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1 posted on 07/27/2010 1:00:33 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian

I’m sure there is a way to really help Hispanics sour on Obama. Give Obama time. :-)

Here is a good bit from the Heritage Foundation:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/07/How-the-Death-Tax-Kills-Small-Businesses-Communities-and-Civil-Society

The section below is particularly interesting:

Minorities: Penalized for Business Success

Black-Owned Businesses. Even a company as big and successful as Black Entertainment Television (BET) will not survive its founder’s death under current tax law. In order to pay the death tax, the heirs will likely have to sell BET to a big conglomerate.[12] The same would happen to Chicago’s Chatham Food Center, built up by Leonard L. Harris, who put his earnings back into his business. His family, too, would have to sell the store in order to pay the IRS.[13] Worse still, The Chicago Daily Defender, the oldest black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, was already forced into bankruptcy by the death tax in 2003.[14]

Hispanic-Owned Businesses. Hispanic families fare the same, for there is no minority advantage with the Grim Reaper. As one owner of a manufac­turing and engineering company in Nevada put it: “If I shut down my business, it puts 18 families on the street. These families would then become dependent on the government for support, and it would increase the problem—not solve it.”[15]

In 2004, about 1 million Hispanic-owned busi­nesses were sole proprietorships, employing 3.5 million and grossing $200 billion in receipts.[16] This is a lot of civil society infrastructure to wipe out, infrastructure that would be much broader in the second generation as businesses grow (just like the Marvar shrimp business in Biloxi or the defunct timber businesses of Bearden Arkansas). The average minority-owned business spends $28,000 annually on life insurance premiums to prepare for the death tax, and $9,000 on associ­ated legal fees. All this money could be used to expand businesses or to continue to build com­munities. One in five Hispanic family business owners said he would have to sell his business or property early in order to provide liquidity to pay the death tax.[17]


2 posted on 07/27/2010 1:15:00 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: Brugmansian

>> only 43 percent of Hispanics surveyed said Obama is adequately addressing their needs

Why are “their” needs different than the needs of anyone else?


3 posted on 07/27/2010 1:36:48 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Brugmansian

A bad economy impacts Hispanics really hard because so many of them work in service industries. A lot of the jobs they take are related to tourism and general consumer spending.

Lack of work causes a lot of family stress, too, not just because of the decreased income but also because males are looked to as the primary breadwinners whereas in gringo families acquisition of income is more spread between spouses.


4 posted on 07/27/2010 1:50:41 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Brugmansian

Hard to feel sorry for any of these special minorities who need a hyphen in front of American. They are getting the government they voted for, and the government they deserve. Too bad we are all getting the government they deserve.


5 posted on 07/27/2010 1:53:54 AM PDT by Bernard (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
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To: Brugmansian

Make ‘em all citizens; that’ll bring ‘em around.


8 posted on 07/27/2010 2:08:05 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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I predict that if events continue on their current course, we will even see an erosion of support from blacks for Obama.

You heard it here first!


9 posted on 07/27/2010 3:06:04 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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Hispanics in favor of Amnesty really shot themselves in the foot by turning out heavily for Obama. First, Obama never showed much leadership on the issue. Second, it sent a strong message to those on the fence that the guy who led the charge up the hill at least three times, McCain, ended up getting the back of their hand in 2008.

Don’t get me wrong. I am near violently opposed to Amnesty, and don’t think much of McCain. But there is a lot of irony in how this played out. If Latinos had voted more rationally and less racially, they not only would have had an Amnesty champ in the White House but he could have used their turnout for him to sway votes for it.


10 posted on 07/27/2010 3:21:24 AM PDT by Da Mav
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To: Brugmansian

Meanwhile, he has 95% approval ratings among blacks.


15 posted on 07/27/2010 4:23:56 AM PDT by dangus
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Huge difference between the thinking of people from the zone of mexico and the countrues of Latin America.


16 posted on 07/27/2010 4:28:57 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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This is a laugh. They are disappointed because he hasn’t done enough for them. They want more “special treatment” and the GOP is just stupid enough to try to promise them more of our stuff to get the percentages up.


19 posted on 07/27/2010 4:38:17 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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Bam Bam and his minions made the mistake of thinking the illegals and the loud vulgar communist activists represent the hispanic Americans. Many, in fact most, are Americans first.


20 posted on 07/27/2010 4:47:20 AM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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‘only 43 percent of Hispanics surveyed said Obama is adequately addressing their needs, with the economy a major concern.”

That confirms my anecdotal evidence talking to brown folks around here. Their No. 1 concern is jobs. Everyone regardless of color is in the same leaking boat. The only people doing well are the obuma racists at the NAACP and various fat union thugs working in the fascist government.


21 posted on 07/27/2010 5:02:17 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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Unless something happens to really shake up the masses, like 9/11 did, I think his numbers will be down in all demographics. Even among blacks, who were excited to vote for their first black President in 08, but that excitement has worn off, and they have not seen a return on their investment, like they thought they would.


24 posted on 07/27/2010 5:32:31 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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I never did understand why U.S. Hispanics supposedly support deliberately porous borders with Mexico, allowing unlimited cheap labor to flood into the U.S. to compete with those who are marginally employed to begin with, thereby somehow assuring that those U.S. Hispanics will become staunch Rat voters.

And don’t hand me any baloney about Hispanics being bamboozled, ignorant, etc. The Hispanics I know are just like everyone else: perfectly attuned to their own self-interests, and inclined to vote for that which helps their pocketbook and against that which hurts their pocketbook.

The old guard media is in a desperate collusion with the Obamunists to make illegal immigration a wedge issue between the races in order to benefit the Rats. I think the polls are beginning to show that a great number of U.S. Hispanics are too smart to fall for this deliberately despicable racism being perpetuated by the OGM and the Obamunists.


26 posted on 07/27/2010 6:57:00 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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Our Ruling Class media overlords tell us that the GOP is the “White Party”, does that make the Democratic party the “Black Party?”


29 posted on 07/27/2010 7:56:15 AM PDT by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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My son at one time dated a gal of Mexican decent but was born in the USA. He said she told him the Mexican’s born here hate the illegals and do not like them. I assume this is still true.


30 posted on 07/27/2010 8:32:29 AM PDT by Uncle Hal
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