Originally posted by: JD50
Originally posted by: Narmer
To Mursilis, JD, and Whoozyerdaddy, my point about the poor is that the Republican Party is against things that would help the poor tremendously. Things like higher wages; healthcare; education; and fixing the tax code that gives massive breaks to the rich while saddling the poor and middle class with the tax burden. You can criticize blacks, but at least they vote for a party that seeks to help them. Before the 1940s it was the Republican Party, now it is the Democratic Party that actively supports the black community.
Wow, saying that Republicians are against higher wages, healthcare and education is pretty damn ignorant. Republicans, well, conservatives, just believe that it shouldn't be the government to take care of all of these things, saying that they are against them is just dumb.
BTW, I'm not cirticizing blacks, I'm criticizing poor inner city folks which happen to be mostly black, it has nothing to do with race. Sorry, Democrats own the problems in the inner city and they have done an absolutely horrible job, you can't deny that, so don't you think its pretty dumb to keep voting the people into office that have been screwing up the cities for decades? Or maybe could it be that these people are quite happy living off of government hand outs? Could it have anything to do with Dems offering to take care of these people without any personal responsibility? Nahhh....couldn't be that....
Just curious, but which party do you think benefits from people staying poor and in the city?
Democrats don't own anything just as Republicans don't either. By your logic, Republicans are responsible for the abject level of poverty in the South.
The fact is, the problems in the inner city are a problem for those in that area. Blacks vote for Democrats for the same general reasons businesses vote for Republicans. By your other dumb logic, then it is the republicans fault that the tax system is so skewed for the benefit of businesses. Compared to Western Europe, America is teetering on a social crisis.
Again, my general thoughts on the poor southerner continually voting for a party that doesn't give a damn about them strikes me as odd. I find it odd that these poor southerners are more afraid of gays and women having abortions than the welfare of their own families. At the end of the day, a person should be more worried about his own family than what other people do with their bodies. The hypocrisy is all the more glaring considering that the Republican "champions" are doing privately what they are publicly against...DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO:roll: