues and continues. Racism is natural after all.
"Racism" is a word kicked around a lot, (click title to entry - thank you) that has expanded to mean just about anything that supports the preservation of a cultural identity at the exclusion of homogenizing it with another, some cultures more susceptible to branding than others. And everything demonized as "racist" has become synonymous with extreme evil, nazis, KKK, etc, which are totally inaccurate associations for the vast part. But at its very essence; at its very core, what most of Western society has now deemed "racist", is really just an extended instinct of self-preservation. Does not the self-preservation instinct extend beyond the proper functioning of ones own physical body into more abstract things like culture and society, making it only natural for a people to want to maintain their unique cultural identity as an extension of themselves?...
...The instinct to continue the culture in which you are part of is NOT synonymous with hate, is NOT mutually inclusive with lusting for the genocide of other cultures, and is NOT a wicked, vile thing that must be bred and brainwashed out of humanity as TPTB are, IMO, actively attempting, especially through the education system with younger people (see California for prime examples in principle). By creating a cultureless people with no history and no identity (or only an identity defined solely by TPTB), humanity is easily divided and broken in spirit. Peoples derive great power from their cultures; a cultureless people are easily fractured and conquered. Culture invisibly binds a people together, and allows them to be part of something greater than themselves; individuals, yet still part of the whole. Both culture and individual are contained within each other....
The Killing Fields of Post-Apartheid South Africa (click here)
JOHANNESBURG WORLD’S TOP MURDER CAPITOL
AUGUST 30, 2001 — The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population — has been declared the “murder capitol of Europe”, it was reported here today. Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population in the year 2000, remains the world’s murder city for the fourth year running, however.
SA POLICE Crime Statistics from 1994: http://www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/bulletin/942000/murder.htm
...The instinct to continue the culture in which you are part of is NOT synonymous with hate, is NOT mutually inclusive with lusting for the genocide of other cultures, and is NOT a wicked, vile thing that must be bred and brainwashed out of humanity as TPTB are, IMO, actively attempting, especially through the education system with younger people (see California for prime examples in principle). By creating a cultureless people with no history and no identity (or only an identity defined solely by TPTB), humanity is easily divided and broken in spirit. Peoples derive great power from their cultures; a cultureless people are easily fractured and conquered. Culture invisibly binds a people together, and allows them to be part of something greater than themselves; individuals, yet still part of the whole. Both culture and individual are contained within each other....
The Killing Fields of Post-Apartheid South Africa (click here)
JOHANNESBURG WORLD’S TOP MURDER CAPITOL
AUGUST 30, 2001 — The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands — with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population — has been declared the “murder capitol of Europe”, it was reported here today. Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population in the year 2000, remains the world’s murder city for the fourth year running, however.
SA POLICE Crime Statistics from 1994: http://www.saps.org.za/8_crimeinfo/bulletin/942000/murder.htm
Innoculating the response against the hatred is not only a form of racism, it enforces the fact there is nothing wrong in the first place.
What is astounding about the Santorum/Gingrick 'thing' is that it didn't matter. The racial 'fact sheet' didn't matter. Santorum tied for Iowa and Gingrick is expecting to place well in South Carolina. Are the principles of hate so entrenched in the Republican Party that it is impossible for them to find abhorrence is not possible?
Racism? There’s An App For That (click title to entry - thank you)
by Daryl Gale, The Philadelphia Tribune...Last week’s victims of foot-in-mouth disease, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, are perfect examples. When Santorum said he wouldn’t help Black people by giving them other people’s money; and when Newt opined that he’d give Blacks janitorial jobs instead of food stamps — you know, so “those people” can learn some sort of work ethic — they were slapped around by everyone from the NAACP to members of their own party.
Both were hauled in front of the cameras and forced to backtrack, explain, and further clarify their idiotic statements until they were blue in the face, and I loved every minute of it. When you say stupid, racist things simply to pander to stupid, racist voters you should be called on it....
For the sake of diversity do we tolerate ignorance? Absolutely not.
The USA has a very low test for tolerance of difference. Simply because religious dogma indicates racism is permitted does not mean it is tolerated by the greater society.
