Typically misleading, disingenuous statement emanating from CBS, MSM leftwing mouthpiece in that it doesn't take into consideration blacks as a percentage of Iowa's population on the whole. I don't what percentage of Iowa's population is black, but would not be surprised to learn it was greater than the 9% of Iowa food stamp recipients who are black, making the statement, story by 60 Minutes more hatchet job than anything else.
cbs=communist bull sh!t
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That is EXACTLY what is happening, and what keeps 'em on The Plantation, for 4 generations. Handouts of other-people's-money, wealth-redistribution, Reparations, or whatever you want to call it, this is what we have today.
To be called "racist" for not supporting the handouts to buy votes that Progressives use is a badge of honor, for telling it like it is, IMHO.
Blacks make up less than 1% of the population in my township so its a pretty fair bet that the vast majority of food stamp recipients here are white.
Blacks are just 12% of the population, yet consume 44% of Wealth transfer handouts.
Captain Obvious would say “Houston, We have a problem here!”, but for being called a racist.
Democrat / media re-election strategy = the RACE CARD and CLASS WARFARE. Same old playbook. Yawn.....
I haven’t seen the video, but wasn’t this allegation debunked earlier today? I thought I read that he did not say the word “black”. Am I wrong about that?
That's from Wikipedia, directly.
Doesn't this mean that blacks are 4x more likely than whites in Iowa to be on food stamps? How about welfare racial composition? How about crime statistics and drug usage? Convieniently, those statistics about blacks is ALWAYS left out, except when they disparity is used to claim "racism", because of the large BLACK prison population!
It's a fact that Blacks are represented in the welfare and public assistance rolls way out of proportion to their percentage of the population and many of them are third and fourth generation professional welfare recipients. FWIW, giving money to Blacks has not made their lives better - it's made their lives worse, much worse in many cases.
Santorum is doing the right thing by trying to create an environment where Blacks can break the cycle of welfare dependency by getting a job and providing a life for themselves instead of being de facto slaves on the Democrat welfare plantation.
I don't see how this is going to have any effect on Santorum's electability as President. I don't think ANY GOP nominee is going to get more than 1% of the Black vote regardless. It does highlight a Democrat/Media strategy of trying to stir up Black voter turnout using, "they are going to take away your monthly government check" as motivation.
OK granted Rick Santorum should have kept his comments race blind. Per capita, black people do have more poverty problems today. Much of this is due to their believing racist poverty hustlers, no chump change people their own selves, who want black people to keep wallowing in the Democrat-created miseries of the past, and then to blame Republicans for it.
I also like the fact that Santorum says that Obama is weak and an appeaser and that his foreign policy failures endanger America.
If Santorum wins tonight, expect the attacks from CBS and the rest of the Obama/Democratic media machine to increase exponentially.
They fear him because he is conservative and totally pro-life.
You can tell he’s surging when misleading hit pieces like this pile of crap come out on him.
Having said that, Santorum was a politician from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has a lot of black people. He is a veteran politician and not a newb.
He should have known better to answer the question specifically about black people and make it about people in general, because the issue of welfare reform isn't really about any particular ethnic group, but about generational welfare dependence.
So yes he was set up, but he still deserves a slap for the answer he gave.
No wonder the MSM is going after him.
Why do conservatives even agree to go on these programs? They always seem to think that this time, they’ll get treated fairly (similar to the way that Charlie Brown believes that this time, Lucy won’t pull the football away at the last second.)
I thought Pubs were above race & class warfare. Santorum certainly isn't. Santorum is a loser & he knows it. Pandering to racists is pathetic.
One can convincingly attack the entitlement mentality w/o resorting to racism.