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Blacks hit hard by economy's punch
Washington Post ^ | November 24, 2009 | V. Dion Haynes

Posted on 11/24/2009 4:54:05 AM PST by NRG1973

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To: NRG1973

they might have also checked the rate of unemployment against the huge mandated increase in the minimum wage. Unemployment among all groups affected by minimum wage rules, but especially black males and more generally all of the lower income, lower education 18-24 year old group, went up dramatically as a result of the increase. But, of course, any of us opposing such an increase were just evil right wing conservatives.


41 posted on 11/24/2009 5:59:41 AM PST by comitatus
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To: henkster
Delonta needs to get his a$$ off the sofa, turn off the TV and go learn a marketable skill.

Why bother? The apartment is subsidized, the tv was free, the food is free, his babies are free...

42 posted on 11/24/2009 6:03:23 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: NRG1973

If Obama was white, there would be riots in the cities by now.


43 posted on 11/24/2009 6:10:44 AM PST by randita (Chains you can bereave in.)
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To: NRG1973

I dunno, Delonta, I’m a white woman looking for work in Washington DC, and every employer I talk to says that they have a very aggressive Affirmative Action and diversity program, so the workforce seems to be disproportionately black. If you’re having trouble finding a job, console yourself that it’s a lot easier for you than it is for me and other people who are melanin-challenged.


44 posted on 11/24/2009 6:11:56 AM PST by ottbmare (I could agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: NRG1973

Delonta should be employed by a governemnt agency. That’s what he voted for, isn’t it?


45 posted on 11/24/2009 6:21:03 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: caver
It makes no mention of whether 24 year old Delonta ever had a job to begin with.

It says that he was a salesman (to help support his 3-year old daughter).

46 posted on 11/24/2009 6:22:11 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: NRG1973

This cannot be! All know Great Leader’s lineage includes the blood of Africa. This report is obviously rasicst republican propoganda.


47 posted on 11/24/2009 6:23:28 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

It didn’t say it in the excerpt. I’m tired of going elsewhere and click to read some article. If they don’t want it posted then I won’t be giving them any clicks.


48 posted on 11/24/2009 6:23:53 AM PST by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: henkster

Exactly. Instead of just watching TV, he can go to a construction site or machine shop and volunteer to be an apprentice if they will teach him a trade.


49 posted on 11/24/2009 6:24:55 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Molon Labbie

Exactly. They were raised on welfare and food stamps in public housing where NOBODY worked and many sold drugs for easy money. Many could not pick their father out of a police lineup. Fully half of all cons in prison are black and half of all violent crimes are committed by blacks.


50 posted on 11/24/2009 6:27:33 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: caver

Blacks are always hit hardest when the government takes control of the private sector. Yesterday this site posted the most dangerous cities in the US. All of the most dangerous are cities that have very little private sector and are dominated by government.

Blacks can expect things to get worse.


51 posted on 11/24/2009 6:30:07 AM PST by nj patriot (Gore is beyond help.... Snakes in the head.)
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To: NRG1973

“spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy.”

How does he expect to get a job by doing this? All this free time should be spent creatively or job searching. Go out and find some work, loser. I guess he’s waiting for Obama to knock on his door and GIVE him a job...

This is what America has come to. No wonder we are in such a poor state. Liberalism is destroying our nation. We must defend our nation against domestic enemies, and liberals are just that.


52 posted on 11/24/2009 6:32:04 AM PST by Hambone02
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To: NRG1973

The morons are getting what they voted for.


53 posted on 11/24/2009 6:33:23 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: NRG1973

I am so glad the obambi media is focusing on black owned small businesses that are getting hammered and run out of business becuase of higher taxes and punative government policies.
Oh Wait.....


54 posted on 11/24/2009 6:36:32 AM PST by Texas resident ( Doing my part to piss off the heathen left.)
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To: NRG1973

mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm


55 posted on 11/24/2009 6:36:49 AM PST by greatplains
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To: comitatus
What most people don't realize is that minimum wages just drive up the cost, so the people being paid are no better off than they were before the raise. The people that don't raise prices to cover the minimum wage just fire some of their staff, or don't new ones when someone quits.

Minimum wages are unconstitutional and should have been stopped long ago.

56 posted on 11/24/2009 6:38:59 AM PST by calex59
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To: NRG1973

Do away with the minimum wage and watch the unemployment rate among this group drop like a stone. But that won’t happen because it just makes too much sense.


57 posted on 11/24/2009 6:44:54 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: Rum Tum Tugger

You have to do two things, not just do away with minimum wage -

you have to also get rid of the gov’t checks coming in every month that make it possible not to work and still eat (2 thes 3:10)


58 posted on 11/24/2009 6:46:43 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: nj patriot

“Blacks are always hit hardest when the government takes control of the private sector.”

At least that’s what the liberal media tells us.


59 posted on 11/24/2009 6:53:51 AM PST by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: littleharbour
(there may already have been an element of that in the NJ and Virginia governors races this year).

There was.

There was also the element of independent voters leaving him in droves.

When you realize who is wrecking the economy and it affects you, it also affects your voting.

60 posted on 11/24/2009 7:00:14 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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