....Again, (click title to entry - thank you) there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between Mormonism and Christianity. Then I researched the racist angle. Before 1978, Blacks weren't non-existent but pretty scarce in the Mormon faith for their doctrines did teach that Black men could not be ordained into positions of power like the priesthood. Today, there is a reported 500,000 members of African descent in the Mormon Church throughout North and South America, namely in the Genesis Group, a group that existed before the 1978 ban was lifted....
Is anger inappropriate when confronting the topic of intolerance, bigotry or racism. Absolutely not. Sometimes it takes a sincere expression of disgust to shake loose the social 'mind think.' Racism is powerful and lives are effected. When lives are affected for no justifible reason, anger would be more than the emotion when reality is realized and the truth revealed.
Racism is power.
The permissiveness of racism taints the image of the USA to allies. There is simply no excuse.
The Many forms of Racism (click title to entry - thank you)
By FLORO L. MERCENE
January 15, 2012, 10:43pm
MANILA, Philippines — Despite the thin veneer of civilized behavior, racism still exists in America in many forms today.
Here’s an example of an article appearing on the Internet.
“Many people in the US continue to have some prejudices against other races. In the view of the US Human rights Network, discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color.
“Discrimination against African Americans, Latin Americans, and Muslims is widely acknowledged. Members of every major American ethnic minority have perceived racism in their dealings with other minority groups,” according to a study entitled Racism in America....
Here’s an example of an article appearing on the Internet.
“Many people in the US continue to have some prejudices against other races. In the view of the US Human rights Network, discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color.
“Discrimination against African Americans, Latin Americans, and Muslims is widely acknowledged. Members of every major American ethnic minority have perceived racism in their dealings with other minority groups,” according to a study entitled Racism in America....
Residual Racism. Hatred is a strong emotion, a form of self-preservation, a survival instinct. Good excuse as any.
...An internationally recognized expert (click here) on the subject who received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work, Zeskind ties together seemingly disparate strands—from neo-Nazi skinheads, to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond. Among these elements, two political strategies—mainstreaming and vanguardism—vie for dominance. Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations made up of a highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. Zeskind shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue-collar and working middle class, with lawyers and Ph.D.s among its leaders.
When the Cold War ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident now among anti-immigrant organizations. With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among many. The book concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations....
The Republicans' Rancid and All-Too-American Dance With Racism (click title to entry - thank you)
As the racist rhetoric oozes from Republican presidential candidates, why are comments contained in Ron Paul newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s being widely considered more offensive than current bigoted banter uttered by Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum?...
Generational change helps.
According to Granny, only heterosexuals have the biological drive for parental love.
Cultural consistency in respecting others makes it clear there is not much difference between people. In this case, respect for adults included all adults, not just those racially preferred in the house. No superiority. Simply diverse.
...My paternal grandmother (click here) had an African American woman who came to clean her house weekly. She did not hire her because grandma was wealthy, which she was not, but rather due to infirmity. It was just a big help to have someone come and do the heavy cleaning.
I do not remember the lady’s name, but I do remember that I was not permitted to call her, or any other adult, by a first name. I do remember that her first name was Peggy, because I called her that once and got in a decent amount of trouble for it. She was not a maid; she was a person who sold a service, which my grandparents purchased weekly....
Was the mission ever so sweet?
Building Bridges is a volunteer organization founded to overcome racism through compelling dialogue, community building and a call to action.
The social struggle against racism and bigotry has never really ended in the USA. Besides the continuing bias against minorities, there is the NEW enemy, "Muslim Fear and Hatred." The beat goes on.
...Nearly 20 years ago, (click here) Building Bridges of Asheville initiated this program to give people of different races opportunities for frank discussions about racism; to explore and clarify their own beliefs and biases, and their complicity in racism; to understand and respect differing perspectives and experiences; to build honest relationships; and to experience the social and spiritual aspects of racial reconciliation.
“Why is this work still necessary in 2012?” some people ask. “After all, we have a black president; in fact Obama won North Carolina in 2008 by a small margin. Asheville elected an African-American mayor.” Many white people claim that Asheville, N.C., is racially progressive....• The median net worth among white families is twenty times that of black families—a difference of over $100,000.
• Even when a black person has a college degree, he or she is nearly twice as likely as a white person to be unemployed.
