Posted on 01/31/2005 2:17:41 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
WASHINGTON, D.C.—For four years Bush didn't meet with the Congressional Black Caucus and paid no heed to African Americans, except, of course, to repeat the Republican mantra of how terribly concerned we all are and how we just want to include you under the big Republican tent. But yesterday, reinvigorated by his election mandate, Bush called the caucus and fed them a line of bullsh*t.
Arguing that his "reforms," ranging from education to Social Security, will help blacks, he offered an insulting cliché: "Civil rights is a good education. Civil rights is opportunity. Civil rights is home ownership. Civil rights is owning your own business. Civil rights is making sure all aspects of our society are open for everybody." When you get past the rhetoric, Bush's ownership society amounts to an unprecedented attack on black people.
Social Security reform that turns over substantial hunks of a person's account to Wall Street, where the vicissitudes of the marketplace can yo-yo it up and down, is little help to anyone, let alone blacks. The only source of retirement for 40 percent of all African Americans is Social Security, according to Melvin Watt, a Democratic rep from North Carolina. Without it, poverty rates among blacks would double.
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How many times did their hero Clinton meet with the Pro-Life Congressional Caucus?
I read no further.
who reads the village voice anyway? Walking around in the village I never see people reading it and everyone passes it up from the hobos who are being paid to hand it out (it is free). If anything i only see them on the ground.
I don't recall Martin Luther King reaching out to the KKK very often either.
Maybe because both knew what sort of response they'd receive.
He didn`t meet with Arafat either.
This all would seem to make him a discerning person.Know thy enemies.
Village Voice is below my awareness level normally, but I see from a few lines that it is a socialist rag. The author is horrified that American citizens, rather than the state, might have control of their own personal resources and lives.
I think I saw some of this little conclave on CSPAN a week or so ago discussing the president's Social Security partial privatization and african-americans. All these smart, well-coiffed black people going on about how their fellow hapless, helpless, downtrodden and downright stupid little darkies could never be trusted with their own retirement decisions and needed "massa" to take care of them...
Just how did GWB supposedly get this wrong? These examples sound like very good functional definitions of "civil rights"
Social Security reform that turns over substantial hunks of a person's account to Wall Street, where the vicissitudes of the marketplace can yo-yo it up and down...
At the very least, SS has a chance to go up with private investment. The status quo has given us only the down.
Typical inflammatory, irrational brain vomit from the left...
The editorial content, and I use the word loosely, in the Village Voice, is worth every penny you pay for it. It's free and worth nothing.
The Voice is a vehicle for those wishing to advertise as She-Males and other freaks.
Careful, though. I'm told the "girl" who arrives at your door looks nothing like "her" photo in the ad. Best to keep shaving supplies handy.
In short, either:
-you support huge socialist programs
OR
-you are mean spirited and are responsible for sickness, pain, and death (in this case, of blacks)...
What is an attack on black people is the racist Democrat plantation mantra that black men and women can never succeed without being treated as they were nothing more than helpless and not very bright children trapped in adult bodies.
I think you're on to something.
Do you have to be a poofter to write for the Voice? I'm not familiar with this guy.
Yeah, I guess. Remind me never to read it.
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