Posted on 09/25/2005 2:19:08 PM PDT by flixxx
Charlie Rangel, "a reasonable man..."???
Sort of.
Joe Klien continues with writing fiction... I especially like the part about how it was the republicans that were the segregationists in the 60s, and how it was racism (and not the "Great Society") that was behind the poverty and breakup of the Black family in the places he mentioned.
Well, I suppose that it is simpler than actually thinking and reasoning.
Mark
No more fish, only the poles!
How about a white caucus? Power to the whitey!
That's as far as I got before I had to stop.
You are correct. Klein totally distorts history. Everyone should make a point of writing Time to correct him.
We have spent roughly seven TRILLION dollars on LBJ's failed "War on Poverty." You always get more of whatever the government subsidizes. It's time to pull the plug on this 30 year war and make people fend for themselves. There are too many fat, lazy, ignorant poor in this country, and we don't need to subsidize more of them.
Klein cannot figure out where he is coming from here.
Wow, and to think people have been just waiting for thousands of years for that little nugget of wisdom. I think you just solved the problem of poverty in the world.
from a George Will column earlier this year
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will0901305.asp
""...He might, however, care to note three not-at-all recondite rules for avoiding poverty: Graduate from high school, don't have a baby until you are married, don't marry while you are a teenager. Among people who obey those rules, poverty is minimal.""
I dislike Joe Klein most of the time, because he is a weak sister, and he does nothing but kiss the butts of the favorite Democrat vermin of the moment. But, I must admit he sees what I see, and it the racism of the Harry Belafonte's, Charles Rangel's, John Conyers, Maxine Water's, Cynthia McKinney's, etc. and just about all of the Congressional Black Caucus that has first destroyed any real power that Black folks had, and will help destroy the Democrat Party. I will do everything in my power to make certain that the country understands that it is the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP racist and America haters that are now kissing and hugging the likes of Michael Moore and that moron woman, Cindy Sheehan. American Blacks have no idea how their leadership is sinking them as each new day passes. Add to that the growing power of Hispanics, Latinos and Asians, and any objective observer can see Blacks are going nowhere, but to the bottom of the totem pole for a long, long time. Unless the average American Black begins to get it, and dumps the Democrat Party and their present leadership they will remain with a weighty anchor around their quest for political, job & growth opportunity and economic power, mired in the chains of slavery the Democrat Party has forged for them over these last fifty years. Changes are needed right now!!!
my point exactly...even Klein realizes that there must be some responsibility and the old ways are not working...I think this in itself is remarkable.
That is why people who know me best call me simple. :-}
Anti-poverty = Whitey cough it up and give it to poor black folk who will then waste it.
Hey...sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
Wow, and to think people have been just waiting for thousands of years for that little nugget of wisdom. I think you just solved the problem of poverty in the world.
Well i suppose that could be expanded a little. "If you don't want to be poor, get an education, don't become a drug addict, don't become a criminal and end up with a felony rap sheet, speak english, don't fill your face full on holes, tatoo every square inch of your body, dress conservatively, and get a job."
Notice that this applies to people of all color.
Sounds exactly like what's been happening for 40 years, doesn't it? And it's worked SO well too.
ps - I know you know that, Sterco - but apparently this can't be emphasized/repeated enough.
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