• Even when their credentials are the same, a white man with a criminal record is more likely to be called back for a job interview than a black man without a record.
• Two-thirds of people in jails and prisons are black and brown, while only a third are white....
B.I.G.O.T. by Ike Reilly (official website - click title to entry - thank you)
Pour the old wine, from a new skin
take your loose talk and spread it on a wheat thin
I heard the news, that you're the next big thing
they breed in Switzerland. they know from modeling
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Back at the art school, they speak in pastels
they draw in present tense, they drink from ink wells
he was a loner, he moved like a nursery rhyme
smelled like dirty hair and art school turpentine
once at a truck stop, I read the good news
it turned my old boots, it gave me new views
it turned my dead fish, into bisqwik
fry my chicken into some kind of pacifist
I'll take the anti-freeze,
you get the jerk beef
I'll get the rolaids,
you get some relief
I bought a cassette,
a compilation
it was Carrottop and Richard Petty back by operation, sayin
breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Took my money to the banks for display
stood on a river bridge and waited for a jetstream
tossed my cash, watched my fortune blow away
all alone on a holiday
As my cash blows, as my luck goes
as my peace grows, as my priest knows
that my god shows, up in some strange clothes
and how it feels so, unpredictable
lookin down the river for a tree to call a casket
saw a baby in the water, floatin in a basket
he was a salesmen, god how he closed me
he never knew me, god how he knows me
dry scales fly in the Illinois wind
from that big fat fish that just flopped in
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot
if you stuck your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
take your loose talk and spread it on a wheat thin
I heard the news, that you're the next big thing
they breed in Switzerland. they know from modeling
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Back at the art school, they speak in pastels
they draw in present tense, they drink from ink wells
he was a loner, he moved like a nursery rhyme
smelled like dirty hair and art school turpentine
once at a truck stop, I read the good news
it turned my old boots, it gave me new views
it turned my dead fish, into bisqwik
fry my chicken into some kind of pacifist
I'll take the anti-freeze,
you get the jerk beef
I'll get the rolaids,
you get some relief
I bought a cassette,
a compilation
it was Carrottop and Richard Petty back by operation, sayin
breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Took my money to the banks for display
stood on a river bridge and waited for a jetstream
tossed my cash, watched my fortune blow away
all alone on a holiday
As my cash blows, as my luck goes
as my peace grows, as my priest knows
that my god shows, up in some strange clothes
and how it feels so, unpredictable
lookin down the river for a tree to call a casket
saw a baby in the water, floatin in a basket
he was a salesmen, god how he closed me
he never knew me, god how he knows me
dry scales fly in the Illinois wind
from that big fat fish that just flopped in
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot
if you stuck your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
Pour the old wine, from a new skin
take your loose talk and spread it on a wheat thin
I heard the news, that you're the next big thing
they breed in Switzerland. they know from modeling
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Back at the art school, they speak in pastels
they draw in present tense, they drink from ink wells
he was a loner, he moved like a nursery rhyme
smelled like dirty hair and art school turpentine
once at a truck stop, I read the good news
it turned my old boots, it gave me new views
it turned my dead fish, into bisqwik
fry my chicken into some kind of pacifist
I'll take the anti-freeze,
you get the jerk beef
I'll get the rolaids,
you get some relief
I bought a cassette,
a compilation
it was Carrottop and Richard Petty back by operation, sayin
breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Took my money to the banks for display
stood on a river bridge and waited for a jetstream
tossed my cash, watched my fortune blow away
all alone on a holiday
As my cash blows, as my luck goes
as my peace grows, as my priest knows
that my god shows, up in some strange clothes
and how it feels so, unpredictable
lookin down the river for a tree to call a casket
saw a baby in the water, floatin in a basket
he was a salesmen, god how he closed me
he never knew me, god how he knows me
dry scales fly in the Illinois wind
from that big fat fish that just flopped in
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot
if you stuck your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
take your loose talk and spread it on a wheat thin
I heard the news, that you're the next big thing
they breed in Switzerland. they know from modeling
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Back at the art school, they speak in pastels
they draw in present tense, they drink from ink wells
he was a loner, he moved like a nursery rhyme
smelled like dirty hair and art school turpentine
once at a truck stop, I read the good news
it turned my old boots, it gave me new views
it turned my dead fish, into bisqwik
fry my chicken into some kind of pacifist
I'll take the anti-freeze,
you get the jerk beef
I'll get the rolaids,
you get some relief
I bought a cassette,
a compilation
it was Carrottop and Richard Petty back by operation, sayin
breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot for the band
You gotta breed a better bigot
gotta stick your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
Took my money to the banks for display
stood on a river bridge and waited for a jetstream
tossed my cash, watched my fortune blow away
all alone on a holiday
As my cash blows, as my luck goes
as my peace grows, as my priest knows
that my god shows, up in some strange clothes
and how it feels so, unpredictable
lookin down the river for a tree to call a casket
saw a baby in the water, floatin in a basket
he was a salesmen, god how he closed me
he never knew me, god how he knows me
dry scales fly in the Illinois wind
from that big fat fish that just flopped in
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot for the band
You couldn't breed a better bigot
if you stuck your head in it
get the sparkle in the finish
and breed a better bigot for the band
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
I'm part of nothing, I wish I was though
part of something bigger than myself now
Low wages for citizens creates an intractible government failure.
