Steele says Dems, GOP failing to address poverty (pandering to a black audience)

Google news ^ | 9-22-2009 | ANDREW DeMILLO

[aimhigh]

Steele must be a liberal. Most of the poverty in the USA is caused by single moms and broken families.
Who is pushing family values? Conservatives.

[9YearLurker]

Fair point. Barely mine, but ultimately still mine. (Especially after Palin whips it back into shape in ‘12.)

[beekay]

we have been fighting the war on poverty since the 60’s. This is one war the democrats have not lost the stomach to fight.
truth be told its hard to be poor in America. we have food stamps, SCHIP, Sec. 8 subsidies, welfare, school supply handouts, earned income credit, free child care, headstart, ACORN, etc. many “poor” have cell phones, tv(s) and air conditioning.
what exactly are the unachieved objectives of the war on poverty?

[taildragger]

You are 100% correct.

Mr Steele wants jobs for Americans of African Decent where is his free market thinking?

Flat Tax? Not to mention it would unemploy "K Street"....

15% Corp Tax and No Capital gains or Estate Taxes?

Reel in the EPA so we can make things here again?

The point is all this would employ everyone.

The GOP need a cranal-rectal-otomy, but I am did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I am not going to do it.

Please Sarah, run as an Indy and leave these toads behind, they left us....

[fso301]

So, this is what the GOP has been reduced to. The head of the party "talking" about how we don't "talk" about poverty enough. This is the party that Rush claims is not part of the problem?

The conservative message works well for those brought up in a traditional middle class environment. For those born in an inner city housing project or run down trailer park, the conservative message sounds like jibberish. They cannot comprehend it.

I do believe conservatives need to develop a message that will resonate with at least a subset of this group in hopes of leading them out of the situation they are in.

[I see my hands]

I don’t know, This is a % graph not an absolute $ graph. I suppose such data is available at the govt. site.

You're right, it is good.