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Weather a person copies and paste seems silly to point out. We all get our info from somewhere. I'm sure most the information posted here was read then typed in your own words or the authors words. We get education from somewhere dont we?

You got a good copy ans paste???? Geez. :)
 
Sniperchoke - 12/31/2009 1:43 PM

Outcaster you need to be educated a little read and then comment.

Politics and Blacks



President Barack Obama won an unprecedented 96 percent of the black vote. That's not much of a news story since blacks typically give their votes to the Democratic candidate. Blacks are probably the most politically loyal people in the nation and it is almost taken as gospel, at least among civil rights organizations and black and white liberals, that the only way black people can make socioeconomic progress is through the politics of race and special government programs. However, such a vision can be subjected to empirical evidence.

In 1940, when blacks were politically impotent, their poverty rate was 87 percent. By 1960, before blacks achieved much political power, it fell to 47 percent. During that interval, in various skilled trades, the incomes of blacks relative to whites more than doubled. Before 1960, there were no anti-poverty programs or affirmative action programs that can explain an economic advance that exceeded any other 20-year interval, though there were Truman and Eisenhower administration attacks on some of the gross forms of racial discrimination. A significant chunk of black progress occurred simply through migration from rural areas in the South to big Northern cities. Between 1960 and 1980, black poverty fell roughly 17 percent and continued falling to today's 24 percent. The decline in black poverty between 1960 and 1980 might have simply been a continuation of a trend starting much earlier and cannot be attributed solely to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, President Johnson's War on Poverty, or Richard Nixon's affirmative action.

Most of the major problems that many black people face are not amendable to political solutions and government anti-poverty programs. Let's look at some. In 1940, 86 percent of black children were born inside marriage, and the illegitimacy rate among blacks was about 15 percent. Today, only 35 percent of black children are born inside marriage, and the illegitimacy rate hovers around 70 percent. Today's breakdown of the black family is unprecedented. It began in the 1960s with the War on Poverty and the harebrained ideas of the welfare state. In the mid-1960s, Daniel Moynihan sounded the alarm about the breakdown in the black family in his book "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action." At that time black illegitimacy was 26 percent. Moynihan said, "(A)t the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family." He added, "The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States." Moynihan's observations were greeted with charges of racism and blaming the victim. By the way, the welfare state is an equal opportunity family destroyer. Today's illegitimacy rate among whites, at nearly 30 percent, is higher than it was among blacks in the 1960s when Moynihan sounded the alarm. In Sweden, the mother of the welfare state, illegitimacy is 54 percent.

Blacks hold high offices and dominate the political arena in Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and other cities. Yet these are the very cities with the nation's most rotten schools, highest crime rates, high illegitimacy rates, weak family structure and other forms of social pathology. I am not saying that blacks having political power is the cause of these problems. What I am saying is that the solution to most of the major problems that confront many black people won't be found in the political arena and by electing more blacks to high office. In fact, politicians tend to be hostile to some of the solutions to problems many blacks face such as school choice as a means to strengthen education, the elimination of oppressive licensing restrictions for various occupations, and supportive of job-destroying labor legislation such as minimum wage laws.

The bottom line is there is very little evidence anywhere on the planet that political power is a necessary condition for economic power.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University
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Lets see...... 500 years of slavery.... 100 more years of discrimination and lynchings...... and Prof Williams is shocked that African Americans are still have a hard time fitting into white society?
 
BBass - 12/31/2009 2:28 PM

Weather a person copies and paste seems silly to point out. We all get our info from somewhere. I'm sure most the information posted here was read then typed in your own words or the authors words. We get education from somewhere dont we?

You got a good copy ans paste???? Geez. :)
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At least some of us take the time to get educated on a topic, and type out a post based with facts that we have formed an opinion around.
But since copy/paste is now a good substitute for ones own informed opinion. Lets just say "I agree with this guy who wrote this"



“Liberal policies made America the freest, wealthiest, most successful and most powerful nation in human history. Conservatism in power always threatens to undo that national progress, and is almost always frustrated by the innate decency and democratic instincts of the American people…” – Joe Conason

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor. Joe begins his workday. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune. It’s noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”
 
Too bad for you that proffessor Williams is an African American maybe he is a little more experienced in race than us white Americans.
 