The states and the federal government are facing record debt, but, it didn't happen overnight.
There are innumerable graphs and tables that illustrate the fall in wages in the USA. It is no coincidence the states and federal government increased their debts as the wages of the Middle Class deterioriated.
There is this really odd 'mind speak' of the political right wing stating "40% pay 60% of the taxes." Percentages lend themselves to interesting observations, but, to realize how there is a sincere fall in income in the Middle Class of the USA and therefore 'the tax base' while the wealthy Americans got wealthier and therefore ? may ? have paid more taxes obviously points to this convenient 'criticism of the ungrateful' Middle Class and Poor. The comparision is not valid, it is victimizing and will allow more abuse of those already effected.
There is a real danger in minimizing wages. It is why the Minimum Wage is so important. The Minimum Wage forces higher pay rates to be moved upward as well. But, to allow Wall Street to minimize wages to American Labor what occurs is a huge shift in the income to the USA Treasury. That is especially true when one realizes there are income tax benefits to the wealthier that are never adjusted to bring the nation's income into viability rather than decline.
There is a cost for a nation's sovereignty and it is not simply the ability to 'buy guns' to defend the borders.
When citizens do well financially, the nation is more secure. When citizens do well their government treasuries are easy to balance. When citizens do well and their treasuries are full, their tax rates can then come down. When citizens do well, not just the USA is more secure, but, the 'baseline' for Wall Street is assured.
The compare and contrast of South Carolina to Massachusetts is a very good look at how conservativism fails citizens.
Both are 'original colony' states. (13 original colonies) (click here)
Under the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the category of "All Occupations": (click title to entry - thank you)
Massachusetts "Mean Hourly Wage" is $20.13. (click here)
South Carolina "Mean Hourly Wage" is $14.33 (click here)
Through the centuries Massachusetts invested in the future with interventions of government. They built their reputations, their sustainability as a community and the expertise of their labor force through infrastructure investment. Not necessarily roads and bridges infrastructure, but, education and strengthening the social net for citizens to be uplifted by their investments.
The educational system in Massachusetts surpasses many in the nation, but, that is especially true of the impoverished Bible Belt. The South.
Historically, the two states are very, very different and I won't beleaguer the point, but, destroying the social safety net in South Carolina served the wealthy while abandoning the poor. That is the truth about conservative principles. The wealth serves the wealthy because they can more efficiently spend monies normally assigned to 'the common good' on expanding their wealth.
And at the same time, the impoverished are eternally grateful for the crumbs tossed to them from the wealthy in any expansion that requires human labor. Not that labor practices were the best, but, the fact that the poor now had 'something' rather than 'nothing' was viewed as a real economic boom for them. Equity of 'quality of life' doesn't matter when 'life itself' is based completely in capitalism. So, to remain alive and have 'some' quality is better than none.
The 'endearment' of poverty to the citizens makes for 'a good habit' as 'righteous people' are always grateful for their life on Earth until they are delivered. Simple life, for simple folks. No education required, just a strong back.
The economic histories of the two states are as varied as their chronological histories. Those histories have delivered very, very different citizens with very different value systems and very different desperation for 'any' life vs 'quality' of life. That is the paradigm the unions run into in the Bible Belt. Employees are estranged from empowerment and only rely on their ability to deliver 'a product' no matter what that product might be. So, income is 'nice' but other 'substandard' practices in business means there are 'items' such as houses, clothing (imports) and furniture available for the purchase.
The average conservative citizen is exposed to 'cheapened' lives in order to 'have life.'
It is a lot to realize that Progressives, Liberals and whatever name anyone wants to attach to those that value 'all boats rising' in eqivalent 'esteem' based on 'a minimum of quality;' that may not be 'business OPPORTUNISTIC' and exploitative; actually have sounds values and historical proof about why government 'of, by and for' the people really works.
Romney advocates "Deep Pockets" as a solution for the unemployed.
That is a typical reaction to impoverishment by Republicans. They throw their own personal money at it. They have to approve of the charity, so if it is at all tainted 'blue' there is just no chance. Having cancer is an equal opportunity offender so I don't know where that stands.
SUMTER, S.C. – Presidential candidates hear tales of woe all the time on the campaign trail. But rarely does one respond by pulling cash out of his back pocket to help a struggling voter pay her bills....
South Carolina is new territory for Willard. His supporters in Iowa averaged an income of over $100,000. New Hampshire is the bedroom community 'up north' from Massachusetts. As soon as he arrive in South Carolina he stated he was especially worried about the poor. He thought it outrageous the top 5% of the nation ignored the needs of the 95%. HE doesn't believe only 1% is the problem, it has to be at least 5%. Dam the research about it. Father knows best.
For some unknown reason, the supporters son, age 26 with a chronic illness, does not sufficient funds to pay all his bills. How about that.
Willard is having a problem. He is visiting with every available VFW and military affiliation in South Carolina he can find. South Carolina is a new reality for Willard Romney. He has been alienated from poverty. Massachusetts takes care of its needy. They look after the disadvantaged. All that 'mess' is not common place in Massachusetts as it is in South Carolina. So, he is getting his feet wet. I can't believe his answer to the unemployed is throw cash at it. It sounds like he believes in extended unemployment benefits.
I doubt $20 + US will solve the unemployed woman's problems. In true Republican form, she was immediately put to work as a campaign volunteer for the monies she received. I hope circumstances improver in South Carolina, the state of Nicki Halley, Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint right along with Tea Party House members.
Posted: Saturday, 14 January 2012 7:39PMSouth Carolina is new territory for Willard. His supporters in Iowa averaged an income of over $100,000. New Hampshire is the bedroom community 'up north' from Massachusetts. As soon as he arrive in South Carolina he stated he was especially worried about the poor. He thought it outrageous the top 5% of the nation ignored the needs of the 95%. HE doesn't believe only 1% is the problem, it has to be at least 5%. Dam the research about it. Father knows best.
For some unknown reason, the supporters son, age 26 with a chronic illness, does not sufficient funds to pay all his bills. How about that.
Willard is having a problem. He is visiting with every available VFW and military affiliation in South Carolina he can find. South Carolina is a new reality for Willard Romney. He has been alienated from poverty. Massachusetts takes care of its needy. They look after the disadvantaged. All that 'mess' is not common place in Massachusetts as it is in South Carolina. So, he is getting his feet wet. I can't believe his answer to the unemployed is throw cash at it. It sounds like he believes in extended unemployment benefits.
I doubt $20 + US will solve the unemployed woman's problems. In true Republican form, she was immediately put to work as a campaign volunteer for the monies she received. I hope circumstances improver in South Carolina, the state of Nicki Halley, Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint right along with Tea Party House members.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican (click title to entry - thank you) presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party's nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, could all but quash his rivals' presidential aspirations with a victory in South Carolina on January 21 after winning the first state-by-state nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Voters in South Carolina - who have favored Republicans in nine of the last 10 presidential elections - appear to have shrugged off attacks on Romney by rivals who accuse him of killing jobs as a private equity executive for Bain Capital in the 1990s.
The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina Republican voters back Romney. Congressman Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum tied for second place with 16 percent support....
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