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Booker: Come together to solve poverty
politico.com ^ | August 25, 2013 | LEIGH MUNSIL

Posted on 08/25/2013 3:00:19 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

The problem of poverty now can be equated to racial injustices at the time of the March on Washington 50 years ago, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said Sunday.

Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders were fighting against issues like income inequality as well as racial inequality, the Democrat said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Something clearly I learned from the generation before me and the civil rights movement is that the power of the people is greater than the people in power," said Booker, who's running for Senate in New Jersey. "The challenge I often see in America now is we get taught this idea that democracy is a spectator sport, and you can sit on your couch, root for your team, red or blue, but not realize that politics is a full-contact participatory endeavor."

The inability to do everything shouldn't stop Americans from trying to do something, the mayor added. For example, he said he's been able to work with Republican Gov. Chris Christie to help spur economic development in Newark.

"Politics is a zero-sum game," Booker said. "The spirit of King taught me that love multiplies and hate divides. We've got too much division going on in our politics. When people come together, we make remarkable results."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: blackkk; booker; chrischristie; corybooker; florida; georgezimmerman; newark; newjersey; tbone; trayvonmartin
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The only way to end poverty is to pay poor people to receive free sterilizations. Preferably paid for by the lefty billionaires who currently is only pretending to care about poverty.


21 posted on 08/25/2013 3:28:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The groundwork for reparations is being set in place. After the 2014 elections progressives will be demanding massive redistribution of wealth in the name of racial equity. We are beginning to hear the drumbeats now.


22 posted on 08/25/2013 3:33:50 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The left loves to use poverty as an excuse for all manner of dysfunctional behavior. They ignore the fact that it is dysfunctional behavior that leads to poverty. They have the cause and effect reversed. We can't fix poverty until we change the behavior of a large portion of the population.

This appears to be a good time to live a long ways away from urban centers.

23 posted on 08/25/2013 3:39:34 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey Booker....YOU BLACKS need to work on SOLVING POVERTY of VALUES in your COMMUNITIES!!!! Full Stomachs DON”:TNegate MURDERS and RAPES!!


24 posted on 08/25/2013 3:41:33 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Funny. I just heard a song on the radio I hadn't heard in a long time. "In The Ghetto" by Elvis Presley.

"People, don't you understand
The child needs a hellllllpin' hand
Or he'll grow up to be an angry young man one day."

The title of that song should be changed to, "Mission Accomplished"

25 posted on 08/25/2013 3:43:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Here’s how we cure poverty.

Everybody able-bodied adult makes it his or her prime social obligation to reduce the number of poor people by ONE.


26 posted on 08/25/2013 3:45:14 PM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Two step program to end poverty:

1. Elect politicians who will foster an environment conducive to economic expansion.

2. Get a job.

27 posted on 08/25/2013 3:46:41 PM PDT by clintonh8r (white Caucasian)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey, Booker, no one is stopping you from taking 9/10ths of your millions and helping out however many families and individuals you want. To lift them out of poverty.

Here’s what you could do.

Put up $300,000 of your own wealth for each of however many 9/10ths of your millions will care for. Put it in one of those ING or other accounts that gives you a 10% bonus and 7% interest over 7 years where you cannot touch the principle without a huge penalty.

Set it up where the beneficiary cannot touch the principle, where they can only live on the interest and every seven years it renews. So, they would start with $330,000 and earn almost two thousand a month in interest...from now on.

Make the continuing disbursements contingent on them getting some job and earning at least another $1,500 a month within two years of when this starts. Then they would be at $4,000 a month and well on their way.

Then make it so can be passed on, with these same contingencies, to an heir of their choice.

How ‘bout it Booker? Do you really want to help some poor folks rise out of poverty?

Nothing is stopping you or any of the other do gooder liberal millionaires from doing this type of thing right now, without burdening all of society with your social change.

If you want to help...do it, and lead by example as an individual.

Otherwise, STHU and get out of our face.

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm.


28 posted on 08/25/2013 3:51:07 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The LONGEST “war” ever “fought” by America—
The War On Poverty-—and we’re worse off than EVER before.

(we ought to quit “fighting” and get to WORK.)


29 posted on 08/25/2013 3:52:20 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Voluntary redistribution of wealth, aka capitalism, is the solution. But the Left is always synonymous with coercion and totalitarianism and by design, a solution is never permitted and never possible.


30 posted on 08/25/2013 4:03:43 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

“We can’t fix poverty until we change the behavior of a large portion of the population.”

The way some wealthy black guy put it a few years ago was something like this:
“The best thing that black people can do for the black poor is to not be one of them.”


31 posted on 08/25/2013 4:10:21 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Hey Leigh, I suggest you read this article.


Dear Black Thugs: You’re Making It Hard For White Devils to Believe You’re Innocent Children
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3058516/posts


32 posted on 08/25/2013 4:10:47 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: BenLurkin
"sterilizations"

That's my idea as well. And we aren't the first. But many people are loath to face reality...many Americans don't have the brains to improve themselves. Menial jobs that used to pay for a family are in short supply these days. My idea is that anybody going on welfare has to agree to be sterilized. But no forced sterilizations.

33 posted on 08/25/2013 4:21:27 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Tailgunner Joe

My Guru once said, “Some people are rich, because they worked for it. Some people are poor, because they worked for it.”

Jesus had a different take on it: “The poor you will have with you always.”

Another holy man said, “Only someone content with what he has is truly rich.”

And David Horowitz quoted the anonymous 60s radical whose truth comes closest to the the theme of this article: “The issue is never the real issue: the real issue is always The Revolution. The cause is never the real cause: the cause is always the acquisition of power.”

Wolf. Sheep’s clothing. Go talk “poverty” to someone else.


34 posted on 08/25/2013 4:22:54 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

North Korea has solved poverty.
/s


35 posted on 08/25/2013 4:30:12 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This guy ....Cory Booker is a flim/flam, Obamabot Shyster from head to toe!!! Any New Jersey voter that believes a word he says or votes for him ain’t wrapped too tight!!!! Yea.....Cory Booker......Newark is a shining light city (not)!!!! LOL!!!


36 posted on 08/25/2013 5:17:14 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

We already fought the War on Poverty. And we lost.


37 posted on 08/25/2013 5:42:00 PM PDT by mainship_man
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Been doing that for the last 50 years. Hasn’t worked.

Go have sex with yourself, Booker.


38 posted on 08/25/2013 5:54:39 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Someone much wiser than Mayor Booker long ago pointed out “the poor you have with you always.”

Abolishing poverty is a fool’s errand, even if succoring the poor is incumbent upon every Christian in obedience to Christ’s command “in as much as ye did it to the least of these, ye did it unto Me.”


39 posted on 08/25/2013 7:48:09 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
More race baiting by another black Donkey politician, Newark Mayor Cory Booker. There are huge numbers of Americans who are sick to death of being called “racists’ by effete, limousine Liberals (black and white). Cory Booker is one of those Donkey race baiters.
40 posted on 08/25/2013 11:50:50 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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