Reagan was the last great economic president. He cut taxes in a way that helped small biz and 16 million jobs were created. His policies had such longreaching effects that 23 million jobs were added under the clinton admin. Those were two good presidents. Obama and the current democrats are vastly increasing govt size and involvement. Taxpayers will foot the bill through higher taxes. When taxes go up spending power goes down. When spending power goes down the economy goes down and unemployment goes up. That's coming from someone who isn't insanely committed to either party.
 
Here's something we should all get behind an alternative plan that would reduce healthcare costs introduced by a "party of no" republican Saxby Chambliss. Its called loser pays and what it is refers to is frivolous malpractice lawsuits. If someone brings a lawsuit and cannot prove their case they pay all of the court costs. This prevents many frivolous lawsuits thus lowers malpractice insurance premiums for docs and if docs have more money in their pockets that might lower healthcare prices or at least keep them from going up. But you know what it will never get anywhere in congress even though it makes common sense to even liberals because the lawyers groups give millions of dollars to the libs.. These things happen on both sides thats why I am disgusted with our politicians as a whole. Personally I do lean more to the conservative veiwpoint but I have found myself lately more in line with Libertarians.. Like Stossel and Williams
 
outcaster - 12/30/2009 5:22 PM
Doc1 - 12/30/2009 1:39 PM
XLDVee - 12/30/2009 9:22 AM
Doc1 - 12/30/2009 12:20 AM

XLDVee - 12/29/2009 10:09 PM So Possum, two quick questions. Doc and other Obama supporters are welcome to answer as well.... Are you happy with what Obama has done so far? Do you feel like he is putting this country in a better situation that it has been over the last 8 years? Feel free to explain your answer.
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I believe he is doing a good job so far, he is trying to bring this country out of a near disaster, another depression. The republicans are trying to bring him down just as he has started. They want him to fail and fail badly. If the republicans were for the country instead of their party they would at least try to help him get us out of this worldy slump but they do absolutely nothing, nothing, nothing, but whine and gripe about every fart he lets. I'll turn this question around and see if you are pleased with your republican party in the last year. What have they done positively that you are prowd of for the good of the USA? Publish this huge list if you will.</p>
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I don't claim either party personally there Doc. Thanks though. No need for you to get your big ol panties in a wad. I asked a simple question to those of you who support Obama. Getting defensive only proves one thing buddy...
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Getting defensive proves what? I am a democrat, not a fence stradler, you are for one or the other, when you register to vote you have to choose. You or any of the others still haven't given me this list of republican acomplishments, you can go back as many years as you want to. I am not getting my panties in a wad, just stating that Obama is trying to pull this country out of a huge hole without any republican help. When he goes down, we all go down, there won't be two lines at the soup kitchens or unemployment lines, there will b one. Doing something is better than nothing.</p>
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I agree Doc1 sooner or later you have to pick a side to be on. I'm a Democrat/Liberal for several reasons. But primarily for one reason: In my view the Republicans/Conservatives have been on the "wrong side of history" dating back almost a hundred years when it has come to the big issues and progress of our nation in the 20th century. Almost ALL of the good ideas/decisions made over the last 75 years have been progressive ideas, and bitterly opposed by Republicans/Conservatives. I really have a problem with a political party that has opposed: Civil Rights, Womens Rights, Racial Integration, Social Security, Medicare, clean water and air acts, child labor laws, minimum wage (creation and increases), 40 hr work week, OSHA standards, unemployment insurance, workers comp., the G.I. Bill, and most recently health care reform and gay/lesbian rights. Now, just like the past, the conservatives are the Party of "NO". Democrats have not gotten it right every time, and every progressive idea is not a good one. Some conservatives will still argue that the above listed items were not good ideas at all. It seems that each time democrats get into power the President has to clean up a pretty big mess. So I'm going to give our President some time to get things turned around. This economy mess wasn't created in 11 months and won't be fixed in 11 months. But I believe things are starting to turn for the better, and 2010 will end better than it started, just like 2009 did, because I do believe history tells me that progressive ideas are better than conservative ones. (If there are any) besides more Tax Cuts for the wealthy.
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You might want to research who was and was not on the side of civil rights...</p>

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Our nation’s top historians have revealed that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of atrocities to blacks and whites. On the issue of slavery: Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

<u>The Democrats:
</u>Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery and the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.

Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.

Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.

Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.

Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.

Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.

Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.

Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.

Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.

Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.

Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.

Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.

Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.

Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.

Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.

Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

<u>Democrats opposed:
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1.The Emancipation Proclamation
2.The 13th Amendment
3.The 14th Amendment
4.The 15th Amendment
5.The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6.The Civil Rights of 1866
7.The Enforcement Act of 1870
8.The Forced Act of 1871
9.The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10.The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11.The Freeman Bureau
12.The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13.The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14.The United State Civil Rights Commission


<u>Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation:
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1.The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2.The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3.The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
4.The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
5.Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
6.Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
7.Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
8.Civil Rights Act of 1983
9.Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

<u>The Republicans:
</u>Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no), voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27 yes, 6 no).

Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill.

During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.

History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.

History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.

As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) had never elected a black man to the United States Senate, while the Republicans had elected three.
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Outcaster - "In my view the Republicans/Conservatives have been on the "wrong side of history" dating back almost a hundred years when it has come to the big issues and progress of our nation in the 20th century. Almost ALL of the good ideas/decisions made over the last 75 years have been progressive ideas, and bitterly opposed by Republicans/Conservatives. I really have a problem with a political party that has opposed: Civil Rights, Womens Rights, Racial Integration, Social Security, Medicare, clean water and air acts, child labor laws, minimum wage (creation and increases), 40 hr work week, OSHA standards, unemployment insurance, workers comp., the G.I. Bill, and most recently health care reform and gay/lesbian rights. Now, just like the past, the conservatives are the Party of "NO". Democrats have not gotten it right every time, and every progressive idea is not a good one.:"</p>

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The truth is that anyone who rides the party line 100% is in bad shape, whether republican, democrat, libertarian, etc. While I don't agree with the politics and policies of many on the local, state, and federal level, the best thing to do is what people are getting ready to do in East Ridge...replace the bums, hopefully with a citizen who does not want to be a lifetime politician. That is what the founding fathers wanted. Not people to stay in politics for 50 years, but people to serve a term or two, then go back to their regular life. Instead, these corrupt politicians have learned to become rich being politicians.
 
I have read some bs in my time but this is unbelieveable. The Democrat party that existed during reconstruction is the GOP of today. Every POSITIVE civil right law introduced was vehemitily opposed by Republicans during the 20th century. Storm Thurman holds the filibuster record in the senate for trying to stop the passage of the 1964 civil rights act. I tell you what lets do a poll and see how many KKK menbers have ever voted Democrat, what a joke. Ones that did are dead and good ridance. You talk about grasping for straws. This internet education you guys are getting is unbelieveable. I am beginning to understand how Afganistan turned out the way it did, after the soviets left.
 
Ive said this before and I will say it again here....As far as EQUAL rights for all,,and the whole lets all have health insurance thing.When the politicans....thats means ALL of the senators and representatives...presidents and vice presidents...and so on.....republicans and democrats...I MEAN ALL OF THEM. When they will say that the healthcare that you and I and EVERY member of this forum will be THE EXACT SAME PLAN as the one they are on....then I will support it...fund it willingly...and just accept it. Untill then...I dont want to hear any more of their &^%$$# LIES!!
 
beetlespin - 12/31/2009 5:22 PM

You need to remember that the democrat and republican parties have basically switched places since the days of Lincoln.
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Went right over their heads.... too busy copy/pasting
 
Few would deny that a health care crisis looms large in the U.S. In a country with millions of uninsured and underinsured citizens, health care has become more a privilege than a right. Indeed, the United States remains the only industrialized country in the world that doesn’t guarantee health care to all its citizens.
But this isn’t the case for members of the U.S. Congress. Representatives and Senators alike receive some of the best health care benefits in the country, much of it paid for with taxpayer dollars. Yet these same members seem unable - or unwilling - to extend similar protections to the rest of America.
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
As soon as members of Congress are sworn in, they may participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The program offers an assortment of health plans from which to choose, including fee-for-service, point-of-service, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). In addition, Congress members can also insure their spouses and their dependents.
Not only does Congress get to choose from a wide range of plans, but there’s no waiting period. Unlike many Americans who must struggle against precondition clauses or are even denied coverage because of those preconditions, Senators and Representatives are covered no matter what - effective immediately.
And here’s the best part. The government pays up to 75 percent of the premium. That government, of course, is funded by taxpayers, the same taxpayers who often cannot afford health care themselves


