Black Baptist leaders put demands to Bush - Groups unite on opposition agenda

"We have power in terms of black registered voters across the country to impact who sits in the White House"

Oh rubbish. You have no power here. Now be gone before someone drops a house on you, too."

"They also called for a higher minimum wage, discontinuation of recent tax cuts, investment in public education. . . ."

Anyone can see that these are taken directly from the "talking points" of the Far Left Democrats, and demonstrate clearly the impact of the DISinformation campaign by the Left.

1. A higher minimum wage . . . .
No one handles this subject more intelligently and plainly than Dr. Walter Williams--who is infinitely better at articulating what is best for Blacks than a Ted Kennedy or John Kerry. You'd think the Black Pastors would consult him or Thomas Sowell, but apparently they prefer the expertise of Kennedy/Kerry. A search for Williams' writings on this subject would produce many results, but here is part of just one:

" Jewish World Review Nov. 12, 2003 / 17 Mar-Cheshvan, 5764
Walter Williams(Note date above}

"Presidential aspirant Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., unwittingly performed a public service in his address to the Teamsters Local 238 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last month. He revealed the true agenda behind so much of the support for minimum wages. He pledged that if he became president he'd press the World Trade Organization to establish an international minimum wage -- one that he says is high enough so that American workers are not competing with slave, sweat-shop and child labor around the world.

"History has seen many calls for minimum wages for the same reason -- to eliminate competition with workers who'd work for less. During South Africa's apartheid era, white unionists argued "in absence of statutory minimum wages, employers found it profitable to supplant highly trained (and usually highly paid) Europeans by less efficient but cheaper non-whites."

"One South African union leader said, "There is no job reservation left in the building industry, and in the circumstances I support the rate for the job (minimum wages) as the second best way of protecting our white artisans."

"The South African Nursing Association condemned low wages received by black nurses as unfair. Some nurses said they wouldn't accept wage increases until the wages of black nurses were raised. These are but several of numerous examples of calls for minimum wages cited in my 1989 book, "South Africa's War Against Capitalism." You can bet the farm that these calls for minimum wages for blacks didn't represent white compassion for the welfare of blacks. Minimum wages are simply one of the most effective tools in the arsenals of racists everywhere. ". . . . ". . .when we analyze the effects of policy, we can almost always ignore policy intentions.

"One effect of minimum wages is that of discrimination against the employment of less-preferred workers. A worker might be less-preferred in the eyes of a particular employer in a number of ways. He might be low-skilled, less intelligent, or a different nationality or race. Put yourself in the place of an employer, and ask: If the law requires me to pay, say, $9 an hour, no matter whom I hire, does it pay me to hire someone who has skills enabling him to produce only $5 worth of value per hour? Most people would view hiring such a worker as a losing economic proposition.

"Are low-skilled workers made better or worse off as a result of the $9 minimum wage? It's almost a no-brainer to conclude that being hired at $5 an hour puts more food on the table than not being hired at $9. What's more, minimum wages reduce training opportunities. Most of us gain skills through on-the-job-training. Minimum wage laws deny that opportunity.

"A more insidious effect of minimum wages, as racists everywhere know, is that it lowers discrimination costs. Say a white and a black were equally productive and an employer prefers white workers to black workers. Since he has to pay $9 an hour no matter whom he hires, the cost of discriminating against the black worker is zero. But if it were legal for the black worker to offer a lower price, there'd be a cost to discrimination. That's precisely why South African whites demanded that blacks be paid the minimum wages -- they wanted to cheapen discrimination costs." - [End of Williams' article]

As for Nos. 2 and 3, it does not take an economist or an education specialist to know that ending the Bush tax cuts would be bad for Black families (as it would for all others), and if these Ministers believe that increasing spending will cause an educational system to better serve them that has allowed Black youth to graduate from high school without being able to read, then they need to consult Polly Williams in Milwaukee, or many other Black leaders who have advocated Choice as a means of improving opportunity for minority youth.

...declared their opposition to the war in Iraq and to the nomination and expected confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general.

They also called for a higher minimum wage, discontinuation of recent tax cuts, investment in public education (yeah, there's no investment in PUBIC Edumakayshen now) and reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, some provisions of which are up for review in 2007.

National Baptist Convention of America......GFY's.

FMCDH(BITS)

If you check the word etymology of "spirit" is comes
from a Hebrew word meaning "wind." They're certainly
breaking alot of that. But it's the old leftist position:
We're spending too much on things like defense. We don't
want a smaller, less intrusive government or less
spending - NO, we want to piss the money away on more
programs that benefit US!

This Rev makes as much sense as Hillary clinton IMHO.We are going to take from you for the common good.

Hell, I want a new truck.