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."
Marxist Luther King day!
Pray for America to Wake Up
Since income inequality flows from individuals' input inequality the only way to eliminate it is to eliminate personal freedom and mandate the same income regardless of a persons contribution. I guess it is time to break a few eggs to make that omelet.
.....another media favorite with a superman complex
“solve poverty”... more like destroy success.
The best cure for poverty is an end to all government welfare programs and getting the damned beast out of our lives so businesses can grow. We’ve thrown $10 to $15 TRILLION at the problem since the 60s and it’s worse than ever, I hear. You don’t lift a man up by showering him with free stuff.
Got a better idea.
Quit paying people more to be “poor” than employers pay to folks to work.
Hey, Booker. Pay attention now.
There’s no way the part of America to which I belong ever wants to be united with that slimy part to which you cling.
I have grown to despise leftists, regardless of whether they wear hoodies or not.
Translation: Us takers need to come together to take more.
Translation: White American give us all your wealth, realty, personal property and evidences of debt. Serve us at our whim, sink into poverty. “Woe to the conquered.”
we ain’t be getting enuf o yo stuff! crackas
But as a community they have changed as evidenced by the latest published data that 72% of black births are to unwed mothers, that the prisons are heavily disproportionately filled with blacks, not because of racism but because they disproportionately commit crimes, and on and on.
It is the black community that needs to make a change.
Only poverty he wants to solve is his and he’s done a good job of it. Some even barely legal.
Jessie and Big Al protested their way to riches.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.
Don’t teach a man to fish, and feed yourself. He’s a grown man. Fishing’s not that hard.
— Ron Swanson
Go to work. Get paid. Reduce taxes. Keep more of what you earn. End the confiscatory estate taxes. You’ve already paid taxes on it, “pay it forward” to your heirs so that they may have a better standard of living than you did.
End Marxist redistribution schemes and government tethered “sustenance checks” that KEEP people in poverty as a requirement to continue receiving “benefit” checks.
The DemocRat Party Plantation is not the solution it’s the problem. The slave trade is alive and well with those despicable frauds.
Government entitlements enable people to not have to stand on their own.
It’s time to declare the Great Society and New Deal to be the failures that they are and put our economic house in order.
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