.More Health Care Perks for Congress
And the Congressional perks don’t stop with the FEHBP. According to the article “Health care as good as Congress gets,” by John Barry, a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times, “Members of Congress have their own pharmacy, right in the Capitol. They also have a team of doctors, technicians and nurses standing by in case something busts in a filibuster. They can get a physical exam, an X-ray or an electrocardiogram, without leaving work.”
Although members pay extra for these services - Representatives pay about $300 per month, and Senators about $600 - taxpayers end up kicking in another $2 million. That’s $2 million not being spent on those who need it.
House and Senate’s Health Care Legacy
Despite the services that members of Congress receive at the taxpayer’s expense, they’ve done little on behalf of those who cannot afford or cannot get health care. The Oakland Tribune article “Congress’ wild health care ride” (January 7, 2008) reports that Congress’ attention is instead focused on the financial well being of pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
To illustrate this point, the article states that, according to the Medicare Reform Act of 2004, Medicare is prohibited from negotiating with pharmaceutical companies for lower prices. However, not only is this negotiating power available to governments in other industrialized countries, it’s also similar to the power granted to the FEHBP, which itself is permitted to negotiate premiums and prices.
It's true that the U.S. Congress is talking up health care reform, but members of the House and Senate - both Republicans and Democrats alike - take millions of dollars in contributions from the health sector, which includes health providers, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies
In the meantime, millions of Americans are receiving inadequate health care, and millions more could lose their health insurance at any time. Those who’ve managed to maintain their insurance have seen their rates go up and their deductibles rise. Many end up medically bankrupt. Yet throughout all this upheaval, one thing has remained steady - the health care coverage afforded members of Congress. If they’ve proven nothing else, they’ve shown taxpayers that they know how to take care of themselves

HOWS THAT FOR COPY AND PASTE!!! emoParty emoParty
 
I dont have a problem helping someone that is not physically or mentally able to provide for themselves.But if you put having a big screen tv,iphone,satellite tv,spinners on your wheel and all the other things that people have on their priority list above taking care of their family I dont want my tax dollars going to help them.And in my opinion health care is a priority.Why do people have car insurance and then expect the goverment to supply health insurance?Maybe Im just old school and think people should take care of themselves and family.And yes i am one of the few that pay TAXES. Good Day
 
On some party lines they have swapped places...but lets look at one in particular, well after this change took place... The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no), voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27 yes, 6 no). Who was the party that was for Civil Rights? </p>

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage. Is Byrd still a democrat?
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Possum - 12/31/2009 5:49 PM

I have read some bs in my time but this is unbelieveable. The Democrat party that existed during reconstruction is the GOP of today. Every POSITIVE civil right law introduced was vehemitily opposed by Republicans during the 20th century. Storm Thurman holds the filibuster record in the senate for trying to stop the passage of the 1964 civil rights act. I tell you what lets do a poll and see how many KKK menbers have ever voted Democrat, what a joke. Ones that did are dead and good ridance. You talk about grasping for straws. This internet education you guys are getting is unbelieveable. I am beginning to understand how Afganistan turned out the way it did, after the soviets left.
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Copy/pasting other peoples work is easier. And if you find it on the Internet it must be true! When I see that kind of stuff I just have to roll my eyes and smile. I am not old enough to have lived thru much of that period, but our parents and grandparents did. I am fortunate enough to have a mother and grandmother, both retired history teachers that actually lived it, studied it, and taught it. My grandmother can tell you about Hooverville, she was there. My mother can tell you about riding a Chattanooga city bus when old black ladies were forced (by law) to give up their seats to young white men. These pathetic attemps to re-write history are done simply to make some feel better about themselves.
I would love to see what the author of dropshots copy/paste could do with the Nixon Administration. Maybe it was actually Democrats that broke into the Watergate Hotel and framed Nixon. I'm sure the author could spin it that way. I'll bet some of the same people are helping W write his account of the last 8 years.
 

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